CTS Wagon and a....tuba?

Tubas are really expensive (says the man looking at a $70k car). There are rumors that the school is going to get more tubas for next year to provide the students with a home and school tuba. My son drives me berkeleying insane but he is first chair and really likes band.

Lets see...

A couple of wheels, a trailer tongue, some welding wire, and voila!

You shall not be denied a CTS because of a tuba!!

Tell your son that everyone knows a euphonium is better than a tuba!

Have your son switch to a sax...sax players get the wimmen.

Get the optional roof rails and the big box from Sears if you have to but get the CTS-V. Get the manual. Instant classic with relative low depreciation due to low supply and high future demand.
We will all look back and wonder why fewer were not sold when new. We will all want one when they drop half in price (which they rarely will.)

JFX001 wrote: Have your son switch to a sax...sax players get the wimmen.

That is what I played back in the day. Also much easier to lug around than a tuba. Oh and yeah I had no issues gettin the women either.

I was a sax player too...all the high school band girls wanted me.

bgkast wrote: I was a sax player too...all the high school band girls wanted me.

I was gonna say guitar...but we're talking Band here...gotta go with the odds...

I think you guys are underestimating the tuba's excellence as an aphrodisiac.

I was a sax player, but the tuba players always got much more attention than me.

I take back what I said before. Your son's romantic future is much more important than your mid-life crisis. Tell him to stick to the tuba. Buy a pickup truck.

rebelgtp wrote:

JFX001 wrote: Have your son switch to a sax...sax players get the wimmen.

That is what I played back in the day. Also much easier to lug around than a tuba. Oh and yeah I had no issues gettin the women either.

Brass players always had the better GF's. It's what we can do with our lips AND tongue that does it.

As for the fitment, get a soft case. Much cheaper than a second instrument and I guarantee it'll fit. Those hard cases are just too massive.

I CANNOT afford one of these but my parents might! I just sent a leading e-mail to my dad promising that this car won't depreciate after 6 - 10 years. I didn't just lie did I?

Well, yes you did, sort of. ALL cars depreciate.

But, I get your point.

Please please please post pictures of this fitting. As a former Tuba player, I could fit one easily into a Celebrity wagon. The CTS can't be smaller than that, can it? Tuba didn't help me get the ladies but it's a poor musician that blames his instrument... wait, what?

I suspect it was the Celebrity wagon that helped you with the ladies!

bigev007 wrote: Please please please post pictures of this fitting. As a former Tuba player, I could fit one easily into a Celebrity wagon. The CTS can't be smaller than that, can it? Tuba didn't help me get the ladies but it's a poor musician that blames his instrument... wait, what?

Please tell us that it was at least a Eurosport...

Switch to a trumpet if the tuba won't fit. Or the triangle...

Brass players make for great kissers, as noted. All that lip muscle. Mmm.

Saxophone players don't necessarily get the ladies, because all saxophone players are guys and they're not as cool as they think they are unless they're kickass jazz players. Now, if he wants to spend his time surrounded by girls, learn flute. BTDT.

My grade 8 music teacher had a Volvo P1800S, and she could fit a tuba in that.

Just don't send him to band camp with that tuba.

Keith Tanner wrote: Brass players make for great kissers, as noted. All that lip muscle. Mmm. Saxophone players don't necessarily get the ladies, because all saxophone players are guys and they're not as cool as they think they are unless they're kickass jazz players. Now, if he wants to spend his time surrounded by girls, learn flute. BTDT. My grade 8 music teacher had a Volvo P1800S, and she could fit a tuba in that.

I dated multiple flute players in college. Nothing worse than being forced to sit through a flute studio recital. Holy crap.... I remember my second year (3rd GF at the time, still friends with the others) the flute studio recital had TWO intermissions to get through the whole studio. 4.5 hours of flute crap.

Once in awhile I wonder, 'why the hell do I keep watching this forum...' and then threads like this one come along.

JFX001 wrote: Please tell us that it was at least a Eurosport...

No Eurosport. I reaaally wanted a VR at the time, but it was a great car. This around 1999 (grade 11-12). Family owned the car from new, ran it to 380k kms. Had subwoofers in the 3rd row well. THAT helped with the ladies ;) I played the tuba, next brother played the piccolo. Guess mom and dad didn't like tuba transport.

I'm not even sure what the hell is going on in this thread any more......
The V wagon is proving to be a bit of a hard sell with the Mrs. Mostly because I just refused to buy a van because the salesman wouldn't deal on price until after he let me walk put the door. That pissed me off. The van cost half what the wagon does,and it would fit all of the kids and the wife at the same time. And a lot of tubas. I think I'd like the V more though. A local dealer has six with manuals on the lot. I'm working on figuring how to make room in my day to go look at them tomorrow.

mazdeuce wrote: I'm not even sure what the hell is going on in this thread any more...... The V wagon is proving to be a bit of a hard sell with the Mrs. Mostly because I just refused to buy a van because the salesman wouldn't deal on price until after he let me walk put the door. That pissed me off. The van cost half what the wagon does,and it would fit all of the kids and the wife at the same time. And a lot of tubas. I think I'd like the V more though. A local dealer has six with manuals on the lot. I'm working on figuring how to make room in my day to go look at them tomorrow.

Sorry, we went on a "Band Instrument Hierarchy In Relation To Procuring The Affectations Of The Fairer Sex" tangent.

My fault.

In reply to JFX001:

No problem. He's 10 and girls aren't very interesting yet. He chose the tuba because it was the biggest. The same reason he's convinced that all cars should have big blocks with giant blowers sticking through the hood. Which is damn near what the V is now that I think about it.

6 on the lot?! I thought these were hen's teeth rare.