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  • 10 years later..

    From Rob Mccart@1:2320/105 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Tue Apr 22 02:01:00 2025
    [...] so I went to a mortgage broker and paid a higher
    interest rate and never missed a payment ...
    ...and I was driving a 14 year old car.

    But, 10 years later, it was a whole nuther story..

    It's a 24 yr old car now? :D

    I built and rode a 1946 Harley Knucklehead motorcycle for a few
    years... does that count? B)

    Mine is coming up to 18. It's showing its age.

    That was back when I got my first house in 1975. By 1986 when I quit
    my job and moved up here. By then I was moving from a pretty flashy
    new 2 story brick home in Brampton and I had a 2 year old motorcycle
    and was driving a brand new Thunderbird..

    Right now I have a 2017 Ford Escape that I bought when it was about
    4 years old and only had about 60,000 km on it when I got it..
    It still has less that 70,000 on it.. B)

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    * SLMR Rob * You're right! The world DOES revolve around you...
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  • From Rob Mccart@1:2320/105 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Tue Apr 29 01:24:00 2025
    Right now I have a 2017 Ford Escape that I bought when it
    was about 4 years old and only had about 60,000 km on it
    when I got it.. It still has less that 70,000 on it.. B)

    The Ford dealer in my town has a 2021 Escape listed for
    >$22.995. 97,398KM. SEL AWD

    Do you think the $'s are too much for that one?

    The dollars have gone up on used cars so that doesn't sound too bad.
    You have to add $1500 or so since it has AWD. I paid about $15,500
    for mine but that was considered a bargain at the time. They had to
    play with the trade-in price to give me that rate. The dealer wouldn't
    drop it any lower than the sticker price since they had just dropped
    it by 10%, so they gave me an extra $500 for my 15 year old trade in
    where others were offering me $500 for it and they gave me $1000.

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    * SLMR Rob * Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?
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