I want to become a car hoarder

I promise you that you really don't want to become a car hoarder. It is really much worse than you think!

Barns - I have an unhealthy interest in those for vehicle storage!

Why waste the possibilites of barns with livestock or hay for example?

I am in the same position as you re moving some on to be able to buy others. As a properly equipped hoarder that wouldn't be necessary.

Other than my daily I’ve currently got 5 “retro’s” on fleet and none are roadworthy,I did have a couple more but sold them on.

I usually slate hoarders for leaving cars sitting to rot but In reality that’s all I’m doing. I’ve convinced myself in my head that all get around to sorting them allout one day but I doubt I will. The problem is I can’t bare to part with any of them as they’re all cars are dreamed to own when I was younger and managed to scoop them all cheap before prices went through the roof. The scary thing is I still look through eBay, Facebook, gumtree etc trying to find more but luckily lack of money stops me buying them otherwise I probably would have acres of cars rotting.

I can see the attraction but I sincerely hope that none of you go down the route of filling a field full of cars that you intend to save has it normally results in quite the reverse happening - in all of the 40+ years that I have been involved in owning & restoring classics and despite the best initial intentions of the hoarders I have never seen anything of much good get dragged back out of fields full of rotting classics -they are normally too far gone or have little to offer in the form of usable spares. Nothing wrong in owning several motors (I have 6 retro / classics 3 of which are projects) then there is the odd one that passes through where I step in to ensure the future of the car but it's next to pointless filling land with motors that you cannot realistically find or offer a future for.

I see you point there, but I'm going to say no, not really. Unless by sensibly and well stored you're talking about some kind of climatically controlled whorehouse then really, you're just a horder. I'm 17 cars in (down from 20 this time last year!) and I like to kid myself that I am a collector. My 'collection' includes some pretty cool stuff, '68 Barracuda, '80 Trans Am, '32 Ford RPU replica, '79 Volvo 262C, '79 Celeste, '77 Celica liftback, '05 Mustang to name but a few. But only two of these seven are on the road, the rest are waiting their turn, whenever that might come! Of the other ten only three are on the road! So over all thats less than a third. The other two thirds are costing me an arm and a leg in storage in damp garages and lock ups! Honestly every time I sell a car and give up a garage i feel a sense of relief! However, if you feel that this is something that might bring you happiness, try it. Rent a big storage space and fill it, when I had all twenty cars parked together I must admit I thought it was kinda cool. But for me, reality set in, and its just kinda became a big pain in the bum!

The most my dad and I ever had was 10. When you get to that number you soon realise that you don't know what to do first. Then it just snowballs from there on.

I see what you're saying, but if only a few will ever be restored due to financial and time constraints, aren't you just prolonging the agony for the others before they inevitably either get reclaimed by mother nature, or the scrapman gets them?

Have a barn which is cool and dry, 4 of them sit in there (MK2 Golf, 205 GTI, E36 Convertible and the MK4 Golf parts onor for the MK2.

Everything else is outside as they are ongoing projects and all late nineties onwards so no real chance of rust 

I'd only do it if I had a proper storage facility. none of this leaving them out in the weather nonsense.

But the most I've had is 2 concurrent cars. Both running and driving and registered.. It cost me too much money, as I was only an apprentice.