Anyone interested in buying the Commodore 128T?

[Darrin]

I'd really love to buy it, but I'm afraid my wife would kill me if I paid anywhere near what it is worth.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you'll line a job up soon.  I'd hate to see you part with it after all the time and effort that has gone into it.

[J-Golden]

Hey Red, Sorry this is so behind everyone else, I, like everyone else here at A.org, hope you can find a job soon.  I'm Graduating from college in a year and it is scaring me how fast jobs are dissapearing.

Really, good luck...

J Golden

[taunusand]

@justthatgood
I also have a "low paid" job, don't have acces to public transportation, can't use my bicycle to get to my job.
I have to drive an old ugly VW Golf Diesel every day to work, just because it can drive about 45 miles per gallon. That's a car that costs about 1600$, witch is absolutly low cost in Denmark.
But I manage to pay my house, car and everyday expences. I'm not rich, don't have the modern clothes or other things that some of my friends does.
I don't complain, I just mean, don't think that I have better economy than you :-)

A friend of mine recently moved about 30 miles to get a new job, they fired 5 people where he worked before. We also have to live with changing jobs all the time. I'm just happy that I work the same place since october 2001, great job but low/average pay.

Anyway, sorry. I believe this is off topic.
I think you'll regret selling the C128T, but sometimes that's what to do  :boohoo:

[redrumloa]

After a lot of thought, I've decided to not sell at this time. I would rather see this project through to completion. Thanks for all the responses, on both sides. Hopefully in July if things go well I can continue on this beast.

Here's hoping things go well..  :-)

[weirdami]

Make two, sell one. Kinda like what they do in China.  :oops:

[redrumloa]

weirdami wrote:
Make two, sell one. Kinda like what they do in China.  :oops:

That would be fine, except the amount of work involved make it purely a labor of love :-o

taunusand wrote:
I have to drive an old ugly VW Golf Diesel every day to work, just because it can drive about 45 miles per gallon. That's a car that costs about 1600$, witch is absolutly low cost in Denmark.

sorry to continue pushing this further off-topic, but I drove an diesel rabbit and loved it. that was the best car I have ever owned. if you're only getting 45mpg, try changing the filters - it should really do better than that by a little.  btw, if you were to own that car in the us, assuming it doesn't have rust or any large problems, you'd easily get 3 times what you paid for it. my brother owned a vw tdi station wagon that he used for work, putting completely abusive new york city miles on it every day of the week, and he still got more than he paid for it because of the price of gasoline, which at the time was at least half a dollar lower. many americans would gladly swap you a new-ish SUV for what you've got.

what many people don't realize is that americans are scared by the rate of increase in gas prices, not just how high they are. they're not high, not even when compared to canada. what's frightening is that the price has risen by 300% in less than 15 years. gasoline was less than a dollar a gallon when I started driving, and now I'm paying more than $4.50 a gallon. (granted, this is for 92 octane, but still...) and in the last two years, it's gone from a little more than $2.50 in most places to nearly double that. If that second derivative is any indication, we are in deep trouble here.

I wish they'd import more low-consumption vehicles into the us; If I could get a lupo with the 1.2L 3-cylinder engine in this country, I'd sell every computer I own to get one and replace them using the money I'd save on gas in the first year alone. 78mpg sounds _great_ to me; so why are these cars unavailable here?

[Darrin]

redrumloa wrote:
After a lot of thought, I've decided to not sell at this time. I would rather see this project through to completion. Thanks for all the responses, on both sides. Hopefully in July if things go well I can continue on this beast.

Here's hoping things go well..  :-)

Good luck Jim.  I'd hate to see you parting with that machine after all of the work you've put into it.

[redrumloa]

@pkillo

np about off topic, actually it is somewhat on topic:-)

I happen to own a 2006 VW TDI Golf myself, the best I have gotten is ~41mpg highway. Then again it is a turbo and I have a heavy foot.. :-D

[AeroMan]

pkillo wrote:

I wish they'd import more low-consumption vehicles into the us; If I could get a lupo with the 1.2L 3-cylinder engine in this country, I'd sell every computer I own to get one and replace them using the money I'd save on gas in the first year alone. 78mpg sounds _great_ to me; so why are these cars unavailable here?

Ok, just to be not-so-off-topic: I'm glad you are keeping it Red. You can buy things back later, but not your work. This is the important part.

We have a nice solution here. You can buy a light weight alcohol powered 1 liter engine car (like a Fiat Mille or Chevrolet Celta) that does something close to 20 Kilometers per liter (take you HP calculator and convert to Mpg. I always have to do the reverse way  :-D ). I really believe americans would hate the performance of 1 liter engines (we do), but we use to say that this is the best thing you can have for a daily driver

Alcohol is cheaper, less pollutive, and gives you more horsepower (Ok, you will have some cold start headaches in winter....). Unfortunately, my car has a gasoline engine :-?

redrumloa wrote:
@pkillo

np about off topic, actually it is somewhat on topic:-)

I happen to own a 2006 VW TDI Golf myself, the best I have gotten is ~41mpg highway. Then again it is a turbo and I have a heavy foot.. :-D

Hehe. is it a 5-speed or does it have one of those tip-tronic systems? I'll have to ask my brother what mods he did to his! I remember something about  a better air intake at the least... things like that tend to be cheap compared to gas, these days, and make a difference on the mileage.

edit: @aeroman: americans have more cars per capita and many have high performance, low gas milage models which they would gladly drive only on the weekend if their other car could be less costly. I have seen a large insurgence in the number of 'smart cars' and similar alternate vehicles in the US lately. If these companies would sell these cars here, we'd buy them.

[taunusand]

First of all..
@Rearumloa - I'm glad to hear that you keed your tower projekt :-)

@pkillo
My ugly Golf
Last week, I spent the most af a day welding (I think it's called that), because of rust. My drivers seat was on it's way out of the bottom  :roll:
It's a former post-car, imported from germany. Used a lot..
It is WITHOUT turbo!
The left door has a different collour, the interior will newer look good again, rust stains over most of the car, etc.. What I mean: No way I'm gonna get more for that car than I gave for it ;-)
But it is wery cheap for me to own, compared to a lot of other cars. A good thing is that I can repair most things myself, lucky for me there has been surprisingly few repairs.

FYI - Air and fuel filters are changed, and the mpg (in Denmark: km/l) are the same as ather Golf Diesel owners that I have heard of. 18-22km/l

A Lupo are an economic car, but not wery practical. You can't have a trailer with a Lupo. Is it called a trailer? I hope you know what I mean. The trunk is wery little.
A friend of my sold his Lupo because it was wery expensive in repairs.

Again, sorry to be off topic  :roll:

My ugly Golf

It looks just like mine, but yellow instead of black. Too bad about the rust.

But it is wery cheap for me to own, compared to a lot of other cars. A good thing is that I can repair most things myself, lucky for me there has been surprisingly few repairs.
FYI - Air and fuel filters are changed, and the mpg (in Denmark: km/l) are the same as ather Golf Diesel owners that I have heard of. 18-22km/l

The old diesels are very reliable. The mileage rating I was speaking of was for the newer turbo TDI models, which do slightly better than the old ones.

A Lupo are an economic car, but not wery practical. You can't have a trailer with a Lupo. Is it called a trailer? I hope you know what I mean. The trunk is wery little.
A friend of my sold his Lupo because it was wery expensive in repairs.

All newer cars are expensive to maintain; I don't mind not having a trunk; I once owned a Yugo and it had none at all (or glovebox either)!  :-P  I drive a New Beetle now, and it's worthless for cargo as it is; no trunk just means less room for trash to pile up..

[redrumloa]

@pkillo

It is a 5 speed, of course :-D

[taunusand]

@pkillo
I need the trunk, I live on a former farm, I have to transport materials somehow ;-)

I'm not afraid of rust, but I'm afraid of periodic control. Every second year a car in Denmark have to be controlled and get a certificate, if not, then the police takes the number plate.

[Kronos]

Bout that Lupo, VW/Audi had 2 "3-Litre"-cars back than (the other being the A2 with the same 1.2L TDI), but prices were so insane (you could easily buy a car 2 classes bigger with loads of extras for the same money), that they sold miserably and were canceled after a few years.

The only 3-Litre car you can still buy new today is the Smart-4Two-CDI, but that really a 3.49-Litre car and also costs your 1st-born (no problem as you won't have place for any kids anyway)  :crazy:

I'll rather stick to my solution, only drive 6000km (or even less) a year with your own car ...... :-P