Bill Stoneberg Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Not Buick related but I thought i would share. Selling my wife's truck tomorrow so was going through the files related to vehicles.I found a Finance contract where I had bought a 1985 Toyota pick up truck brand new from the dealer.I paid 9,245.50 for it, I put $ 68.00 down and got a trade in from my 79 Toyota truck of $ 650. I had traded and Alfa Romeo with no A/C for that truck.Anyway I financed 9500 at a rate of 16.75 % interest. I also bought Credit Life insurance for 900 which increased the price.Payments wer 272 @ month for 48 months.Total I paid 3600 to finance that truck.Good truck though, drove it almost 15 years and traded it in on the 98 Dodge Truck with 230,000 miles I am selling tomorrow. Got zero percent financing on that truck so I learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhclark Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Ouch! That's a lot of interest.I think rates were down to about 9% by 1990 when I bought my first new car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Schramm Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 If you only knew how much the dealer kept of the credit life policy and a % of the loan interest rate. The F&I departments are a great revenue source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wildcat465 Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 Around here a 1985 Toyota pickup would leave 16.75% of its body on the ground each year leaving me with about 0% interest. All kidding aside, what would the auto business look like today if that was the current rate? :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Maine Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 The first new car I bought was a '72 Gran Torino sedan, paid $3750 for it, got $1000 for my '67 Valiant Signet, financed the balance of $2750 for 36 months at $90 per month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stealthbob Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 My first car was bought CASH.... $2,500It was the insurance of $3000 I had to finance :eek:I don't know how a young person is able to do it on their own these days with the cost of insurance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 HiI had Mustang car which I had bought at $6000 with a finance of around 9% and sold it for $2500.Uhmmm, do I smell SPAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEarl Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Rack of Spam....over mesquite ....you ready for your Bloody Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 53Nailhead Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 It's a Bloody Mary Morning....... hic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wildcat465 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 I like Spam almost as much as I like pie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivgs Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 And we all know just how much you like pie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhclark Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 BACON SPAM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thriller Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 Spamalot is playing here later this month...unfortunately, Suzanne is hard to convince about Python. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick5563 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 I like Spam almost as much as I like pie.Beat me to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riv2x4 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 Spamalot is playing here later this month...unfortunately, Suzanne is hard to convince about Python.I took my 16 year old to see it last year. He loved it even if he didn't get all if the humour. Did someone say spam, spam, spam, spam.Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Eaton Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 One Sunday in 1968 I found a 1965 Corvair Corsa convertible sitting at the Chevy dealer. No plates but not on the used car lot. I called them Monday morning and the car had just been traded in on a new Chevy Impala... the wife was driving it to San Diago to pick up the husband that was getting out of the service (Navy?)The purchase price was $650 and I had to borrow $500 from the credit union (about the same price as a round trip airline ticket to the west coast today. I still have the car today with less than 60K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wildcat465 Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Spamalot is playing here later this month...unfortunately, Suzanne is hard to convince about Python.Just feed her ham and jam and Spam a lot.She will come around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivgs Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 SPAMCATION is the new buzzword! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sintid58 Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 Spamalot is playing here later this month...unfortunately, Suzanne is hard to convince about Python.Must be a wife thing, Tina doesn't get anything Pyton either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Stoneberg Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 Neither does Dee but then she doesn't get Red Green either.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Eaton Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 Females seem to have a different "funny" bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick5563 Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 They don't like the Three Stooges, either. Abbott and Costello, maybe. My son likes both. Python is a few years away for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thriller Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 It isn't that she doesn't get it...she needs to be in the proper "mood" or frame of mind for it.I haven't gotten to the point of begging...I can always go myself if need be, but that wouldn't be as interesting.The Stooges and A&C also used some physical humour, which kids love. We have a Pink Panther DVD collection...I remember the kids first seeing them a number of years back. Joseph is 10 right now, so he was probably 5-7. There is something about the pure laughter of a child...innocence or something...it was at least as pleasurable to watch him rolling around out of control as the cartoon was.Red's got a new book out - How to Do Everything From the Man Who Should Know. I picked it up a while back after he was in town and I heard him on the radio - Steve Smith could barely contain himself since it had been some time since he had written it, so it was almost like it was new to him again. I'm almost done a novel, so once that is out of the way, I'll probably dig into Red. I remember the Smith&Smith show back in the 70s or early 80s with his wife, where the Red character was created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Stoneberg Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 Yes, I remember Python being much funnier after I got into the proper "mood" too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 53Nailhead Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 It isn't that she doesn't get it...she needs to be in the proper "mood" or frame of mind for it. Derek,Your still talking 'bout Python eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick5563 Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 I tried looking up a clip on YouTube unsuccessfully for the Family Guy scene where the daughter was tied up in the basement being forced to watch Python.She says desperately"But I'm a girl, I don't even like the good Monty Python sketches!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sintid58 Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Neither does Dee but then she doesn't get Red Green either.... Same here with Red Green, I can be rolling on the floor laughing and she just looks at me like I am crazy. Of course thats kind of a given anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thriller Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Albatross! Get your albatross!Um, yeah.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Stoneberg Posted November 16, 2010 Author Share Posted November 16, 2010 I perfer Dead Parrots myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reatta Man Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Just feed her ham and jam and Spam a lot.She will come around.Spam, Jam and Ham....isn't that the menu on Celebrity cruise ships these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 53Nailhead Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Your wife.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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