Having money compared to not having money with a memory disorder

[XEO1-]

Having a lot of Money means you have the ability to become richer faster if you are smart with it. Worse experiences I’ve ever had is seeing dang good deals and not having the money over and over. Becomes sickening to a poor guy like me because I know it’s a pretty good deal why I’ve forgotten a lot poor self esteem.
I bought a 10000 dollar car was the best yet most depressingly self teaching action I’ve ever had happen to me.

I can’t stop looking on eBay either so I just make myself depressed over days to come- Worse times I’ve ever felt during this time is looking up 1970 challengers almost every day especially back then after I bought it almost like a curse.. I’ve seen a 340 h code car sell in one day for 1500 rust free with no parts just the body. I’ve seen a 1970 challenger sell for 8500 promotional car built in 1969 without the JS code with all rallye gauges with the promotional code on fender tag didn’t have matching motor thou had a late model 440 but had all the high dollar items stayed up for a day. I just saw a few days ago a 1970 challenger sell for 810 dollars with more there to work with then a 10000 dollar car I bought.. the worse buying and selling experiences are sometimes the most profiting intellgence one can ask for I guess.

What I say is you have to push on through it and don’t get mad about it. If it wasn’t for this challenger I wouldn’t have tried so hard to get my dads money back while learning the market.

I’ve decided if I had a 40000 dollar loan from the bank and a good credit I’d have bought 3-4 very good project cars total around 20000 and then buy parts for everyone of em with the rest of the money and build those three or four cars in 3-4 years with free labour involved pay the loan off, made so much wisdom doing it in from learning because it. A 40000 dollars loan is not some 500 dollar loan from the bank very serious choices you have to make on eBay… but I recommend it doing it if you have patient and the eye.


I would have never learned so much around this car while I selfishly tried get my dads money back and prove to him iam smart and ain’t stupid.. that’s where I think my dad is proud of me at.. especially with that 1967 440 and a833 transmission 863 motor and a833 for 500… that’s my best deal I’ve ever done yet and it gives me self confidence.

 

[Darter6]

Day late and a dollar short... My life story.

 

[gkent]

The harder I worked the richer I got.

 

[R413]

Those online cars always look so good on screen, but when You see them in person then you see the problems.
You ever wonder why nobody local bought them and they got on eBay?

 

[Michael_]

I feel you.
Right now i'm really interested in a 1990 zr-1 corvette listed 400 mls away from my home for ~ 30k usd obo.
It has a great color combo (white over red interior) and is in great condition according to the seller.
While not a steal at this price (not overpriced either since its in germany) i think these will go up in value a lot in the next few years.
But i don't have the money to buy it -.-
So yeah its depressing to watch the market if you can't buy if you find a good deal.

You think about taking a loan but where are you going to take the money for the monthly payments from?
Borrowing money is as cheap as never before but you still gotta pay off them monthly payments ^^
Especially in your situation with a 40k loan & needing 4-5 years before actually generating any money.
On top of that i don't think you can make any money restoring cars if you're doing it right. Half *** jobs not included.
Maybe if you would be building high end 300k restomods, thought about this lately but can't afford to do it anyway...

All in all i share dave ramsey's opinion on debt: Just say no.

 

[XEO1-]

I feel you.
Right now i'm really interested in a 1990 zr-1 corvette listed 400 mls away from my home for ~ 30k usd obo.
It has a great color combo (white over red interior) and is in great condition according to the seller.
While not a steal at this price (not overpriced either since its in germany) i think these will go up in value a lot in the next few years.
But i don't have the money to buy it -.-
So yeah its depressing to watch the market if you can't buy if you find a good deal.

You think about taking a loan but where are you going to take the money for the monthly payments from?
Borrowing money is as cheap as never before but you still gotta pay off them monthly payments ^^
Especially in your situation with a 40k loan & needing 4-5 years before actually generating any money.
On top of that i don't think you can make any money restoring cars if you're doing it right. Half *** jobs not included.
Maybe if you would be building high end 300k restomods, thought about this lately but can't afford to do it anyway...

All in all i share dave ramsey's opinion on debt: Just say no.

Thats my big problem is i dont have professionalism in my work no matter how hard i work its to bi polar good here bad there even if almost the entire truck is down to bare metal hats why ill never make my white truck into 50000 dollar truck and have ask for 18000 and my labour free to be realistic.

Im going to motors because my dads about to retire and wanting something to do but he still says he aint got no name in bguilding motors will have to sell whoesale or less.

I think the craziest deal ive seen is a 1970 challenger in really good shape runming and driving with a 1969 426 hemi for 50000 no r code car thou.


I saw a 1990s zr1 at a local show won first goes to show theyre becoming highly prized.

 

[XEO1-]

Forgot to show y’all 318 car came with bench seat no title but fender tag with bill of sell.. roof badly damaged but all in all in decent shape.. and came with a lot of bumpers and valance and trunk lid and some of odds in ends… got the rear end by visual sight of tires on the rear got the k member and front suspension… I wanted so badly to bid…… my god…..

 

[XEO1-]

It’s deals like this you find every few months if you look everyday or have a family member look everyday while your working that pops up that’s incredible.. the ones like this most tend to avoid because of fender damage and roof damage plus a long drive to pick it up.. I highly recommend someone tell a wife or husband a relative at home to just look up everyday all the time on eBay multiple search results for project cars.. deals like this pop up seldom but do happen I’ve seen..

 

[XEO1-]

Day late and a dollar short... My life story.

my life story too. I remember working I was saving up to buy something and looking while saving up I saw some amazing deals. I got the money at the wrong time and purchased a good deal nothing extremely great back the. I got a short bed 1970 c10 truck running with a 1970 wk code c10 motor350 just needed to be put together. I didn’t have the spid code to prove it was matching numbers. I drove it and the motor went out by over heating that caused low compression. My dad placed a 1500 dollar crate motor jegs motor sold it for 10000 years later. After we sold it it pop up a week later on eBay after the guy spent hours talking to us about it’s his dad favorite truck color and it was going to be a family project. it pop up a ‘WEEK LATER’ with a 383 stroker without it being tested or tuned with road miles to make sure it won’t break down on the buyer or probably what my dad said it was a dressed up 350 jegs motor with the exhaust headers unbolted in pictures and sold for 22000 dollars the same guy reposted it with a different eBay name for 30000 dollars or make a offer next few months with 20 inch rims on it and I haven’t seen it again..

I saw two bad reviews about the guy about two different vehicles on his eBay page and weeks after they were taken off by fast talk manipulation I guess convincing eBay I guess..

Like what my dad said why don’t we do that to people seems everyone on eBay who f’s people has really good ratings.. we even thought let’s sell the white truck for 30000 it probably sell very tempting with snowflake gm rims with six lug 1 inch adaptors on this white truck I believe.. I’m eventually getting newer model snowflake gmc rims for it..

 

[XEO1-]

And plus I’ve even been worried of posting my yellow truck in fear the person who bought it thinks it was us who sold it or placed the 383 stroker in the truck that we sold with the truck to the guy when we didn’t.. the truck had bad paint problems but mostly rust free underneath and outside. Most parts was aftermarket parts.

He even said was restored 5 years ago-making us think hes making people think we restored it with a 383 stroker and underneath spray paint all over the rear end when we didn’t do that.. we added a 350 jegs motor and wanted to do a full paint job restoration on it..

when you don’t have a famous name people who buy from you can use you for what they do to a car or truck I’ve learned framing you….

 

[XEO1-]

And what really enraged us was he posted the truck on a international page with our license plate on the truck visible to the entire world. Not his license plate! and used my dads name on title to transfer it because my dad was nice enough to leave the title blank in areas that gave him the ability to just flip it WITH MY DADS NAME ON IT……… takes a month or so for a title transfer…. So whoever bought it saw my dads name on it as the restorer with a 383 stroker that he probably said in defense to eBay it was the other guys I bought it from……….. so he used another eBay page….

And because we don’t have fame with a load of lawyers to protect our name from exterior threats of our power eBay probably looked at us as crooks…

 

[XEO1-]

Oh yea I forgot to mention I have terrible problems talking with people so I got dad to place it in his name because I was way to scared to go to the dmv. From 2011 to 2014 I rarely left the house I mean so far as not leaving the house for atleast 340 days a year every year by avoidance personality disorder. I grew out of avoidance personality during 2014 to 2015 where I slowly lost my mind being around people to much while trying to adapt to a lifestyle I’ve never been in for like 1200-1400 days. 2015 right when I got my truck I went mad of to much paranoia of what people think about me fell of the deep end at work… Then 2016 I went mad blew up on Facebook and caused way more truama in avoidance personality disorder after the adrenaline settled from anger in fighting it….. and then after so much stress my dad and me started working a lot out in three shop than usual helped me and got my mind off things by getting his chevelle and giving me more ability to buy things with trust that I would never have asked or even begged for back then…

 

[XEO1-]

Just going to a gas station for a pack of cigarettes was hard. I remember going weeks with the urge of smoking with money able to buy a pack of cigarettes but just couldn’t..
over time i got a routine most thought was just plain laziness a argument that justified what I was doing-I’d go to the gas station so why can’t I work. I never was a beer drinker before this time.. during 2011-2014 even during high school I didn’t drink at all almost like a New Year’s Eve celebrational day I usually only smoked cigs.
I became a drinker during becoming more relaxed at the local bars but still wouldn’t drink but on occasion at the bar. I only go with my dad to the bar so most people think it’s weird that I’m never seen without my dad at the bars lol..

 

[Cojohnso1]

It is nice to have about a min of $10g cash that you can quickly get to jump on those one in one year deals. My last loss? A 55 Chevy 2 door Belair with its original 265 V8 and floor 3 speed manual transmission list for $10g. From the pics and description. VERY decent condition. Even drivable to make the 200 mile trip. By the time I got up there it was gone. Worse case scenario I believe a $25g car. (That's if it had far more hidden rust than described or shown. Which typically true.) At best? $50g+ car if totally survivor original. It had a few dings and scratches. But nothing close to serious I could see from photos. (And of course the older the car. The harder it is to hide problems. Everything is so wide open.) I was about 1/2 way up when owner finally answered phone saying he had a buyer already there. I missed it by 2 hours

I'm not a Chevy guy. But would have paid that just to see the looks on my Chev friends faces!