Totally paid for C6 thread
 

It seems like a lot of folks are posting threads lately. So, if you own your C6...no loan balance, no monthly payments etc, post a photo.

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07 free and clear many years now. That "no interest for 36 months" promotion was no big deal...just $25,000 down and $750 per month. :ack:

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Paid for the day it left the dealership :rock:

I wouldn't have bought it if I couldn't pay for it on the spot. I did sell my 69 Coupe first though. Tacked on another $10k of my own and no payments, title in hand.

Found what I wanted walked in with cash left with the car paid in full.

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Can't drive the Vette for a few more months, so may as well post pics LOL

Paid in full the day I bought it new.

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Paid for at purchase in 08:rock:

0% for 36 months when i bought it in March of 2007 so it's been paid for since 2010. Took it to EnglandGreen for a little work after it was paid for.

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<--------- I own them, not the bank! :D


lisa

Purchased 8/13. Paid cash.

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The one and only car I ever financed was back in the mid-1970's and it was outrageous....a $76.87 monthly payment! I pay cash for my cars and I don't flip them every couple years just to have the latest-greatest. I'll keep a good car for many years. :thumbs:

About to do cam/headers. Paid it off in 6 mo.

Paid off in 2009 and have been loving it ever since.

2011 GS:

Cash money. No loan. I hate loans. I know it's irrational, but there it is.

It's nice to pay cash, but last year when they were offering free financing, you'd have been better off investing the money and financing the car. Most of my investments made 30-40 pct last year... On a 65g car, that money would have returned around 22g.

I bought my car in March, 2008 and paid cash but the market plunged that year and I was happy to have gotten my car with no payments. Do whatever you think is best since markets are always so volatile.

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Currently at 45,000 and climbing - enjoy driving your Corvette!

The dealer was paid in full the day I bought it. Car in avatar.

sorry, no pics. don't know how too post pictures, wish i did. but anyway, bought my 013 nrbm last january and paid it off 4 months later. my wife and i didn't like the $325.00 a month payments. :cheers:

Mines paid off. I had a 5 year note, but I paid it off after 3 years (lump sum on the final two years).

I came with a hefty down payment so the loan wasn't outrageous to begin with. However to pay it off, I rolled my car loan, student loan, and old mortgage into my new mortgage because I got a lower interest rate (by over a percentage point) and I'm still waaaay right side up on my house (loan is only 55% of the equity)

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1LT poverty package and 2008 economic crash for the mega discount win! This made the car so much more attainable- and the first year of the LS3 and a bunch of other mid-cycle refresh items.

I had it paid off in 6 or 7 months, I just had to jump on the deal when it came available and just had to shuffle a little money back and forth. The experience with the car would probably have been different than if I had a large note for a long term.

The car is 5 years old now, but look how new the steering wheel leather used to be!
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Paid cash for it in April 2005, has 35,000 miles on it and I'm keeping it forever. :flag:

It was paid for when I drove it home from the NCM.

Own it ... but drive it like I stole it!!

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and track it as much as possible!!

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:cheers::cheers:

Both cars free and clear. The blue car never had payments and the red one only for a year.

Paid in Cash when I took delivery.

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100% down in Nov '07 and no monthly payments since. Even if I gave it away today, every dime I've ever spent for fuel, ins, license, mods, maintenance, and the original purchase price would have cost less than $1 per mile. It's a really small investment for the amount of joy it has brought to my wife and I.

'08 A6, 115K miles, 47 state road warrior, 10.82 1/4 mi, and DD.

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Very thankful mine was paid for the day I drove it home...

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Bought and paid for. :thumbs:

Pretty nice to tell the salesman you'll stroke a check for it and no need to see the finance guy.

I have owned 25 vettes and the last one I had a loan on was when I was a senior in college and I borrowed $2,000 to purchase a brand new 1968 convert in the fall of 1967.

I have a corvette account that I use to purchase the next have to have vette and when I sell one of them the money goes back in that corvette account.

Paid cash for everyone since that new 1968 including this one:

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May of 2013--Paid for when we drove it out of the Dealer!

Paid Cash
 

Cash money. No loan. I hate loans. All my cars, my homes, my business, all paid for. I know it's irrational, but there it is.
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Paid for from day 1.

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Fortunately, paid in full on day one, 7-08-05.

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Never finance any of my toys or I don't buy them. DRove it home from Vegas in Feb 2010 and ran into a bit of a snow storm. Thank god we didn't have any mishaps
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Paid for? What's that? I have had a perpetual car payment for 30 years! We are on borrowed time anyway...might as borrow money as well!

Purchased in Jan.2005. 9 years old with 80000 miles
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As long as you have perpetual income to go along with it....no problem.

Unfortunately, I'm not so lucky.....:lol:

Loans are okay if your making more money with your investments. I purchased a 2014 Buick LaCrosse last September and I financed the entire cost at 1.99%. My investments are making more than the 1.99% I'm paying on the loan. Just my opinion.

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COD

I made payments for 6 months, then used money from the sale of my Camaro to pay off the Corvette.
This photo was taken in beautiful Charleston, SC a month ago.

it's mine
 

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paid for last may.

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Used a whole bunch of these pink ones to buy cash

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Thats the best statement in this thread. Everybody that posts 'left dealership paid in full' 'left with title in hand' and so forth is the most asinine statements I have ever read and makes no business sense at all. I wonder how these people made the money in the first place to buy the car cash if they live their lives with this business practice. 'Left dealership paid in full' is one bragging right ( and thats all that it is ) I don't ever want to boast about. I'll leave my money where I have it and make 5 times what it would have cost me to but the car cash. I would have thought forum members would have more sense than this.

I just did what Mary Tyler Moore told me to do...Ed

Wrote a check. Love not having payments.

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Bought mine used last year from another forum member.

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09 ZR1 and all mine!!

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traded my 91 in at a dealership. Love the upgrade. Pd cash for the boot.

Paid for her the day two days after I brought her home. Bad picture, great car.:rock:

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All mine since day one. :cheers:

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Wrote two checks for mine. The first was a deposit check the day I ordered it in Feb, 2012. The second was the balance owed when the car arrived at the dealership on a transport from Bowling Green. That was a way fun day!!!

Paid for at purchase in 07 on an 08.

Paid the day I picked her up

The planets were aligned on this one.

DONE Paid For..............
 

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Paid 2 years after Bought

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Wife bought it for me :thumbs:

Won a few poker hands and it's all mine till the grave :D:
Purchased Aug 2010 - Mid recession purchase that I can sell today for what I paid for it 3 years and 24000 miles ago.
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Paid off for a year now.

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'64 vert (restored in '03), '99 coupe, '01 vert (wife's), and '12 GS in my garage now.
No money ever borrowed or financed.

:smash: There's no need to insult anyone. :toetap:

Found on the internet, got dealer to send me countless pics from every possible angle of the car. Sent full agreed upon price $$ as a Bank to Bank transfer. Flew in to the nearest airport, dealer had someone to pick me up, and 3.5 hrs later, started the 22 hour drive back home.
Been having a blast from the time I first started the car, to and including now.
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I've never been interested in paying cash for a vehicle when you can get extremely low to no interest. Eventually they all pay off.

:cheers: to all of you!

Its an awesome feeling, as I had my 2002 paid off before i upgraded to the 2010. Look forward to knocking the remainder of that off this year.

This must be $10 USD LOL :rock:

:cheers:

Love that 4LT interior! Is that the factory 4LT E-Brake handle?

I can remember when the Canuk buck was worth more than the U.S
Now it around 90 cents..Ed

<<< paid for too..

Great looking sun visors

Thanks, I spent a lot of time on it.

The e-brake handle, boot, shifter handle, boot, steering wheel, seats, and center console are all upgraded. The seats and console are APSIS, the rest is DSV.

I didn't insult anybody. I merely stated a financial situation. Truth hurts hey?

Been mine for over 3 1/2 yrs.

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Some people are more comfortable without payments. They like owning their cars. I don't think these types of threads are meant to be something where a person looks for sound financial planning or investment strategy. The fact that in the past couple of years if a person had the money invested properly that they used to pay cash for a Corvette, or whatever car, they would now have the cash equivalent of nearly two cars doesn't mean a whole lot to them. Some, like one of my best friends, made more money through investments last year than he earned as an executive in the insurance industry and hasn't had a car payment since 96'. He even owns his house if you can imagine. Doesn't like payments. That's the way he rolls.

Just because to you it's identified as a poor investment strategy for many it makes them feel secure and often times they either don't understand or care about the opportunity cost of paying cash.

I for one am happy for these guys and girls that can afford what they enjoy.

I paid one payment...at the dealership, the day I bought it.

Also, paid the last payment on our house in 2012.

It was a nice feeling to drive away from the dealership with no car payments,
but it was an even better feeling to no longer have a mortgage payment.

Regards,
-Ward


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013 G S, m6
 

Paid for 5/05/2103, the day I drove it away.


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:iagree: You think Donald Trump uses one dime of his own money to build or buy anything he does? I've ranted enough in this thread and I'm done. Hopefully the 'I pad cash' mentality will realize how much money they waste by doing this. Your talking 10's of thousands of dollars.

Paid $1000.00 on her the night we met, and the balance 3 days later when the lottery check cleared. :rock:

I think its caused by the fact the people who paid them off on day one view it as "winning" like they screwed the man or something.

Which I mean, congrats to them for saving that much money so they can pay cash (I could never do that, I like spending money too much). However "winning" is actually being able to stretch your dollar as far as possible (without actually being in over your head). Credit is a tool, to not use it is as foolish as to use it poorly.

The point then moves on to how the people who paid in cash shouldn't be proud of it, as its less of an accomplishment than having a low interest loan, and beating the rate with your investments.

Of course, the people who paid in cash don't like when they are told that because it "rains on their parade" of how they never owed anyone anything.

Obviously none of this applies to people on a "fixed" income (retirement, SSI, etc) as the money (and interest) they have is needed to pay for "regular" expenses. Paying in cash in that case is a very good thing!

(I don't think I'm really disagreeing here, just playing the advocate for the loan people).

I'm almost embarrased to say everything I have is paid for. It wasn't always that way. I took my QE3 enhanced money from the market and paid everything off. I have no trust in this administration and maybe I should because they are still pumping $85 billion dollars in securities a month. All tax payer, printed or borrowed money. Sorry to make this political.

What did the O P name his thread??? Why did you even participate? Yes you could call it a braggerts thread. "I make 5 times on my investments" so I finance...bragging jealiously I'd say...start your on thread then, but remember business man investor"never borrow money on depreciating property".

Yes your holyness.

:woohoo:

She's all mine!

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The bottom line is, the fellows and gals in this thread who paid for their Vette the day they bought it (or very shortly thereafter) have obviously been doing something right from a financial and "business sense" perspective in order to have the money available to do so.

Thus, my guess would be that they're probably not really in need of any of your business "advice" or admonitions.

Money talks...BS walks.

Regards,
-Ward

It's funny how when I point out the foolishness of buying a car cash ( and the numbers don't lie ) it strikes a real nerve. To each his own, but I'll use the banks money all day long. ( As long as the rates remain at 1%-3% ) Thanks for listening.

Well said. I think everyone here wins, both the guys who paid cash as well as the guys who financed their Vette and invested $50,000 that made them 40% (lol)

We probably won't hear from the guys who financed a Vette, put $50K in the stock market and lossed their ass, and wished they would have just paid cash...grin

:iagree: I'd rather put lumps of cash where they are going to "make" money.:thumbs: Paid mine off last year. I really need to take some better pictures.

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Paid for mine back in 07'

Still love it!

I'm thinking this conversation is more of a wash for most people.

If your loan is 1-3 percent, you are typically beating inflation, which means your future payments are worth less than the original money so in the end you basically paid cash (which I think is the point of the "I don't think its a big deal you paid in cash" folks, as technically so did they).

I'm just happy to have 3.75% on my home mortgage, in my mind I basically paid cash for it, because those payments 10+ years out are going to be paid with vastly devalued money versus today!

Whoo hoo future value of money!

Now I just need a way to afford a C7 Z06, cash, credit, arms, legs, or otherwise.

Totally paid for C6
 

Latest 2006
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What exactly is the point of this? "We've paid our cars off and the rest you are losers?"

Do you really need validation to prove how awesome you think you are?

Geezus.....

Who knows why people make decisions they do but most of us could not possibly care less one way or the other.
We make our decisions based on what is
best for us. Attempting to convince others how much money you have (or wish you had) is plain silly! Everyone is rich on the internet.

^^This^^ :confused2:

Drove mine off the dealer lot on a Tuesday with 5 miles on the odometer and left my daily driver (VW Jetta); took a cashier's check back the next day and drove the Jetta home...she's sitting in the garage now with over 126k miles on her now....
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