Thread: Kladivo čas: 100 $ vredno ljubezni... In zabavno?

Do takrat, ko ste prebrali to, bo kupil sem zadnjih $100 avto prodal na javni dražbi..., ki dejansko deluje!
Ta 1994 Ford Raziskovalec XL je tik pod 94.000 km in je sedel na lokalni vodni Ministrstvo za nekaj let. Zunanjost je nič posebnega, vendar notranjost je presenetljivo nepoškodovane in dobro ohranjena.
Kateri Zastavlja se vprašanje, kaj za vraga naj naredim s to stvar?

Obstaja nekaj idej imam, to maj obstati postati effort, ali pa tudi ne.
Prvi je, da darujejo raziskovalec na lokalne banke hrane imenuje Helping Hands. Lokalne neprofitna, tukaj v Gruziji podeželja, ki hrani veliko več ljudi v moje občine kot si predstavljate. Bi bilo lepo, plemenito gesto in kaj pomaga, še več, je, da tudi drugi raziskovalec.

1993 model, ki se zgodi, da teči popolno lep tudi. Čeprav ima nekaj (kašelj! kašelj!) kozmetičnih vprašanj, ki sem prekriti z najboljših lepilni trak, z odtrganimi tapetami in rezanih puške, ki so v moji shranjevanje shed.

Tako hipotetično, bi dal tako za dobrodelnost, da runs hrane se lahko izvedejo na tedenski osnovi. Ali bi samo tako drobno, darovati iztržka, in naj prostovoljci še naprej uporabljajo lastna vozila.
To vse zveni kot dober in enostaven misel za redke zasneženih severni Gruziji popoldne. Ampak potem, sem te čudne misli v moji glavi, da ne bi nehal.
Kako daleč lahko $100 avto dela, če se hranijo na maloprodaji prihodkov, in pisal o tem?

Kaj če sem obnovo obeh vozil malo, ponovno prodali sezoni davka, kupiti drugo vozilo ali dva, sprati, ponavljajoče, in hraniti poskušal plačati naprej do konca leta?
Morda 515 $ sem vložili v tem trenutku v teh dveh (skupaj z lepilnim trakom) lahko vključite v $5000? Ali več?
Morda sem lahko samo na koncu z dveh avtomobilov, ki so smetišča krme? Finančno teh dveh teče vozil bi prinesla več od lokalnih reciklažnem centru kot kaj že plačan zanje. Tako tveganje tukaj ni toliko.

Obstajajo mumblings približno pridobivanje zabaven avto za nekaj časa zdaj tu na TTAC. Trenutno imam 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood stretch limuzini, ki je bil očitno uporabljajo skupno strip v Miami način nazaj v Clinton Era in imam, No, ti dve raziskovalci. Imam približno 3200 $ v Cadillac, in dokler moji otroci imajo stopinj in da redko dobro delo, rabim, da ta denar, ki delajo za mene. Vendar teh dveh raziskovalci lahko definitivno rezervne, in vlagajo malo svoj čas in sredstva.
Torej, kaj naj naredim? Kupiti? Prodaja? Držite? Darovati? Ponujajo Firestone zlata priložnost, da se pridružijo z raziskovalci v dober način? Im vedno odprti za predloge, in prostovoljcev.

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.