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Topic: There goes the retirement fund: Barden is back |
David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 10 May 2006 9:35 am |
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http://www.joebarden.com/main.php
Oh well, it would only cost me $345.90 to put them on my new guitar - That's more than I used to pay for a car, much less an entire guitar. Maybe now the old ones won't be so "collectable"? Though, I wonder how long before the "The old ones were better" choir starts singing....  |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 10 May 2006 10:39 am
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| quote: "...$345.90 .. that's more than I used to pay for a car..." On what planet Dave, or just how old are you anyway? |
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Richard Sevigny
From:
Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 10 May 2006 10:43 am
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| ...well I'm a real young 48 and my first car cost me all $300. It was a '64 Falcon Wagon. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 10 May 2006 12:54 pm
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| I am 48 too, my first car was a $200 '64 Beetle that provided great jollies on the frozen hills of Minneapolis, my best car ever was a $200 '68 Buick LeSabre that I drove all the heck all over America, it lived on oil but it just wouldn't die. Ah the good old days etc. |
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 10 May 2006 1:00 pm
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I just sold an '86 Chevy Astro for $250 because I didn't know to whack the starter with a hammer to get it to crank again. (Until 30 minutes before the buyer came over, I didn't know where the starter was located.)
And still no Bardens... |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 10 May 2006 1:33 pm
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Yep, these ain't cheap, but nothing compared to a '58-60 Les Paul Flametop. I saw one change hands last year for $250,000. Or how about just a pair of genuine Gibson PAF humbuckers for that Paul? That will set you back thousands - probably several - and it can be tricky to tell a real one from a faked-out patent number version.
My first car, a 1961 Pontiac Tempest Wagon in San Diego in 1975, was $150. But my most recent Saab, an '86 900, was bought in 1998 for $800. I'm about to sell it, but I ran it continuously for the last 7-8 years and it still runs fine.
"Old ones sound better choir"?
How many vintage guitar collectors does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None - it took him 2 years scouring ebay to score one of Edison's original prototypes for $5000, in excellent cosmetic condition. When it arrived, he thought, "Geez, I better go put this in a vault so nothing happens to it - it's worth too much to actually use."  |
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Sonny Priddy
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 10 May 2006 2:29 pm
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My frist Car Was A 1942 Ford. Boy Would It Run. Wish I Had It Now. SONNY.
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Darryl Hattenhauer
From:
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Posted 10 May 2006 8:48 pm
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In 1965 for $400, I bought a 2-tone green and white '56 Chevy Bel Air 2 door, V-8 automatic. Slip and slide with powerglide. Speaking of which, my girlfriend.... Oh, never mind.
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"Drinking up the future, and living down the past"--unknown singer in Phoenix
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 11 May 2006 3:51 am
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In '76 my first car was a Ford Pinto, $50. It needed an exhaust, so my Dad took it to the dealership he worked at before my 16th birthday to get it fixed so I could take my drivers liscence test in it. It blew the motor on the way out of the garage.
Second car, the next day, was a Plymouth Fury III, $125. Had a blown engine but my dad had a totalled '68 Dodge Charger in back of the repair shop and took the engine out of it and put it in the Fury.
It was a 426. Hemi. Yeah.
I got 16 tickets in 3 weeks.
They sent me off to boot camp 3 months later, on court order. Hehehe... |
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