Our cars will be worth a lot in just 50 years from now

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by humfrz

...Sorry for the ramble ........

As far as I'm concerned rambling is always welcome. Your story reminds me of one of my own....

After my Father passed away (my Mother had preceded him by a couple of years) my 2 sisters and I were cleaning out the old homestead. We were going through the shoeboxes of pictures my Mom had.

As we were going through a box marked "Elementary School Photos" my Sister started laughing hysterically. When we stared at her with a "what the @#$#$" look, she said "Only in our family would this be in the middle of a box of school photos".

It was two pictures, one of a slit open pig hung up by its feet in the aforementioned oak tree with my Father and me standing by it with knives.

The other was a photo of me with a male piglet pinned to the ground with it's legs back and my Father hovering over it getting ready to castrate it.

Good times....

[Yardjass]

Originally Posted by Dave-ROR

Not sure how you guys get away without at least a 2 car garage plus additional car storage elsewhere.

Or maybe it's just me?

Nope, its me too. I'm struggling with the 2 car, especially since my brother's car is in one side. I moved into a neighborhood where the HOA is very lax, didn't really bother anyone, and cleaned up a lot of my house's curb appeal in the first 6 months or so. Apparently they amended the HOA agreement last year to limit outbuilding size and they told me no detached garage when I asked. I'm currently looking for a new property where this nonsense doesn't exist. When I leave, they can deal with whoever moves in and if they're another one of the "I never cut my grass and I park 6 cars on the street" types, I'm sure they'll be missing me and wishing they had let me increase the value of a property in the neighborhood.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Good times....

Another member of the Shade Tree Slaughter Club checking in here.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Another member of the Shade Tree Slaughter Club checking in here.

Probably won't surprise anybody if I pipe up as well. The only difference is we did it at night since none of the pigs belonged to us (although dad swore he "bought" them) so there are no pictures.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

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The other was a photo of me with a male piglet pinned to the ground with it's legs back and my Father hovering over it getting ready to castrate it.

Good times....

Oh, my ...... it must be old farm boy story time.

About twice a year we would have pig castrating time. My father would catch them and slap them up on a 55 gal barrel and my grandfather, with his trusty pocket knife, would remove their nuts, tossing them on the ground. Our fox terrier would chop down on pig nuts till he couldn't move.

Nope, rocky mountain oysters were NOT to be found on our table ......


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Probably won't surprise anybody if I pipe up as well. The only difference is we did it at night since none of the pigs belonged to us (although dad swore he "bought" them) so there are no pictures.

Tcoat's place on a Friday night ........quick, bang that squealing hog with the hammer again ...... it's making too damn much noise ......


humfrz

[FX86]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Tcoat's place on a Friday night ........quick, bang that squealing hog with the hammer again ...... it's making too damn much noise ......


humfrz

is that ichi in the yellow shirt?

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by FX86

is that ichi in the yellow shirt?

No, they were butchering hogs ...... not dogs ......


humfrz

[FX86]

Originally Posted by humfrz

No, they were butchering hogs ...... not dogs ......


humfrz

i thought they normally do cats...

[Magyarman]

I went as a teenager to a slaughterhouse in Baltimore to get a cow and pigs eye for science class. I didn't realize just how big they were.

Trying to hit on all cylinders of this thread, I lived in Baltimore city until I was 36. In the section of town where I lived parking was a blood sport. I moved to the burbs in 1984 and had my own 2 car driveway, no garage,thought I had died and gone to heaven.

As a teen out of high school I worked at the only Ford dealer in Baltimore that sold Shelby cobras. They had a wrecked 289 that was deemed totaled ( front end damage,not too bad), they wanted $1400 for the remains. I didn't have the money or any place to keep it. It would be worth at least $100,000+ just for the parts today.

I don't think an FR-S will be all that valuable as it is a low volume car,but not as low as a Cobra or a Toyota 2000GT. So not that rare!! Even If you get back what you paid for it in a good many years, you still lose ,accounting for inflation.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Magyarman

I went as a teenager to a slaughterhouse in Baltimore to get a cow and pigs eye for science class. I didn't realize just how big they were.

Trying to hit on all cylinders of this thread, I lived in Baltimore city until I was 36. In the section of town where I lived parking was a blood sport. I moved to the burbs in 1984 and had my own 2 car driveway, no garage,thought I had died and gone to heaven.

As a teen out of high school I worked at the only Ford dealer in Baltimore that sold Shelby cobras. They had a wrecked 289 that was deemed totaled ( front end damage,not too bad), they wanted $1400 for the remains. I didn't have the money or any place to keep it. It would be worth at least $100,000+ just for the parts today.

I don't think an FR-S will be all that valuable as it is a low volume car,but not as low as a Cobra or a Toyota 2000GT. So not that rare!! Even If you get back what you paid for it in a good many years, you still lose ,accounting for inflation.

I think you are still about 3 topics short.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Tcoat's place on a Friday night ........quick, bang that squealing hog with the hammer again ...... it's making too damn much noise ......


humfrz

When Dad went pig "shopping" he would grab the .22 leave just after dark and return less than an hour with a still warm pig that would have a bullet hole just behind the right ear. The pig would always be just a little short of when normally slaughtered. No doubt there was a pig farmer within a 20 minute drive that wondered where he lost one to every 4 months or so.

[ToySub1946]

Nice to know this thread has taken off quite well.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by ToySub1946

Nice to know this thread has taken off quite well.

People can only post "no it won't", "yes it will" so many times before the thread spirals down in an infinite circular argument or branch's off to something else. In this case it branched off into a virtual rain forest.