If this is so, then maybe you should spend the extra $$$ for a good TR or a 348 spider.. Cheap and Ferrari dont usually mix and if you happen to pursue a Ferrari with "cheap" in mind then, that is what you will get (with a TR or a 328 spider for $50K). If you want a really good Ferrari but want to stay under the $50K cap, then i highly recommend a 328GTS (88 or 89). For $50k you can get a really, really good, low mile, 328..
Well I do refill water bottles out of the sink, just keep reusing the plastic part of my original purchase. We refer to those that spend like mad but have no equity, just payment books, CREDIT CARD MILLIONAIRES. Case in point, guy that bought my business was in business for 30 years himself and had to cash out his retirement account and his wife's to come up with the $80,000 downpayment (and pay all teh penalty taxes) I required to get the lawyers working on the contract. He borrowed $1,500,000 at 12%, 10 years and had to have EIGHT co-signers to back up the loan. I figure his payment is about $22,000/month which was MORE than my gross in the best months and I operated at a 50% profit margin, he runs John Deere at 15%. Then in another intellectual brain twister he demands that we appropriate almost ALL of the sale to the property not the business, to use the 15% tax is the same wither way. Now the property value is recorded at 5x what our tax basis was, and it has to be depreciated of in 27.5 years, and the business could have been depreciated off in 5 years. So rumor is the town TRIPLED his real estate taxes. So I figure he needs $40,000 per month free and clear JUST for the loan and the real estate taxes, our BEST month ever in 38 years was $70,000 GROSS and that was in the go go 1980s under Reagen. He told me I wasted my time and my parents money getting that finance degree from BU, and he's right, I could have flunked out of HS and been a big business man like him instead!
