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Bought a new toy - need advice

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Let us know how you get on and post some pictures. At least that way we will know that you are still alive!!
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Our dogs are both rescued, and she volunteers at the shelter.[/QUOTE] Tell her it was at a Triumph shelter and they were going to "put it down" if no one claimed it. Appeal to that side of her! She can relate! And while you're waiting for the right moment, I'll pick up the car for you and take it for regular runs so it doesn't get rusty :eeek: That way you can take as looooooong as you want to work up the nerve.
 
You could just tell her about the new car. Now, while she's still away from home, this way she has time to burn off some of her emotions. Of course she could use the time to plan your demise. If not the truth I like the idea of telling her you're storing the car for a friend who went overseas. Tough call either way, tougher if you live in a community property state.
 
Tell her you are fixing the car up to sell to raise money for shelter... just make sure you do not give a completion date
 
You were threatened by 8822 of your closest internet buddies. You had no choice.
 
I've been in your shoes. Bought a Spitfire on eBay (Buy It Now option) and had it trucked from San Diego to PA.

I had precisely 2 hours to come up with a story.

In the end, I just told her. "Honey, I don't know how to tell you this, but I bought a car on eBay..."

"Oh, Ok. What color is it?"

And that was the end of it. She has her hobbies, I have mine.

Good luck.
 
I told my wife (as a joke) that I had bought an additional Triumph once, and that it would take me a while to get home since I was towing it with our car. When I got home she went to look for it and of course didn't find it.
She got back at me a few months later when she called me at work to tell me the city was towing my Triumph (to the crushers) as an abandoned car, since it hadn't been registered for over a year.
 
This "Answer" is the best one in my book! Your re-building the car to sell. Then give the proceeds to some "Puppy Charity" for dogs in need.

Your actually going to help your wife out with her "Passion"; At sometime in her life!

Best Wishes,

Russ
 
Not with one already in pieces in the garage...

I survived the night - I think the worst is over.
 
That's what William Hurt thought when he woke up and Catherine Turner was gone in Body Heat.

We all know how that ended....
 
tell her its the car you are going to be buried in, either today when you kill me for buying it or later on after you find out how much money I have sunk in it
 
Yes, that's the one. You know the car?
I'm going to fly down 1st weekend of May, do the Mitty and drive it back then. Just got the insurance docs, so all I'm waiting for is the title and b.o.s. and I can register it.
 
That sounds like a great weekend. You lucky man!
 
alana said:
DrEntropy said:
This TR8... it RUNS, yes?
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It better!

I'm driving it home at the end of the month from Atlanta to NY.
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I'm only a couple of hours from Hotlanta. You can park it at my house until you come up with a plausible story. May take a couple of months.

Use the old story about falling in love with a hooker or something equally bad, fathered two kids out of wedlock etc. Then say, not really, I just bought another car. You may still get the knife. Just be sure she doesn't pull a "Bobbit" on you.
 
Shawn, looks as if a new member will be on the list now. Maybe he'll be able to tell me how it works
 
Chain mail worked for hundreds of years to help prevent death-by-stabbing...


Hmmmm, I wonder what a TSA goon would say about that type of body armor if worn to the security checkpoint?
 
Alan,

Buy the book "Old Tractors & the Men Who Love Them".
He has a chapter in there about this exact thing.He says
that "you can apply this to other hobbies - cars,etc.".

- Doug
 
Obviously you need to dump the TVR.

I think my wife would love it if I bought a car that actually ran. Especially a TR8.
 
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