Thinking of a career change, seriously

[aigel]

I am not buying it. If you sell a car 4k over what you bought it for, you did not just "make" 4k. You still have to subtract your overhead from that. Where are you going to show that car? Who is doing the paperwork? Who cleans it up, picks it up, buys it, sells it?

The "toy store" type dealerships (exotic cars, classic cars) in my area look to get at least 7k out of a sale. This is just consignment shops (less risk). That tells me something.

George

[Moses]

Originally Posted by aigel

I am not buying it. If you sell a car 4k over what you bought it for, you did not just "make" 4k. You still have to subtract your overhead from that. Where are you going to show that car? Who is doing the paperwork? Who cleans it up, picks it up, buys it, sells it?

The "toy store" type dealerships (exotic cars, classic cars) in my area look to get at least 7k out of a sale. This is just consignment shops (less risk). That tells me something.

George

Joe sells 20-30 cars/month. His overhead is less than 40%

[artplumber]

Terry,
Have you considered a karting business. Florida seems to have a lot of karting and that's something similar to working on cars while using some engineering smarts etc.

[5axis]

Track design
http://www.wilsonmotorsport.com/
They/he has designed several tracks, that make many motorcyle racers wonder why____ .

If you like playing in the dirt, there are companies doing moto and superX tracks.
http://www.motocrosstrackbuilders.com/page1.html