Are you in need of a new car?

1965 - Bought a Pontiac GTO off the showroom floor for $3268. I could fill the tank with Sunoco 260 for 26 cents per gallon. Of course I was making $3.25 an hour and thought I was "king of the road". Oh, also had a 8 track tape player.

 

I agree. But have you seen what used vehicles are going for now? Holy crap.

 

As much as I drive anymore, new buggy won't be in the cards or a used one. I might drive 5K miles a year now. Put more miles on my tractors than I do a car. Heck, the farm truck, 1997 Ford F350 just turned 100K.

Why the price of gas really don't bother me, I don't use much. Use more off road diesel in the farm tractors than I do anything else. I fill my little buggy (Focus) about 1 or 2 times a month. 10 gallons each time. In the summer I burn more in the lawnmowers than in the car....

 

I bought gas last year when the pandemic was going strong and oil was cheap for .94 a gallon. I had three fillups that week for under a dollar a gallon.

Gary

 

The issue with gasoline is storage and phase separation with e-gas. I buy diesel (off road) 500 gallons at a time but I also add a biocide to it. Had the algae experience one (costly) time. That was more then enough.

 

Especially used vehicles that return good gas mileage like my Focus. She gets just at 40, city and highway. Everytime big guzzler passes me, I smile and think to myself... 'I bet his wallet is hurting'.... I stay up on maintenance and keep my tires inflated to the maximum pressure on the sidewalls.

Interesting part is, running the ac don't impact the fuel mileage at all. If anything, it improves it.

 

I had a 66 Vette back then, 27 / 390 horse convertible Sure got a ton of enjoyment out of it, especially with a lass in the jump seat but it's really hard to fiddle around in one. No room...lol Paid 3500 for it. Now it's probably worth 70. Met my first wife in the backseat of a VW bug with the seat folded down. That VW carpeting was murder on your knees.

 

Maximum operational pressure, or max to "seat the bead" pressure? Seat the bead pressure is too high to run at. You very well may know this already, just pointing it out for someone that comes along and reads this later on so they don't set the wrong pressure and screw up their (expensive) tires...or hurt someone...

 

Sidewall running pressure. Never had to overpressure a tubeless tire to seat the bead but then I have a Coats 1010 and a bead cheata.

 

You've never mounted ATV and motorcycle tires then! ATV tires can be down right skeery lookin 'til they pop sometimes!
I've had them where I took them outside and used a clip-on chuck with a remote valve on the hose...just cuz we didn't have a cage Never had one blow up, but they sure look like they gonna! (like double their normal circumference)

 

For perspective a 1964 quarter which is 90% silver is now worth $4.18. Gas that year averaged .30 nationwide.

Anyone remember these:

Kind of interesting to think about.

My grandfather started saving silver constitutional coinage back then. I remember as a child the day he told to save any that I found in my change, and I did.

Nowadays a pre 82 penny (95% copper) is worth almost .03, and a nickel is worth over .06. Theses are the last two remaining vestiges of monetary metal coinage…although pre 82 pennies are not as common in circulation anymore (see Gresham’s law). I use cash for a lot of purchases and save and roll pre 82 pennies, as well as all nickels, which are still 75% copper and 25% nickel. A Tesla battery contains about 66 pounds of nickel.

Edit: It is now illegal to carry more than $5 dollars worth of pennies and nickels outside the country.

 

That silver certificate is worth a small fortune with that solid 9 serial number. I have many bags of the pre 82 cents. When copper hit $4/lb my late father and i started doing that. I still pull them out of change. Luckily i havent started with nickels.

Do you search rolls for 90%?

 

Yes I do buZZsaw BRAD. They are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. When I had my paper route in the mid 70s, people often paid in change and I occasionally would find mercury dimes and Franklin halves, in addition to the more regular finds of pre-64 Rosevelt dimes, quarters, Kennedy halfs in 90%, and 40% (1965 - 1970).

 

I think my mom still has her 50¢ piece collection (boxes of them) anything special to watch out for in those?

 

I don’t know about specific dates and values, but I bet there are some quick reference guides out there.

I plan to hold all mine and then scour them for special dates, mintages, rarity, etc in retirement.

 

Back when silver took off in 2009 i was getting five $500 boxes of halves weekly from three different banks to look for 90%. Did okay until banks cut me off. My guess was heirs inherited collections and turned them in at face. I did a couple boxes of quarters earlier this year and found one 90% and an ATB "W" mint quarter.

 

anything dated 1964 and back is 90% silver. Ones dated 1965-70 are 40% silver. Any half dated after 2002 was not made for circulation and collectors paid a small premium for them from the mint