"bwp240" (bwp240)
03/18/2015 at 15:45 • Filed to: random thoughts, Flipping
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"bwp240" (bwp240)
03/18/2015 at 15:45 • Filed to: random thoughts, Flipping | 0
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Not to be confused with rolling cars over.
Nope, it seems that Mondays are Top Gear, Fast and Loud, and Counting Cars night on my cable networks so it instantly fills me with bad ideas of going onto the local craigslist and looking for lucrative cars.
Such as this lovely 1991 Dodge Dakota. Claims to have most of the engine work completed, it just can't figure out how to move itself.
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
With the description, I am thinking, "Oh, maybe a simple diff swap will fix it." but then I started thinking logically, and it results in these two possible scenarios:
Ideal thought: Buy truck, find a person who will let me use their garage, replace differential over a weekend, sell truck for thousand more than I bought it.
Realistic thought: Buy truck, think the part is the differential, try to replace diff over weekend, takes 4 months, end up with 3 extra screws, still broken, take to expert, says its entire rear axle and blinker fluid, fix is 4x what the truck is worth, find junkyard axle cheap, top off blinkers, install, now have 6 extra screws, learn that expert lied to me, yell angrily, find out it was a missing U-joint bolt the whole time, fix, sell for anywhere between (-$1500) and $36 profit. Make idiot of self.
Reality: Poor college student who lives in an apartment with no real garage to work in and slim mechanical knowledge as well as this project possibly sucking up over 40% of their net worth.
Stupid reality. I want to reject it and substitute my own (Byron 1984).
lone_liberal
> bwp240
03/18/2015 at 15:49 |
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Wednesdays are Wheeler Dealer days, which is even worse. Gee, why not buy a car that needs an entirely new frame? An Audi that's missing two gears? No problem!
bob and john
> bwp240
03/18/2015 at 15:50 |
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If someone comes through with the money they owe me, I'm buying a bike next week :D
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bwp240
> lone_liberal
03/18/2015 at 15:57 |
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I don't think I have seen that one.
The other day I saw an episode of Fat and Furious and it just didn't jive with me. It wasn't terrible, but it just seemed like the show was about taking an object with four wheels and duct taping a rocket to it.
There was another one a while ago and I just didn't like it. It was set in California I believe and it was just a bunch of surfer dudes that though they could build muscle cars, but all they did was fight the whole show. From the sound of it, it must have been on Discovery, but I can't remember the name.
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lone_liberal
> bwp240
03/18/2015 at 16:01 |
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Wheeler Dealers is a British show where the short guy buys a car with "issues" to be flipped and the tall guy fixes those issues. Then the short guy sells it for what is hoped to be a profit. It's thoroughly enjoyable, lacking in all of the artificial drama of a lot of those shows, but oh-so dangerous since it all looks so easy. It's shown on Velocity in the US.
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bwp240
> lone_liberal
03/18/2015 at 16:10 |
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That's where I have heard of it. I have heard the name before, it must of been while I was watching velocity for a bit at a hotel somewhere (I don't get it at home).
That's indeed the problem with most of these shows is that it makes it look so easy (well some Opponauts make it look easy, but they are much more car smart than I am lol).
Like this trans am looks like it needs a simple interior upgrade, but I doubt that is all...
http://muncie.craigslist.org/cto/4936693271…
I have the same thing happen with Pawn Stars and American Pickers, after a marathon of that I think I can go buy anything in the world for cheap and possibly make a profit. But there is definitely a bit of fudge factor in those shows.
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lone_liberal
> bwp240
03/18/2015 at 16:18 |
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Oh yes. On that show they once bought a Lamborghini Urraco that they couldn't even test drive, or even start, and managed to end up with a great running car and turned a profit. In the real world you'd end up with the world's most expensive paper weight, or at least I would.
ceanderson920
> bwp240
03/18/2015 at 16:41 |
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I can't stand Fat and Furious, the guys on there are fucking idiots. Same thing with the Cali guys, they all seemed like idiots. Discovery are trying to find another set of Gas Monkey guys to fill in time when they aren't filming for Fast and Loud. Another one that was on that I thought was horrible was the show with the ex pro wrestler flipping cars. Him and his buddy would go find a horders collection of cars and trade them a fixed up car for all of there shit ones. I forgot what it was called but I remember they lost money on almost every single deal.
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bwp240
> ceanderson920
03/18/2015 at 17:00 |
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I forgot about that wrestler show. That was a terrible idea. Once Fast and Loud and Counting Cars gained a bit of a following, the competition came in to try to cash on the car flipping binge, which lead to a lot of terrible shows. I am glad most of them are gone.