I am now the proud owner of a 4000 dollar 2500 dollar car. This song has been running through my head for every trip to autozone and every repair bill.
This song is brilliant. I can hardly get my mind around the ability to create a great song, make it funny as hell and still have the gravity of real pathos. Amazing
There's something deeply wise about this tune. But just one bit of context: I know a Serbian guy, mechanical engineer, whose first job out of university in the mid-eighties was for Yugo. He told me once: "Anyone can make a $100,000 Mercedes. Making a $5000 car - that took real engineering."
Came here after watching People's Court. Judge Milian said before buying a thousand dollar car to listen to this song. I've never heard this song. How did I get through the 90s without hearing it?
How many people are here because Judge Marilyn Milian from People's Court said, "I'm going to need you to UA-cam a song called "A Thousand Dollar Car'? Garsh, I owned this car, and I LOVED it!!!! (Brand New 91 Honda Civic)
i have a friend who received a heart transplant, which cost medicaid 1.6 million dollars. so i was like, "he's a 1.6 million dollar man." but then i realized he was basically just 1.6 million dollar thousand dollar man. there you are!
A late friend once bought a proverbial $1000.00 car in LA and drove it almost all the way to Kennesaw Georgia. He said it broke down on I75 in Marietta just a few miles from home, such a free spirit he was Rip Luke We miss you buddy.
If anyone tells you to just "buy a beater" after your vehicle takes a shit, show them this! I got that "just buy a beater" advice so much before I finally got my good one.
Judge Marilyn Millian LOVES this song and refers litigants on "The Peoples Court" to look up this song when they unhappy about the "AS IS" purchase. I really got a kick out of these clever lyrics (as great and clever and hilarious as aJon Hiatt song) LOVE THESE GUYS. In a way the lead singer sounds a little bit like REM in this song. Does anyone else hear that? Liked and subscribed.😂🤣😎
I once saw an old piece of crap in a parking lot that someone had repainted with a brush and you could see the brushstrokes and I must admit from a distance it looked pretty good. LOL
$800 and I drive her still. 226k and counting. Of course a $1,000 car from Missouri is already rusted to the frame lol 1999 Mercury Mountaineer ! Arizona!
i paid $250 for a dodge dart and drove it successfully from charlottesville VA to asheville NC and back and then Charlottesville, VA to Philadelpia PA and back (had to walk three miles from a rest stop to get a new starter on that trip -- only $80 in the hole!) and then from staunton VA to ann arbor MI and abandoned it. best $250 i ever spent!
I worked all winter delivering Chinese food with a guy driving a $75 Buick in 1981-82. In the spring he took it out and jumped it repeatedly off a hill until it wouldn't go any more. Then he drove off in his new $150 Buick like royalty.
the brown dodge or plymouth at 0:45 looks like my dads old work car and i think he only paid 600 or 700 and we all laughed in 1981 but he said it would stop on a dime lol i miss old dad
I 😍 this song. Reminds me of all the crap cars I stood next to on the side of some highway. The mechanics I met in the middle of deserts and Malibu too 😂
One time I bought an $ 800.00 Jeep Cherokee and drove it for a year and sold it for $ 1200.00. Other than that one lucky streak this song is 100% true.
In Maryland, you only need to get a used car through inspection ONCE to get tags/title. No annual check, thank the automotive gods. Many, many years ago I drove three beaters I paid less than $1000 each for (two were rotary engine Mazdas that nobody else wanted--paid $750 for one and got two years out of it--only broke down once when I was too cheap to get a new battery. Paid $600 for the other, an automatic with working A/C(!). Sold it a year later for $500 after 'sinking' $150 into it to get it through inspection). Good times!
Bought a '93 F150 4x4 for 800 in 2011. Ran for 3 years w/ no problems except needing a starter after i drove through a flooded bridge just about up to the hubs. Sold it for 600 with flat tire and about an inch of play in the ball joints.
I pushed about every car I ever owned and believe me I’ve owned several. Love this song would like to get permission to use it on my UA-cam videos when I buy these junk cars.
Been there too. It's amazing how many things I was able to fix on my old truck with 2 - in - 1 epoxy or hand made parts from stuff laying around the yard.
I had a f'ing great 1960 Biscayne for $230. Had that car for eight years! That was in the late 80's. I later purchased a 1963 Chevy 2 for $400 in the late 90's. That car was a money pit. You can never tell how long an inexpensive car may last.
@@Pisomajado lol nope she's got her original 71,000 mile engine and runs great and gets around 35 MPG in town. And with the current cost of gas she's staying an economy car.
1978 I bought a $50.00 car , 1965 Chevy Key Biscayne - I drove it a year and left it on the side of the road, called a recycle yard and sold that car for $50.00 .... twas a good year
Great song without a doubt. I bought a '98 Dakota with 90,000 miles on it for $1300.00. It has 130,000 on it now and I am still laughing. Spent very little on it in repairs. I run that POS through all of the snow and salt that Wisconsin has to offer while keeping my expensive vehicles in my heated garage all winter. Trick is to not spend $1000.00 on a $300.00 car.
Back in the day, you could buy a '66 pontiac for 100 bucks, drive it into the ground, That would take a couple of years, then you'd buy another one. Honestly, that was a really cheap way to handle your transportation needs, but yeah, I wouldn't trust a car like that on a cross country trip either.
Dedicated to my car & a very long line of junk I’ve owned damn I can’t catch a break but to answer why’d I buy a $1000 dollar car simple couldn’t afford anything better then you’ll go broke trying to keep it going till you’re to the point of fuck it & you get rid of it & you get another one thusly repeating the process over & over then some smart guy out there says save your money & buy a good car well that’s easier said than done as the saying goes shit in 1 hand want in the other see which one fills up first
Wish I found this when I had my $1000 S10 with a $1000 transmission job or my $1000 Dakota with $1000 in rebuilt differentials those days are long gone now I have a $2700 $1000 truck and every other repair is a major $1000 job
Except for the part where me and my buddy's dad and my buddies rebuilt both my diffs 🤷♂️ it was a thousand worth of diffs if I bought them rebuilt/used or paid my buddy to rebuild them parts and beer are cheap. Otherwise I'm asking for receipts or I'm calling BS
@@scrapahaulik5893 You can call whatever you like, like someone's actually going to post receipts on some platform to impress you whoever the f*** you are? Not all of us are mechanically inclined. Or maybe you're the one who's full of BS just up here talking...
I adore this! Learning to play it on my new electric guitar, yay. I never thought I liked anything country-influenced but… I was wrong. Speaking of, why not check out I Was Wrong by Social Distortion? Or Ball & Chain? Similar vibes. Awesomeness!
My less than 1000 car is about to hit 200000 miles n been from San Antonio to st lous , Artesia New Mexico to casinos in Tulsa 😜. Sometimes u get lucky n find a ugly but good one ! But no luck finding a good women in all them places in my less than 1000 car😜! Must be d car😏
I am now the proud owner of a 4000 dollar 2500 dollar car. This song has been running through my head for every trip to autozone and every repair bill.
I have a 10k car soon. Brand new 2023 model!
I just bought a $500 car and I declare that this song does not applt
Check back in 6 months! This song WILL apply @@_s827
This song is brilliant. I can hardly get my mind around the ability to create a great song, make it funny as hell and still have the gravity of real pathos. Amazing
Brian Henneman is an excellent songwriter!
Buying $1000 cars well into my 40's. This is my song 😄😄😄👍👏
My Thousand Dollar Car rolled away to the junkyard with a Bottle Rockets sticker on it...REALLY...
Where can I get a Bottle Rockets sticker?
That's beautiful poetry.
James Nail I can’t tell you-I got that one several years ago at a concert in Lake Worth FL
There's something deeply wise about this tune. But just one bit of context: I know a Serbian guy, mechanical engineer, whose first job out of university in the mid-eighties was for Yugo. He told me once: "Anyone can make a $100,000 Mercedes. Making a $5000 car - that took real engineering."
With all due respect, there wasn't any real engineering in a Yugo, other than the manufacturing. It was a brand new $5,000 "thousand dollar car."
Came here after watching People's Court. Judge Milian said before buying a thousand dollar car to listen to this song. I've never heard this song. How did I get through the 90s without hearing it?
Judge Milian from The People's Court suggested one of her litigants listen to this... So true!!!!
And again today!
I saw the replay of this on August 2019. That led me here.
Jim Santos same here, she said I tunes but I don't use I tunes.
LOL!! That’s why I’m here. She just mentioned this song to a plaintiff! 😂👍🏻
I'm here because people's court mentioned this song
How many people are here because Judge Marilyn Milian from People's Court said, "I'm going to need you to UA-cam a song called "A Thousand Dollar Car'? Garsh, I owned this car, and I LOVED it!!!! (Brand New 91 Honda Civic)
That's the case with me, actually I like the song
and there you are, the owner of a two thousand dollar thousand dollar car -
what a great line
yup,we've all been there lol
Good tune but I've bought $50 pickup trucks that run and didn't give me any s*** lasted me for years
Kinda like my iphone... to send for repair I'd get a two thousand dollar thousand dollar phone. I'd be better off buying a good guitar!
What A Kick Ass Song 75% Of The Country Can Relate To This!!!!!
As the owner of several thousand dollar cars, I can't argue with the logic of this song.
i have a friend who received a heart transplant, which cost medicaid 1.6 million dollars. so i was like, "he's a 1.6 million dollar man." but then i realized he was basically just 1.6 million dollar thousand dollar man. there you are!
Always loved this song. And I always will.
A late friend once bought a proverbial $1000.00 car in LA and drove it almost all the way to Kennesaw Georgia. He said it broke down on I75 in Marietta just a few miles from home, such a free spirit he was Rip Luke We miss you buddy.
Which proverb is this from?
I once paid $600 for a '84 Ford Tempo. this song resonates with me years later!
What a show-off, spending a full grand on his car.
Favorite bottle rockets song....used to blast this album in the best decade that ever was and we know it to be the 90's
The 60's music kicked ass too.
Melissa Adkins 70s
What about the 50's
@@Rockandrollgeerage ditto
Bill Clinton was our president then! My favorite decade!!!
This song is an old friend
2 years ago i paid $250 for a '97 Tercel, with just over 200,000 miles. Sister got it...and shes still driving it.
My first two cars were Tercels (81 and 89). Never had a problem with either one. I should have kept the 2nd one a lot longer
If anyone tells you to just "buy a beater" after your vehicle takes a shit, show them this! I got that "just buy a beater" advice so much before I finally got my good one.
Been looking for this song for years.
Judge Marilyn Millian LOVES this song and refers litigants on "The Peoples Court" to look up this song when they unhappy about the "AS IS" purchase. I really got a kick out of these clever lyrics (as great and clever and hilarious as aJon Hiatt song) LOVE THESE GUYS. In a way the lead singer sounds a little bit like REM in this song. Does anyone else hear that? Liked and subscribed.😂🤣😎
I’m here because I just heard the Judge Millian reference it!
Good band with good songs.
I can def relate… I’m my time(1970’s) it was a $50 car.. same same
…story of my life🤷🏼🍻
judge Milan sure has good taste in music. unexpected.
I'm here because of her too.
I once bought a 1971 Ford Pinto for $750.00 (I didn’t even have $1000!), and every word of this song rings true.
I once saw an old piece of crap in a parking lot that someone had repainted with a brush and you could see the brushstrokes and I must admit from a distance it looked pretty good. LOL
Great slide show to go with a great tune.
This song is so nostalgic for a time when you could get a running car for under $5k
i got a 2004 saturn ion for 1000 bucks 2 years ago and it still runs like a beaut, idk what youre talking about
@@cokeroot8987got a mint 01 cavalier 700 bucks. But you know what he's saying ya wank, it's not as easy as it was. Stuff is more expensive now duh
Great, funny song by a great, funny band. Come back, Bottle Rockets!
+Mark Kreuzwieser Bro, they never left.
People's Court? Car & Driver brought me here - October 2018 issue.
Dale Emery +1
Today people court brought me here lol
A thousand dollars for a car? How rich are these people?
I could buy 2 running cars for a grand, easy
$800 and I drive her still. 226k and counting. Of course a $1,000 car from Missouri is already rusted to the frame lol 1999 Mercury Mountaineer ! Arizona!
Here because of judge Milian and I’m not mad about it!!
I still have my $800 car, a 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible got 3 years out of her, over $2k later, still not drivable.
Listen to Galaxie by Blind Melon. It’s good.
This is the truest song ever written
i paid $250 for a dodge dart and drove it successfully from charlottesville VA to asheville NC and back and then Charlottesville, VA to Philadelpia PA and back (had to walk three miles from a rest stop to get a new starter on that trip -- only $80 in the hole!) and then from staunton VA to ann arbor MI and abandoned it. best $250 i ever spent!
Ezra Dyer's commentary in Car & Driver brought me here, great song!
Love this song
Band
Brian
Get a $100 car and a wrench.
Oh. It's 2024.
I worked all winter delivering Chinese food with a guy driving a $75 Buick in 1981-82. In the spring he took it out and jumped it repeatedly off a hill until it wouldn't go any more. Then he drove off in his new $150 Buick like royalty.
the brown dodge or plymouth at 0:45 looks like my dads old work car and i think
he only paid 600 or 700 and we all laughed in 1981 but he said it would stop on a dime lol
i miss old dad
Just bought my dream car for $1000. 1969 jeep
Befor it’s over, I ‘ll have caressed every gear.
I 😍 this song. Reminds me of all the crap cars I stood next to on the side of some highway. The mechanics I met in the middle of deserts and Malibu too 😂
Anybody else sent here by Judge Millian of The Peoples Court? (See episode "Can't Pump The Brakes" on The Peoples Court channel)
I got a 1000dollar 2007 Police crown vic. Great car!
I bought my dad a thousand dollar car. Little maintenance still lasted 13 years.
keep featherin' it brother
Judge Marilyn Milian was right! 😄
My first car was $400. I drove it for 2 years
and then sold it for $400. only an oil change.
1964 Chevy Impala a smooth ride!
Hey I saw a couple of my sweet rides in that video!!!
Once you rebuild or replace every bad part on a car it will be as good as new.
At which point you're driving the Whip of Theseus.
One time I bought an $ 800.00 Jeep Cherokee and drove it for a year and sold it for $ 1200.00. Other than that one lucky streak this song is 100% true.
I saw that show People's Court. Judge Miilian. To listen to this song tiday. That episode of today was a Repeat.
In Maryland, you only need to get a used car through inspection ONCE to get tags/title. No annual check, thank the automotive gods. Many, many years ago I drove three beaters I paid less than $1000 each for (two were rotary engine Mazdas that nobody else wanted--paid $750 for one and got two years out of it--only broke down once when I was too cheap to get a new battery. Paid $600 for the other, an automatic with working A/C(!). Sold it a year later for $500 after 'sinking' $150 into it to get it through inspection). Good times!
The Bottle Rockets have a lot of car troubles
Such a quandary some of us face. Pump money into a garbage car, roll the dice on more garbage, or walk.
I'd happily take that old station wagon at the beginning for $1000
I paid $1500 for my truck 4 years ago, still driving it
Only thing worse than a thousand dollar car is paying fifteen thousand dollars for a thousand dollar car.
U can still get a good thousand dollar car for under 5 thousand
Bought a '93 F150 4x4 for 800 in 2011. Ran for 3 years w/ no problems except needing a starter after i drove through a flooded bridge just about up to the hubs. Sold it for 600 with flat tire and about an inch of play in the ball joints.
Matt Harbeck Love that style of F-150.
That's back when Ford still built a truck worth having
I pushed about every car I ever owned and believe me I’ve owned several. Love this song would like to get permission to use it on my UA-cam videos when I buy these junk cars.
If I had a thousand dollars for every thousand dollar car I bought, I'd be rich by now
People's court suggested this song, so true!
Judge marylin milian from people's court sent me here!😁👍
When the gear box is ready to fall through the rotten floor get a couple of 2x6's and bolt the box to them. Yeah, I been there.
Been there too. It's amazing how many things I was able to fix on my old truck with 2 - in - 1 epoxy or hand made parts from stuff laying around the yard.
Use a pressure treated 2x6 so you won't need to fix it again.
I had a f'ing great 1960 Biscayne for $230. Had that car for eight years! That was in the late 80's. I later purchased a 1963 Chevy 2 for $400 in the late 90's. That car was a money pit. You can never tell how long an inexpensive car may last.
Love the song would like to use it in some of my videos.
Great song and hilarious
Well I have a 700 dollar car a 83 Chevette.
And it's been reliable never failed me.
Better than my previous 2500 dollar car.
I'd give you $1000 me and one of my sister's both had chevettes as our first cars. I've been looking for one.
@@Pisomajado she's not for sale sorry. I've got Alot more than $700 into it now. A carb, body seals chrome trim and citation hubcaps.
New hubcaps? You might as well LS swap it now.
@@Pisomajado lol nope she's got her original 71,000 mile engine and runs great and gets around 35 MPG in town. And with the current cost of gas she's staying an economy car.
1978 I bought a $50.00 car , 1965 Chevy Key Biscayne - I drove it a year and left it on the side of the road, called a recycle yard and sold that car for $50.00 .... twas a good year
In my youth it was a $50 car.
Loved this!
Barret Jackson's auction car show outro theme
Peoples Court
Yes!
Hahaha me too !
Jesse Gonzalez same lmao
Yeah, that's why I'm here!
same here
Great song without a doubt. I bought a '98 Dakota with 90,000 miles on it for $1300.00. It has 130,000 on it now and I am still laughing. Spent very little on it in repairs. I run that POS through all of the snow and salt that Wisconsin has to offer while keeping my expensive vehicles in my heated garage all winter. Trick is to not spend $1000.00 on a $300.00 car.
Sometimes the tires and the battery and the gas in the tank is worth more than the whole car.
Old cars are unique. It takes a long time to develop the patina.
Back in the day, you could buy a '66 pontiac for 100 bucks, drive it into the ground, That would take a couple of years, then you'd buy another one. Honestly, that was a really cheap way to handle your transportation needs, but yeah, I wouldn't trust a car like that on a cross country trip either.
Bic lighter car. Run it til it dies, then get another
True!
Dedicated to my car & a very long line of junk I’ve owned damn I can’t catch a break but to answer why’d I buy a $1000 dollar car simple couldn’t afford anything better then you’ll go broke trying to keep it going till you’re to the point of fuck it & you get rid of it & you get another one thusly repeating the process over & over then some smart guy out there says save your money & buy a good car well that’s easier said than done as the saying goes shit in 1 hand want in the other see which one fills up first
#ThePeoplesCourt #S22E14 September 20 , 2018 brought me here 😅
Judge of People's Court just stated this song! Dang my Crossfire Convertible a waste of $$$$$$"
My husband bought a $300 Thunderbird, drove it for 3 years and sold it for $300. Damn, that thing was ugly!
I just bought a 2001 F-150 4x4 XL truck, I'm about to put another $1,500.00 into it, then I'll have $2,500.00 thousand dollar car....
Jeff Wagnon fucking FORD MAVERICK straight 6 for $600..two years later $3,000..🔫
Wish I found this when I had my $1000 S10 with a $1000 transmission job or my $1000 Dakota with $1000 in rebuilt differentials those days are long gone now I have a $2700 $1000 truck and every other repair is a major $1000 job
You know what those Facebook or eBay motors " rebuilt" mean right?
They just poured Morrison Mystery oil in it. Done.
@@ddave7026 except me my 2 buddies and my buddy's retired heavy diesel mechanic dad rebuilt them 🤷♂️
Except for the part where me and my buddy's dad and my buddies rebuilt both my diffs 🤷♂️ it was a thousand worth of diffs if I bought them rebuilt/used or paid my buddy to rebuild them parts and beer are cheap. Otherwise I'm asking for receipts or I'm calling BS
@@scrapahaulik5893 You can call whatever you like, like someone's actually going to post receipts on some platform to impress you whoever the f*** you are? Not all of us are mechanically inclined. Or maybe you're the one who's full of BS just up here talking...
I adore this! Learning to play it on my new electric guitar, yay. I never thought I liked anything country-influenced but… I was wrong. Speaking of, why not check out I Was Wrong by Social Distortion? Or Ball & Chain? Similar vibes. Awesomeness!
Oh totally related sound.
I had a $4400 and it died a few months later. It was waaay under a year.
I love this song, reminds me of my first 1000 dollar car
TOTAL PIECE OF SHIT😁
I wouldn't pay you one hundred dollars for some of these cars.
listen to the Bottle Rockets song, "Better Than Broken." It shakes
If this isn’t my favorite song, its in the team photo.
The People's Court brought me here😂Judge Milian
Good times !
Drove a $20 Pinto for 2 years and sold it for $150 ahh life is good
Bought a Hyundai Pony from an auction for $52.22. Drove it for one week. Sold it for $100 and two pizzas delivered.
My boss tells me he abandoned his in old pinto on a freeway
Hahaha I've owned a half the cars on the video what does that say about me
kaylah allaire says You ROCK!!!
I’m currently the proud owner of a 1994 Subaru. I paid $700, and put $300 into it, and it’s now for sale. I don’t even know why I bought it 😂😂😂
Theme of this song can be metaphor for my current GF. But then that 2K car becomes a 3K then a Reliant K...
My less than 1000 car is about to hit 200000 miles n been from San Antonio to st lous , Artesia New Mexico to casinos in Tulsa 😜. Sometimes u get lucky n find a ugly but good one ! But no luck finding a good women in all them places in my less than 1000 car😜! Must be d car😏
Judge Milian told me to come here
As an owner of a used 8k dollar 4k bmw, I play this song fairly well in banjo uke . But I look half way good doin it 😅