Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #15 – December 06, 2011, 04:45:13 PM Quote from: ZondaC12;374782And to actually ANSWER the question...look right at me! LOL. I've of course made good on my wishful lust, twice now. Wait sorry thrice LOL. I have waaay more vehicles than a 23-year-old-just-out-of-college individual ought to have, or should even be able to store by all logic and reality. They're scattered about kind of...but there will be a central solution. Stay tuned....hush-hush for now though I have two cars and a house, which is more than a graduate student ought to have:crazy:.Quote from: Haystack;374789Don't buy a super nice car, then drive the out of it. Winter driving my old bird while everyone else was putting away their mustangs , is in my opinion, half the fun behind owning one of these cars.If I bought another one it would be a nice one and it would just come out on nice days, like the current T-bird does. I have the Focus for DD duty, something it does quite well. Quote from: Mikelonis;374827I get this every year around November. I've got it tempered however. I ONLY use proceeds from selling a car or selling parts. Nothing comes out of savings or impacts the family in any way other than dragging them along to help bring it home, that is if I don't have it shipped. And, I don't bring home "projects" anymore. And, I keep my pleasure (not calling them projects anymore) cars to a 2-car limit and I use one as a daily driver. It's all very mature and boring I guess but it has kept me "in" the hobby during the time of my life when my kids are a bit too young to pull into my hobby and I need to spend my free time exposing them to a world outside the garage.This is why I keep holding off on picking up another one. I don't want to spend money I could save for the future and having more than two cars seems a bit excessive to me. I have this rational voice in my head that usually prevents me from doing anything rash. Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #16 – December 06, 2011, 11:21:05 PM I get the twitches thinking about all the clowns on the road endangering me and my vehicles.Holiday time, which means lots of drunks on the road, increased senior citizen traffic, kamikaze xmas shoppers, and cops looking for their next target.Then when it snows I swear most of the people on the road lose a good 40 IQ points. At least. Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #17 – December 06, 2011, 11:37:56 PM Quote from: ThunderCat_1985;374867Then when it snows I swear most of the people on the road lose a good 40 IQ points. At least. i was thinking more along the lines of 140.. when it snows, people are completely braindead Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #18 – December 07, 2011, 12:02:05 AM These are good cars, but for me, what's the point of a car you can't drive 6 months or more out of the year? I want a car I can lean on with out being woried about dents, or the paint, or washing it. If I can't drive it, what is the point of owning a car? I don't keep anything in the car, I don't lock it, and I don't worry if I have a dent or if it snows. I think I get a lot more out of my cars then other people do. Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #19 – December 07, 2011, 12:23:14 AM i would normally say the same thing (minus the dents), but i've seen what the salt does to foxes.. i want no part of that on my cars.. this winter, i'm driving my new TC only because it already has rust i need to fix and i refuse to drive my toyota on salty/snow covered roads after i just spent 3 months and nearly 600 bucks fixing all the rust it had.. next winter, all my foxes and my toyota will be put away for the winter and i will drive my sonoma or F150 until spring Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #20 – December 07, 2011, 03:50:54 AM Quote from: thunderjet302;374842I have two cars and a house, which is more than a graduate student ought to have:crazy:. Yeah but didn't you inherit the house? Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #21 – December 07, 2011, 09:20:43 AM Quote from: shame302;374882Yeah but didn't you inherit the house? Yep. I've been having fun over the last two years updating/fixing the problems that come with a 50+ year old plumbing and electrical system. I had to have the house rewired because when it was built almost everything on the main floor was wired on one line. So if I turned on the TV and a light in the living room and the fridge would kick on a breaker would trip. Fun. I've had to replace the plumbing to the shower as the pipes up to the shower head decided that they had enough after 56 years and decided it was time to let go. I'm also looking into replacing the garage soon as I've discovered some rot around the base of the garage (it's wooden). Old houses are like old cars, the need attention and $$$. Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #22 – December 07, 2011, 11:34:29 AM I always have that itch, but not just for Foxes. Then I look outside at the 4 cars I have that I can't spend the time on that I need/want to, and that pretty much scratches it. I still miss that white '80 XR-7 of mine, and miss the thought of the complete teardown I'd do if I still had the car, and the room to do it right.There is a slim (like 10% chance) that it might boomerang back to me, but I'm not sure if that will happen.Other than that, I have too many other oddball automotive itches that I'd succumb to before I'd buy another Fox. Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #23 – December 07, 2011, 11:10:38 PM Always do but I think it's bec I got my first car (the predator) at this time of year in 1999 and there's just something about the cool air bringing back memories and I try to relive them I think that's y I made my come back today lol bec it's that time for a new car and it's been on the back burner for a year granted its preaty much done I feal it's time to do something new lol Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #24 – December 09, 2011, 03:27:54 AM Quote from: Haystack;374870These are good cars, but for me, what's the point of a car you can't drive 6 months or more out of the year? I want a car I can lean on with out being woried about dents, or the paint, or washing it. If I can't drive it, what is the point of owning a car? I don't keep anything in the car, I don't lock it, and I don't worry if I have a dent or if it snows. I think I get a lot more out of my cars then other people do.I'm exactly the same way Quote from: Shadow;374876i would normally say the same thing (minus the dents), but i've seen what the salt does to foxes.. i want no part of that on my cars.. this winter, i'm driving my new TC only because it already has rust i need to fix and i refuse to drive my toyota on salty/snow covered roads after i just spent 3 months and nearly 600 bucks fixing all the rust it had.. next winter, all my foxes and my toyota will be put away for the winter and i will drive my sonoma or F150 until springI don't know what I'd do with myself if I lived in the snow covered north. I can drive my cars all year loooooooong. Granted, yes its hot as balls in the summer so it kinda sucks if you ain't got AC but then again I never use it anyway.... Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #25 – December 09, 2011, 08:14:09 AM it doesn't normally snow too much here, but the past 2 years we've had more than usual.. he had a pretty nasty blizzard 2 years ago (nasty for this area).. hopefully this winter isn't too bad Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #26 – December 09, 2011, 02:12:16 PM Quote from: thunderjet302;374889 I'm also looking into replacing the garage soon as I've discovered some rot around the base of the garage (it's wooden). Variance time!!!! Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #27 – December 09, 2011, 06:44:10 PM Quote from: ZondaC12;375102Variance time!!!! Maybe. I have to see how much the garage costs . Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #28 – December 10, 2011, 11:40:45 AM Best of luck, that city if they can't sympathize with our cause. Quote Selected
Anyone else get the car itch at this time of year? Reply #29 – December 10, 2011, 12:38:30 PM I know I'm limited on width due to a city ordinance but length, I'm pretty sure, can be what ever fits on the lot. Quote Selected
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