Bye Bye
Really Old "Member"
Joined: May 1999
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From: Kennesaw, Ga. USA
Well it's not bye bye yet, but...
As I mentioned yesterday, I have been looking at some alternatives to buying my Wood off lease and I think I have made up my mind to not do that and go another way.
This may sound crazy, but try to follow the logic.
My history of car ownership since 1956 has always been that I drove something that was higher performance than stock.
I had an 18 second 1951 Mercury, a 17 second 59 Buick and a 16 second 37 Buick Century amongst many others.
I joined Volvo in 1966, stayed with them until 1979 and then was with SAAB until 1991. Since I was involved with Parts and Accessories almost that whole span of time I always got to put all the go fast stuff on my company cars.
When we started our business in 1991, I drove my 56 Ford F100 with a modified motor till it quit and then a 1969 Chev ex police car with a 390 horse 427 till it quit. I then had to go new again and had a couple of Ford Escort wagons that drove me nuts they were so slow. Then came a 1996 Taurus SHO V8, my 1999 Lightning and now the modded Blackwood. Sorry, forgot that Pat drove our 1988 Chev Diesel Suburban, highly modified, until 1994.
To keep this from getting agonizingly long, what I have decided to do is buy or lease a 2005 Subaru WRX as my primary driver and to pull the 427 Chev Motor and the Trannie from my sedan which is very badly rusted and put that combo, completely rebuilt, in my 1956 F100. That truck is a California original with almost no rust. It is a big window with an 8' bed. That will be the shop truck and while no Lightning or WRX, it will be plenty fast and the WRX stock is equal to today's Lightning.
I can purchase a WRX today for payments of half the lease payments on the Blackwood and for about $6,000 I can have the F100 on the road in good mechanical shape even if it could use a paint job so within about a year I am even and have two for the price of one. The WRX is certainly not as rare as a Blackwood but the F100 probably is close and it is an attention getter too.
What do y'all think?
Bill
This may sound crazy, but try to follow the logic.
My history of car ownership since 1956 has always been that I drove something that was higher performance than stock.
I had an 18 second 1951 Mercury, a 17 second 59 Buick and a 16 second 37 Buick Century amongst many others.
I joined Volvo in 1966, stayed with them until 1979 and then was with SAAB until 1991. Since I was involved with Parts and Accessories almost that whole span of time I always got to put all the go fast stuff on my company cars.
When we started our business in 1991, I drove my 56 Ford F100 with a modified motor till it quit and then a 1969 Chev ex police car with a 390 horse 427 till it quit. I then had to go new again and had a couple of Ford Escort wagons that drove me nuts they were so slow. Then came a 1996 Taurus SHO V8, my 1999 Lightning and now the modded Blackwood. Sorry, forgot that Pat drove our 1988 Chev Diesel Suburban, highly modified, until 1994.
To keep this from getting agonizingly long, what I have decided to do is buy or lease a 2005 Subaru WRX as my primary driver and to pull the 427 Chev Motor and the Trannie from my sedan which is very badly rusted and put that combo, completely rebuilt, in my 1956 F100. That truck is a California original with almost no rust. It is a big window with an 8' bed. That will be the shop truck and while no Lightning or WRX, it will be plenty fast and the WRX stock is equal to today's Lightning.
I can purchase a WRX today for payments of half the lease payments on the Blackwood and for about $6,000 I can have the F100 on the road in good mechanical shape even if it could use a paint job so within about a year I am even and have two for the price of one. The WRX is certainly not as rare as a Blackwood but the F100 probably is close and it is an attention getter too.
What do y'all think?
Bill
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From: Crestview, FL
Would you consider selling me the OEM speaker grill for the sub that is on your back wall before you trade the truck in? I am putting a custom 8 inch sub where yall have the OEM blackwood sub and that speaker grill is the last part I need. Thanks
Last edited by harleydude78; Aug 20, 2004 at 12:14 AM.
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Joined: May 1999
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From: Kennesaw, Ga. USA
RP & HD78:
Remember, it does not go off lease until May,2005 and it would cost me dearly to break the lease so I will keep it till then.
Used Blackwoods here in Atlanta are advertised at an average price of $28K just now and I am sure that will go down in 9 months time. They mostly have about 20K miles and are bone stock.
Mine has a superchips chip, the exhaust, an Air Force intake and stainless steel grile covers for the upper and lower grilles.
I have averaged 1K miles per month for 27 months but my three annual trips that add about 6K miles each year fall after the trade date so the mileage should be in the low 30K range by the time I give it up.
As to the speaker grille, if RP buys it you can talk to him but I cannot remove it and leave it that way when I give it back. Try EBay, there is always something for Blackwoods there.
RP, it will be left at Pugmire Lincoln Mercury, across the street from my store. I will give you plenty of lead time to try and do a deal. They are pretty decent folk, for car dealers at least.
Bill
Remember, it does not go off lease until May,2005 and it would cost me dearly to break the lease so I will keep it till then.
Used Blackwoods here in Atlanta are advertised at an average price of $28K just now and I am sure that will go down in 9 months time. They mostly have about 20K miles and are bone stock.
Mine has a superchips chip, the exhaust, an Air Force intake and stainless steel grile covers for the upper and lower grilles.
I have averaged 1K miles per month for 27 months but my three annual trips that add about 6K miles each year fall after the trade date so the mileage should be in the low 30K range by the time I give it up.
As to the speaker grille, if RP buys it you can talk to him but I cannot remove it and leave it that way when I give it back. Try EBay, there is always something for Blackwoods there.
RP, it will be left at Pugmire Lincoln Mercury, across the street from my store. I will give you plenty of lead time to try and do a deal. They are pretty decent folk, for car dealers at least.
Bill