Until now the biggest ticket item I have ever purchased has been my current home. in 1998 I paid $51,400. That is with all the fees but not the sales tax.
I am getting the 2M FS Cyber. So $57,000ish(before tax).
My current home is worth North of $300,000. The one lot on my street is for sale for $367,000.
But consider what my mindset must be if I am inline to buy a vehicle that cost more than my home.
I must see this thing as something that pretty much is worth my house.
Its current expected performance levels will meet or exceed my expected needs in 2 years.
And my needs/desires are quite high. They were too high to expect anything would meet them until this vehicle was unveiled.
Back in 1962 I had a great Uncle that was too cool for the time he lived in. I was 6. Uncle Albert was "OLD." He was definitely in his fifties. Now the odd thing was that He came to see us in his VW Camper van with two "Great Aunts"? And then when he came 2 yrs later I think my Great Aunts were two completely different women? He was retired. He traveled across the country in this van...with some company. I only remember that he and my Father talked about how many ducks or geese he saw when he was down in Mexico. The old standard, "blacked out the Sun" description.
He pulled up in this odd creature of a vehicle before I went to school. I remember I smarted off so he hog-tied me on the living room floor, with my parent's permission of course. And only let me go after I acknowledged I could not untie myself...And then I went to school.
When I got home it was "Surreal time." He told me to go gather all the kids in my neighborhood that were my close friends. And he took us for a drive. No one asked their parents. We just went. To this day I still remember it. His van was tricked out as a camper. All five of us kids were able to sit around a table while going down the road. Back then, and when you are six, THAT is surreal. I think we ate pretzels. It wasn't important that we ate anything. It was that we put them on a table in front of us and ate them like we were not in a car at all.
That's all it was. but we laughed, and giggled.
I got a few Great nieces and nephews... yep, in 60 years they will tell the story about how Great Uncle Luke pulled up in his Cyber-van and took the kiddies for a ride through the neighborhood without anyone driving... And how we stopped in the woods and cooked hotdogs off the tailgate....
Priceless?
I am getting the 2M FS Cyber. So $57,000ish(before tax).
My current home is worth North of $300,000. The one lot on my street is for sale for $367,000.
But consider what my mindset must be if I am inline to buy a vehicle that cost more than my home.
I must see this thing as something that pretty much is worth my house.
Its current expected performance levels will meet or exceed my expected needs in 2 years.
And my needs/desires are quite high. They were too high to expect anything would meet them until this vehicle was unveiled.
Back in 1962 I had a great Uncle that was too cool for the time he lived in. I was 6. Uncle Albert was "OLD." He was definitely in his fifties. Now the odd thing was that He came to see us in his VW Camper van with two "Great Aunts"? And then when he came 2 yrs later I think my Great Aunts were two completely different women? He was retired. He traveled across the country in this van...with some company. I only remember that he and my Father talked about how many ducks or geese he saw when he was down in Mexico. The old standard, "blacked out the Sun" description.
He pulled up in this odd creature of a vehicle before I went to school. I remember I smarted off so he hog-tied me on the living room floor, with my parent's permission of course. And only let me go after I acknowledged I could not untie myself...And then I went to school.
When I got home it was "Surreal time." He told me to go gather all the kids in my neighborhood that were my close friends. And he took us for a drive. No one asked their parents. We just went. To this day I still remember it. His van was tricked out as a camper. All five of us kids were able to sit around a table while going down the road. Back then, and when you are six, THAT is surreal. I think we ate pretzels. It wasn't important that we ate anything. It was that we put them on a table in front of us and ate them like we were not in a car at all.
That's all it was. but we laughed, and giggled.
I got a few Great nieces and nephews... yep, in 60 years they will tell the story about how Great Uncle Luke pulled up in his Cyber-van and took the kiddies for a ride through the neighborhood without anyone driving... And how we stopped in the woods and cooked hotdogs off the tailgate....
Priceless?
