driveway battles ! - your daily Vs your retro!

Funny this should come up, just had to explain life's priorities to the girlfriend this afternoon "Why do you have that rusty old brown car in the garage and that old BMW in the driveway and you park your nice cars on the street?" I quickly explained that the NICE cars were in the garage and the driveway

I have these... these live on the street, the '62 Velox is in the garage and the 88 E28 M5 is in the driveway..

2006 XJ8 4.2 Us-Spec so loaded, bought it 2 years ago. Love it. Sucks in the snow...




2007 Lexus GS350 AWD, like the GS300 you get in the UK but with 304hp and All Wheel Drive. A soulless pile of garbage that's been VERY unreliable. Amazing in the snow, last 2 pics are when I drove it out of a plowed-in snowdrift after we got 2 feet of snow.

the red one in the background is my daily driver E34 . . . had to make room in the Garage for the E3 . .


that's how the daily looks when no retro is blocking the view . .

Currently in use:

1997 BMW 525TDS
1996 Subaru Impreza
1987 BMW 525e

The Impreza is the smallest.
I have the 735i and one of the Minis parked near to each other, and that's very amusing

My driveway has a 94 Polo coupe and a 90 Polo saloon, garage has a 198? Escort Gartrac project.

I find it hard to get interested in anything made after 2000, most moderns are bland bloated and ugly to me, though they are very good at doing what they were designed to do.

Having said that i don't have far to travel to work and don't do big miles each year (under 5K), i also don't worry about the safety aspect of an older car (no kids to transport), if circumstances were different i would probably want/need a modern.

I have one car, and a double garage full of junk.
All my money goes on the house payments, so can only afford to have one old car now.

I've got the 2x 'zato's, the Lancia and Sapporo on the drive atm ... The "moderns" are kei's, so quite a bit smaller than the older cars
As for daily, I drive whichever I feel like at the time and don't use one as a daily as such.

My drive:


And her Smart roadster to get us to work when they both break down

Must take a picture of the lowered Derby next to the Hilux!