[boltbuster]

Originally Posted by dataway

Didn't ask for the money, didn't need it, but have paid taxes for 40+ years and never taken a dime from the government ... so yeah I'll take that check.

I put all mine in savings ..... but I will be taking it back out to pay the $2000 in income tax I owe this year ... imagine that .. they give me the money to stimulate me, and I have to give it back to stimulate them.

Usually you have to go a brothel to see this much stimulation

Like you, we don't need the money. I'm OK with my retirement income. My wife is still thinking about her half. I did bank some against taxes, but I took the opportunity to make additional charitable donations, mostly to food banks and the like.

[bird72]

Originally Posted by Chief of the 60's

Got my Torq-Thursts with the last one. Going to get my tires for them with the next one.

That's just a really good choice. You can't go wrong with the vintage American look. After trying Rallye's and Honeycomb's, I am now on these. I think they are it.

[400 4spd.]

Originally Posted by dataway

Didn't ask for the money, didn't need it, but have paid taxes for 40+ years and never taken a dime from the government ... so yeah I'll take that check.

Same here. I've collected not one red cent since my first job in 1973. Never unemployed. Always contributed, so no guilt here.

[Chief of the 60's]

Originally Posted by bird72

That's just a really good choice. You can't go wrong with the vintage American look. After trying Rallye's and Honeycomb's, I am now on these. I think they are it.

There's just something so right about that shot.

[Sirrotica]

So you're buying Torque Thrust wheels from "AMERICAN RACING" in the US, and buying them stimulates a company known as "AMERICAN RACING". I'm not seeing a problem here spending money in the US to stimulate an "AMERICAN" company.............

What could be more patriotic than buying wheels from "AMERICAN RACING"???? Keeping workers at their jobs producing wheels in the USA is exactly what the money was to go for, or did I miss something here?

Putting the money in the bank doesn't stimulate the US economy, spending it as soon as possible keeps the US workers getting steady paychecks.

[yahooskidoo]

Um, food and mortgage.

[Shiny]

Originally Posted by Chief of the 60's

There's just something so right about that shot.

These do appear to be priced correctly for efficient capture of stimulus checks!

hmmmmmmmm.......

[Chief of the 60's]

Originally Posted by Shiny

These do appear to be priced correctly for efficient capture of stimulus checks!

hmmmmmmmm.......

Got for it!

[67drake]

I’ll be buying tires too. But for the 2500 Silverado. E series tires, ugh, expensive!

[Sirrotica]

Originally Posted by yahooskidoo

Um, food and mortgage.

If you're working, and have already budgeted money for food, and mortgage, the next best thing is spending it at an American company so they don't have to furlough their workers. They can continue to work, and pay their own food and mortgage bills.

This isn't complicated, it's really very simple, keeping people working as opposed to giving them handouts.

[fyrffytr1]

My wife and I haven't received any of the stimulus checks yet! But, if Y'all read my thread about "Scummers" getting us then you already know that. If we do get them they are going toward our burial expenses so neither one of us will have that to deal with when the time comes. I just hope we gt the money before then!

[scott70]

Originally Posted by lfdsteve

Sure is comforting knowing the taxes deducted out of my pay check every month bought people critical items like rims for there collector cars. Try not to forget there are people on this board that worked their butts off so you could get that check and received nothing in return. Your welcome...
Sorry pal, but there it is....

Right,,,,if a couple makes 170,000+ you get nothing,,,work hard,,pay a bunch of taxes and get nothing. I know people that do nothing,,were getting unemployment(could work just choose not to) plus the 600.00 a week and all the stimulus $. Not saying anything about anybody here,,,,just being general.

[dataway]

Those are some nice looking wheels, the more you look at them the better they look. If I wasn't going for a stock plain jane look those wheels would be my next choice.

[Sirrotica]

Originally Posted by dataway

Those are some nice looking wheels, the more you look at them the better they look. If I wasn't going for a stock plain jane look those wheels would be my next choice.

It's pretty hard to beat the look of American Racing Torque Thrust wheels on most any classic car.

I bought a 67 326 HO Firebird in 1969, that had a set already installed. I kept those wheels for 10 years, and transferred them from car to car. American quit making them for a period, and came out with the 200S wheels, which I also owned 3 sets of. Not quite the same, but still a very nice looking wheel too.

They're also very strong, I hit an 8 inch curb surrounding the end of a boulevard trying to avoid a senior driver that pulled out in front of me from a side street, one Sunday afternoon. I blew 3 tires out but didn't damage the wheels at all. Considering they were aluminum wheels I thought they'd break, but nary a problem with any of them.

[Chief of the 60's]

Not to be anal but its Torq-Thrust > https://www.americanracing.com/wheels/torq-thrust/

My spelling sucks but its not that bad.

[misterp266]

I believe that only the forged wheels are 100% American made but they are my favorite wheel, good choice!

I have a set of TTO’s on my ‘66 and a set of six spokes on my Colorado.

[The Champ]

We didn't actually decide to buy anything with our (partial) stimulus check in January.

But we did purchase two Cocoon by Sealy mattresses (made in the USA) that were about the same amount of what our check actually was. We would have purchased them with or without the stimulus check though.

Kind of different buying a mattress that comes in a relatively small box. Heavy box, but once you open and unroll the mattress, it "grows" to it's intended size in short order.

[71GP76TA]

[Firedup6975]

Buying more toilet paper and Lysol spray.


Actually, tires for two TA’s.

[locomotivebreath]

Bought an M1903 rifle , bottle of hooch & a cigar .