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My dad was head of a law office of 1. New cars were purchased when he had fully depreciated the last business expense, then that depreciated car became mom's. There was only a 75 Volvo between the 70 and 85 Cougars. At that point I got the 70!
For some reason I was with dad when he was looking for the Volvo, model 245DL Dad: What's DL? Diesel? Sales: DeLuxe Dad: OK, I'll take it. Then the negotiations began. It was nearly a month of lot visits and walks. He always bought in December. Said prices were dropping for the dealers to make a final year end sale, and that he could use a full year of depreciation for owning the car during the calendar year.
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My elementary school teacher used one of those music chalk thingies with chalk only in the outermost two holders to make lines on the blackboard for cursive writing lessons......
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I’ve never met any of my grandfathers . Maternal died before I was born and paternal left my father when he was young and moved to a different country, I also never met my paternal grandmother.
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miles on it (Chevy dealer said it belonged to a traveling salesman). I only put 20,000 miles on during the 3 years I owned it. I had a lot of fun with the car, but I had to put a lot of work into it. During that 20k miles I pulled the engine/transaxle twice to replace blown head gaskets and a cylinder. A bolt broke in the rear suspension, leaving a spring dragging on the street. Fortunately, I was in town when that happened. Then there was much time spent chasing rattles, most of which I cured. My new wife drove the car during my 12 months in Vietnam. I had plans to soup up the car a bit when I got home (dual carburator heads) but shelved that idea after I spotted the new Mercury Capri. Our 1970 Capri wasn’t much better. It was pretty well shot at 100k miles, just like the Corvair. To contrast that, when we traded in our 2012 GLK 350 with 102,000 miles on the clock, it still ran great; dashboard wasn’t cracked; paint looked good; shifted fine and it only had one intermittant rattle.
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I thought he was. He has a white beard just like you
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When I bought the almost-Mighty Freightliner a few years ago, it had just shy of 1/4 million miles on the odometer and the engine still had 47K left on its warranty thanks to dieselgate.....
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