Which Has More Value?

[Mark W]

Build what you want to own for your own satisfaction, based on how you will use it and your abilities and size of your wallet. Trying to guess what someone else might want at some day in the future is pointless. If your concern is financial returns at some point down the road, buy stocks and bonds and drive a beater of whogivesachit make and model.

Mark...

 

[dazerb]

Thank you for the input. I'm not trying to get political and for many years I haven't considered myself Republican or Democrat because they both seem to be like kids on a playground throwing rocks at each other and filling their own pockets instead of looking out for us. I wish there was a good, viable, 3rd party that would get us back on track. That said, I think the slump in the market is Bidenomics. My family and I have felt it the past couple years in everything from gas to groceries, especially now on only a disability income.

I'd really like to bring this FJ40 back to life and enjoy it taking my 14 & 10 year old son's fishing locally, run to the store a mile & half up the road for milk, and so on. And I'd REALLY like to get a 2nd FJ40 and do the same, having the boys help me bring them to life (they could be my hands, since my hands don't do what I tell them correctly anymore), and then someday, if I'm still alive (my wife and I met late and got a late start) give each of them an FJ40 as their wedding gift. I make sure I buy my lottery tickets every week to try to finance that!

As for the EV's and the current president's push to eliminate all combustion engines, I actually for a millisecond thought about finding a totaled Tesla in getting the electric motors and battery packs and things out of it and building a Tesla electric FJ40. But then I thought, that would have to be some kind of a cardinal sin and taking it across a stream or Creek. Or any of that fun stuff that they're made for wouldn't work out with a whole bunch of electrical motors and battery packs and stuff.

Ultimately I'm leaning towards trying to go original on it, drive and enjoy it, if I decide. I need a little more pep than doing something like the 283 but keep the original running gear in good condition storage so that it could always be put back or if sold the buyer would have both options.

Someone needs an economics class! Good lord. I guess you missed all the facts about record corporate profits, stock buybacks, Golden parachutes... and the fact that a president can't control an economy.
SMH

 

[FloridaLife]

Someone needs an economics class! Good lord. I guess you missed all the facts about record corporate profits, stock buybacks, Golden parachutes... and the fact that a president can't control an economy.
SMH

If fact, I missed a BUNCH of classes! LOL. You are probably right. That's why I don't consider myself a Republican or a Democrat. At age 55 it seems all my life both parties have been like children on a playground so busy throwing rocks at each other and filling their own pockets that they forget why they are supposed to be there. For years I've said I wish there was a good viable 3rd party. All I know is that instead of $30 to fill my gas tank like 3 years ago, now it takes close to $70, and it's harder / more expensive to feed my family. Then again... I remember being shocked and frustrated when gas hit $1 a gallon. LOL.