Text 9894, 86 rader
Skriven 2014-02-14 14:27:30 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9763 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Re: Tracking Sales
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 11 Feb 14  09:02:16 <=-

 NB>> IF, and that's a BIG if, any car of ours made it to being resold as
 NB>> used (since we will run a car to the bitter end generally), it
 NB>> likely would have had similar.  Certainly the owner's manual, which
 NB>> doesn't leave the glove box until we scrap the car, and probably the
 NB>> more recent service receipts (the records are in their own little
 NB>> notebook and/or recorded in some part of the owners manual books),
 NB>> would be in there.  I'd have been glad to get the service records
 NB>> and receipts for my current car, the first we bought used for me...
 NB>> if only to find out where the first owner had been getting it
 NB>> serviced, since he wasn't using the dealership... :)

 DD> OK, so you buy mostly new cars, then. 

All 3 of them... ;)  Over the space of 30+ years...  My first car was
new in 1970... it was finally replaced in '82 with another new (but
somewhat grapefuity, not quite a lemon) that didn't last that well, and
was replaced in '89 with a new one.  That was the one that the '05 Volvo
replaced, in Dec of '07...  Richard's cars were mostly used, from his
'68 VW bug that had been his brother's, on...  At one point, just before
my first car died, he did buy a van new to replace the TelCo junker van 
that finally died... but otherwise the only one he bought new was the
'98 Volvo station wagon, which he is still driving.  Usually the new car
was mine to drive, and then he'd drive it into the ground when the time
came... when my Shadow got undependable, we switched cars until we got
the current one I'm driving...  I think we are hoping now not to have to
buy any more, new or used...  ;)

 DD> The last new car I bought was in
 DD> 1973 - a Mercury Montego. I traded it in on a "used" (it had 1600
 DD> miles on it) Ford van and later bought it back from a used car lot -
 DD> because it was a nice car and I got a deal on it.

So at least yours weren't all that used at that point... nice to get the
merc back...  ;)

 NB>> I can imagine... isn't bells and whistles part of the definition of
 NB>> Benz or BMW...?  (our son has a Beemer he got used)   (G)

 DD> Not so many as on the Jeep Grand Cherokee that they rented at my work 
 DD> while one of the utilitarian Chevy Express vans was in hospital. I had
 DD> to read the manual to figure out how to start the dratted thing and
 DD> get it out of "PARK". Sheesh ... talk about counter-intuitive.

Isn't that one supposed to be the equivalent of the Hum3...?  "Luxury"
trumps drivability...  ;)

 DD> We have a "Center For The Arts" which is in the former Masonic Temple 
 DD> (they moved to the outskirts, too) and a lot of Abe Lincoln stuff (old
 DD> State Capitol, Lincoln Museum and Lincoln Presidential Library) and
 DD> the  businesses which leech money out of tourist's purses. But, no
 DD> shopping  or entertainment unless the Center For The Arts has something
 DD> going on -  or for the saloon goers - occasional live music.
 DD> Sangamon Auditorium at University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) is 
 DD> faaaaaar south of town. And host the major entertainments like Willie 
 DD> Nelson, BB King, Nancy Wilson, Jersey Boys (road show). Hal Holbrook
 DD> in  Mark Twain Tonight was there a few years ago. That sort of thing.
 DD> Oh,  and the Springfield Symphony and Illinois Symphony Orchestra also
 DD> play  there rather than at the Center For The Arts - which only has the
 DD> Springfield Ballet Co and Springfield Youth Orchestra for long-hair 
 DD> entertainment.

All the major shows come to downtown, here, pretty much... :)  Except
for the acts that come to the colleges, which are all around the
outskirts mostly, except for Eastman School of Music...  U of R is still
within the city limits, although not right downtown... and Monroe Comm
College is just outside the limits, so we do tend to have more closer
in.  There are some other arts venues, like the Jewish Community Center,
which are likewise in the close in suburbs...  The road shows are
usually at the Auditorium Theater, which is downtown... Most of the
major museums are either downtown or at least still within the city
limits, not far from downtown...

And then we have all sorts of restaurants and clubs right downtown, as
well as all around town, and in the close and not so close suburbs. Lots
of ethnic restaurants of all types, from the various Asian (Chinese,
Japanese, Thai, Indian, Vietmanese, etc), to Ethiopian and other African
to almost anything you could think of...  The major chains tend to be
more in the outer suburbs... near the malls...  ;)

ttyl         neb

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