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Take care of yourself man. I wouldn't be too surprised if I got orders to Korea in the near future (USAF). I'd probably put my car in storage as well if it was just a short tour. Two years is a long time for a car to not move though... I'd probably sell it or have it stored by professionals who can drive it only as necessary and perform scheduled maintenance. When I deployed last December I left my RX-8 with a buddy who flooded the engine :shakes head: so now in the future I'll just go professional, especially with my 370.

Stay safe and thanks for your service, I've got some buddies that have done 4-5 tours at my base. It goes fast seeing them deploy and come back, settle-in at home like old times and then go back again.

As for the comment about banking the money for interest... Have you looked at interest rates on a savings account or CD lately? Nobody saves money to make interest unless you're putting away millions.

Stay safe.

XBT1

Yup. Putting money in a CD or savings account won't even beat inflation / cost of living increases. If you really want to make your money work, put it in the market and spend a **** ton of time managing it... these days you can't even buy S&P index funds and think you'll be better off in 2 years...look at all the destroyed 401ks....

..just keep the car. It'll be that much better when you get home and it's waiting for you...

Stay safe! And thanks!

Edit: One good strat is you wanna hold for a few years, buy stocks in a company that doesn't move much (McDonalds, Bristol Meyers) and sell covered calls on it. You can do this from 401k accounts too...it's a pretty low risk strat and you get a nice premium paid out at the end of the expired option. Minimal time management too. Maybe a few hours at first to calc out a good setup, then minimal monitoring weekly.

As others have stated, be safe. Selling the car would indeed be the best idea for you as two years of payments and lowered value do you no good. A couple years back I purchased a motorcycle (a really nice used one too) from someone and right before I made an offer (typical negotiation) I asked why he was selling. He was in the Navy and being shipped out so I paid him full asking price. It surprised him a little and I expained why. He appreciated that and we still email once in a while. Luckily, he's doing well.

It wouldn't hurt to let people know that if you do sell the car.

My husband takes care of our cars. I think he said it is not as simple as throwing a charger and car cover over it. I think there is a lot of work that has to be done prior to storage when you store a car for long periods of time. The 370 is a depreciating asset, not a collectable and can be replaced pretty easily. Selling it might be best for a 2 year deployment. Maybe invest the money saved into a dividend paying stock?

Best of luck to you.

Thank you for serving.

Sell it and buy a 400z when you come home in 2 years... nice welcome home present to yourself.

Well in reality we don't know the future of the Z. So he might want to keep it.

I'm keeping mine even if I go overseas for a few years. It will be paid off and less than 10K miles on it. ;)

It was more a joke than anything but even if for some reason they stop with the 370z, they will still be pretty easy to come by in 2 years I'm sure.

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1314991383

I just hit 10k today too after 17 months!!!!

How long it took the Z to come back after the 300ZX was taken of the market in the U.S.?

Well there's no going back now, the car is in storage, hopefully this tropical storm in the gulf doesn't turn into something worse. I'm not that worried about the car, I'm more worried about losing my house. :eek:

How did you hit 10k miles at 80mph with zero on your trip odo?

I pressed the trip A/B reset button right when it hit 10k. The top number (10,000) is your total mileage, while the bottom number (0.0) is the trip A or B mileage. And as for the 80mph, I was on a highway