>"Instead of fixing up an old POS vehicle why don't you just buy something newer that's already better and faster?"
How do you respond to this without sounding poor and mad?

>>28512485 (OP)
i like older cars

"I have the funds to do it. You don't."

No one's ever asked me this. Every time a normie has a car question I just tell them to lease now regardless of their situation. Get your ass to work, yes my cost to operate a vehicle is a fraction of yours but that's the price you pay for not being interested in this versus whatever normgroid nonsense you enjoy.

>>28512512
now that you mention it, i just realised that whenever people ask me car questions the first question i ask them is how interested they are in DIY maintenance and then we basically go from there. almost always ends up just recommending them some grocery getter like a camry or rav4 or accord etc.

>>28512485 (OP)
But I am poor and mad

>>28512485 (OP)
>If I Buy a new car I won't be able to buy a 2nd house.
Pisses off normal Fags easily for a few reasons.
It's telling them the reason they don't own their own house is because they have stupid car payments.
But it also reinforces the idea because you own your own house and are in a financial position to buy a second one. while the normal fags are still making car payments.

Sure fire way to make them short circuit.
If they respond with something dumb like "a car's value is the way it makes you feel" or something similar, you got the point across.

>>28512485 (OP)
The amount of money it would cost to make an old car fast can end up costing as much as a new car so it's purely subjective.

I do it because I like to do it

>>28512487
FPBP
OP's bait thread is 1/10

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>>28512485 (OP)
I want an old POS

>>28512485 (OP)
>How do you respond to this without sounding poor and mad?
It still works and car shopping is a pain in the ass.

>>28512516
>almost always ends up just recommending them some grocery getter like a camry or rav4 or accord etc.
I do the same. I'll throw in AWD just in case.
Car? Corolla Hybrid.
SUV? RAV4 Hybrid.
Bigger car? Sienna Hybrid.
Truck? Buy what makes you feel good.

No one follows my advice except for the truck buyer.

New cars are ugly

>>28512567

Nice. Will use something like this next time. Can also vary it with something reasonably in your field.

>trying to buy a boat
>Tractor
>Put back into the business
>Equipment expansion
>Farm land

Many possibilities

>>28512626
Perhaps, but now you have a much better looking cars custom built to YOUR exacting specs, not some jgovernment mandated environmentally conscious cuckmobile filled with more surveillance equipment than soviet russia ever thought possible.

>>28512485 (OP)
But I am poor. A majority of America and Europe are poor.

>>28512485 (OP)
I just drop my pants and start masturbating right there. If they stay, then that means I can fuck them, if they leave, then that means I can rape them.

>>28513017
I like your file name

>>28513017
If he painted the bottom of that sill black to hide the sheer chonk, it would look *way* better. Still not good, but better.

>>28513030
That's what Dodge does with the Challenger, black plastic strip along the bottom to hide the fat.

>>28512485 (OP)
Poorgroids always forget the #1 reason I *ONLY* buy new cars. Noone in my family has touched a used car in generations. If you have any value on this planet, then it's worth your SAFETY. Definitely worth the $40-100K extra per year to be in a brand new car. Think about it, the ackthually-rich celeb types spend millions per year on security. If you get into a crash in a 30 year-old rinkydink MR2, you're toast. Get in a crash in a new Karen tank and it will be the motorcyclist that's toast, or at least you've dealt equal damage to Becky's Escalade.

t. just happened to me. Brand new 1-month old sportscar hit by jelly road raging "dark individual" without a driver's license. He was from a metro ghetto and not even supposed to be in the little hillbilly mountain town I was driving through (the town symbol is literally a noose). Poors pls stay away

Just say you're poor but not mad about it.

>>28512485 (OP)

“Oh it’s just a hobby”
Are you autistic ? Don’t answer that

>>28513061
>black plastic strip along the bottom to hide the fat.
it's actually to keep the pinch welds and rockers from getting dinged up by rocks because the wheels stick out of the car at the bottom.
it's not actually hiding anything

>>28512485 (OP)
>"I'm poor"
I am poor AND I am mad.

>>28512485 (OP)
>Instead of fixing up an old POS vehicle why don't you just buy something newer that's already better and faster?
No one important has ever asked this in the history of humanity ever, and in that case, you're free to toss it into the garbage as ignorant drivel.

Cars have become so expensive with all kinds of useless novelties. My wife's buick has a rear view camera overlaid in the rearview mirror. But if you use the rear screen rearview mirror your eyes have to adjust from far sight to near sight when you look at the screen, then back to far sight. Wow thanks for charging me more to make driving less safe retards. We never use the screen rearview. But I saw some bitch in a Lexus using it. Shit should be illegal. Anyways I'm just going to keep fixing my trugg I guess so I can lrn2wrench more.

>>28513984
There’s a major problem in that you can’t get any of the good advances in a car without getting all the stupid bullshit.
It’s nearly zero in the winter and nearly 100 in the summer, so for instance I’ve loved to use heated and cooled seats. But they come in cars with all these other stupid bullshit. Ditto for motorcycles.
I don’t want your gay throttle maps and ride by wire and abs I can’t turn off and rear views mirror overlays and auto shutoff and the list goes on and on.
I want creature comforts not rider/driver “aids.”

>>28512485 (OP)
I was going to. But my father died and left me his car. So I didn't have to buy one.

>>28513061
You don't like cars, we get it. Why are there so many of you fags on here?

Because it's fun to bring cars back to life.

>>28512485 (OP)
I smile and point out I retired at 47, debt free and owning my homes. Not buying new four-wheeled vehicles saved gobs of money I get to spend on FUN like my vintage motorbike collection or home machine shop.

I'm a poor by US standards, netting a bit less than 70K/year and legit disabled (chronic pain sucks) but lack nothing and my time is my own. I've wrenched my whole adult life and that's been very good to me.

>>28512485 (OP)
>newer that's already better

New cars suck ass. They're smart phones strapped to turbocharged 3 cylinders.

>>28512485 (OP)
I tell them all the time I don't want new slop. Unreliable. Constantly breaks even when new. Overpriced. I own my car, and while I could go get another, there isn't a need. This thing runs just fine despite it's numerous small issues. Plus I tell 'em I keep it because it pisses 'you' off that I'm still driving it. People are afraid to park next to me as if I'll ding their shit. Yet if I drive a nicer car, they seem to go out of their way to fuck my nice stuff up. So fuck 'em. And if none of that works, I simply ask;

"You wanna foot the car note? No? Thought so."

>>28513061
Remember guys, safety is when a little corrosion on a terminal removes your ability to steer.
Safety is when you can't see outside your car because they make the pillars a foot thick and the windows barely larger than tank viewports.
Safety is not being able to use your car because of an update.
Safety is script kiddies downloading an app that gives them full access to your car.

I genuinely don't think stock cars are cool.
I only like shit that's kustom.

>>28512490
why not just buy a higher class of car then?

>>28512485 (OP)
because they haven't made a car worth owning in 20+ years
i will never drive jellybean CUV slop with 40 screens and annoying bullshit like """lane assist""" and auto start-stop

>>28514159
there was an anon here earlier this year that worked for some environmental advocacy agency or some shit that had a 64 ford f100 or f150 or whatever and he had to replace it, colleagues were excited that he might finally get something new after constsnt pestering/bugging about it.
he got a 62 f100/f150 that belched out even more smoke, in his words "they were not impressed."

>>28514323
Its odd that ecomentalists never realised that keeping an old car on the road for many years is better for environment in the long run that buying newer once in a while

>>28512485 (OP)
fixing it up properly will cost me x4 of your monthly payments, meanwhile you signed up to 72 months at 25%

>>28512485 (OP)
i already have a newer and faster car, restoring this older one is my hobby

>>28514234
Because only browns look for status in a car. I like having something hardly anyone else drives.

>>28512485 (OP)
my old pos is faster

>>28513017
That thing looks as bloated and retarded as the boomers it's likely meant to appeal to.

>500 bucks every 6 months
>500 bucks every two weeks

i simply do both.

>>28515272
retard, he means a higher tier performance car

>>28514498
i feel like in the same way that people drive manual, learning how to wrench on a shitbox and achieving that degree of self-sufficiency is the goal. it's kinda perfect because the parts are usually cheaper, the maintenance is mostly intuitive, and the cars are generally worn down, so this allows you to easily start wrenching a lot and learning about the various systems in your car simply through exposure from trying to troubleshoot all the problems you'll encounter. also, if you ever breakdown, you'll have options and won't be stranded, which can help take away some of the panic in those situations.

>>28516293
Only browns call them performance cars and care about "tier" level. May as well be calling it a stage 2.

>>28512485 (OP)
>faster
I don't care I have a motorcycle for fun and I'm already seemingly the only person in my entire city physically capable of merging at speed rather than 30mph below it.
>better
Extremely debateable. Even assuming at least mechanical parity (lmao) nu cars are stuffed full of obnoxious nanny tech and sensor bullshit that does things I didn't ask for and don't want, and an increasing number of these things are even -legally mandated- so I can't even opt out by choosing a lower trim model. All this and they don't perform the action of "driving" any better than my 22 year old car does, all while costing a shitload more both in purchase and ongoing costs like registration and insurance. Other than the most ecoshitbox of ecoshitboxes nu-shit doesn't even get better fuel economy so it's an extremely poor value proposition since it's at best equivalent function for far greater cost.
>b-b-but the cost of repairs!
My car is 22 years old and in the 10 years I've owned it I've put less money into it than 6 months of a budget nu-car payment. "Fixing up my old POS" literally costs 20x less than inflicting nu-shit upon myself. I remain unconvinced.
>you're just poor!
I don't have a lot of money, but the gap between "poor" and "destitute" is a lot wider without the additional burden of pissing away money on nu-shit I actively hate and will not benefit from.

>>28514163
Safety is the forward sensors mistaking a bit of pollen for a brick wall and automatically "emergency" braking you to a full stop in front of 50 tons of tractor-trailer from 75mph.
Safety is a nonstop barrage of mystery chimes and beeps and boops and alarms with no indicated source or resolution because as we all know a distracted driver is a safe driver.
Safety is requiring the driver to look away from the road and navigate nestled touchscreen menus for even the most basic things because a distracted driver is a safe driver.

>>28512485 (OP)
I love my car and don't want to abandon it.
Recently going to the car graveyard truly was eye-opening when I saw so many of my model completely wrecked and abandoned there.
My car won't suffer the same fate for as long as I'm alive.

>>28512485 (OP)
I have 4 cars
>total value $50k
>total power 605hp
Can I get a 605hp car for 50k, used is OK?