Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6198648-20130228045108/@comment-6191693-20131028110116

Only if you sent me the dress and the shoes together.

In other news, I'm very excited for today for two reasons -- my date rescheduled for today and I've also found the perfect project car. It's a 2000 Chevy Blazer that hit a deer and needs a new heater core. The deer damage is not too bad (needs a new grille and has a small dent on the hood where it meets the grille, maybe a small dent on the bumper) and, supposedly, it's mechanically sound other than the heater core. They're selling it for only $800 because heater core repairs generally run $600-1000 at the shop and the front end's messed up anyway, so it's hard to justify putting the money into it. Heater cores only cost about $50 for the part and it's just the labor that's so expensive because it takes a professional 5-6 hours to replace one; fortuately, I know how to replace one and it'll just take me two or three afternoons and some elbow grease to get it done. Then a fresh grille from the junkyard (these trucks are a dime a dozen and the front end is identical to the S10 pickup) shouldn't run me more than $70 or so. I may or may not fix the dent in the hood, depending on how my finances are looking. In a week or two, I can have it ready to sell, which Kelley Blue Book values at between $2300-3000, depending on the condition. I'd say that's a pretty good payoff for an investment of under $1000 and a few days' time.