Your Longest Relationship

i've had my 54 belair for the last 23 years.

I've owned over 8 cars in one year and the longest I've had one is my current NB Miata. I've almost had it a year now. Its amazing :O

Strangely enough it's not even a car. I've had the bike for two and a half years. All the cars I've owned usually only stick around for a year or two tops. I think the next one, whenever that is, will be sticking around. Maybe.

I've owned my Spitfire for the longest but I certainly wouldn't call it a daily driver. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that my longest ownership was of a 2004 Cavalier. I bought it used as an ex daily rental when it was 6 months old. I had just changed jobs and no longer had a company vehicle. The plan was to drive it for a year or so then get something nicer. Almost eight years and 400k later it was t boned by a pick up. I walked away without a scratch and a cheque for $3500 from insurance.

Almost 8 years with my 1989 240sx. It was a great car, but it was just time to move onto something different.

All the others have been around 4-5 years.

My 95 z28 bought new and daily driven for 9 years. Bought s2000 new and drove for almost 12 years. Replaced last month with 2013 911.

The longest I've ever owned a vehicle was ~5 years and it still is my favorite of them all. My high compression ITB '87 MR2:

and of course, the goods:

My longest owned vehicle is my BMW motorcycle, bought new in 2000 and it now has 114k miles. The longest car ever was my RX7 track toy that I had for 8 years, crashed last fall or it would have made it longer. We live in an area that we put 25-35k miles a year on a car, if we don't run up the mileage so bad that the car dies, it gets eaten by New England salt. Longest DD was the wife's 04 Eclipse, had that 6 years, she usually has worse automotive ADD than me, typically 3-4 years she's ready to move on. I keep my trucks for 3-4 years if I'm lucky.

Longest is definately my 67 Mustang. Bought on April Fools day 1985 and still have it, so 31 years this year. Drive it daily for 10-12 of those years through high school/college, and early work and parked it to fix it right once I got a good job...which took over and it still sits in my shop waiting for me to get time to get it back on the road again.

3 honerable mentions: -1992 Yamah TDM850 (hence the screen name) that I've had since 1997 (so 14 this year) Down for unknown? -1993 Dodge D250 Cummins truck that bout in 1997 and sold to my brother (wheelsmithy her on GRM) last year. -1994 Acura Integra GSR that I DD from 1994-2007

I bought a Mazda 626 new in 1980, drove it until 2002: 22 years
I have a '61 Pontiac Bonneville I've owned since 1992: 24 years
I have an '86 BMW M535i I've owned since 1997: 19 years
I have a '68 Kawasaki W2SS motorcycle I've owned since 1977: 39 years
I tend to own vehicles for a long time.

Rufledt wrote: Don't know how to work out the math on this one. The math is confusing because my parents bought it new before i was born.

Well, yeah. By that reckoning I had the Pontiac for 49 of my 52 years on the planet. I started counting when it became "my" car.

1993 Kawasaki KLX 650, bought in Florida in 2010 and I still have it. I've not ridden it in the last two years as I've bought other motorcycles that I prefer. It used to be my main bike and I put quite a few miles on it including a trip with my dad riding the length of Baja and back.

The answer lasted three years before I got sick of shoehorning myself into it.

9 years and 180k on my '02 Accord.

I've owned my 86 Nissan truck since it was brand new in 1986. It has an estimated 400,000 miles on it. But I am looking at terminating this relationship.

I have had my 64 Spitfire since (I think) 1989. I have, by far, put the fewest miles on this car of any drivable car I've ever owned.

2011 S200, 4 years and something like 65,000 miles.

Wow, some of you keep cars for a loooong time. I am not one of those people. My two longest were about 10 years each, both Fiats. And strangely they were both in the same time period, the '90's. They were a much modified '74 X1/9 and a '61 600D. Of course I had a number of other cars during the same period (mostly Alfas), with my main daily driver a MR2 Turbo (itself kept over a 7 year period.).

86 tbird 1 year driven then parked then 6 yrs later Toyman and Curmudgeon took it and turned it into a lemons car

89 tbird 9 months sold

99 sentra rear ended by illegal immigrant who was been deported probably came back two weeks later.

99 escort probably the best car I have ever owned, 4 yrs.

98 mercury sable wife hit a dump truck dang it 1 yr.

99 venture, it belong to my mother when I was in high school she drove it until she wrecked it. When the mercury was killed by my wife I fixed it and put it back on the road still drive it I have parked it once and had to put it back on the road again. I Drive it currently have owned it for 3 years.

97 explorer I still own it I have owned it for 1.5 years but the transmission is dead along with some other things.

gearheadE30 wrote: My 1991 318is. I've had it for 9 years now, and have put around 80k miles on it. It doesn't see DD duty anymore, but still gets probably 5k miles a year. I doubt I'll ever sell that one. It was also my first car.

My wife has had her 318is for 16..no..17 years. It has gone from being a nice example of the last gen (I had a current-model E36 M3 when she bought it), to just another old BMW, and is coming out the other side as a bit of a classic. It's bone stock, red/black, in fantastic condition, and gets constant attention. At her new job, 4 different people hunted her down to comment on the car. Teenagers screamed "we love your E30" at her one day. When she didn't drive it for two days in a row, the headmaster at our daughter's school asked if she was selling it and the kid at the local pizza place asked her if something had happened to it.

My personal record is 12yrs and counting for my FFR Cobra. That's my do-not-sell car, even though I hardly drive it. The 360 is threatening to reach that status. 5.5 years on, it's still awesome and I don't pine for something newer-faster-better.

16 Years next week for my DD S2000.

Fun, cheap, reliable, long paid off.

Hope to get 16 more years ; )

I've been driving since I was 16, only 5 years ago, and have had 7 cars since then. My longest is ~2 years as I have severe car ADD.

'97 318ti bought in 2013, sold in 2015

Otherwise, my parents had a '03 X5 that I drove when I was 16-17, and I still drive whenever my car is out of commission. They keep cars until they are either totaled or the cost of repairs outweighs the cost of the car.

Had projects longer than 15 years, they ran but no DDing though.

Bought new '02 Silverado 4X4, kept for 10 years seeing truck and winter duty. Rode like new at 75K w/ new Rancho reflex shocks and Cooper AT's but the nickel n dime syndrome had already set in.

I'm 'new every two' now w/ a '12 Sierra SLE and '14 Silverado LTZ since. I'm due for new.

I doubt I ever get back into any LTR's.

I had my '65 Mustang fastback for 17 years before I got sick of it. Of course the first 3 years I was making it drive-able again.

I bought my Focus new in 2001.

Was my daily driver until 2010 and then changed to summer/weekend car. Despite the 9 years of DD status it still only has 60K miles on it. Accumulated more miles being driven to and from racetracks while I was crewing than on my daily commuter

I've always been to broke to have AADD.