[TheForge] Anyone there? OT:

[Mark A. Pesetsky]

Bought my first car 1960 Ford Falcon for $300...Lived in FL, re-located to NJ and couldn't afford to bring it w/me. DAMN

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Jerry Frost
Sent: Sat 8/7/2010 4:59 PM
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I remember the broke days, I sold or passed on lots of things that'd be
pretty valuable to me now. I don't think I ever made 600% on anything
though. A friend of mine chanced on a 57 (I think) Buick Roadmaster we
worked on for weeks getting running and barely made enough to break even
plus sodas.

Jer
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From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anyone there? OT:


>
>
> Jerry Frost wrote:
>> Okay, I AM surprised; you SOLD your woody! I'm thinking the closest we
>> came
>> when I was a kid was a Chevy wagon with some kind of wood veneer-like
>> substance on the sides and both folks swore NEVER again. Then again I
>> never
>> was one of the cool kids, when we went surfing we took a pickup truck.
> I was never a surfer..fishing, tide pool collecting
> diving and small boats etc mostly.
> I bought the woody for $25 and managed to get it running
> after working on it for days. The wood was pretty rotted
> on the bottom and the sway bar was broken..it had a
> straight 8 in it.
> Was really poor then and when someone offered $150, i
> went for it! Hey, it was 2 months rent and i was making
> $1.25/ hr, working in a gas station nights and weekends
> while going to school.
>>

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