Lmao!

 

There's also a scene from that Adam Sandler movie, Bedtime Stories. Damnit, I can't find a clip, but basically, Sandler (in his beat-up pickup) pulls up next to a guy in a Ferrari (I think) and the conversation goes something like this:

Sandler: Do you mind if I ask-- how much is a sweet ride like that?

F-guy: Thanks. Actually, you'd be surprised, it's quite affordable.

Sandler: Really?

F-guy: Yeah, in fact if you saved everything you earn for the next 30 years, you might have enough to buy one of my mufflers. [followed by F-guy and hot blonde laughing at Sandler, then driving off]

 

Its not about taking offense. Perhaps I shouldn't have said insulting. It does downplay what you put in to the car though. I agree, there is no reason to not answer the question but when I do, I make sure that people know that they can't just buy an FD like this for 16k. If they want something similar, its going to take time and $$. The last thing I want to give is that someone can just buy a mint FD for 12k and have him be disappointed when he finds no such thing. Then again, I do like to say that the base car is actually very cheap and you won't be able to find anything nearly as fun for the money.

This is a good question.

 

I just tell them what i paid for it. When asked about how much i have into the car i make a rough guess. I'm not offended i'm proud of the car and what i've done. If i wasn't i wouldn't have the car.

 

My only problem with the question is the shear number of times it gets asked. I love talking about my car, but I'm tired of that question.

 

Well to go off the original topic, although this is a very entertaining side topic... the car, 3500... the rest, you don't want to know...

 

Best story I used once was ... "it's an Italian exotic, and the total cost to import, license and restore this classic was over a hundred grand". haha. some people actually believe that ****.

although one time, some teenage kid said, "no its not, its a RX7". So I said, "oh, you obviously saw Fast n Furious... if not for that movie, our FD's would be even less known to the public... I mean puberty-challenged.

 

somewhere on another forum.. some guys are saying "I asked this rx7 guy how much he invested in his car, and he said its more then i could afford then walked away.. wtf!?" lol

 

I am with Montego on this one. I usually answer the question with what I paid for the car several years ago, followed by the "I don't really want to know what I have spent on it". I have a rough guess, but it is better for me to not know the real number. It is just unnecessary.

Though if some random person comes up and asks the question and I get that poor feeling in my gut I avoid the question or provide a really ignorant answer in such a way that they believe me. For fear someone will try and follow me home to either carjack the car there or on the way (forcing me to utilize my cc license) or try and steal the car at some point while I am at work. Maybe I am just paranoid, but better safe than sorry, I am really attached to my FD..

I also do find the question inappropriate to ask. But I guess that is just how I was raised. I do not ask other people how much they paid for something. If I want to know how much something costs, I just look for that item/similar item for sale. Plus then you get an accurate figure of what that item costs at that moment. To me it is just like asking someone how much their salary is...

 

I think we can all agree it's a pretty inappropriate question that usually gets asked by people who can't appreciate the car anyway. I get this question a couple times a week and I can really **** someone off quick when i tell them what i paid for mine. I don't usually tell the kids what i paid for it, but the older men who really know what the car is I will tell so they know what a steal i got. 1200 whole dollars is what i paid for mine.

 

I hear you man. Sometimes when I walk to my car and I don't see it because I parked in deeper than usual (I'm next to an SUV) my heart skips a beat. That can't be good.

 

I'm gonna have to try that sometime...

 

I bought my car last year around Nov. last year and I try to keep track of all my expenses but its hard to really I think I spent around 3k or so so far on the car and originally bought it for 9k.

I dont like when people say how much you spend on it and I say like 3k and they look at it and it looks like nothing has been done to the car. Although I have done no exterior mods besides a R1 lip.

 

No - we don't all agree. Seriously, you guys must have very little worry in your lives if this question bothers you. It is asked out of curiosity with no malice, in my experience. If it were culturally inappropriate, then it is unlikely that people would ask it all the time.

 

I've never been asked that question from the general public as my car was mostly stock looking when I was driving it around years back. Now with the engine swap and body kit added, I'm still not driving it around until it's finished. I only test drive is at night on back roads so no one sees it in it's primered state. I guess those questions will start to come out as soon as I debut my project in completed form.

 

Oh man I had my car a couple of years prior to FnF and let me tell you it was pure bliss. Hardly anyone had an idea of what it was, as only the true car guys knew. It was the norm to see pedestrians (as I was in a stop light) mouth to the person next to them "what kind of car is that?"

 

I agree with this. I think those that is bothers are those that have spend insane amounts of money on the car. If they answer this question, then they feel they have to justify to this person all the cost and was it worth it. It's not gonna both me when I get asked this because in the grand scheme of things, I know that I've spent very little compared to someone doing the same project.

 

I just tell people $3,000....and then some

 

Thank you sir. I shall save it just in case haha



I get asked this question all the time too. I don't really mind it, but I wouldn't ask someone that kind of a question. I answer with I lost track which is pretty true.

 

I am afraid your experience is not the norm my friend. The question doesn't bother me personally as i have built a nice running FD for less than 5 grand. Most people spend more than that on a beater.

 

I actually get this alot. I hate when people who have no appreciation ask but if they are legitimately interested I have no problem. As stated above, you don't want to give someone the wrong impression about how expensive these cars are to own. And as a 19 year old, when you say the actual number, people naturally assume your parents payed for it. THAT pisses me off. I literally work the exact same job as you.. the reason I can afford this and you can't is because I don't slam a flat of beer and 10 packs of smokes every week. As a student especially, don't make an awful lot, I only work like 4 and a half months a year but pretty much every spare penny after school costs, insurance, and some money put into savings (which I'm sure will go towards a rebuild lol) is put towards the FD (and the girl ) I know what I want and I put myself in that direction. If you want an FD at this age, you have to sacrifice weeklong benders and getting smashed every night. If you want all that, the nice folks at Honda have created the civic.

 

Try what? There was no joke there i was serious

 

I never got asked that question in my old RX7's.... but I get asked that question all the time with my NSX. I always say "too much".

 

I usually tell the the price I originally paid, then mess with them.

"I paid 6,000 bucks, and it's from the Mid '90's. How much did you pay for that Cayman S (that I just mopped the track with)?"

I don't bother telling them about the wheelbarrows full of cash that I throw at it every paycheck.

 

the question does get irritating. i jus tell them that its blood money from when i was in afghanistan. but other ppl assume i sell drugs since im puerto rican and all. but the majority of the time i jus say and tell them that they mama paid for it. got to love rotaries