>>>>I have great appreciation of the collected wisdom here and have upon occasion asked for advice. This is one of those times.
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>>>>As some of you may recall, my father died last May. He was a successful man and I am due to inherit some money next month.
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>>>>I do not intend to run around blowing the inheritance extravagantly. Most of it will be spent on my daughters' college educations and left for them to inherit. It will not be spent wildly. Having lost about half my net worth during the recession, my investments will be extremely conservative. But I do have one indulgence in mind. Bear in mind that I have not indulged myself in years. I have not been on vacation in years. My car is over 10 years old and has 120,000 miles on it.
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>>>>So I am thinking of running a little amok --
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>>>>http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp?tracktype=newcc&csDlId=&csDgId=&listingId=104744155&listingRecNum=31&criteria=sf1Dir%3DASC%26mkId%3D20053%26stkTyp%3DN%26mdId%3D20770%26rd%3D30%26crSrtFlds%3DstkTypId-feedSegId-mkId-mdId%26zc%3D60073%26rn%3D0%26PMmt%3D1-1-0%26stkTypId%3D28880%26sf2Dir%3DASC%26sf1Nm%3Dprice%26sf2Nm%3Dlocation%26isDealerGrouping%3Dfalse%26rpp%3D50%26feedSegId%3D28705&aff=national&listType=1
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>>>>It's not a very expensive car. The Camaro has a high percentage of the Corvette's performance at a much lower percentage of the cost. 22-23K for a beast like this, wow. Great reviews. If I go ahead it will be hard to decide between yellow and orange.
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>>>>Allie told me last night she thinks I'm nuts. Opinions?
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>>>I'm a big advocate for people doing what they enjoy. You only get one trip on this ride called life. When you get the opportunity to do something that you know will make you happy and the only discomfort it will cause is that Allie's face will hurt from smirking at her "nuts" daddy? This is an easy one. ;)
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>>Jake, you are the man! As far as Allie, daughters were invented to teach their fathers humility. I can stand her occasional disapproval. It's an unspoken two way pledge we have between us. Plus she suggested I get an automatic transmission, which is what she knows how to drive ;-)
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>getting a sports car with automatic is NUTS...

If I get the car I will not do that. I will teach her to drive a stick but I will not get an automatic.