Anyone else have a ride that can't be bought?

Same here, I don't think I'd sell my roadster project ( hopefully not a project for too much longer) But if i needed money for something life changing or life saving, the sign would go up.!

 

Oh man, you really have it out for me don't you...

We see things differently. That does not make me wrong.
These are personal choices.
My family comes first. For those who say that under no conditions would they ever sell a car for any amount, I say, good for you. Its your choice.
But the examples that I've used of health related costs being sky-high are not an unreasonable example.
All of our possessions mean much to us, I know they do for me too.
But, at my age and my wife's age, too, it's always a possibility that something might happen where you have to part with a car or even a watch.
I was wrong to say that I would never sell my pocketwatch, I guess I would.
If my wife needed one more $10 pill to make it through the day painfree and a guy offered me $10 for my watch and there was no where else to turn, then the watch would have to go. But, everything else of mine would be sold before that pocketwatch, thats for sure.

Although my wife and I have good health insurance, many people do not or don't have any at all. Even with insurance there is co-payments and deductibles to be paid out of pocket.
My recent $58,000 surgery was not free for me. I had to pay, out of pocket, for my share of the procedure and ongoing physical therapy, even with good insurance.
So, any talk about my scenarios not being realistic is just not true. These costs are real.
Maybe you are young enough to be in good health and not need any medical attention, but in time stuff does happen to the old body.
It wasn't but maybe 100 years ago or less, that life expectancy was just about 50 years old for men. Well, I've outlived that by nine years.

So, you seem to be certain that how I run my life and the way I think is wrong, and for that I'm sorry.

But, speaking for myself, my family comes first. I'm lucky. I doubt that I will ever have to sell my '34 or my watch to get by, but many are not as fortunate.
Some of the comments made are dead serious about them never, ever selling a car for any reason whatsoever. Well, those are a people of principle and I can appreciate that. Hopefully they will stay in good health, otherwise there will have to be some decisions made and I really doubt that anyone would let someone suffer just so they would not have to sell their hot rod. Maybe they would, but either way, it's none of my business.

But, my scenario of healthcare costs, or many other serious matters, are not far-fetched. Not for someone my age and not for someone who may have a seriously sick child.
These are real issues that face many families everyday.
Although as previously stated, I will never (knock on wood) have to sell the "34 or the watch, but I would to make my family pain free, well or to keep them safe and protected.

You have not walked in my shoes. I have faced some serious challenges in my life. But, I've planned well to almost assure that we will be OK, but if not, then it's a different game.

So, do as you please, but please let me do so, too.
Healthcare is tremendously expensive and if you want a treatment that your insurance provider does not cover, then its cash that does the talking.
With my recent surgery always on my mind, especially any time I just get out of a chair, it is natural that the cost associated with healhcare is front and center in this discussion.
It's real and just because you are not in need of medical attention at this point in your life, that doesn't mean that you or a family member will go one forever being in perfect health.

In the meantime, I regret getting into this discussion in the first place.

It really has boiled down to something like watching two bald men fighting over a hairbrush.

 

Could not have said it any better....family is always my top priority.

 

Mine is not for sale but it could be traded for

 

I think it is awsome that you put your family first and I would hope that everyone has the same convictions about it that you have. I apologise if it came across as an attack on your personal belief systems because it was not meant to be at all. I just found you first comment to be a little condescending to other posters who said they would never sell their car and you kind of called them out by saying "don't flatter yourself, everything has it's price" and then brought up your example of something you would never sell. All I was saying is that maybe some people have the same sentimental attachment to a car that you have to the watch and it would take an extreme circumstance for them to ever sell it. I probably shouldn't have included the healthcare costs in the farfetched statement (it is something I thankfully never have to consider) it was more directed towards the $500,000 and Highlanders $21,000 for the lighter.

Again I am sorry if you felt this was an attack on how you conduct your life as it was definitely not meant to be.

 

none of my shits for sale...... until the price is right!

 

well I have a car that I have had since I was 19 im 32 now....Me and my dad never had a good relationship till i bought that car and we started wrenching and he showed me how to rebuild a engine and the ins and outs of my passion for cars.....Now we talk all the time about cars go to car shows and share catalogs and car mags. We spent 2 great years building that car and I said I would never sell it.....well I got married and the wife was told there would always be me and that car.......fastforward she comes in and asks me if I would sell it for down payment on our forever house and to start our family out ahead of the curve......That one was a hard pill to swallow.....so i did some soul searching and Im selling it WHY you ask well my dad still alive and I just scored a 5 window coupe we can build and all this plus a big house with land to build my dream shop and build a family Thats priceless

 

This has turned into a pretty weird Thread.

You guys will have to postpone your " not arguing" till after Tech Week...