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Originally Posted by Wyoprairie
Most I have ever had at 7. I acquire but don't ever sell. 4 German sports cars, 3 Ford
pickups. Only one of the seven has more than 58k miles.
(7 is the Biblical number for completion, so I suppose I should stop, but I am
watching a couple of "Bullnose" F-250's. An 83 and 85. Pristine, ultra low mileage rigs.)
They are all collector cars/trucks, and all garaged, along with the 2 four-wheelers. Don't
have a daily driver. One or two company pickup trucks for that.
Used to do the Concours deal. Got a kick out of it, met a lot of nice car oriented people.
Then the gatherings just started to go away. Seems like the car culture in America is on
it's last leg, and dying off.
Oh, car culture in America is just warming up! It's just not being celebrated - at car hops at diners, etc - as much. Today, and for at least the past decade, cars have become as much appliances as have the toaster and the vacuum cleaner.
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? Huh?
My last car was totalled in a wreck last year, insurance possessed it and paid me fair value for it. Sent me a letter stating as much, and that they had taken possession of vehicle. Apparently that was not enough to convince them I no longer owned it. Even showing them my currently registered replacement was not enough. They finally took it off my tax roll after I presented documentation from my state DMV listing the cars I no longer owned.
This is second time this happened to me. Last time was 12 years ago, 2005. City tax dept showed I still owned two cars I hadn't driven since during college and just afterwards! I had to, emember who I sold one to, and draft up a bill of sale with their address and signature. And the other was a trade-in to the dealer for that one. Right on on the effing retail sales form!
We currently have seven, which is the most we've ever had at one time. Three are at home, three are at my husband's shop, and the last he drives back and forth to work, so it's either here or there at any given time.
We don't have garage space, so the two most "special" cars are at the shop with covers on them. The ones at home just sit on the driveway.
I have had 2 vehicles for decades a sports car and then a everyday truck/van/JeeP. When my wife and I first got married we had 5 cars and that was silly so we sold one. We now have 4 with my sports car in the garage.
For a year I owned three vehicles. One in the garage and two others outside. My husband had another one in the garage and one outside. Yes, we had enough room to keep all of them in our driveway, well off the road.
I had owned two vehicles for ten years prior to that. But maintaining three was just more than I wanted to deal with, so I sold one of them. Kept two for another six years and then finally sold both and bought one that combined the most important features of those. And that's what I still drive.
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