When you find your newest lust on Craigslist...now what?

Like many of you I search for various things on Craigslist (usually through searchtempest) - whatever I'm in the mood for at the time. Sometimes I'm looking hard (new bike for my sons, etc.), sometimes just curious what's out there. The hardest is when I get a particular lust for a car, regardless of my intentions or ability to buy it at that moment. It's never a problem unless and until I actually find it, and it's a reasonable distance, and it looks to be a bargain.

My latest for some reason (spending too much time on the HAMB likely) is a 1937 ford - make it the relatively rare club coupe so it has a back seat, in black or Washington Blue, in older restored or original paint that's just good enough to keep. Blackwalls, lower it a bit, speed parts for the flathead, juice brakes, and drive it, including to work now and then. After a month or two of looking, damn it, I just found one, and by the price I don't think the guy knows its a club coupe. The thing that's saving me is it's not a $2,000 car, its 10x that, so I'd need an unobtanium buy in from the wife - in this instance she's the good dose of reality I need. I don't drive my 67 Mustang nearly enough - I don't need another collector car, unless I'm starting a collection, in which I need to go buy a building first.

So what do you do in this instance? Self ban from craigslist until it's sold? Go find another lust? There's no question a large part of the fun is in the hunt for a car. I'm glad I don't own a trailer, a bigger bank account and a storage building.

What so you do? You post those pics in the Craigslist Lust of the Day thread.

Sell the Mustang to buy the '37 Ford?

Im in the same boat but with a friend trying to sell me his car. Trying to sell one of mine so I can buy his.

Same boat, kinda. Found the car I want by accident and have the money for it, but it just doesn't make any sense to add another car to the fleet that I won't drive much, just because I think it's an awesome car. And I'm not selling the two cars I already have.

In reply to MadScientistMatt:

I've owned my mustang since I was 15, so for 26+ years. I can't foresee any situation short of health needs where I'd sell it at this point. I just need to drive it more. I used to work at a business park where I could park in a flat lot, take up two spaces, keep an eye on it and the commute was in moving traffic. Now that I work downtown, the chances of getting rear ended on the way in are much higher, and I'm not sure I could even get it down into the garage with the exhaust.

Re gearhead - that's my issue. I want it and it would be fun to have, but I have no where to put it, and spending that cash on this vs. other stuff is just dumb, when I'm honest. I can almost sell myself on the idea to buy it, put some $ in it, have fun with it and then let it go, but that was sort of the plan with the mustang, and I still have it.

gearheadE30 wrote: Same boat, kinda. Found the car I want by accident and have the money for it, but it just doesn't make any sense to add another car to the fleet that I won't drive much, just because I think it's an awesome car. And I'm not selling the two cars I already have.

My case exactly with a barney purple extended cab 98 dakota.

I totally understand. I still have my first car too. Did not realize that was the case with the Mustang.

I just found a 20b (3 rotor sequential turbocharged engine for you non-rotary speakers) locally on clist for only 6k. We're about to buy windows for the house.

Adulting sucks.