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Any one notice the fine looking 1940 Sedan Delivery for sale on ebay ? {not the frist time it's been for sale}

Owner says it can be yours for $37.9. {listing #280213042404}

What a great looking car/sedan/delivery truck. If I had only been born rich instead of good look-in..... :grin:

If any one lends money at a great rate....I'll be more than happy to bid on this great looking car/sedan/delivery truck and use it to promote VCCA.

Enjoy the ride,
Michael41

Mike: I've got a good financing plan for your purchase of this truck. You could fit the cargo area with a large tank. Given the big difference in the price of gas in CA vs AZ, you could drive over to the AZ line once a week, fill up the tank, and buy the truck from your savings on gas.

DrDavid your just one creative idea after another. Now why didn't I think of that, embarrassing for the Stanford man to always have to follow someone else's lead. Drat!

Still a fine ride, right?
Michael41

Great truck!!!! You could use that big tank for green beer once a year---give it a little more zip. But, this is going to hurt. I have a couple of degrees from Michigan. I'd say Go Blue! but don't follow football anymore. I was going to go to Stanford, but when I heard I'd raise the IQ of both places if I went from Mich to Stanford, I decided to stay put.

By the way, speaking of Stanford. I saw a piece on San Franciso's channel 12 website about gas being $5.70 a gallon somwhere in the Bay area. They interviewed 20 people and asked them why they thought gas was so high in Bay area. All said it was either Bush, greedy gas companies, car companies, energy traders, Arabs, and etc. None of the 20 mentioned CA's high taxes or restrictive regulations for Bay area's high gas prices and difference between gas in Bay area and rest of the nation. No one put even part of the blame on CA voters and legislatures.

Don't they teach Macroeconomics in that state? Or is it just the folks in the Bay area that are in the dark (so to speak)? Where is the Hoover Institute when they are needed most. They have got a lot of work to do there.

Back to topic: that is a nice truck. Looks like it was once owned by a funeral home. Speaking of that, did you see the 41 Cad coupe sold at Barrett-Jackson on Speed Channel last night? What a beauty. Under 25,000 miles and still had WWII gas rationing stamp on window as well as NRA sticker. Everything was original including paint. They thought it was owned by a funeral home all these years and only used in motorcades.

Enjoy the sun this weekend.

Mike: I have another good idea for financing the truck.

The Financial Times of London has an article in yesterday's paper that states that the high price of gold has led to a new gold rush in CA. People are flooding to the mountains and panning for gold. You could buy that truck, a pick and a pan, and head up to Angel Camp on weekends. Then you haul the gold back to LA in the truck, sell the gold, and pay for the truck with the profits from the gold. Even if you didn't find gold, you could haul the crused rock back and sell it to people for ground cover for their yards. I'll bet you'll even have a buck or two left over for a Starbucks.

It is now Sat morning and the sun is up over AZ and CA. Looks like another great day in our respective paradises. Enjoy. Great day to take a little ride in a 41!!!!

$5.70 a gallon?
That's what we pay here....
Welcome to the land of "user pays" (not to mention oligopoly and rip-offs).
Don't get me started on the environment and what this "green push" is really about..

I don't know where you get your information but gas is not $5.70 a gallon in California. The most I have seen is $3.79 a gallon. Don't believe everything you hear...Oscar

Oscar: A couple of days ago Channel 12 in San Francisco was reporting $5.70 gas in their area. It made the national media, The story was also on the Channel 12 website. See my post above.

Gas is often differently priced in various areas of a state due to different blends. There are also differences in various tax rates. Gas can be 50-75 cents higher in Phoenix area than in AZ mountain towns because the government mandates additives such as ethanol in metro areas, and small towns often do not add sales taxes on gasoline.

Different cities can also have higher tax rates and more rigid regulations on businesses that sell gasoline. For example, if the property taxes are higher in a city, a gas station has to charge more for their gas to cover the higher property taxes. As the old saying goes: businesses do not pay taxes, they just collect them from consumers. I saw on yesterday's media that LA wants to add another 25 -50 cent tax to the price of gas to prevent global warming. They will spend the money on mass transit. They claim with higher gas prices from new tax, people will start using mass transit and save the planet.

I have read before that the San Franciso area often has the highest gas prices in the state due to their high taxes and their various blend requirements.

A couple of years ago I paid $1 more than I had been paying all summer in the West in a little town south of Needles CA. It seems the town had a special tax on gas to soak it to the tourists who were taking the short-cut from Phoenix to avoid the loop from Needles to Flagstaff on I-40.

Be thankful you live in an area where the government hits you less for gas. I just checked Gas Buddy and the highest reported price this morning in San Francisco is $4.49 in Redwood City. The lowest was $3.56 in San Rafael.

We paid $3.15 in Mesa, Az last weekend.

The $5.70 gas was along the coast in a little berg called Gorda,Ca. If you need gas in that area you do not have a choice. You ether pay the $5.70 or walk. I live on the central coast of Ca and we have oil wells and refineries all over the place. We are paying $3.75 now. My daughter lives in Valdosta, Ga and they are paying $3.18. Go figure????

As I recall the reports I saw said the stations were at an exit ramp of I-5 somewhere, but I could be wrong.

Go figure: For starters, the gas tax in CA is 50.4 cents-per-gallon. The gas tax in Ga is 30.6 cents. I also suspect all other taxes in CA are proportionally higher than GA.

If you Google "gas prices in San Francisco" you'll find a number of articles detailing that San Francisco has the highest gas prices in the nation.

However, there is no doubt that individual gas stations may take advantage of special circumstances like your station in Gorda. I suspect they have to pay a lot more because of the additional expenses in delivering a relatively small amount of gas to them. On the other hand, there is often a learning curve, and people make it a point to fill up at other places where it is cheaper and these stations lower prices or go out of business.

The good news is that they have discovered new oil fields in North Dakota, western Wyoming, and Alaska that have the potential to supply an amount greater than the amount we import each year. Now, if the federal, state, and local governments will just let us drill and refine it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is really ugly is that several states (including CA) are considering lifting emissions exemptions from classic cars.

Rust to shine
36 roadster and I are both in Aus and $5.70 is cheap at the moment over here, I use LPG and paid about $3.20us a gallon this afternoon.
Tony