***No, actually it's more like this: Coanda claims years after the fact that his "funds were exhausted" but it is a provable fact that funds were available to him at this time. And Gibbs-Smith is not required to obey the rules for Wikipedia editors. He's a reliable source. You however, are required to not violateWP:Synth by equating his line of reasoning to your own experiences with transportation purchases. 
 And incidentally, I wouldn't assume you lied about the funds to buy a motorcycle. I'd just assume that you realized the motorcycle's engine was a piece of junk and you decided, quite logically, to look into a more workable form of propulsion. (Not that I'd ever make the leap of suggesting that this is what Coanda did. That would be very wrong.