{"id":620,"date":"2006-10-20T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=620"},"modified":"2006-10-20T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T13:55:34","slug":"new_cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"New cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-10202006(003).jpg\" alt=\"Shelby Cobra\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-10202006.jpg\" alt=\"Outrageous sticker\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI went to <a href=\"http:\/\/buyford.com\/\">Leif Johnson Ford<\/a> today for my 30K checkup.  While I was waiting, I looked around in the showroom.  They had three new 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svt.ford.com\/\">Shelby GT500 Cobras<\/a> there.  These are the Mustang versions of my truck.  The new model boasts 500hp!  So very tempting.  However, I don&#8217;t think that they are pretty and, at 45K, they are expensive.  I think that I would rather get a Corvette at that price.  Look at that sticker in the second picture.  There is a 20K &#8220;fair money adjustment&#8221; charge added on.  And it was sold!  For 65K, you are in performance Corvette territory.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-10202006(002).jpg\" alt=\"Ford GT\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThey also had two Ford GTs there for 150K a pop.  Definately a pretty car, but it costs as much as a house.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-10202006(001).jpg\" alt=\"Ford Mach 1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThey even had a 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 for sale for 40K.  While old cars look cool and retro, they do not have all of the technology that has been discovered in the past 30 years.  Technology which I would consider as critical.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-10202006(004).jpg\" alt=\"Ichiban toilet\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI stopped by Ichiban for lunch afterwards and was greeted with this sight in the restroom.  A urinal full of ice.  Must be a Japanese thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Leif Johnson Ford today for my 30K checkup. While I was waiting, I looked around in the showroom. They had three new 2007 Shelby GT500 Cobras there. These are the Mustang versions of my truck. The new model boasts 500hp! So very tempting. However, I don&#8217;t think that they are pretty and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}