If I had $140,000

I'd buy me a new car. Not just any car. Here.....let me find some pictures.










Some of you might be thinking that this is just a corvette. You couldn't be more wrong! Corvettes don't come with twin turbos. They don't come with over 600hp to the wheels all while running on pump gas. They don't even come this sexy! Only 25 of these sexy things will be built next year. I put this car up there with the 1969 Yenko Camaro

Almost 40 years later, these Camaros have been appraised and sold for well over $1.1 million USD at Barrett-Jackson auctions.

I can't help to but to think about what a corvette like that would be worth 40 years from now. It's not a car you'd drive every day to work and school. So you might have 80,000 miles on it by then.


Maybe you are asking your self why not just buy a Porsche. The 911 turbos start out around $130,000 (I got mine up to over $150,000). Then I wouldn't have a one of 25 corvette. It would be a Prosche, just like every other one out on the road.

So yeah, that is what I would do with $140,000.

550 dollars later...

I got my car working at 100%

Friday I took my car in, as I blogged about it. They took the car for a joy ride...ahem...test drive. Then he called me up with what they thought it was, and the cost.

It was the driver side CV join / axle or the Differential. Luckily it was the cheaper of the two. The guy didn't even have a cost for me if it was the differential. Truth be told, I don't really want to know what it would have cost.

Well the CV joint ended up costing about $350 after it was all done. Fuck, labor was $85 / hr.

Well that only fixed about 80% of my problem.

Today I took my car in, again, to a different place. A tire shop this time. Well long story short. I ended up buying two new front tires, ok I knew I needed them but didn't want to buy them yet. So that was about $50 for each tire, at least they are just lil ol' Saturn tires (ie: kinda cheap). The tires I had on my s-10 were $150 each for the front and $180 each for the rear.

So after the tire shop was done bending my over. It ended up costin' around $200. I do like that shop though, I didn't get charged full price for the tires so that helped some. Heck I could have gone to cheaper shops, for both parts. I wanted to go where I could trust the guys working.

So now I got no money. I even paid for all this my self, so that's cool. I hate having to ask for money. Even more so when I know I'm going to be asking for a small chunk of change when I start my school.