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My personal solution has been to own two clunkers, but my wife says it's a personal sickness on my part (I like clunkers). I blame the fact that while I am not

by steverb 12y ago

My personal solution has been to own two clunkers, but my wife says it's a personal sickness on my part (I like clunkers). I blame the fact that while I am not personally a redneck, I am descended from a very long line of rednecks and can't remember a time when we didn't own at least one car that didn't run. And that's not even counting the beloved "donor" cars. :-)

wernercd 12y ago
As long as one (or more) of those clunkers isn't hiding under un-mowed grass and surrounded by broken garden gnomes :)
KingMob 12y ago
Just think of it as "cloud transporting". One automobile instance goes down, fail back to another. You could start a new business like... maybe EngineYard? :)
- jethro_tell 12y ago
  Ha, for a Minute I forgot that I was on HN.
- lafar6502 12y ago
  You not only have HA cluster, you can also do some load-balancing - this way you have two cars with 30k miles on each instead of just one car with 60k :) Just basic math - which one setup will depreciate faster?
- steverb 12y ago
  That is almost exactly how I view it. I can buy two super cheap cars for less than one very reliable one, and when it's something that I can't fix cheaply or quickly enough I sell off the car and go buy another. I also stick to the one pay check rule for cars, in that no car I buy should cost more than one paycheck, although I did make an exception for the van we use to haul the younguns around in.
freehunter 12y ago
My solution was to buy another clunker when I was in the financial position to be able to afford having two cars. It hasn't stopped running yet, the real challenge will be convincing the wife to let me keep it after it does stop running. There's something relaxing about spending a weekend under a truck, putting it all back together, and driving it around knowing it's only alive because you saved it.

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My personal solution has been to own two clunkers, but my wife says it's a personal sickness on my part (I like clunkers). I blame the fact that while I am not

by steverb 12y ago

wernercd 12y ago
As long as one (or more) of those clunkers isn't hiding under un-mowed grass and surrounded by broken garden gnomes :)
KingMob 12y ago
Just think of it as "cloud transporting". One automobile instance goes down, fail back to another. You could start a new business like... maybe EngineYard? :)
- jethro_tell 12y ago
  Ha, for a Minute I forgot that I was on HN.
- lafar6502 12y ago
  You not only have HA cluster, you can also do some load-balancing - this way you have two cars with 30k miles on each instead of just one car with 60k :) Just basic math - which one setup will depreciate faster?
- steverb 12y ago
  That is almost exactly how I view it. I can buy two super cheap cars for less than one very reliable one, and when it's something that I can't fix cheaply or quickly enough I sell off the car and go buy another. I also stick to the one pay check rule for cars, in that no car I buy should cost more than one paycheck, although I did make an exception for the van we use to haul the younguns around in.
freehunter 12y ago
My solution was to buy another clunker when I was in the financial position to be able to afford having two cars. It hasn't stopped running yet, the real challenge will be convincing the wife to let me keep it after it does stop running. There's something relaxing about spending a weekend under a truck, putting it all back together, and driving it around knowing it's only alive because you saved it.