"What'd she cost?", or "how much did you pay?"

[Cole]

Fwiw, I'm totally willing to share. If you read my threads I've always shared the costs. I think its silly for people to hold them back.


Just pointing out that it's not always that easy to calculate or compare notes.

I've got about $6k into a van and can point you to a recent "like" sale of $52k. Neither one is a great representation of the market IMO. (Mine is actually better than the $52k one :coffeedrink

But, I'd be happy to detail some of it here again.

 

[southpier]

....Southpier: your post adds nothing to this thread, I am not knocking the premise that you want to keep private info private, but advertising how you want to keep tight lipped does nothing for me ...

ok; it's gone now.

 

[T.Low]

I totally get that people can be very private about money. No worries.

To me, it's just about stuff and my prerogative to part with money and sweat to get the tools that allow me to accomplish what I want in this short life of mine. My van is a tool that I've modified to suit my driving aspirations. With the internet, Anyone can guesstimate my costs from my sigline in a matter of minutes if they really wanted.

To me, talking about money and vehicle expenditures is not like talking about my wife.


It also helps educate us all on how seemingly fickle prices can be. For example, if I were to put a nice custom fabbed off-road winch bumper on my van, it would be about $2200-2500 , right inline with Aluminess prices. I have a good ole 93 F150 4x4, runs great, looks good, worth about $2200-2500. So, in essence, I could trade my perfectly good f150 4x4 for a front bumper that I really don't need. Crazy.

 

[Cole]

....My van is a tool that I've modified to suit my driving aspirations.

I'm not sure what to do with this right now but I'm going to quote it to abuse you with later :coffeedrink:


Just something about "van" and "driving aspirations" that don't belong in the same sentence.

 

[T.Low]

I'm not sure what to do with this right now but I'm going to quote it to abuse you with later :coffeedrink:


Just something about "van" and "driving aspirations" that don't belong in the same sentence.

Better than where I thought you were going with it...

You've got an entire external hard drive filled with quotes from people, just waiting for the right moment to paste and abuse. And because of your superior mechanical skills and creativity, we all put up with it. You're a Monster!

I'm going to sell my f150 and buy a new computer so I can store lots of quotes for future use, too!

 

[Cole]

Oh.... I'm not done yet. But it's a Sunday on a Holiday so I'll just pack that one up for later.

 

[dcguillory]

Paid $4500 for my van in November 2010. No window tint then.



Total investment now is about $20k

 

[Jb1rd]

I traded this : For This

 

[Cole]

Sweet. The mini?

 

[Jb1rd]

Sweet. The mini?

Yep, straight across. I have to drive to Jersey to get her but hey, road trip, one suffer fest with the Mini. I am sure I will be more than happy to swap keys for the drive home.

 

[T.Low]

I sold this '98 112k mi. for $8300 and then paid $8,000 for the '03 Astro w/ 55k mi.




I got to pick out a new company truck, so I figured I didn't need two 4x4 pickups.

 

[cjken]

Traveling, going to the beach, camping in, surfing, windsurfing, kiting, biking, paddling, snowboarding, skiing (or whatever ever activities you are into) out of a 4x4 van or ambulance....
PRICELESS!!!

 

[java]

I paid 5k for this. 25k miles, county owned until 5 years ago. Salem kroger 4x4 conversion. An I volunteered for the local SAR that owned it, and had slept on the floor of it before! Had to buy it... Had some pretty good water damage. I fixed it enough. Its not pretty but its water tight now.

Put about 3 back into it doing water damage repair, new brakes, and building beds, solar etc. Used the hell out of it this winter, and plan to do it again next year!!

Its really nice for ski bumming, but get terrible gas mileage! Wish it was a diesel.

 

[Bbasso]

If I added all the purchase prices, maintenance and add ons on the four E350s I've had, I'm sure I'd be well over 50k by now. A mere drop in the bucket compared to some of yous... but the current rig in current standing would be slightly under 10k

 

[jjohnny350]

Dang, 5k, thats a pretty good price, nice job.