What Did Your Ford Cost You?
 

I don't care what you paid for it.

I want to know what they cost you (so the wife unit didn't make you sleep in the garage)....

For example, mine cost me a new countertop
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Hot tea delivered to my wife in bed every morning
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and another Elkhound
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Payed $24000.00 for mine. 2011 Ranger pickup, loaded. The last of the Rangers. Walt

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Good question.

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My Harley and a new 2014 Jeep Patriot for her.

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To date mine's cost more than I care to tally up. When it comes to restorations ignorance really is bliss!

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Well - Binx scored big

Green50 is probably close to the middle of the pack with me.

Don't want the dollar figures, just the quid pro quo extracted from you

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My first wife... It was a really good deal...:)

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Horses... lots and lots of horses. Eleven at last count and I think maybe one more on the way. I don't ask her what they cost - she doesn't ask me what my cars cost. Kind of a "mutual understanding".
It doesn't matter though...she's worth the world.

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Okay, $30K garage to house my toy and probably endless restoration of our old Cape Cod house. quid pro quo is probably fair.

Lonnie

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Too date F1+all the parts ive picked up since Nov, got less then $600.00 total in all, but gave up the ex girlfriend (she didnt like old trucks) but it worked out great since i have girls knocking on my door begging me too take them for rides.. So im on the up and up ;) haha

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New Years Day 1983 I made a resolution to learn to fly an airplane, a lifelong dream. Later that year I bought my first airplane, a 1961 Cessna 150, a two seater for $4800. My 17 year old son was thrilled, my wife was furious. I had just bought a new 1983 Ford Ranger Pickup. To keep the peace I traded my new pickup for her a new 1983 Thunderbird Turbo. There was once again peace at the Reynolds Homestead.

However there has been only one issue with my old car sickness. I sold a beautifully restored 1934 Plymouth PE Coupe to buy my `35 Ford Cabriolet, not running, parts missing and ugly paint. When my son and I dragged it home my wife was once again furious. But now she likes the old Ford, we can get out and run highway speeds and is far more enjoyable than the Plymouth....

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...Plymouth-1.jpg


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Hard wood floors, counter tops, fireplace, and the list keeps growing!

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X2, but there won't be a 2nd for me!

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A new 2007 Infiniti G35X. That was when I bought the pickup. She fell in love with the 53 Courier on the trip back to NH from the 2012 Florida Barners Bash. We turned that trip into a leisurely road adventure.

On the ferry across Delaware Bay
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Mine costs me jewelry. Lots of jewelry. Every year

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Cost nothing,as its OUR 33.
Lawrie

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My wife got a diamond, I got a diamond in the rough. Hers will last forever, mine will turn to dust.

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My wife always write the check when we buy a car. This way she doesn't have a leg to stand on. I never buy a car behind her back. But I think I have reach the end. She says there no more room for another car. She just the other day she bought me a tombstone? I wonder what she got on her mind?:confused:

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Momma got a new car before talk of the truck arose.

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She got a cottage near the beach... I got a girl that goes along with all my insane ideas.

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Good one! But shouldn't yours say: `Mine will turn to rust'?:rolleyes:

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Bought a 1948 business coupe last fall. Good news wife had gotten a new counter top, induction stove, fridge and new sofa with love seat in the last year. was instructed to make sure it was what I wanted because this wasn't going to happen again for a VERY long time. Probably two weeks later I found out one of my best friends from my USAF days had died. When I told the wife about him she said I'm glad you bought the 48.When we went to change the title I said you probably don't want to be on it. She said yes she did which indicates to me she likes it too.

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My last old Ford, '35 5w coupe, didn't cost me anything at initial purchase....since my wife bought it for me with some of her buyout retirement money. BUT....I have to pay her back. Any money that I have made over the last 2-3 years goes directly to her. I have not been keeping track of how much I have given her, so occasionally I'll ask....is the coupe paid for yet dear?....an the answer is always......NO!.....not even close!! I am sure I will wind up paying way more for this last car than I ever thought I would :D but at least she seems to be happy :).

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Ah, the price some people pay to keep harmony at home. Guess I'm lucky ,my wife said it was a good deal , better get it now before someone else does. She even bought parts for it. Yeah that's a fairy tale.

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I don't tell mine but she finds out when the insurance is due, they number them. G.M.

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FORTUNATELY, I bought all my cars, before I got married, at fifty years ago, prices, too. I could have bought more, after marriage, but didn't have room for more. I was content.
As to another story, my wife being a nurse in a hospital, said, "If you buy a motorcycle, I'm leaving". Between bikes for my two sons and my Harleys, I bought six or seven bikes, but she never did leave.
MIKE :) (mikeburch)

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I only admit to owning one. Cheaper that way(except the storage bill).
Kitchen remodel is pending.

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I'm probably not done paying yet with the honey do's. remember "A Happy Wife is a Happy Life"

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http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...d/IMG_1154.jpg

Bought The Ford for me.......... and then the 57 Wagon for her on our 30th Wedding Anniversary.

Funny both vehicles cost $8,000


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Mine cost me half of my IRA. But I invested in the IRA to be able to enjoy retirement. Got rid of the wife. Retirement is better that way.

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The crankshaft grinder got a new 3/4 carat diamond (when I got the machine my wife told her friend I had a new girlfriend), That diamond I got a good deal on 23$, hers had a few more zeros after the 23
I got a new car ---a 91 for 200$,she got a 04Benz

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Me oh my, how them Ford's do stand out in a crowd! :p

Here's my parents' '53 wagon on a ferry crossing the Mississippi in 1959 when I was 7 (same year they bought Old Henry).

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(I'm the first one on the rail)

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Mine's not like anyone else's, but, then, I'm not much like anyone else.
I had been singing in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for 6 years rehearsing every Thursday night for our T.V. broadcast every Sunday morning when I started restoring Old Henry with my 15 year old son, Morgan. It wasn't many months into the project when I realized I would rather stay home Thursday night and work on Old Henry with Morgan than go to choir rehearsal so gave my notice of resignation and ended that very great experience for an even greater one with my son.:)

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I've had my Merc way longer then my wifey. I consider myself lucky that she puts up with my hobby and that she agrees with me that my Merc is my therapy. Besides that I couldn't afford an other one trying to raise 4 kiddos Randy

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Bought The Ford for me.......... and then the 57 Wagon for her on our 30th Wedding Anniversary.

Funny both vehicles cost $8,000

I know it's a Ford Forum, but that Chevy is beautiful!

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Can't give a definitive answer but I know it costs me every day!!! But I do a good soft shoe too. I keep threatening to buy another Harley, then instead I come home with another classic car and all of a sudden it's OK. Then were good til the next time I find one.

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Mine cost the six years of my life between 03 an 09 to find and restore, with my father the 40. Many trips to Overton NV then Hurricane UT before he passed. PRICELESS

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250.00 dollars in december 1959 had to borrow some of the money to buy it ,sure glad i did that. i,m sure its worth a little more today.

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Being shall we say of a mature age now, I remember the pleasure of buying a few new cars in my lifetime.

Last Thanksgiving I finally got through to the little woman saying I needed a hobby car. Something to do. I was bored. All that stuff. Told her I would take the money from MY 401k since it wasn't earning anything anyway. Found my '48 coupe advertised on ebay.

The man bought it from called me the night before we left home to drive 400 miles to get it saying, I just want you to know, this isn't a running car. It needs everything, I mean everything .

Short story. I bought it. Paid more than the total cost of two new cars I had bought as a younger man.

Best deal I ever made!