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Now we know the man with the greatest car audio in Mexico.
I was gonna ask: is the SHO Wagon making the trip?

Yes.

I will sell the Porsche, and my beloved 1969 Land Cruiser snowplow truck, and my "spare" Taurus wagon. If I had my way, I would cross into Mexico with the ShoWagon and my Visa card plus the clothes on my back and nothing else. But SWMBO has other ideas about that.

While I have heard that the used snowplow market in Mexico is underrated, the ShoWagon certainly seemed like the pick of the litter, landedgentrymobile-wise. You might even find a Ford dealer.

Interesting to see the distribution of makes in Mexico and elsewhere. I remember a bazillion Nissans in PVR but having to strain to see the occasional Toyota. So maybe you can find a Patrol with a snowplow! I see that Subaru has started selling in Mexico, so maybe there is hope for driving the WRX wagon down some day. It would be the perfect car...if I can figure out how to make it into a convertible but keep the roofrack!

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I don't remember -- did you hear the stereo with the five Blaupunkt amps, or was I still running the single 8-channel amp?

tanstaafl.

February 2004. No I don't think I heard the Blaupunkts. But if you are getting ready to tell me your stereo sounds *better* now... well that dog won't hunt

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February 2004. No I don't think I heard the Blaupunkts. But if you are getting ready to tell me your stereo sounds *better* now... well that dog won't hunt

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I hope to have my new home built and be settled in by this time next year, and hope that some of the people I have met here (especially you, Rob Schofield!) will stop by for extended visits.

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So how's (preparation for) the move going?

In a word: Badly. [

As I've been predicting for the past 18 months, the housing market has crashed, unfortunately several months before I had anticipated.

With 20-20 hindsight, I should have skipped the renovations that delayed putting my house on the market, and sold it as-is for about $100K less than what I'd like to get for it now. However, the real estate people tell me that there is nothing moving in the $300K+ market in this town right now.

To make it worse, there are a lot of brand new crackerboxes for sale for $50K less than my asking price. This is OK if you don't mind living in half the floor space on a lot half the size, with no view and no privacy. The realtors tell me that people will overlook all that -- because it is a new house (with all the little problems that a new house entails!) and that makes it special. I'm reminded of the time I overheard a car salesman at the local Ford dealership selling a brand new Ford Escort (an absolute bottom-feeder economy car, piece of sh*t under the best of circumstances) to a young soldier on a 60-month contract. He'd be upside-down on the car payments until the day he paid it off, but it was a new car so that made it OK.

Well, at 3500 FT^2 my house is not a crackerbox (see attached pic.) and if I have to wait out the bad times to sell it... so be it.

tanstaafl.

ps: Can't someone please extend the time an unsubmitted post can sit before it disappears? Or is that not an adjustable parameter with this software?

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ps: Can't someone please extend the time an unsubmitted post can sit before it disappears? Or is that not an adjustable parameter with this software?