{"id":7951,"date":"2014-05-16T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/16\/automotive-frugality\/"},"modified":"2014-05-16T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:21:40","slug":"automotive-frugality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/16\/automotive-frugality\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotive Frugality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Burgess-Jackson is one frugal dude<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I've had only three vehicles in the past 31 years: (1) a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass, purchased from my brother Glenn in May 1983; (2) a 1989 Pontiac Grand Am, purchased new in August 1989; and (3) a 2007 Honda Accord, purchased new in February 2007. How many vehicles have you<\/em> had in the past 31 years?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In one sense old Keith has me beat.  I've owned four cars during this time period: (1) a 1978 VW bus purchased used in spring '79; (2) a 1988 Jeep Cherokee bought new at Thanksgiving 1987; (3) a low-mileage, immaculate, 2005 Jeep Liberty Renegade 'stolen'  used for a paltry $12 K on St. Valentine's Day, 2009; (4) a 2013 Jeep Wrangler Sport purchased new at Thanksgiving 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I've owned four vehicles during the period when Keith owned three.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there is a sense in which I have him beat:  I owned the Cherokee for over 21 years, whereas the longest he has owned a vehicle appears to be less than eight years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The old Cherokee is celebrated in the first article below.<\/span><\/p>\n

In my whole life I have owned only four cars, the ones mentioned and a 1963 Karmann Ghia convertible purchased for $650 from my half-brother in 1969.  The license plate read: GOE 069.  I kid you not. I sold it in 1973 when I headed east for grad school.  I should have kept it.  Just like I should never have sold that Gibson ES 335 TD.  That was the dumbest thing I ever did<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Keith Burgess-Jackson is one frugal dude: I've had only three vehicles in the past 31 years: (1) a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass, purchased from my brother Glenn in May 1983; (2) a 1989 Pontiac Grand Am, purchased new in August 1989; and (3) a 2007 Honda Accord, purchased new in February 2007. How many vehicles have … Continue reading “Automotive Frugality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,216,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-money-matters","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}