You know you are addicted when....

[Sean]

I guess this is how some of us afford all these cards.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Sean

I guess this is how some of us afford all these cards.

and this is how some afford them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhgfjrKi0o




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[4815162342]

My problem is that I enjoy cars too.

[wonkaticket]

Yeah but Leon your van rocks!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by wonkaticket

Yeah but Leon your van rocks!

more like....

[Tobacco&Gum]

When you say "screw it, the kids will be just fine going to community college"

[z28jd]

I have a great one from yesterday! I brought a handful of change to Dunkin Donuts to buy food and a drink, then came home and spent $370 on a Cy Young card off ebay before I even took a bite of a donut...I was literally being too cheap to spend a couple bucks more on real food. I weighed it out and decided DD for less than $5 was the right choice

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by z28jd

I have a great one from yesterday! I brought a handful of change to Dunkin Donuts to buy food and a drink, then came home and spent $370 on a Cy Young card off ebay before I even took a bite of a donut...I was literally being too cheap to spend a couple bucks more on real food. I weighed it out and decided DD for less than $5 was the right choice

I think you are onto something. I consider $50 for a card nothing, but will buy a plain $8 burger to save the extra buck for bacon.

[deadballfreaK]

Originally Posted by z28jd

I have a great one from yesterday! I brought a handful of change to Dunkin Donuts to buy food and a drink, then came home and spent $370 on a Cy Young card off ebay before I even took a bite of a donut...I was literally being too cheap to spend a couple bucks more on real food. I weighed it out and decided DD for less than $5 was the right choice

Personally I would have checked the dumpster first for day olds. A buck can buy a nice vintage Topps card.

[atx840]

When you are visiting your in-laws in their tiny condo and your only "quiet" option to participate in REA/chat with the board at 5:30am is wedged behind the hotwater tank in the stanky storage room for 8 hours.

True story...hey Wonks!

[wonkaticket]

Originally Posted by atx840

When you are visiting your in-laws in their tiny condo and your only "quiet" option to participate in REA/chat with the board at 5:30am is wedged behind the hotwater tank in the stanky storage room for 8 hours.

True story...hey Wonks!

LOL, funny and true.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Leon

more like....

Geeeezzzz.....That's almost identical to the one I learned to drive in.

We also took a family camping trip across country in it in 78. I bought 78 O-peeChee in eastern Canada, and 77 OPC in the canadian portion of Glacier park. They'd just got them in!

Steve B

[T206Collector]

...you complain to your 8-year old son about purchasing him a $15 Pokemon card, which he desperately wants because apparently it has special powers, and he says, "That's nothing, Dad. You have a cards that cost you $1,000!"

Game. Set. Match.

[wonkaticket]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

My problem is that I enjoy cars too.

Yeah that's a problem for me too...

[nickedson]

... When you're reading your Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and daydreaming about your T-206 cards.

[Shoele$$]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

My problem is that I enjoy cars too.

After flirting with my last venture into 911 Turbos, I've finally came to the conclusion that spending $50,000 on temperamental 90's super cars, was the worst possible investment. Sure 911Ts are really holding their value today, but when you start counting up service receipts, the "luster" of your investment quickly wears off. I've given up the sports car hobby..........for now

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Shoele$$

After flirting with my last venture into 911 Turbos, I've finally came to the conclusion that spending $50,000 on temperamental 90's super cars, was the worst possible investment. Sure 911Ts are really holding their value today, but when you start counting up service receipts, the "luster" of your investment quickly wears off. I've given up the sports car hobby..........for now

As you and I previously spoke about, and I was steadfast in my thinking, don't buy a used race car such as a 911T. It will be in for service more than you will drive it. Then too, when I hit turbo with the clutch in, so I could jump off the line, that probably didn't help a whole lot either. But what are you supposed to do in a race car like a 911T? I had to race from stoplight to stoplight.

[Shoele$$]

Originally Posted by Leon

As you and I previously spoke about, and I was steadfast in my thinking, don't buy a used race car such as a 911T. It will be in for service more than you will drive it. Then too, when I hit turbo with the clutch in, so I could jump off the line, that probably didn't help a whole lot either. But what are you supposed to do in a race car like a 911T? I had to race from stoplight to stoplight.

That's what it's made for

Some of my old buddies in the Porsche club had some of nastiest tricked out 911s I had ever seen. The HP and torque they were laying down left me starring at the flame shooting out of their rear ends, lol.....if any of you are 930 owners, you know what I'm talking about

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Shoele$$

That's what it's made for

Some of my old buddies in the Porsche club had some of nastiest tricked out 911s I had ever seen. The HP and torque they were laying down left me starring at the flame shooting out of their rear ends, lol.....if any of you are 930 owners, you know what I'm talking about

That's funny, I owned a 1978 Porsche 911 from 1995 to 2003. I had to decide between the car and baseball cards. Since I only drove it about 2000 miles a year I sold the 911 to a friend. The last I heard he moved to Mississippi a week before Katrina hit. I don't know if the 911 survived.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Sean

That's funny, I owned a 1978 Porsche 911 from 1995 to 2003. I had to decide between the car and baseball cards. Since I only drove it about 2000 miles a year I sold the 911 to a friend. The last I heard he moved to Mississippi a week before Katrina hit. I don't know if the 911 survived.

Mine was a 1979, 930T.....I only lost one race in it...to a camaro with about a 1.5ft blower coming out of his hood. I used to race from light to light on Westheimer on Friday and Saturday nights, when I lived in Houston back in the mid 1980s...