>>>>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 fan of cars so of course I'd say go for it. One thing to keep in mind is that the value of the car will go down so you're going to eat the investment in the long run. Now if you wanted it to make more sense you could find yourself a car that will actually go UP in value over the years....so perhaps a classic vehicle of some kind?
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>>I am not looking for appreciation in value, just fun. And right now a souped up car seems just right.
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>>We are in the deep freeze here. Go ahead, smirk.
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>Oh I can't smirk - it got down to a bone-chilling 67 degrees here last night! brrrrrrr

You poor thing.

One of my oldest friends posted on Facebook this week that he and his wife are in Puerto Rico on vacation. He gloated that they gained 87 degrees between O'Hare and PR on the flight down. I hope he gets a sunburn that peels the skin off his back. (Guy humor).