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10-01-2006, 01:46 PM
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If you had to sell your Amphi
A couple weeks back I was showing the 2003 Amphicar Meet splash-in tape to my physics students
on the first day of class to amuse them and later one of the students commented that she thought that
an Amphicar looked so cute, like an old Chevy. I just smiled because people have said that every old
car I've ever had has looked like a Chevy, presumably because that's the first brand that comes to mind?
One guy told me that an Amphicar looked like a Henry J, which I though was about as close as anything
but nothing really looks like an Amphicar.
The $22 K I have in my Amphi all came from professional student loans and is somewhat more money
than all the money I have spent to buy the 15 other cars I've owned in my life. (Ten year ago, you could
buy decent daily driver 4-door sedans from the 50s and 60s for $500-$1200, now it's 4 times that.) So
in a couple years when I finish optometry school with over $100K in loan debt I'm going to have to sell
the Amphi and I know it will be depressing, but I often think about what I could buy to sort of "replace"
it. Sure I could rig up my 60 Buick to float like that Cuban guy did with the 59 Buick a couple years back
But I think that's beyond my skill level.
This morning I was looking at an old August 2001 Special Interest Auto magazine (#184) and on page 63
there was an article about a 1967 Citroen ID station wagon. I recall seeingCitroen sedans at the Ypsilanti
Orphan Car show in 2002 and 2003 (anyone near Michigan should go to that show--first Sunday in
June every year--it's far betterthan any other old car show you can find, with experts giving a history lesson on every car as it drives by the stands, plus there are always a few Amphis in attendance.)and I thought
the cars looked cool, but perhaps now after seeing an Amphi so much, the odd looks of a Citroen appeal
to me even more, plus I love station wagons.
There is a far uglier 1971 Citroen wagon in Kentucky on ebay right now (the quad headlights of the 71
don't look anywhere near as nice as the dual headlights of 67, which look something more like a 58
Packard Hawk or old MG or something--I guess there was a 67 wagon in the Buffy the Vampire
Slayer movie?). No one is bidding on it at $500 and if I had someplace to store it, I'd be crazy
enough to bid on it (wouldn't the Schlemmers have an empty old shed out back that could fit a
Citroen?) Two months after I bought my Amphi on ebay, I almost bid on a 59 Dodge but I had
a friend stay on the phone with me while the auction ended to talk me ought of it. A year later
I bought a different 59 Dodge on ebay that was in worse shape. So maybe I'll have to have
someone talk me out of this Citroen, only to buy a different one in a couple of years when I
sell my Amphi.
This is a long message to ask, if you had to sell your Amphi due to lack of money, what cheaper
(or more expensive) car would you buy to fight the "sold my Amphi blues?"
Jim Bihari
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10-01-2006, 01:46 PM
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If you had to sell your Amphi
A couple weeks back I was showing the 2003 Amphicar Meet splash-in tape to my physics students
on the first day of class to amuse them and later one of the students commented that she thought that
an Amphicar looked so cute, like an old Chevy. I just smiled because people have said that every old
car I've ever had has looked like a Chevy, presumably because that's the first brand that comes to mind?
One guy told me that an Amphicar looked like a Henry J, which I though was about as close as anything
but nothing really looks like an Amphicar.
The $22 K I have in my Amphi all came from professional student loans and is somewhat more money
than all the money I have spent to buy the 15 other cars I've owned in my life. (Ten year ago, you could
buy decent daily driver 4-door sedans from the 50s and 60s for $500-$1200, now it's 4 times that.) So
in a couple years when I finish optometry school with over $100K in loan debt I'm going to have to sell
the Amphi and I know it will be depressing, but I often think about what I could buy to sort of "replace"
it. Sure I could rig up my 60 Buick to float like that Cuban guy did with the 59 Buick a couple years back
But I think that's beyond my skill level.
This morning I was looking at an old August 2001 Special Interest Auto magazine (#184) and on page 63
there was an article about a 1967 Citroen ID station wagon. I recall seeingCitroen sedans at the Ypsilanti
Orphan Car show in 2002 and 2003 (anyone near Michigan should go to that show--first Sunday in
June every year--it's far betterthan any other old car show you can find, with experts giving a history lesson on every car as it drives by the stands, plus there are always a few Amphis in attendance.)and I thought
the cars looked cool, but perhaps now after seeing an Amphi so much, the odd looks of a Citroen appeal
to me even more, plus I love station wagons.
There is a far uglier 1971 Citroen wagon in Kentucky on ebay right now (the quad headlights of the 71
don't look anywhere near as nice as the dual headlights of 67, which look something more like a 58
Packard Hawk or old MG or something--I guess there was a 67 wagon in the Buffy the Vampire
Slayer movie?). No one is bidding on it at $500 and if I had someplace to store it, I'd be crazy
enough to bid on it (wouldn't the Schlemmers have an empty old shed out back that could fit a
Citroen?) Two months after I bought my Amphi on ebay, I almost bid on a 59 Dodge but I had
a friend stay on the phone with me while the auction ended to talk me ought of it. A year later
I bought a different 59 Dodge on ebay that was in worse shape. So maybe I'll have to have
someone talk me out of this Citroen, only to buy a different one in a couple of years when I
sell my Amphi.
This is a long message to ask, if you had to sell your Amphi due to lack of money, what cheaper
(or more expensive) car would you buy to fight the "sold my Amphi blues?"
Jim Bihari
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GORDON IMPORTS INC.. The world's largest source of Amphicar parts and accessories. Visit our new website today.
10-01-2006, 05:15 PM
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Re: If you had to sell your Amphi
In a message dated 10/1/2006 3:28:15 PM Central Daylight Time, jbihari@optometry.osu.edu writes:
if you had to sell your Amphi due to lack of money,
Don't do it, you will be kicking yourself in the ass for a long time as you watch your Amphi go up in price and that weird car you pick up for cheap, then pour a fortune into, never catch up--plus all the fun you will miss is beyond a dollar amount.
There are other ways to pay off loans, use some of that educaation you got to make it work.
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GORDON IMPORTS INC.. The world's largest source of Amphicar parts and accessories. Visit our new website today.
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10-01-2006, 05:15 PM
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Re: If you had to sell your Amphi
In a message dated 10/1/2006 3:28:15 PM Central Daylight Time, jbihari@optometry.osu.edu writes:
if you had to sell your Amphi due to lack of money,
Don't do it, you will be kicking yourself in the ass for a long time as you watch your Amphi go up in price and that weird car you pick up for cheap, then pour a fortune into, never catch up--plus all the fun you will miss is beyond a dollar amount.
There are other ways to pay off loans, use some of that educaation you got to make it work.
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GORDON IMPORTS INC.. The world's largest source of Amphicar parts and accessories. Visit our new website today.
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10-01-2006, 06:18 PM
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RE: If you had to sell your Amphi
10-01-2006, 06:18 PM
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RE: If you had to sell your Amphi
10-02-2006, 07:12 AM
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Re: If you had to sell your Amphi
Hi,
I come from a world of Corvairs, I have owed over 30 of them in my life and half of them were near perfect and could have been concourse cars,Iwouldgo as far as California from Chicagoto find the best of the best, just to end up selling them for a 1k to 2k profit.. I loved the cars and theprofit didn't matter to me at the time.. But I sure wishI would have bought Amphicar's instead for the love and the great investment.. I remember going tothe junkyards to find am/fm radio's for the Corvairs and seeing Amphicars there whichI probably could have bought for a couple of hundred bucks..I could have bought those cars and just put them somewhere for 20 years and presto 20 GRAND for a rustbucket!!! Instead my Corvairs arestill 10k to 15k max for the best of the best... I guess my point is KEEP YOUR CAR NOTHING WILL REPLACE IT OR FIND ABASKET CASE AND BRING IT BACK TO LIFE BEFORE YOU SELL YOURS!!!
Good luck in your decision.. Cigarman
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GORDON IMPORTS INC.. The world's largest source of Amphicar parts and accessories. Visit our new website today.
10-02-2006, 07:12 AM
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Re: If you had to sell your Amphi
Hi,
I come from a world of Corvairs, I have owed over 30 of them in my life and half of them were near perfect and could have been concourse cars,Iwouldgo as far as California from Chicagoto find the best of the best, just to end up selling them for a 1k to 2k profit.. I loved the cars and theprofit didn't matter to me at the time.. But I sure wishI would have bought Amphicar's instead for the love and the great investment.. I remember going tothe junkyards to find am/fm radio's for the Corvairs and seeing Amphicars there whichI probably could have bought for a couple of hundred bucks..I could have bought those cars and just put them somewhere for 20 years and presto 20 GRAND for a rustbucket!!! Instead my Corvairs arestill 10k to 15k max for the best of the best... I guess my point is KEEP YOUR CAR NOTHING WILL REPLACE IT OR FIND ABASKET CASE AND BRING IT BACK TO LIFE BEFORE YOU SELL YOURS!!!
Good luck in your decision.. Cigarman
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GORDON IMPORTS INC.. The world's largest source of Amphicar parts and accessories. Visit our new website today.
10-02-2006, 10:08 AM
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Re: If you had to sell your Amphi
Those who have had their Amphicar less than a decade or so, or who never made it to those first few "Pre-Celina" Club Swim-Ins when they were held in various venues throughout the beautiful Adirondacks of upstate New York, may not knowthat several Metropolitan ownersalso regularly used to attendour Club gatherings. It just so happenedthat their own Metropolitan Owners Club's annual gatherings were alsoheld not far away at nearly the same time every year, so a half dozen or soMet folks usually made a point of swinging by our Amphi shindigs too. In fact, one of the regular Met owning attendees even had a license plate that read "PUDLJMPR"inspired by the frequent confusion of her Met with the Amphi, and this same owner also used to make and sell cute Amphicar jewelry. Sadly, nowadays only the very briefest mention of this peculiar cross-pollenization phenomenon between our two oddball orphan vehicle marques is to befound in the Club website's "Pre-1999" Swim-In pages (see the writeup for the 1996 gathering). Another Met-related item about which most Amphicar owners are unaware is that the verey same Austin engine used in the Nash Metropolitan was also fitted into the earliest Amphicar prototypes, and onlyproduction and delivery-related issues later forced the Amphicar folks touse the Triumph (Standard) engine instead. In short,those Met folksare very kindred souls indeed, and I for one rather miss them at Celina.
It's hard to deny that the Nash Metropilitan owners haveearned every right to attend Amphicar gatherings.I mean, just imagine if YOU were being constantly asked by passersby if your car was also a boat...and it wasn't. So, the next time you meet a Met owner, go ahead and give 'em a hug and tell them you understand.
~Bilgey~
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10-02-2006, 10:08 AM
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Re: If you had to sell your Amphi
Those who have had their Amphicar less than a decade or so, or who never made it to those first few "Pre-Celina" Club Swim-Ins when they were held in various venues throughout the beautiful Adirondacks of upstate New York, may not knowthat several Metropolitan ownersalso regularly used to attendour Club gatherings. It just so happenedthat their own Metropolitan Owners Club's annual gatherings were alsoheld not far away at nearly the same time every year, so a half dozen or soMet folks usually made a point of swinging by our Amphi shindigs too. In fact, one of the regular Met owning attendees even had a license plate that read "PUDLJMPR"inspired by the frequent confusion of her Met with the Amphi, and this same owner also used to make and sell cute Amphicar jewelry. Sadly, nowadays only the very briefest mention of this peculiar cross-pollenization phenomenon between our two oddball orphan vehicle marques is to befound in the Club website's "Pre-1999" Swim-In pages (see the writeup for the 1996 gathering). Another Met-related item about which most Amphicar owners are unaware is that the verey same Austin engine used in the Nash Metropolitan was also fitted into the earliest Amphicar prototypes, and onlyproduction and delivery-related issues later forced the Amphicar folks touse the Triumph (Standard) engine instead. In short,those Met folksare very kindred souls indeed, and I for one rather miss them at Celina.
It's hard to deny that the Nash Metropilitan owners haveearned every right to attend Amphicar gatherings.I mean, just imagine if YOU were being constantly asked by passersby if your car was also a boat...and it wasn't. So, the next time you meet a Met owner, go ahead and give 'em a hug and tell them you understand.
~Bilgey~
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