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To: zeugma

The price of all cars is stratospheric to me. You could buy a house for the cost of a car today, and it wasn’t that long ago. A perfect new 3 bed 2 bath rambler on a good lot in 1965 was $16,000. I bought my first in 1985 and my payment was $600 with 12.5%. In 2003 I bought one for $147K. Cars and houses, both are great indicators of the cost of national debt. I think Range Rovers are $100K or more though.


64 posted on 04/24/2018 8:43:55 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Glad2bnuts
The price of all cars is stratospheric to me. You could buy a house for the cost of a car today, and it wasn’t that long ago. A perfect new 3 bed 2 bath rambler on a good lot in 1965 was $16,000. I bought my first in 1985 and my payment was $600 with 12.5%. In 2003 I bought one for $147K. Cars and houses, both are great indicators of the cost of national debt. I think Range Rovers are $100K or more though.

I can beat that. Check out the Franck Muller watch for a cool $2.4 million. Patek Philippe has entire lines that regularly run better than $100k. People willing to spend $150k for a watch are looking at their money in an entirely different way than I am.

Granted, from a sheer mechanical engineering point of view the Franck Muller watch above is a wonder. Everything on the face is driven from a single spring. Amazing. Astounding even. But would I part with $2.4 million for it? I doubt it, even if I had that kind of cash readily on hand.

67 posted on 04/24/2018 1:10:45 PM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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