vitessetony
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Have I got a car problem?vitessetony
@vitessetony
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This is probably the worse place for this type of post because I suspect we all have a car problem on here, some more than others I suspect but lately I'm starting to think I may have a slight issue. I have always loved cars since I was a child, my dad wasn't really into cars although he did have some pretty cool company cars, my earliest memory of a fast car was his British racing green montego estate turbo. when i was 15 I bought my first car a £200 morris mini 850, it was rotten as a pear but I loved it. Fast forward a few years (25) and I have lost count of how many cars I have had now and I'm starting to think I have an issue. I'll outline my case with the most recent offence. I have, as some may know an ongoing 78 Cressida project that has proved difficult. I bought that car in 2016. During the time I have had that car I have had a Lexus GS300, Abarth 595 comp, Lexus GS450h, Fiat coupe na and a Fiat coupe turbo at the same time. So the plan was to sell the two coupes, cleanse myself, take my time and buy a sensible car and a fun car and to stick with those for the foreseeable future, it was, I thought a great plan and one that my wife was happy to hear. So in February I bought a Renault Zoe for sensible commuting duties and an Audi S4 B6 Convertible for fun, with the intentions of keeping both for a long time. I now have put the Audi up for sale after 3 months and after about £1k of exhaust. My wife says nothing but I think she suffers in silence.... I'm struggling to see an end to this madness at the time I think "yep this is it, I like this car enough to keep it for ages" within a few weeks I'm scouring the classifieds looking for a change. This can't be normal can it? This Wednesday gone I was actually going too Surrey to look at a Jag which I knew needed work but which after I had bought would have no money left to fix, Bonkers! I was stood in the bank waiting in line to draw out the cash and it came to me, like a fog had lifted "what are you doing you moron!" I walked out of the bank and came home after wasting £60 on a train ticket. I have now come to the conclusion that potentially MY perfect car does not exist, I'm chasing something that isn't actually out there, sure at the time of looking I think I've found it, go and see it, buy it, think I've cracked it and then a few weeks later think I've made a mistake I want to change it. I need to break out of this cycle for myself and for my wife, as even though she never ever complains and leaves me too it, I can tell she is tired of all the cars, insurance, tax etc etc it's a good job she loves me I guess. I'm going to try and just sell the Audi and not get anything to replace it. I still have the Cressida to finish and I'm going to try and focus on that. I suppose I just wrote this down for me, a bit of self help therapy. I'm hoping putting it down in writing is a good way for me to vent it all and realise what I need to do. My penance for this therapy session. Wish me luck......I'm going to need it.
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Have I got a car problem?fr€$h&m1nt¥
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Sounds like the problem I have too. Not sure if I want to be cured from it though. I still smile and get all fizzy and giddy and excited when i plan things or even the slightest things change for the better / progress.
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Its only a problem if you think it is, otherwise its a hobby. I have a toy car problem hobby, its cheaper and takes up less space than real cars, but I still cant stop buying.
If you think your perfect car does not exist, build it into the cressida. Easier said than done I know, but it might help to focus on one car instead of turning it into an unmanageable collection.
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May 10, 2019 10:06:41 GMT
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It's not unusual. Well, maybe it is to most "normal" people, but there are plenty of enthusiasts/collectors/nutters about.
A couple of years ago I owned in excess of 120 cars and decided I needed to cut right down. I'm now down to about 30-odd and still on a mission to cut it right down and start again, but I have still bought stuff that I shouldn't in the mean time.
This week I bought a large Honda Ride-on lawnmower, which I don't really need, but it was the right price and had a petrol engine and 4 wheels, but it's not a car, so that was my justification...
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May 10, 2019 10:32:40 GMT
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I 100% understand where you are coming from. However I also have an odd twist.
I have far too many vehicles for an average sized private dwelling in Kent. Far too many. However I console myself by saying “I’ll sell this and that eventually”. I have a very good friend who has a large commercial property. Every time we talk he has bought something new, got bored of the last purchase and exchanged it for something else. It’s reached a point where we don’t have enough time together for him to fully explain everything he has bought and crammed into his yard, unit, shed or container.
Now I find myself stood in our wife’s/family’s shoes and find myself saying “Man... you’ve got far too much s**t, you’ve got to slim down”. There certainly is too much but I guess it’s at varying levels for us all to realise we’ve got too much.
Problem is I know I need to slim stuff down, but when I do I just buy another.
Perhaps we need a “Car Hoarders Anonymous” thread or something. I accept i have a vehicular problem... however I’m happy doing nothing about it at the moment!
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May 10, 2019 17:59:36 GMT
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My names Discostew and I'm addicted to cars
I often hear things on the radio about people who are addicted to gambling And I find myself saying things like " how hard is to just stop" it's not like a drug or alcohol addiction after all But then I think about myself and how my hobby and job is also my own addiction
My biggest problem is I like so many classic/retro and even some modern cars (and motorbikes) And I want them all but it's impossible I'm always looking at cars for sale on the likes of eBay etc When I have no room to keep them and more importantly I have no money to buy them with either Every spare penny I have goes on my car addiction
I have two up for sale at the moment (sort of) but when I should be thinking about using the money to either pay of some bills or use it to finish off another project Instead I'm already looking at cars to replace them ☹️🔫
I to have spent many years thinking about the "do all one car" but it doesn't exist There is no such thing as a 'fast 'economical 'roomy 'small 'tow car that can tow up to 2 ton 'in a low tax group
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vitessetony
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Have I got a car problem?vitessetony
@vitessetony
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May 10, 2019 18:19:35 GMT
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My names Discostew and I'm addicted to cars I often hear things on the radio about people who are addicted to gambling And I find myself saying things like " how hard is to just stop" it's not like a drug or alcohol addiction after all But then I think about myself and how my hobby and job is also my own addiction My biggest problem is I like so many classic/retro and even some modern cars (and motorbikes) And I want them all but it's impossible I'm always looking at cars for sale on the likes of eBay etc When I have no room to keep them and more importantly I have no money to buy them with either Every spare penny I have goes on my car addiction I have two up for sale at the moment (sort of) but when I should be thinking about using the money to either pay of some bills or use it to finish off another project Instead I'm already looking at cars to replace them ☹️🔫 I to have spent many years thinking about the "do all one car" but it doesn't exist There is no such thing as a 'fast 'economical 'roomy 'small 'tow car that can tow up to 2 ton 'in a low tax group This sums up my predicament so completely that I could have wrote it verbatim. I guess it's comforting to know I'm not the only one? I just feel whatever car I have next I won't be completely happy with so why bother? And then I email a guy about a car this afternoon that I have seen and simply can't do without, even though I'm supposed to be taking a break! Situation: Hopeless!!!
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rickygolf83
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Mk2 Golf 8v & 16v, VR6, Nova Antibes, Mk4 1.8t & mk4 Gt Tdi 130
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May 10, 2019 19:09:28 GMT
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My problem isn't the biggest problem, only 6 cars to my name (5 on the road), but for the last 10 years I have just bought and kept them! 16v Mk2 bought in 2008 MK4 20vt 2009 gt tdi 130 2012 Bought my mk2 8v back from the dead in 2015 and restored; sold in 2009 and it was my first VW Nova Antibes 2017 and told the wife nothing else will arrive until something goes Golf Vr6 2019 Everyone apart from my car mad mate thinks i'm daft, all the tax and insurance and repairs but I don't want a newer car. Wouldn't say no to a Golf R but that would make my house a target for crims. I get a bit sentimental if i'm honest, I threatened in 2014 I wouldn't put the 20v through another mot, then was going to break it to put engine in one of the mk2's but i cant bring myself to kill it. Its been a great car, quick and well specced and I paid buttons for it 11 years ago. Similar stories for the tdi and 16v mk2, but the cars owe me nothing, i fix most myself, get parts as cheap as possible and a mate if i'm stuck who also welds if required lol Thats how I justify it to folks anyway lol Its the lack of time to attend to them, my kids and my wife between working that's killing me theses days
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May 10, 2019 20:29:04 GMT
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I've had over 50 cars in my time, and went through a 'needing to scratch that itch' phase a few years ago. Thankfully it is more than gone now, but may return - who knows? I doubt it though, as my other 'not enjoying driving' thread was a good way of me putting to bed, for now, my car addiction.
If you don't look at the classifieds, you can't get tempted though perhaps???
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May 10, 2019 22:47:54 GMT
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560 Cars and counting, and like VitesseTony I know I have a problem. If someone actually studied it I'm sure it would be a diagnosable compulsion/addiction, it's such a hard cycle to break. An understanding wife is essential, but I don't know that I understand myself at times. Like many on here I've been into 'projects' as long as I can remember, but I am getting really jaded now. I've long accepted that I'm not a single car kinda guy. I've had my Oxford since I was 16 and will never leave me, so that's fixed in the fleet but needs lots of work before it hits the road again. I've always wanted a Fintail Mercedes, so bought a project to go with my W123 estate project. Not a bad fleet if they were all finished. But there's also my W124 - a car I don't need, but I know I will pine for it if it sold. It was great when on the road, but a snowballing arch tidy means it is off the road, and now a project. A Maestro van seemed a sensible parts chaser until I find an A60 van, so I bought a nice project. I have a spares car for most of the above, so whilst I am lucky to have a very large workshop, it's clogged with an overwhelming amount of festering, unfinished projects - my empire of rust. And I can justify every one of them to myself... I found myself in hospital late last year with a sudden illness which was a bit touch and go for a bit. A short, sharp shock with months of recuperating, and I made a whole lot of decisions about where life was going and what matters most (it isn't cars). So I began reducing my fleet and sold off half a dozen projects - the list above is what I am left with. Even after staring into the abyss and trying to change for the better, I recently went and bought an Audi 80 cabriolet - primarily because it was in the right shade of blue, but also because it was mint and on the road. I regret it already. I have vowed that by the end of this year I will have got this situation sorted, but I seriously doubt I will - I can see it plaguing me to the bitter end. I have considered selling the lot (except the Oxford, 'natch), and just not being a car guy anymore. But my biggest worry is if I'm not the car guy I think I've always been, then exactly who am I? Deep and dark thinking required on that one. Reading this back I'm not actually sure if any of this adds to the discussion, but have a black 6/110 Wolseley to make up for reading this nonsense. I regret buying the Fintail and not one of these...
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I only have nine cars, not including my wife's car, the tractor, the engineless bus, the three trailers, selection of farm machinery I've never really used, and an unknown number of bicycles and lawnmowers. At present none of the nine cars are 100% legal (only cos the tax on my daily ran out last week and I haven't paid it yet though). I probably do have a problem.
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ChasR
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Have I got a car problem?ChasR
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Yup, I probably do have an issue! I reckon I am now on car number 50, and I've not hit 40 yet! I did attempt to slow down and planned on keeping the M3 as my sole car. But I liked the 'retro' life and it seems that was a little too new! That M3 does tick many many boxes for me mind you, and I can't say I've given much thought about buying a newer M3 (bar the wallet destroying E61 M5, where I have turned down an E60 version), apart from me not having to deal with things like rust. I would end up seeing a 'fixable project' and going for it! Sometimes, they did get a little overwhelming! The only time I thought about keeping a car long term was my Porsche 944 Turbo. I only sold that as I knew a few jobs would need doing, albeit minor, and that with the high mileage I would struggle to sell it. I doubt I'd struggle to sell it for the £6k I sold it for back in 2014! I regretted selling that for years! I almost sold my M3 for similar reasons! I let the talk of other people get to me. It's too new, it's got the wrong 'box, it's the wrong colour, its the wrong this, the wrong that. In addition to the fact that the rusty wings make the car look like it's a floating Titanic, it's a real surprise I still have it! It's one of the few cars I've had people talk me into keeping, despite it being worthless due to the above. But I do like it! It's taken me quite some time to realise that. The package may not be right for the Chris Harris wannabes but it's spot on for me . The fact that I've always been happy driving it to and from long road trips is probably a true testament to that. I thought I'd prefer the 280SE to it. From a looks and coolness perspective, yes! But I hate to say it, I still prefer that M3 ; it's a little more 'me'. By coming to accept that, my propensity of buying something else has dropped alot I must admit, and I'm probably all the better for it. Yes, I really shouldn't own it, yes, I should really use the cash better elsewhere, but I've come to accept that spending cash on cars is what I do, and as long as it's just one I got a little crazy with, it's OK. After all, people spend cash on Golf, Football season tickets, skiing holidays, and you don't hear about them having a sickness! So yes, we do have a problem here. We have interests. The trick is in knowing how to keep the interests under control, and also having fun along the way .
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Interesting topic, and not all tongue-in-cheek.
For most of my adult life I've been so poor as to be lucky to have one running car. After being clean & solder for some time I was able to buy a Fiat 124 Spider from a friend, and I was so pleased with myself for having a true "enthusiast's car". It was a real milestone for me. I loved that car so much that I bought a few other Fiats and an Alfa Spider while I was attending university. I was able to see one day that I had bought an 850 Spider because I felt depressed. I then had the 124 Spider, The Alfa Spider, and the 850 Bertone Spider, all running/driving (amazing).
I saw where that behavior ended and compared it to my previous behaviors with alcohol & drugs. I then sold all but the 124 Spider.
As a mental health counselor, I understand that behavior is defined as the result of an un-met need. We use specific behaviors to fill specific voids. In the case of cars, what need is met by buying them? I suspect a full spectrum of answers, depending on the enthusiast answering the question. For some, it's the hunt. We love the hunt as much or more than we love the car we're hunting. Others like me might buy a car because we feel like there's something missing that a new project might remedy. For others, it's a control thing. When we feel powerless in other areas of our lives, we tend to take the reigns the decisions we know we can make for ourselves. This falls into the category of hoarding, as does amassing cars to offset feelings of grief or loss/loss of loved ones. Maybe you've worked hard to be where you're at in life but you're still quietly dissatisfied. Rather than confronting how trapped you feel, you hit up the 'Bay at 3AM & begin the hunt for that rusty POS that you've been thinking about...
What need(s) are you filling with the behavior of buying cars? Are there more manageable ways to meet those needs? Henry David Thoreau said that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet despairation", and it's as true with cars as anything else. We buy cars to fill the voids in our lives, and when the voids still aren't filled, we just buy more of them. The quiet despairation happens when we quietly accept that buying more cars isn't the answer but we keep doing it.
It's striking to me that this despairation stays quiet until it's discussed like we are. How much holistic value is a healthy amount to expect from/realise from a car? Of 20 cars? Maybe that's best compared to an inventory of our expectations/realisations of such concerns as family, friends, careers, money, success, spouses/partners, community... This whole misplaced value thing is for real. Happiness really isn't getting what (you think) you want, it's wanting all that you have.
My '77 Lancia Scorpion is my dream car. After a long day of strapping psychotic patients to their beds, I really enjoy bringing it incrementally closer to driver quality. To me, much of its value is that it's all fcuking MINE. As a working father/family man it's about the only thing that is, and I can do whatever I like with it. I've made a solemn oath to finish it, and I'm well underway with its paint prep at present. I should have dusty pants until year's end : )
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At the height of the madness I had 34 cars. I knew I had a real problem when my wife informed that a chap had called and asked when I was going to collect the car I had bought and paid for 5months previously. I had no recollection of what it was or where it was (turned out to be a rather nice 964) But I don’t care. I don’t have any bad habits and if I had the means I would probably have 100’s of cars. My view is I see it as a form of therapy away from a very demanding stressful job - think Grizz said it was cheaper than a shrink and I agree! I could never own 1 car but could probably get it down to 5 but that is an entirely different thread. As for VT’s original post, think you got so badly burned on the Cressida that it has changed your prospective. Cars must be one of the few hobbies that you can walk away from for a year and pick it straight up again. Sure you will come to your own conclusion. Onwards! P.
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May 11, 2019 10:23:07 GMT
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I like this thread, I've only had 28 car's and down to 2 now (daily and project car). Everyone I speak to thinks 28 is a lot 🤣. My dad owned 7 cars over a 50 year span, I did that in 12 months.
The list of cars I currently want is rediculous and it's probably a good job I haven't won the lottery. Going through the be sensible and ban some cash phase atm. It wears off though.
Currently fancying a skyline dr30, mk7 golf r, Honda city turbo, 1978 Mazda 626, r35 gtr, audi r8, c4 cactus or maybe 2.0tfsi and 4 motion swap on the golf plus 🤷♂️🤦🏼♂️
I could keep adding to the list every minute 🤣
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Last Edit: May 11, 2019 10:34:09 GMT by joem83
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May 11, 2019 19:20:00 GMT
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My name is pistonpopper and I'm an addict too. I currently have just thirteen (I think) cars in my fleet, but I could give it up any time I wanted to, atleast thats what I tell everyone. The thing is about 15ish years ago I was a serial dater, I really loved meeting girls, dating girls, then meeting new girls. Back then I just had the one car, one Hot Rod, and a Van. I wouldn't say I yearned for more, but the temptation was always there. Browsing the Auto Mart type magazines every week looking for treasure, or atleast, treasure to me. Then along comes this girl who is applying for the job of current Mrs Pistonpopper, we date, it goes OK, we break up. It's just what I did back then. Fast foward a couple of years and here comes this girl again, but now with a little baby, guess whos? Yep, mine! So we get back together, and she says to me that I can have as many cars as I like but only one girlfriend, and so, since then thats what I've done. I've only had one girlfriend. I checked after we were married if the one girlfriend rule still existed now that she was no longer a girlfriend as she was now a wife, but by all accounts wife trumps girlfriend. The good news is though that I can still have as many cars as I like, and she has never complained about them either. (She does complain when we break down by the side of the road though!) So I guess what I've done is just replaced serial dating with the far cheaper serial car buying. For me the thrill of it is very similar to the thrill of dating. I see the car, I buy the car, I ride in the car, and I sell the car. I even had the famous black book with phone numbers in it back in the day, I've no idea where it is, I think there may well have been a ceremonial burning of the book back in the day, however I now have a very similar A6 sized book in my desk drawer, and it's just called 'The List', and in it is the year, make, model, and colour of every car I've ever owned, and today I added car number 91. I realise that by some peoples standards thats not a lot, I have friends who have owned 400+ cars, and I even have friends who currently own 50+ cars. But on the other hand I know people who have owned less than ten cars, and to those people they think I'm excessive. But the thing is, who does it hurt? I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, or even chase women. I even manage somewhow to pay the monthly bills, but like every addict everywhere, I can always somehow find the money for another car! I guess for me it is the thrill of the hunt, and fairly often not long after it's been captured I get that itch to track something else down. My ebay watch list is always filled with cars, and even after buying one I find myself sometimes thinking, DAMN... Now I can't have that one that ends tomorrow! I think it may even be worse for me, because I like rubbish as much as I like the good stuff. My watch list contains everything currently from a Bentley GT at one end of the spectrum that I got outbid on yesterday, to the other end of the spectrum which is a Hyundai Accent, that currently I'm winning on, and I've only just got home with my new car!! The stupid thing is that both the Bentley and the Hyundai I would enjoy in the same manner, it's the hunt, and then finding out what they're like to drive that I really like, sort of getting to know them. Not all that long ago I was out in my Trans Am, and a person I know from work asked me who I was trying to impress? I said that I wasn't trying to impress anyone. I just saw the Trans Am, wanted to know what it would be like to own (even though technically it was the third one I'd owned), so I bid on it and won it. It was great, I was having a good time, and didn't really care what anyone thought of my automotive choice. But he couldn't get his head around why I had wasted my money on such a car if I wasn't trying to impress anyone. So now that I'm driving around in a 500cc Aixam he can't understand why I'm doing that, unless I've found myself on hard times. I tried to explain that I was doing OK, and I just wanted to see what the Aixam was like to own and drive (Incase you're wondering, if you're used to normal cars it's a bit of a culture shock!) But this fella is convinced that I'm strapped for money, and thats why I've got the Aixam! Truth be told the Aixam doesn't seem to have the fuel economy that the Trans Am had, it's actually costing my more to run as a daily, and that in its self is a worry, but thats not a story for here. The thing is, it's a hobby, I like most of it, I like chasing down the cars, buying the cars, driving the cars, and writing about my experiences with the cars. I don't particularly enjoy working on the cars, breaking down in the cars, waiting for the RAC in the cars, or even selling the cars! But it's all part and parcel of the experience. It's like any other hobby for that matter, what ever hobby you chose it's going to cost you money, be it stamp collecting, travelling, cars, dating women or whatever, and yes, you could argue that you don't need to have a hobby, but what would you do with your time and spare money then? My work friend doesn't have any hobbies, he lives on his own, in a house that was paid for by his parents and left to him. He doesn't buy fancy food, his cupboards are all filled with 'white label' goods, he doesn't go out, he doesn't go on holiday. All he does is go to work, and complain about what other people do with their lives. He's kind of dull really, and this is the point, people without hobbies are a bit dull, and their lives must be a bit boring. Just imagine how dull your life would be without stories of skinned knuckles, sitting by the side of the road in clouds of steam for hours on end waiting for the RAC to show up, and even stories of complete automotive success. Where you've bought the right car for the right money, and it was brilliant to drive. Without all these stories to bore our friends with it would be a dull old world! Anyhoo, I rekon you're doing alright vitessetony, you're in the right place, amoungst the right people, and as long as you're enjoying what you do, don't worry about it too much, just keep on keepin on! I've prattled on for long enough now, so here, have a picture of a Beetle... First fill shot!
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May 11, 2019 22:00:42 GMT
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I wrote a definitive list of what I wanted out of a perfect car once, the roles I wanted it to fill, and managed to separate it out into four distinct areas - and then found a car to fill each role. With 30-ish on fleet at the moment, many of those roles are over-filled, but at least I know what I want and what they have to fulfil. If a car starts to fall outside of it's role, it's becoming obsolete and I can think about moving it on. I also re-assess from time to time what the roles are. But because I spend a LONG time pondering over what car to buy next, I don't let go of them once they are found. Buying a car because you need something now, is like going to the supermarket when you are hungry. All the money-saving experts say not to do that! I struggle because why would I go to the shops unless there's no food left, which I've only noticed because I'm hungry... but with some self control I can go and buy what needs bought, not what I can cram down my throat instantly and then regret. Which is like cars - if you go on to ebay without a particular car or very strict set of criteria, you could easily end up buying something you will regret or will prove unsatisfactory after a short while. That works for some people, such as pistonpopper above, who revels in the experience, but vitessetony you may be seeing it more like I do these days, and want to change from that guy who can't settle, to that guy who finds one suitable, interesting-to-you car and keeps it, looks after it, doesn't lose heart in it and most importantly, enjoys it.
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(Stands up sheepishly)
My name is 60six and I have a car problem.
Owned well over 100 cars - I have an allergy to modern vehicles from the last 15 years. I can't stand their sterility or standard nonsense equipmnent like touch screen infotainment units that are impossible to use, electric handbrakes, colour coded bumpers, rubberised dashboards, indicators in mirrors, etc. etc.
I first acknowledged I had a problem when I hit ebay one night after the pub drunk-as-a-skunk and bid on a subaru legacy estate for 120 quid then promptly fell asleep, completely forgetting the night before.
Woken up by a phone call asking when I was picking the car up. Thought the guy had the wrong number until I checked my inbox that announced I was now the proud owner of another car I didn't need.
Another time was recently when I blew the gearbox up on my beloved recently sprayed 900 - and was more excited about taking the engine out than anything else! The AA guy (not automobiles anonymous) couldn't understand my state of mind!
I have to admit that if you can find one particular marque and stick to it that really makes things easier - but that intensifies your addiction and can cause randoms to knock on your door asking if you want another SAAB as locally you have been known as that guy with lots of saabs on his property!
Don't stop the addiction, just calm it down a bit - and remember that you must never stop completely as the devil makes work for idle minds ......
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Last Edit: May 12, 2019 6:43:57 GMT by 60six
Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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Apr 12, 2021 17:49:34 GMT
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I thought I'd look back through the annals of time, knowing I'd find like minded people. Father I need to confess for I have sinned. Not 4 months since my last car purchase, I have another, the absolute opposite end of the scale comparatively as well. Where do I begin? I have a list, it's an imaginary one but one deeply rooted in how I was brought up and spent much of my time when I was young and impressionable. I'm sure to some extent you're all aware of a certain game called Gran Turismo, I can pretty much almost entirely attribute my interest in cars, especially most of the genre that I'm interested in to that game. How does the game begin? By offering you a pittance to buy a car that offers a pitiful mount of performance in the grand scheme of things, not too dissimilar to the real world I feel because of insurance. Once you have chosen your worthy steed you are pushed out into the world of races within the game, those races are categorized like so : What you can see here are titles such as: FF - front engine front wheel drive only RWD - RWD only 4WD - 4WD only these are fairly obvious in themselves but, they also extend to particular engines, boxers and wankels and such. With those categories deeply embedded within my brain, my list goes something like this : FF MR FR RR 4WD I4 N/A injected I4 turbo I4 carbed I5 N/A injected I5 turbo I5 carbed I6 N/A injected I6 turbo I6 carbed V4 V5 V6 V8 Boxer Wankel Body on frame When looking for a new car I pay special attention to the categories I haven't already crossed off and add points for other options within that I haven't already had, so carb can extend to single, dual, motorbike carbs and twin weber considerations, the car becomes an infatuation if it crosses multiple categories, my Datsun for example, is the I6 carbed turbo, or will be when I stop faffing with other stuff and get round to working on it. I can at this point say, I am not 30 yet and my ticks left to achieve is actually quite small, what I qualify as achieved is on the road and driven, just owning a car and not driving it doesn't count to me, since within the game you have to race the cars. At present I don't know whether I can add V10/V12 to the list because the costs implied with those are well out of my scope as much as I think I'd like to have one. The last car I bought? A 1988 skoda rapid that's bare metal, the car I bought this weekend? a 1995 lexus gs300, no type of car is completely out of my interest in some way because my list is so vague, it covers everything. My next problem is that I've moved out of the beginner league and into the amateur league so need a track car, a road car, a classic car, a luxury car, a japanese car, and italian car, a german car etc etc haha The problem is that I only realistically have spaces for 2 cars and the other 4 owned are on other peoples property. How or when do I stop playing gran turismo?
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Have I got a car problem?ballbagbagins
@ballbagbagins
Club Retro Rides Member 164
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Apr 12, 2021 20:41:45 GMT
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For me I dislike how out of control I can feel. I'm so impulsive and obsessive.
I always need a project ongoing, can be anything but I have mental energy to expend.
I mix some DIY projects in so I feel like I'm doing something worthwhile alongside 'playing cars'.
How are you in other areas of your life?
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