Financial tally on our cars!

[wasserbox@yahoo.com (Mark Mages)]

whoops - wrong link

http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages/cars/Scirocco/mainspdsht.htm


--- Mark Mages <wasserbox@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I keep a semi-updated running tally on mine - this
> is
> for 4 years but only ~30K (small town) - this does
> not
> include gas and lubricants
> 
>
http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages/cars/Scirocco/scirocco.htm
> 
> Black text is current, white has been replaced and
> pink is yet to be installed
> 
> That does not include ~400$ worth of window rubber,
> G-Grind Cam that are not installed but are in the
> garage, and the new master cylinder, coolant hoses
> (all of them), and cylinder head / oil pan gaskets I
> still need to buy.
> 
> As for the why - at this point I am far too many
> dollars into it for the measly $3000 (that's a
> generous estimate) that I would get out of it.  I
> really like working on it too - but rebuilding the
> engine on my van (successfully!) took all the
> work-on-car mojo out of me for a while.
> 
> Oh - and I like driving it :)
> 
> Mark
> 
>  
> 
> --- Mike Blain <rept@qwest.net> wrote:
> > I just did a solid tally on the expenditures of
> > tuning my car in the 
> > three years Ive had it.  It includes everything
> > spent from initial 
> > purchase excluding state lisencing fees and
> standard
> > petroleum product 
> > consumption.   Basically, I could have just gone
> out
> > and bought a new 
> > jetta with some extras on it- maybe even the
> > wolfsburg if I haggled 
> > right.  I expected to be in the teens but not the
> > high teens.  This 
> > brings me to wonder how many others are acutely
> > aware of how deep they 
> > are into their rocc projects (singular, per car
> > tally)?
> > 
> > At this point im asking myself what the hell im
> > doing and why? I mean I 
> > love cars- but im dumping money into a vehicle
> that
> > can be had for the 
> > cost of a nice vacuum cleaner. And, im thinking I
> > should have maybe 
> > jumped into a project that would actually pay for
> > itself like a 70-71 
> > cuda 340 or 440 sixpack.
> > 
> > So the question stands: How much and why- to my
> > fellow listers.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> =====
> Mark
> 84 Rocco
> 87 Westfalia
> 96 Rockhopper Comp (commuter)
> 98 Yeti AS-R XC (freeride)
> 01 Schwinn Fastback Ltd (in progress)
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