I Went, I Saw, I Clunked!
I made it just under the wire!
In the closing minutes of the government's Cash For Clunkers program, I Clunked!
It made perfect sense for me to Clunk, Afterall, behind my back ( and sometimes right up front) my best friends and family whisper things like "geesh, Tim has a lot of Clunkers", and "has Tim bought a car that was built in this century?", and " I sure hope Tim has Triple A" !
So, after procrastinating until the very last second, I pulled the trigger. It was hard to decide which Clunker I could part with from my fleet of Clunkers, but I did the eeny,meeny,miny,moe thing and it was done!
Here is our car salesman "Rusty" , (he introduced himself as "Rusty, like a nail"), tagging my old Ford Ranger with it's death sentence - "Cash for Clunker", do not resuscitate!
The deal was not to be believed. The MSRP for our new Nissan was close to $17,000. We were ready to leave the dealership, as due to our frugal nature we had decided to spend about $10,000, after the Clunking. The Clunk only brought us down to $12,500, but Rusty wanted a deal. We settled on $10,400!
We're now down one Clunker, with this in it's place:
So, gracious thanks to whoever made this possible: the Taxpayers, the Congress, the White House?
We promise to hang on to this until it becomes a Clunker!
In the closing minutes of the government's Cash For Clunkers program, I Clunked!
It made perfect sense for me to Clunk, Afterall, behind my back ( and sometimes right up front) my best friends and family whisper things like "geesh, Tim has a lot of Clunkers", and "has Tim bought a car that was built in this century?", and " I sure hope Tim has Triple A" !
So, after procrastinating until the very last second, I pulled the trigger. It was hard to decide which Clunker I could part with from my fleet of Clunkers, but I did the eeny,meeny,miny,moe thing and it was done!
Here is our car salesman "Rusty" , (he introduced himself as "Rusty, like a nail"), tagging my old Ford Ranger with it's death sentence - "Cash for Clunker", do not resuscitate!
The deal was not to be believed. The MSRP for our new Nissan was close to $17,000. We were ready to leave the dealership, as due to our frugal nature we had decided to spend about $10,000, after the Clunking. The Clunk only brought us down to $12,500, but Rusty wanted a deal. We settled on $10,400!
We're now down one Clunker, with this in it's place:
So, gracious thanks to whoever made this possible: the Taxpayers, the Congress, the White House?
We promise to hang on to this until it becomes a Clunker!
dam tim you cannot take all that money to the grave. Spend a little more on cindys new car, have a Heart.
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Clunk-gratulations!! Now you can drive around hot Fort Lauderdale in air-conditioned comfort!! People will wonder "who is that man in the dark Nissan?"
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I am waiting for TATA MOTORS that is based in Mumbai, India. their sedan is selling for $2500.00 Hey maybe the Clunker program will come around again when Tata starts selling here and that would make the Vehicle Free plus make $2000.00 Dollars That is my kind of Deal !!!
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And the Japanese-French Group that owns Nissan sends their thanks to you for your patronage. Too bad you couldn't find a vehicle with more domestic content to use your clunker USA taxpayer dollars on!
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Gremlin....of course you are right!...but by the time I finally got to the dealerships, Ford, Chrysler, and GM had either quit clunking, or were all clunked out!!
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congratulations tim! we tried to do the same with our 87 caddie. after 4 hours into the negotiations, we found out that we were disqualified due to the fact that i had switched insurance agencies midyear!! GEICOOOOOOOO! the government rules strictly state that you have to be insured for a full year, and changing policies midyear even under the same name, constituted a breach in policy. so, after 4 hours of negotiations i was stuck, and got the car anyway, not near the price you got, which is where i wanted to be. what a sucker we were! but sans one clunker, so i guess it worked in the longrun.
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How am I supposed to recognize the cabin without the old truck in the driveway? congrats Cindy you got him to spring for something worthwhile for a change.
Love Ya,
The Dahlonega Conservative
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A great laugh !
Tim Hawkins Uncle Sam Video
The Government Can:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
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Congratulations Tim and Cindy on your new Nissan! Not quite up to a hybrid there, eh? That's ok, you're getting there. Your story made me laugh so hard 'til I cried!
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As it turns out this program should have been a simple math problem. Kinda like this.....
A vehicle that gets 15 miles per gallon and if it travels 12,000 miles per year it uses 800 gallons.
A vehicle that gets 25 miles per gallon and if it travels 12,000 miles per year it uses 480 gallons.
Soooo, 800 - 480 = 320 gallons per vehicle saved per year
Soooo, with approximately 700,000 vehicles sold that equates to 224 million gallons per year saved.
This "Savings?" equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of crude oil per year saved which is about 1/4 of one day’s US consumption of oil. Can I hear an Amen!
Soooooooooo, 5 million barrels of oil at 75 dollars per barrel equates to approximately 350 million dollars.
Sooooooooooooooooo Ah crap! You mean we all spent 3 billion dollars of our hard earned tax dollars to save a measly 350 million. And, over 80% of the vehicles sold were from foreign owned companies.
Hello Detroit!
Must be the new EBONICS
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