Explaining old car math to the wifey...

******s are cheaper and they'll do what ever ya want.

 

****in' women.... Isn't that what they're for?

 

Hey Larry, If your wife stayed around after building your coupe the truck should be a piece of cake. My wife just asked if I could give the checkbook a little recovery time between cars or no more 32 fords.

 

less than the ****ing subdivision house with no hope of a non attached building cost - kinda the same theme when I have to drive 2 hours each way on a weekend to get to my new shop.

 

I'll buy it all for 25 cents on the dollar and then tell everyone on the hamb about the great score I made!

Your wife will be happy I cleaned up your mess.

Gary

 

thats funny ****!!!

 

that math works for me. that's how I'm building my current ride--slow and cheap to account for dealing.

it's an impossible scenario to win. I've never lost money on a car and generally "re-invested" more stuff to sell or my own ride--but she still sees it as spending awayhousehold money. nod and yes dear--hopefullyshe'll come around--my begrudingly lets me play.

 

Ahh the price of surfdom!

 

Two words,...

"Contra Fund"

Bless you Oliver North (and Chesty Puller) wherever you are,...... OOOH-RAH !

 

Quoted from another board:
"My biggest fear is that one day my wife sells my **** for what I told her it cost"
Barry

 

Rather than explaining it in car parts, you should have explained it in shoes!

 

Well, I'm on my second wife... a grand total of 43 years of marriage and counting, so I think I can make the following statement with some authority:

The math you use to ******** yourself is NOT the same math you use in a vain attempt to ******** the wife.

Been there, tried that, still have scars!

 

reading all your post , makes me glad I'm married to my wife , I have none of this trouble , if your wife is that *****y then instead of a new Project perhaps you need a new Wife But just incase your in Love or something ... try this

Talk over a budget with her
just say your gonna build a car but would like to talk over a budget
so if you need 20 grand to build a car make sure you talk her into 40
grand that way when your done you come in Under budget

if you want a million dollar barrett jackson collector car then start with 2 million

 

hahahaha.......

I work for HER Industries, INC. I am middle management. If I need to buy parts, I must use the "slush fund", but, since middle management does all of the accounting, every now and then, the slush fund is padded with false numbers......making it look like there is less cash then there really is. A couple times a month this total gets edged a little lower and lower for "legitimit expenditures" on the TPS reports to the CEO, meanwhile, the differnce between what the CEO sees and what is really in the slush fund gets rolled into an "offshores" account................Kinda like Superman 2. So far I haven't moved up the corporate ladder at HER Industries, INC., but, I have kept the peace, and in the end, middle management isn't all that bad as long as the boss is happy.

 

I talked to a girl the other night who dances in some strip club downtown, she tells me her time is $100 an hour regardless, if she talks to you, gives you a lap dance, or you go in the private room. If she's $100 an hour I'd hate to find out what a really pretty one gets. Not that she was terrible, but she was no knockout either.


But on the other hand when the hour's up you never have to talk to her again.


I'm too cheap to even go that far, I figure the money I save I can spend on the car instead.

 

My girlfriend flipped **** when I bought my chrome inner fender panels for my '40. I slowly explianed to her that I sold all of my strombergs and some other stuff to buy them. That cooled her down. I also mentioned that I have to spend my stupid money before we get married and that I want to have one car built the way I want it and completely done before the big ceremony...

On the flipside, whenever we go through Rod&Custom together and I ask her what kinda car she likes, you can bet your balls she'll point out the shiniest '32 roadster in the magazine! I don't think she'll complain when I get to build the '29 A roadster eventually... she doesn't know the difference between a model A and a '32 no matter how many times I show her... she just wants her hair to blow around. I'd like to be able to hear the flatty and quickchange over her some days...

 

Just bolt a chair down in the back of the pick up truck!

(sorry but if I didn't do it,. someone else would have)

 

This thread Explains what the true use of DON'T ASK DON'T TELL is for.

My wife couldn't give a chit what I spend.....she is definitely a keeper.

 

That's some funny ****... I don't think that would fly though. She wants to look cool too- not like the stepchild who picked the short straw....

 

Not mine...No wife = no worries.

 

What I really find to be funny about this thread is:

None of you would be here to complain if not for a loving woman!!!

 

Ex wife used to work for me in my business,UPS came in almost every day.
She wouldn't get off her *** when the driver came in,unless she smelled car parts.
All questions of "what did THAT cost?" were answered with a cold stare,and the following question......
"Tell me again what your balance is on your ****ing Visa card?"
She wouldn't life a finger to open boxes that were for the business,but would tear into my stuff if she got to it first.
I know more than one guy who has his stuff sent to his buddies houses to avoid this kind of conversation.

 

that video is halarious!

 

If you don't sell it, you can't lose money on it....

 

Here's a hint - when in a business relationship dont lie to your partners.....

And next time you do a smoking deal, use some of the cash on her.... like a meal or something for her hobby. Then she is going to want you to do more of the same.

A Dr Pete's free anouncement.

 

Yes, but if it hadn't been for the coupe, you'd just be "Larry"...... how boring is that? Because of the coupe, you're a rockstar......... priceless!!!

 

Lippy, where did you get that shirt? I NEED one!

Ain't got no wife. Had one, couldn't put up with me.

 

I keep my car money seperate from household money. Period. It's mine, I earn it by selling parts or doing side jobs once in a while.

My paycheck goes into the general fund to pay bills, buy food and keep a roof over our heads. I never take money from there, it's too tight.

I was fortunate that my wife decided I should buy the new transmission I had been wanting for several years last year when we got a much larger tax return than expected. Large expenditures like that are very rare for us, but she wanted to make me happy. Usually I make the most of what I have, and that is enough.

I'll never have a car worth big money, but everything i have is because I built it myself.

Devin