I feel like a real classic car owner now!

All my junk is stored at me mam's house - she loves me she does.

2 V8's
1 Zetec
1 1256 cc
1 Pinto
1 saab turbo engine and box. As well as countless ammount of wheels, interior bits, panels, blocks, pistons. I think my mum is going to burn half of my stuff

Hoarding parts, engines, wheels and at the very worse, cars, becomes a way of life. Your friends and family eventually get used to it and take as part of your personality...take it or leave it kind of thing.

You need to be quite cunning sometimes and its often a delicate balance of moving cars and parts from place to place sometimes. I think once you become obsessed with old cars, there's no turning back....I really don't think I could ever NOT own something retro.

Was clearing through some of my tat today in my one garage.

I've found an absolute stack of 70's Unipart bits all unopened in a box ;D and a load of other mini bits I brought and forgot about.

i have about 3 sheds (out of the half dozen here) filled with car parts, half of its skoda, then theres a few fiat/vauxhall/mercedes etc etc bits, and then theres enough spares for about 3 complete CZ bikes, minus frames. i have approx 40+ wheels stored outside, with tyres, adn a few in the shed without (magnesium alloys anyone?) and then i have about 4 of the cars full of stuff. and in the field a shell, a collection of bits in a few big crates, a pallet with gearboxes and engines, and 2 open garages with 1 car each which i cant access due to parts surrounding them.
and an interior in the porch which ive just been told to shift, and another interior in another shed.
and then theres the bits in my room, wheel bosses and points kits etc. and the stuff outside. and all the bits in each boot.

so, the moral. hoard!

at one stage i had 2 axles on the kitchen floor , half the kitchen cupboards full of parts , about 12 wheels/tyres + numerous bumpers in the loft , a back screen behind the sofa and the cupboard under the stairs full of bits too . not to mention the shed outside (thats the wooden one not the kadett..) and the lockup where i keep the firenza.. its all part of the fun

I'm currently trying to work out where i'm going to store a Rover V8 engine i've got my eye on,plus all the bits i'm going to get at the London to Brighton mini show at the end of the month. ;D

I`ve doubled my classic ownership since joining this site, and I never thought I`d be routing through the boot of a Chrysler 180 thinking "for f*cks sake, what am I gonna do with all these instrument binnacles?"