Dealing with Auto Addiction

[Threehz]

My name is Kai and I am addicted to buying old cars.

Honestly though, I own three vehicles and plan to buy two more in the near future. The real problem is that I don't want to get rid of any, at least not for a while.

Anyone else deal with car addiction?

[2mAn]

I very reluctantly decided NOT to buy a 74 2002 yesterday. Its a rough life turning down deals.

[adonwilson]

Having money to buy more cars isn't a problem. There's nothing wrong with what you're doing unless you live in a cardboard box

[slammin.e28]

Having money to buy more cars isn't a problem. There's nothing wrong with what you're doing unless you live in a cardboard box

If you're buying cars and living in a cardboard box you need to look into just living in one of the cars, or a different one each night.

[adonwilson]

If you're buying cars and living in a cardboard box you need to look into just living in one of the cars, or a different one each night.

lol very true

[Threehz]

I'm at the point where I'm thinking about just living out of a warehouse...

[QUKBMER]

My front living room/game room in my house is turning into a storage unit for parts and the wife is not happy.:( ...................the garage is already full.

[rturbo 930]

I feel you. I have 6, including two that will probably end up scrapped... and a parts car on top of that... and a mountain of parts that I really need to start thinning out. Ideally, I'd like to have no more than 3, but I know that's not gonna happen, and I want to add a Miata or an S2000 to the collection. And to make matters worse, 2 of the 6 are major projects. FML.

[2mAn]

After getting in way over my head, I told myself : 1 project and 1 driver. techinically the E30 is my driver, but it is currently getting the most work done on it and the project is a long term one, so I am fighting the urge to get something that is more of a legitimate project...

[Threehz]

It's easy to justify the ones I have now. E30 is DD, 4Runner is backup and for adventure, Z is project. But, I'm planning on adding an early beetle and Studebaker truck to the collection. Only justification is that they're awesome.

[abrokenframe]

I think one dd & one project at a time is normal for the average Joe. Between my DD (the e30) and my project ('68 P912) there's no time to spare! Probably because any 25 year old vehicle like ours should be considered a light project anyways.


Anything more than 3 is pushing it. Old cars take a llooooong time and money to maintain properly.

Ryan

[QUKBMER]

I have 4 e30's and 1 e34 and 1 e36 and besides that a 2001 Sequoia and a 2013 kia optima sxl lol Whew !!!!......... And they all run and drive except 1 of the e30's(5.0 swap in progress).

[FL318is]

It's easy to justify the ones I have now. E30 is DD, 4Runner is backup and for adventure, Z is project. But, I'm planning on adding an early beetle and Studebaker truck to the collection. Only justification is that they're awesome.

Look at how you just worderd this. "Collection" my brother. Addiction is when you would sell both kidney and a lung to fed the habit. Is Mr leno a collector or addict? I say, collector. I have 3 BMWs in my collection. I would like to add a bug to the collection. And I still have all my organs.

[rturbo 930]

After getting in way over my head, I told myself : 1 project and 1 driver. techinically the E30 is my driver, but it is currently getting the most work done on it and the project is a long term one, so I am fighting the urge to get something that is more of a legitimate project...

I got waayy in over my head on my first project car. I got a '76 280Z when I was 16. I immediately tore it down, realized I bit off way more than I could chew, and it's been sitting in a barn ever since... driver's side rocker needs to be replaced, plus some other rust repair. I wanna get started on that again soon after I take care of a few things on the E30. My other big project is a '53 CJ3B. It sat in my neighbors yard for just under 30 years... it's in awful shape, but I don't want to scrap it.

I also have an '86 Jetta that needs a little work, but it's currently my DD, a '71 240z that I'll probably scrap, and my parent's '78 280z. It needs tons of work, and I'm not sure it's worth it, not to mention I don't know that I really want to bother fixing it, on top of all my other projects. Scrapping that one will hurt though, since that's the first car I fell in love with.

I'd like to have just my E30 and my Z, but I won't drive those in NJ winters, so there needs to be a third.

[E30 Wagen]

I want a Z. Give one to me.