wearymicrobe wrote: I pay more in Federal/State/Car taxes then I spend actually living my life. Everything extra goes to investments.
wearymicrobe wrote: I pay more in Federal/State/Car taxes then I spend actually living my life. Everything extra goes to investments.
wearymicrobe wrote:turtl631 wrote: Did you unload the Prowler and Viper? I'd love to hear some more thoughts about the R8 once you have more seat time since you've had so many interesting cars.Everything is gone, Mustang, Viper, Truck, JCW, 51 Ford, Prowler, 27 Body, two complete rebuilt flatheads, three crashbox's, all the parts I had been saving to do another 32', moma's milk money all of it. The R8 will be my only car.
A similar thought has crossed my mind, selling the fleet and buying one really awesome car, but I just don't think I could do it....I love the variety and some of them I also have sentimental attachments. Let me know how you feel about going down to one car once you've had some time with it. Going to one, or even two cars, would really simplify my life.
Its a simplicity thing for me. I just needed to simplify in my life, one car, one oil change, one type of tires, one insurance company instead of three. Just makes everything so simple. My garage is a lot cleaner.
Going to take me 6 months or so until I really get a feel of how this is going to work for me. Typically I have like 5 cars around the house and two of them are for sale or under construction. I used my Viper as my only car for 14 months once and it was really nice, brutal but nice. Hopefully this is a nice balance.
I'm impressed you were able to find a house near San Diego for $400k!
Awesome car, I hope you love it.
Congrats on the car. One day I hope to get there, which is why I jumped to the tech industry.
dculberson wrote: I'm impressed you were able to find a house near San Diego for $400k! Awesome car, I hope you love it.
No more like ~800K I just have been aggressive in paying it down over the last 5 years. Its tiny but ~1/4 of a mile from the water. Putting 70K a year into paying it down onto of my other investments plus some appreciation worked out really well so far.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: Congrats on the car. One day I hope to get there, which is why I jumped to the tech industry.
Bad news, you're a couple decades too late man...trust me there's little margin for error in the timing.
I think the R8 will be a much better DD than a Viper, more comfortable and easier to live with.
wearymicrobe wrote:dculberson wrote: I'm impressed you were able to find a house near San Diego for $400k! Awesome car, I hope you love it.No more like ~800K I just have been aggressive in paying it down over the last 5 years. Its tiny but ~1/4 of a mile from the water. Putting 70K a year into paying it down onto of my other investments plus some appreciation worked out really well so far.
Ohhhkay, that makes a lot more sense. I mis-read the $200k as a 50% downpayment on a new house. Good job though getting to where you're at.
@Gameboy: Plenty of folks are still making big money in the tech field. Maybe not in the islands, but around where I am there's still plenty of money to be made. And there's even more out west.
GameboyRMH wrote:Fueled by Caffeine wrote: Congrats on the car. One day I hope to get there, which is why I jumped to the tech industry.Bad news, you're a couple decades too late man...trust me there's little margin for error in the timing.
Yes and No. Timing is everything though...
I think the guy running Porch or an SDE with a 500K equity stake would disagree with your sentiment.
I got a 50% raise to come to this job.. Then when I got here I realized I could have asked for 100% and they probably would have paid it. Live and learn man.. Live and Learn.
wearymicrobe wrote: I am pretty darn stoked. I am going to take the day off, provided my boss is cool with it, and see if I can get the inspection done this morning and take it up Palomar mountain road. Could not sleep last night and it not like I am going to get any work done today waiting for it anyway.
Hah... I'll keep an eye out for you. I drive this, www.midlana.com. Just be careful of the crazy sportbike riders coming across the double-yellow...
Beautiful car. It's my girlfriends dream car. We both think it will look nice in our future driveway next to my future 911. Also congrats on doing this in San Diego. It's almost too expensive here...
I've came close to getting to drive one of these when I worked for a Mazda dealer which had an Audi dealer next door. They let other porters drive a few but I was never able too :(
Once again.. that Grey color is spectacular... Just a proper looking car.
In reply to kb58:
Race! 
So its in the garage. Got to wail on it a bit, not the fastest thing in the world but lots of soul and lots of fun. thing rev's like a maniac.
Inspection came back completely clean. They said that even the suspension arms and wheels were freshly waxed. No mechanical issues at all, only a few small cosmetics that I missed under the car.
Said it was the cleanest 08 that had seen in years, told me to drop it off with them and they would upgrade me to a V10 if I want to.
It wail's with the sport button on, can I mention that again, without it its a big expensive fluffy TT.
Also it looks like toy in the garage compared to some of the other cars that have been in there, it feels 911 sized.
ouchx100 wrote: Beautiful car. It's my girlfriends dream car. We both think it will look nice in our future driveway next to my future 911. Also congrats on doing this in San Diego. It's almost too expensive here... I've came close to getting to drive one of these when I worked for a Mazda dealer which had an Audi dealer next door. They let other porters drive a few but I was never able too :(
I bring my cars out to race-legal all the time. I must have stuffed 100 people a year in the drivers seat of the viper and even put a few in the Shelby for E36 M3s and giggles. If there is a local meet and your going to go give me a quick email and I will find a way to show up. I am in Bay Park.
Nice choice, I think/hope that you will be very happy with it. I love driving my $20k Corvette everyday. No matter what happens at work at least I got to tap into 400hp on the way to work and the way home. I often leave the house 15 minutes early just to run my favorite little curvy route. It's as enjoyable as riding the Aprilia to work without having to put on all the safety gear or roast at a stoplight in the heat.
There is one in the neighborhood with the same color combo. Gorgeous car. I know the owner. I was surprised at how loud the stock exhaust is. I mean, the sound fits the car well, but it's still an expensive German car!
In reply to wearymicrobe:
Sounds awesome. I'm in north county and the main "meet" is autocross at qualcomn but we used to do tacos and tuners in Encinitas untill that got shut down. I'll let you know the next time we are out.
About a decade ago, Champion Audi was selling an R8 on ebay. One like this:
IIRC the bid price was about the same as MSRP on an R8 road car. I wonder what it'd be worth now… :)
OK now for some serious first world problems. Like turn your head and cough under your breath.
2006 Dodge viper
75.7 in (1,920 mm) in width.
Bottom height ~5 inches.
2008 R8
1,904 mm (75.0 in)
Bottom height less then a lowered viper.
Should fit in the garage just fine, but no the R8 is like 2 inches lower then my Viper somehow even with it being stock and my viper being lowered and festooned with aero and splitters jutting out like zits on a teenager. I cannot get the bloody car in the garage on one side without tearing the front off the car I have already scrapped the lip pretty badly just trying to get it out of the garage.
So until I can figure this out, my big clean garage has a fancy car right in the center and my wife's car is living outside. Here is a picture of the car with my old welding gloves on it so you can tell its actually mine.
Seriously I could fit all this in at one point.
What's the wheelbase difference?
Javelin wrote: What's the wheelbase difference?
R8 2,650 mm (104.3 in)
Viper
98.8 in (2,510 mm)
Five inches is not that much in the scheme of things. I was hoping that with the shorter overhangs that the R8 would be fine but it is a serious pain in the ass to get out of the garage. Its a tiny little car in the grand scheme of things, I could get my 62 Cadillac Vert in the garage no issue but it had huge ground clearance with the airbags.
Got it in the garage finally with a bit of finagling. Had to creep up on the driveway like a lowered civic takes on a speedbump.
Also I have been flashed, by college girls, two times in the three days I have had it, had at least a dozen people roll up next and rev like crazy and had the cops give me the full speed signal on the freeway so that they could hear the motor and have been pulled over to show it off by the fuzz.
Also have lent the keys to my big boss and a few others who I know can handle the car, everybody loves it. Nobody has a clue what it is though, its not like the Viper which is a american flag on wheels with sparklers showed up the tailpipe.
wearymicrobe wrote: Also I have been flashed, by college girls, two times in the three days I have had it. . . and had the cops give me the full speed signal on the freeway so that they could hear the motor...
Well, I'm sold! Time to start saving...
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