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Yup. Kept my wife's old car for 19 years. Ran great cheap to insure reliable. We sold it cause we needed the room. Now we miss it. There are rumors in the Wife camp she might want a new car. We will keep the current one as the third vehicle
We have kept a vehicle at times when I had a company car and used it as assistance for family and friends when they needed a car to use as well. If someone had a car in the shop or needed wheels for some reason, it was there. Always handy.
The passing generation of driving one car to high school, having another for racing, and another in parts for rebuild is rapidly becoming a part of the past. But then again, we all were able to work on our own cars. I currently have two in two different cities. But I'll fly first; it's just getting too knumbscull out there on the road. So I drive them occasionally.
Driving a high mileage car in good shape makes me want to put even more miles on it. Becomes sort of a challenge to see how many more miles can this thing go. On a new car, especially if it is leased, you dread looking at the odometer.
I keep more cars than there are drivers in the household. For the last 10 or so years, my wife and I have at least 4 cars at any time; the most number is 6. My vehicles are almost always some kind of a rarity in their model and generation, so their procurement took months or even years; because of that fact, I don't usually or easily sell any of them. If I wanted another vehicle, I added it to and I wouldn't try to replace one already in my stable.
The only reasons I would get rid of a vehicle is financial, I needed the money or, I could imagine, if it was involved in an accident or fire and totaled. There was one special case when I sold one to my brother because he needed a vehicle. A vehicle in my stable would never be sold because of lack of use.
Do you have the time to drive them all? When I had a Jeep I found out that there was always a competition between the motorcycle and the Jeep and the bike always won.
Oh yeah. I have an efficient car, but I also like to have something more utilitarian on the side. For a long time, it was a $500 Jeep Cherokee, but I cash-for-clunkered it for $4500 (SCORE!) when I needed a new car, and now I have a $600 Grand Caravan with the seats removed most of the time.
It's getting to be time for another new car in the next couple of years. The Grand Caravan only gets 18 MPG (EPA combined), so it would have qualified for the old cash for clunkers. I'm selfishly crossing my fingers that they bring the program back with the same 18 MPG threshold so I can cash-for-clunker the Grand Caravan too.
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Yep, sold my 94 GMC Sierra 454 engine long bed pickup, just not worth keeping it any longer because of lack of use plus the expense of license, insurance and gas. It went to a good home.
Do you have the time to drive them all? When I had a Jeep I found out that there was always a competition between the motorcycle and the Jeep and the bike always won.
Yes, some are driven more than others; for example, the convertible is driven only when the weather allows for or is comfortable enough for top-down driving and my daily driver is a 5-passenger 4-door sedan, still needed when taking more than 2 people since the rest of my vehicles are 2-seaters.
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