Quick question: how many cars do you currently own?
It may be hard to admit for some of us, but if your response is "well it depends," or if you needed to use both sets of fingers and toes to keep count, you might have a problem.
Of course, some people are perfectly happy owning a dozen or so cars in various conditions (and …
There are 6 cars, 2 motorcycles and a Kart at my house and they all run. 3 of the 6 are daily drivers.
My thought is it's very easy for the cars to own you.
If I actually had more space I might have kept the Datsun 1200 project/parts cars; instead I took everything I needed and passed them on. These things have a bad habit of morphing into "I have 75% of the parts needed to get it running" and we all know that last 25% is the killer. The lack of space to do this is very self policing.
It also helps that I have a friend who hoards motorcycles as an example of what not to do.
To me the ideal is a daily driver, a race car/track car, a tow car and maybe a Friday fun car/classic car. After that it becomes a full time job keeping them going.
My .02
13, i believe.
Six, half run, half in storage in need of Major Work. One of the runners needs Major Work to be really enjoyable.
However, we've got nothing on blocks in the front yard, and nothing even sitting immobile on the property, and fortunately that jibes with my wife's requirements. Keeping it that way did mean passing on a Jag XJ6 that I'm going to lament for a long time, but things are good.
I'm short on motorcycles. Maybe when the garage is done.
I have 5 right now, 4 running and 1 project.
Personal opinion you get to have one non running car at a time, that you are actively working on, then its a collection. If you ever say you are buying something to get ahround to and you don;t within say 2 years you are hoarding.
Three vehicles and an enclosed trailer. And I live in a high-rise apartment.
I have stuff parked all over the place.
I'm just buying them before the hoarders get 'em.
I'm being called out here, and I don't like it. 
7 . . .. that my wife knows about. . 
6 here at home, 3 daily ready family cars, one dump run/tow pig/beater van, one track car and, the last is a project car. There is a second project stashed at my mother's but it has been gifted to someone else and they just haven't collected it..... so 6.
Ugh, this is timely...
If you have parts cars you've never seen, in other states, is that bad?
XLR99 (Forum Supporter) said:Ugh, this is timely...
If you have parts cars you've never seen, in other states, is that bad?
It's not normal to have parts cars you've never seen in other states, but on GRM it is.
My own personal method has basically two requirements:
1. Any car I have has to be either drivable or I am actively working on making it so (exception: I did keep a rust-free e30 shell for a few years as a backup in case I crash the rally car and need a shell to swap everything into to rebuild)
2. I try not to every have two cars that "do the same thing" or "are the same"- because what's the point of that? Ex:
- The GTI is my daily driver (needs to be comfortable, reliable, good MPGs, nice enough to take coworkers to lunch in, etc).
- The Sequoia is used for towing the trailer and hauling large objects, and other utility tasks.
- The Porsche is straight-up a road-trip car, and ultimately intended to drive cross-country with. It could also do some track days.
- The e30 is a competition rally car. Jim (my rally codriver) has another e30 set up for track that I drive with him when we go tarmac racing, so I dont' need my own "racecar" for the track (thankfully).
- The Raider is for rally reconnaissance and general off-roading (unlike most Jeeps out there, it isn't a pavement queen), and occasional light utility stuff. Not for DDing.
I do buy parts cars on occasion, but they only stay around long enough for me to take all the parts I want and then haul them to the scrapper. Usually counted in weeks, not months or years.
The reason I don't have any other projects at the moment is because I can't think of any automotive "missions" that I don't currently have covered. Not so say I won't find another project car at some point, but it will have it's own distinct reason.
I honestly dont' get some of you who have 6 Miatas or 27 Boxsters or whatever lol.....I had a rust-free e30 shell in my possession and had no interest in doing anything with it, since I already did an e30....
The downside to my "everything different" plan is that almost no parts crossover, and of my 6 vehicles, none of them can use each others wheels - so I have a crapload of wheel/tire sets lol. At least all of them use metric......
Seven and a half here, but that's for three (soon to be 4) drivers, and they're all tagged and drivable.
This is all easy to explain: I need a DD, and I need a truck, and they can't be the same because a truck isn't a car, and there's nothing at all wrong with having just one toy (which the truck certainly is not, after all, it's a truck, so it can't possibly be a toy), and Kid #2 is going to drive soon so I might as well have something (that I like but that certainly isn't a project or a toy and it came stock with a supercharger so that doesn't count) in stock for him, and kid #1's diesel dually is just something that he had to get out of his system and I hardly facilitated it at all, and he has a perfectly normal and stock older Civic which is his real car. And the half interest in the '68 Chevelle doesn't mean anything because my co-owner has it and I haven't been there in months. It's all perfectly rational and not at all excessive and I definitely do not have a problem, OK?
1 - 4runner
1 - armada
1 - boxster
1 - m coupe
1 - IROC Z
2 - dodge darts
1 - corvair
1 - jaguar xk8
1 - travelall
1 - s10
2 - street legal golf carts
1 - 2020 Camry that is my work vehicle.
I sold my trooper today so that is something!
14 ughhh. I am working on thinning the herd I swear...
It's not still hoarding if you sell one from time to time is it? ...asking for pimpm3.
Fun fact.
Dirt is not "patina"
In reply to pimpm3 (Forum Supporter) :
You thinking of selling the Armada? I've got it on my affordable towpig shortlist.
The Armada is my wife's. We are keeping it.
I would highly recommend one as a tow vehicle though. This one is our second one. We had a 2010 for three years and it gave us 0 problems. In fact my sister bought it from me and is still driving it.
The one we have now is an 18 that I bought from enterprise last year. It was a great deal and should serve us well for years.
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/surprised-my-wife-with-a-2018-armada/151044/page1/
Hoarding if any of the following apply.
Absolute refusal to sell any vehicles even if offered more than the value.
Inability to keep a majority running and properly registered and insured.
If you have more than 10 cars and only 1 runs and can be legally driven you are either a hoarder or running a junkyard and not making any money.
Just my thoughts
I harass one of my friends because he has twice as many vehicles as I do and only half as many running vehicles, he knows he's on that borderline of hoarding.
It's easy to do you see a car for cheap or one that you have a lot of the parts to get it going again and fall into the trap of getting all excited about the project.
I'm at 5 right now, the Colorado, the Silverado, the Intrepid, the BMW and the Camaro. 6 if I count in my mothers Yukon I look after for her as well.
I have been having serious thoughts of selling the Colorado, but I am holding off as it is a perfect DD (re: unquestionably reliable) and I know I will have a few teething issues when I get the Intrepid finished and back on the road for the first little bit...
The Camaro I need to start tackling soon or I need to move it along, but now that I have a welder and teaching myself to weld, I may be able to start getting it sorted next spring since I should (re: better) have the Intrepid home and I can just be driving it instead of trying to get it finished.
irish44j (Forum Supporter) said:My own personal method has basically two requirements:
1. Any car I have has to be either drivable or I am actively working on making it so (exception: I did keep a rust-free e30 shell for a few years as a backup in case I crash the rally car and need a shell to swap everything into to rebuild)
2. I try not to every have two cars that "do the same thing" or "are the same"- because what's the point of that?
That's about my approach too. I also try to avoid having more than one project vehicle at a time as I am aware I currently have a rather limited supply of money and time I can use for a project. It's enough effort keeping up with one project car right now.
It's all in how they are stored.
Parked haphazardly about the property, some open, covered in debris, overgrown by vegatation, = hoarder.
Parked neatly, protected as much as possible, vegation kept at bay, = collector.
I wish I had more cars, only have 3.
In reply to pimpm3 (Forum Supporter) :
Happy to take the M coupe off your hands, haha!
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