Regarding our member "Fury Fan" and his statement he did not say "I can't afford to buy it". Or "I can't afford to rent another garage".He just complained that he hasn't got a garage for it. There are solutions for this problem. And if he has the resources to buy the 71 SF he might be able to spent the x-tra bucks for another garage.
Yes, there are solutions for 'my problem', if a lot of other life factors are ignored. If I buy it and store it at home, my commitment is fixed (mostly) upon the car - but I have no more indoor storage right now. So if I store it offsite, 2 things happen - I undertake an open-ended commitment ($100-150 month), and it becomes exceedingly difficult to visit that car, which defeats the purpose of owning it. If I keep the car for 3 years, this $6000 car became a $9600 car that I didn't enjoy very much, and the $3600 of storage has been a waste. That $3600 is more useful in other areas of my life. (you'll notice I used the
low end of storage fees, too)
If this were a 1-per-lifetime car, it might change things - I have that list written down. In a case like that, 1 of my cars would sit outside (in the snow if necessary) awaiting fire-sale disposal, and the new one would come home. Nice as this car is, as much as I like it, it's not on that list, so that gameplan does not get enacted.
In the future will I sometimes wish I bought this car? Probably. But I've found it's easier to live with the unsatisfied 'what-ifs' of the 10-15 awesome cars I passed on, than it is to live with a few of them loitering around being neglected.
My resources are not unlimited so choices must be made. I can own 2-3 cars at most and thinning out the herd isn't as easy for me as it was 10-15 years ago.
You stick a project car somewhere out of sight and by something turnkey and chances are good that you don’t see the project car again util you decide it’s probably time to sell it.
This. And the older we get the more likely it would come true.
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