I used to live in San Leandro. CA. right when I got out of college. Just north of there, on e.14th Street, just over the border, (near the General Motors assembly plant, by 103rd,) was a really bad part of East Oakland.

I used to laugh when I would see the poor blacks that would wheel these huge new Cadillacs into the cut-rate gas stations and put $1.00 of gasoline into them.

This was in 1970, though.

So, I guess the poor will always be with us.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)