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How Can you Afford your FC?

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Old Sep 6, 2002 | 12:32 PM
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this website (www.teamspeedster.com) is paying for all my add-ons right now
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Old Sep 6, 2002 | 12:42 PM
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US Navy pays for mine, kinda. Well that, and Foxwoods Casino... Four of a kind on Let it Ride bought me my turbo-back RB exhaust.
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Old Sep 6, 2002 | 12:47 PM
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I used to work when I purchased my FC but now I keep it going with my weekly unemployment check
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Old Sep 6, 2002 | 12:49 PM
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I dont afford my Rx-7, all the work im doing on it now is stuff i can do for free

So far iv borrowed...
2 Full Metric sets with 1/4 and half inch drives
2 braker bars
2 jack stands
an engine hoist
a drill and sanding attachments
woden blocks to support various things
a tarp
2 cans of WD40, can o primer, and some contact cleaner
a towel that is now black from greese and toxic cus of the near spill of coolent
a oil pan holder thingy, thats holding my oil
vise grips
and ive borrowed tones of scews and nuts and bolts that will never be returned

i have put maby 30 hr into this car in last month.. and havent paid a dime =]

only prob is now i need to buy things to put in there place

-Jacob
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Old Sep 6, 2002 | 12:50 PM
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Tech support pays my bills and after-hours consultation pays for my toys.
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Old Sep 6, 2002 | 07:49 PM
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Started off with a loan in 98, when I was 17.
Paid it off this summer.
Also managed to save a sh*t load of cash through crappy long-houred jobs. ( mostly construction )
Now i've dumped a little over $15000 Cdn into my car.
Haven't drank since New Years.
Quit smoking 3 years ago.
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Old Sep 6, 2002 | 09:05 PM
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Bought the car with a loan. Car got smoked by a woman in a Grand Am. Paid for engine transfer into parts car with American Express. Have been working the whole time for PAVING COMPANIES. I lay the asphalt by day and tear it up by night.



That, and delivering pizza. Yes, in my FC. I normally get one comment a night on how ******* fast the order shows up on the customer's doorstep.



Planning on becoming a Registered Massage Therapist, btw. I'm just squeaking by with my current jobs (that and paving is a bite in the *** - I'd like to end my work day W/O being covered in diesel.) I'm very good at massage and the idea of eventually working from home for $60+ an hour is kind of appealing. And think of the tires I could buy!!!

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Old Sep 6, 2002 | 10:12 PM
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Dude, MASSAGE THERAPY is overloaded with people. We got people advertising on the radio for $25/hr coming to your house! Make sure and have the "school" that is feeding you this line show you a copy of all the graduates TAX returns with this 60/hr!
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Old Sep 6, 2002 | 10:34 PM
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I'm a cook at one of the city's nicest 'non-formal' restaurants. I make $7 an hour as a regular cook, $7.50 an hour when I'm head cook (which is about half my shifts) + $10 in free food on my head cook shifts. It's a good job, I get another 50¢ raise next month (I've recieved 2 already since I started working there in April)

My car sucks every daggone dime of my salary too...you'd think my girlfriend would get mad...
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 06:47 AM
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Originally posted by banzaitoyota
Dude, MASSAGE THERAPY is overloaded with people. We got people advertising on the radio for $25/hr coming to your house! Make sure and have the "school" that is feeding you this line show you a copy of all the graduates TAX returns with this 60/hr!
So I shouldn't stop delivering pizza? Thanks for the heads up. No 'school' has been feeding me this line - I'm bellying up to the table on my own.
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 09:27 AM
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I work 24 hours shifts on an ambulance, and work 12 hour shifts at the fire department. Have plenty of money to spend on my FC just no time to work on it.
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 02:52 PM
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im a crack *****. moneys decent, but its hard to decide which addiction gets fed first.
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 03:01 PM
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Originally posted by FC Drifter
im a crack *****. moneys decent, but its hard to decide which addiction gets fed first.

haha, we all know you are.


Um, I afford it by working at a shitty job... and not driving her much.... =/ I need a new job anyone want to hire me? lol
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 03:47 PM
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I just go to school. Every now and then with some strategic niceness to the parentals, I get help modding the car I think im gonna go get a job soon.
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 04:13 PM
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sell 25's and qb's(weed) and do valet .. just let me valet ur car!!! lol specially if u have an FD!!! hahahaha
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 09:31 PM
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I took a loan from my 401K so I basicly borrowed the money from myself :-)
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 10:02 PM
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Making payments as of late, while working at Wendy's (hopefully temporarily until my interview on thursday which will double the money i make there.)
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 10:04 PM
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Credit Cards
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Old Sep 7, 2002 | 11:31 PM
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Ouch. Thank god I'm not a teenager anymore. No disrespect but I'm glad the days of 7 and 8 dollar an hour jobs are long gone. I work for a privately owned linen company in the bronx and I'm spending money on my car hand over fist. I just installed an act 6 puck racing clutch, HKS super AFR and a racingbeat header and presilencer. The car is currently getting a fresh coat of paint and new rims and tires. I think the apex N1 dual will be my next purchase! To all those with shitty jobs.....Learn to bartend! easiest money you can make as a young guy, Not to mention the pu$$y parade you get to witness every night!
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Old Sep 8, 2002 | 12:49 AM
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I have the same clutch - can't imagine driving my 7 without it.
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Old Sep 8, 2002 | 12:53 AM
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I rob banks!
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Old Sep 8, 2002 | 01:00 AM
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Originally posted by SPDST3R
this website (www.teamspeedster.com) is paying for all my add-ons right now
Ohh dear god what is that???
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Old Sep 8, 2002 | 07:29 AM
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Originally posted by 13B2QuIcKNy
...sell 25's and qb's(weed)...
Care to explain to me the gr weight of a "QB"?

$20's, ¼'s, ½'s, oz.'s, and QP's. If you're a good, loyal customer, I'll go as low as a $10. You wait for me, I'll bend for you.

... I mean... I'm unemploied...
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Old Sep 8, 2002 | 10:45 AM
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I used to have a job then I stopped working for about 6 months. Then I bought my fc with the money I got back from totalling my civic. Ive only had it for about 2 months now but I guess I can afford it now that I just got a good paying job. The rest of the money I had from the wreck bought me Tein HA's, Blitz SBC-ID, Blitz Power Meter, and a Blitz DTT ID.
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Old Sep 28, 2002 | 05:52 PM
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Uhmm... where's the "I can't afford my FC" option

damn university is sucking my funds dry..... lol... ok, so actually it's the bars... but still....
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