Iħjut Ħin tal-martell: $100 valur tal-karità... U gost?

Sa meta taqra dan, xtrajt l-aħħar karozza ta '$ 100 mibjugħa f'irkant pubbliku ... li fil-fatt jimxi!
Dan l-1994 Ford Explorer XL għandu ftit inqas minn 94,000 mil u ilu bilqiegħda f'dipartiment tal-ilma lokali għal ftit snin issa. In-naħa ta 'barra mhix speċjali, iżda l-intern huwa sorprendentement intatt u miżmum tajjeb.
Liema begs il-mistoqsija, x'infern għandi nagħmel b'din il-ħaġa?

Hemm ftit ideat li għandi li jista 'jkun jiswa l-isforz, jew forsi le.
L-ewwel waħda hija li tagħti l-Explorer lil bank tal-ikel lokali msejjaħ Help Hands. A lokali mingħajr skop ta 'qligħ hawn fil-Ġeorġja rurali li titma' ħafna aktar nies fil-kontea tiegħi milli timmaġina. Ikun ġest nobbli sabiħ, u dak li jgħin saħansitra aktar, huwa li għandi wkoll it-tieni Explorer.

Mudell tal-1993, li jiġri li jaħdem perfettament tajjeb ukoll. Għalkemm għandha ftit (sogħla! sogħla!) kwistjonijiet kosmetiċi li għatti bl-ifjen tejp tal-kanal, thumbtacks, u pistoli staple li jinsabu fil-ħażna tiegħi shed.

Allura ipotetikament, nista 'nagħti kemm lill-karità sabiex il-ġirjiet tal-ikel ikunu jistgħu jsiru kull ġimgħa. Jew nista 'biss inbigħ it-tnejn, nagħti d-dħul, u nħalli lill-voluntiera jkomplu jużaw il-vetturi tagħhom stess.
Kollox jinstema 'bħal ħsieb tajjeb u faċli għal borra rari fit-tramuntana tal-Ġeorġja wara nofsinhar. Imma mbagħad, kelli dan il-ħsieb stramb f'rasi li sempliċement ma nieqafx.
Kemm nista 'nagħmel xogħol ta' karozza ta '$ 100 jekk inżomm fuq il-bejgħ bl-imnut tad-dħul, u ktibt dwarha?

X'jiġri jekk erġajt ikkondizzjonajt iż-żewġ vetturi ftit, erġajt biegħhom matul l-istaġun tat-taxxa, nixtri vettura oħra jew tnejn, laħlaħ, irrepetejt, u bqajt nipprova nħallasha 'l quddiem sal-aħħar tas-sena?
Forsi l- $ 515 li investejt fil-mument f'dawn it-tnejn (flimkien mat-tejp tal-kanal) jistgħu jinbidlu f'$ 5000? Jew aktar?
Forsi nista 'nispiċċa biss b'żewġ karozzi li huma għalf junkyard? Finanzjarjament dawn iż-żewġ vetturi tal-ġiri jrendu aktar miċ-ċentru tar-riċiklaġġ lokali minn dak li diġà ħallast għalihom. Allura r-riskju hawnhekk mhuwiex daqshekk.

Kien hemm mumblings dwar jkollna karozza divertenti għal ftit żmien issa hawn fuq TTAC. Bħalissa, għandi limo tal-medda ta 'Cadillac Fleetwood tal-1993 li apparentement intuża minn ġonta tal-istrixxa f'Miami lura fl-Era Clinton, u għandi, ukoll, dawn iż-żewġ Esploraturi. Għandi madwar $ 3200 fil-Cadillac, u sakemm it-tfal tiegħi jkollhom gradi u dak ix-xogħol rari tajjeb, għandi bżonn inżomm dawk il-flus jaħdmu għalija. Iżda dawn iż-żewġ Esploraturi żgur li nista 'nagħmel, u ninvesti ftit mill-ħin u r-riżorsi tiegħi.
Allura x'għandi nagħmel? Jixtru? Jbiegħu? Jżomm? Donazzjoni? Offri lil Firestone opportunità tad-deheb biex jassoċjaw ruħhom mal-Esploraturi b'mod tajjeb? Dejjem niftaħ għal suġġerimenti, u voluntiera.

By the time you read this, I will have bought the last $100 car sold at a public auction… that actually runs!
This 1994 Ford Explorer XL has just under 94,000 miles and has been sitting at a local water department for a couple of years now. The exterior is nothing special, but the interior is surprisingly intact and well kept.
Which begs the question, what the hell should I do with this thing?

There are a couple of ideas I have that may be worth the effort, or maybe not.
The first is to donate the Explorer to a local food bank called Helping Hands. A local non-profit here in rural Georgia that feeds a lot more people in my county than you would imagine. It would be a nice noble gesture, and what helps out even more, is that I also have a second Explorer.

A 1993 model, that happens to run perfectly fine as well. Although it has a few (cough! cough!) cosmetic issues that I covered up with the finest duct tape, thumbtacks, and staple guns that are in my storage shed.

So hypothetically, I could give both to the charity so that food runs could be made on a weekly basis. Or I could just retail both, donate the proceeds, and let volunteers continue to use their own vehicles.
It all sounds like a good and easy thought for a rare snowy north Georgia afternoon. But then, I had this strange thought in my head that just wouldnt quit.
How far could I make a $100 car work if I kept on retailing the proceeds, and wrote about it?

What if I reconditioned both vehicles a bit, re-sold them during tax season, buy another vehicle or two, rinsed, repeated, and kept trying to pay it forward until the end of the year?
Maybe the $515 I have invested at the moment in these two (along with the duct tape) can turn into $5000? Or more?
Maybe I may just end up with two cars that are junkyard fodder? Financially these two running vehicles would yield more from the local recycling center than what I already paid for them. So the risk here isnt that much.

There have been mumblings about getting a fun car for a while now here at TTAC. At the moment, I have a 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood stretch limo that was apparently used by a strip joint in Miami way back in the Clinton Era, and I have, well, these two Explorers. I have about $3200 in the Cadillac, and until my kids have degrees and that rare good job, I need to keep that money working for me. But these two Explorers I can definitely spare, and invest a bit of my time and resources.
So what should I do? Buy? Sell? Hold? Donate? Offer Firestone a golden opportunity to associate themselves with Explorers in a good way? Im always open to suggestions, and volunteers.