Hey Tigger I think Mecum is in town. You should go see the beautiful cars at auction! Or is it St. Charles Illinois???
Nope.. Missouri (Mecum is coming to IL) but even so as a professional auto tech I kind of get burned out on cars. I know some guys who can't get enough of working on them and looking at them but personally I guess I'm just not a car kind of guy. The last thing I want to think about when I'm off the clock is cars and I tend to put off fixing even my own stuff until there's something that can't be put off anymore.
After working on and driving just about every make and model ever made I've come to learn that a car is a car and I just don't really see what's so special about most of them. Unless you're talking upwards of $30-40k or more in price cars (in my opinion) are all about the same and I tend to base what I drive personally on cost, price (and availability) of replacement parts and ease of repair. Simply put I'm just as happy driving my Festiva as I would be driving a late model Honda.
If I felt like spending the money I could probably go for a BMW (I love how they drive and how they feel and not many cars do that for me) but it would be very tough for me to justify spending that kind of money on a car. Even $10k is too much for a car in my opinion. My mind could probably be changed if I actually had to pay someone to work on my stuff but in my mind if a $500 POS gets me to and from work reliably then spending anything more is a waste of money.
For me being at an auction watching nice cars get sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars just doesn't seem much like fun to me. Kind of like why I don't care much for strip clubs... just looking just doesn't do it for me and I'm too cheap to spend any money on it.
