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Samantha Figueredo
Cruise on down to Ocean City Maryland for the 33rd Annual Cruisin Ocean City, May 15-18, 2025. This event will feature over 3,000 hot rods, customs, classics and trucks. While the main events will take place at the beautiful beachside Inlet Parking lot, which is located along the historic OC boardwalk, and at the Ocean City Convention Center, there will be various car shows citywide. There will also be entertainment, boardwalk parades, special guests, featured cars, live music, celebrities, a Pedal Car Show, a Neon Light Car Show, a Pinup Contest, a Husband Calling Contest and lots more.
Scheduled to appear at this year's Cruisin, to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Happy Days, meet Anson Williams and Donny Most. Anson and Donny will be at the event on Thursday, Friday and Saturday meeting and greeting fans. Also joining the fun will be legendary designer and builder Chuck Miller. Chuck will be at the event Friday and Saturday. Make sure to check out his awesome builds, The Bugs Buggy and The Red Baron, which will be on display inside the OC Convention Center Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Inside the OC Convention Center on Thursday and Friday be sure to check out the Artwork Contender Showcase where select cars will be on display competing to be on furture artwork. Spectators can vote for their favorite!
A popular event as part of Cruisin Ocean City is always the special Boardwalk Parades which will take Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings from 27th street to the Inlet. Parades are scheduled to begin at 8am but sometimes start a little early if traffic gets backed up.
During Cruisin Ocean City the town will be designated as a Special Event Zone. There will be reduced speed limits and increased fines. Everyone in town is encouraged to drive safely and obey all laws. For additional information on the Special Event Zone please visit the Town of Ocean City FAQ page.
Your official confirmationnumber will be mailed to you on a postcard in April. The exhibitor hereby applies to this event and will at all times comply with all rules, regulations and policies of the event producers. Neither Special Event Productions, Inc., the Town of Ocean City, producers, sponsors, support personnel or anyone else connected with the presentation of this event shall be responsible or liable for any loss, injury or damage incurred. In consideration of this entry, entrant agrees to the use of their name, photo and/or vehicle photo for publicity and/or advertising. Any poor behavior, irresponsible driving and/or conduct deemed objectionable to the event's well being may result in participant being denied any further involvement in the event and/or future events. All participants are responsible for their own proper insurance. Event credentials are non-transferable without written permission of event management. Schedule/activities are subject to change.
The total net cost of this thing to me after all the taxes and tax credits* will be about $52,000, which is just a stunning amount higher than the Honda van it is replacing. That old classic cost me $4500 when I bought it off of Craigslist twelve years ago, and it had served me dutifully until just last month, crisscrossing the mountains and deserts of this country and also helping to rebuild a considerable swath of houses in my neighborhood.
It was also the philosophy that allowed me to procrastinate on buying this expensive car for the last four years, even as countless people both close to me and out on the Internet egged me on and told me I should just loosen up and treat myself.
That night, I came home from the store and shared this funny tale with one of my guests. He understood perfectly because he too had earned his own retirement through a lifetime of grinding in tough jobs and disciplined frugality. And despite the fact that he has a net worth several times higher than mine, he admitted that he faces exactly the same mental battles over splurging on himself.
This same friend gives freely to charitable causes, has supported a local school for decades, and is always the first one to pull out the checkbook if a friend has hit hard times or is looking for a trusted business investor.
We both realized that we were being too cheap with ourselves, and we needed to work on it. And we came up with a set of three ideas that should hopefully work together to help us have more fun with our life savings, while we are still alive:
But as it turns out, most Mustachians I know with this level of wealth are still living very efficient lives, usually with a spending level of under $40,000 per year. On top of that, they typically live in a mortgage-free house and still have various forms of side income from a small business or two.
If this person wanted to be ridiculously conservative and set the spending rate at 3%, that still leaves about $60,000 of fun money every single year.. Plus, again, any side income, future inheritances, and social security income only add to the surplus.
Many of us frugal people tend to stick together. And most of us have different versions of the same problem: we know logically that money is plentiful these days, but our emotions keep us stuck in our old ways of optimizing too much.
And of course Mr. Money Mustache, after squeezing one final mountain road trip out of his 23-year-old Honda van, is finally allowing himself to get the Tesla he has been talking about for half a decade.
A recent life change (becoming a co-owner of a fixer-upper vacation rental compound in beautiful Salida Colorado) has reignited the travel fire in my heart and made me realize how much I do love getting out to distant places for visiting, mountain biking, gathering with groups of friends and my favorite activity of all: Carpentourism.
And as for me, I am calling it okay to, at last, double flip the Autopilot stalk in my new Tesla and lean back as it it shoots me gracefully through even the highest mountain passes, forever leaving the desperately underpowered wheezing and gear shifting and noise* of the gasoline era behind, forever.
Finally, Vanna gave me the gift of a final hot and smelly transmission failure on a mountain pass on the way home from my new project in Salida. It was just the nudge that I needed. And now I already feel excitement rather than dread at the prospect of all the road trips in the coming decades!
1) Have more fun if you are being cheap with yourself and others. Because I am hoping this will make people feel more positive about the FIRE movement and thus it will spread further, plus the world will be a more generous place.
In the future, most cars will be using either LFP or Sodium-ion or other new chemistries based on even cheaper, more abundant minerals. But for now, even the cobalt content does not outweigh the benefits of avoiding oil consumption (which as you know also has a long history as a conflict mineral even before you consider the pollution)
How are we going to make degrowth and community and the earth and life important and fun and sexy enough to inspire and interest mainstream culture if even our smartest and most influential thinkers abandon ship?
All of the ideas in this article are meant to be very mild indulgences with either mild environmental cost or even positive effects. And mainly around being more generous and less cheap and realizing that after Financial Independence, money is something you have in abundance and SOME of us need to remind ourselves of this in order to live rationally and make the most of that opportunity.
I think owning a vehicle for 20 years is a great example of what you SHOULD do. Buying a new one with the intention of keeping it for just as long is a perfectly fine choice to me. Enjoy your car MMM.
Actually coal is no longer economical in the face of solar and wind with battery storage even. An EV running on electricity generated with coal is also still cleaner, cheaper, and more efficient than diesel.
One downside is the fact that the rear doors in the Model 3 and Model Y cannot be opened if there is a loss of power, and there is no mechanical emergency override (only in the front). I would not put my kids back there as a result.
1) Teslas are by far the safest cars on the US market. Both in collision avoidance, and in collision injury prevention for occupants. This factor would probably override any individual factor like rear door releases in the event of power loss.
Well, on a personality-of-the-CEO basis I agree with you wholeheartedly: RJ Scaringe is the Clark Kent of EV automakers, a real gentleman and statesman and great engineer as well. I will support that company and really hope they make it.
I think your info on the Ford Mach-E is out of date. My local dealer has about 12 of them in stock right now. They even have a few F-150 Lightnings in stock, though that is exorbitantly overpriced. The point is, things have changed quickly in just a couple months.
The way Musk runs his factories is offensive to me as an engineer. He refuses to adopt Japanese manufacturing lessons, aka Toyota Production System. Tesla vehicles all suffer quality issues as a result of this hubris.
The Ford Mach-E is inferior in every way. It has no heat pump, it weights hundreds of pounds more, less range even though it has a massive battery, acceleration is lower, not as safe, no autopilot and more expensive.
Yes, it is nice to have as little negative impact on the world as possible. But like, seriously everything, there are pros and cons to everything. Just like the OP was about. And space exploration is one of those things that, although it harms the environment, is one of the things that is worthwhile.
In other words, think of everything as a science experiment, and accept that you will always be somewhat wrong, but with sufficient humbleness and study you can gradually reduce this wrongness over time.
And MMM (I really do say this from a place of love), whaaaaaaat??? A balanced and nuanced argument? Since when do you allow blatant logical fallacy to persuade you to ignore your conscience and deny your own intelligence?
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