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Originally Posted by Ken Cantor (Post 2613174)

It’s an addiction, not gluttony. Gluttony presupposes too much or too many and there is no such thing (within some financial limits I suppose) as too many Jaguars. :)

I need get one of those funny T-shirts that say something like "Just one more car, I promise!". There are financial downsides, big ones. Especially in Texas you have buy liability insurance on each car. Its as if every day, I drove the first car to work, ubered home, drove the second car to work, ubered home again, etc., etc., till they were all at work and then did the same process in reverse to drive all of them home at the end of the day. I can only drive one at a time so why won't they just charge me liability once? And even collision should go down significantly on each additional car, but it doesn't. Its insurance industry racketeering is what it is! And then there's storage. I built enough garage bays to keep five inside, plus two under a carport and that all cost the equivalent of four or five new Jaguars (and I still rent self-storage bays nearby). Most people just have a two-car garage and would have to rent storage for anything over that (or leave a car outside at untold hundreds of dollars a month weather-related depreciation). Many of us, men especially, are incapable of making logical financial decisions when it comes to cars.

I once was introduced to a guy who, no matter what kind of rare muscle car I'd mention, he owned one and could talk very expertly on the details of it. What he didn't volunteer tho is that they are all total loss insurance wrecks that he towed to his rural property and parked in a field throughout the 1970s when they were no more than a couple hundred dollars each. I was told by his cousin that he just liked to be able to brag about owning rare cars that he couldn't really afford. Its a shame as there is nothing worthwhile left of them now after the rust and rodents. I at least promised myself that I wouldn't have anything that I couldn't keep running but I think there are a lot of people out there like my rural acquaintance who keep cars that they'll never actually repair and drive. Its a sickness, really. Its not healthy. Cars are like potato chips, you can't just eat one or two chips and stop. Before you realize it, you've finished the whole bag and you're doctor is writing you a script for blood pressure medicine.

This year is supposed to be a "new years resolution" to get healthy again. As of yesterday, I am down to 170lbs and only one Jaguar, the XJ8, thanks to one of our other long-standing members here on this forum who has adopted the XF. I still need to part with some more so that I can get out from under the monthly self-storage bill. I also still have a "wish list" in small font as long as my arm and really need to sell a car before buying the next one down my list. That's really the best strategy to own a car for a few years, then sell it and move on to the next. I keep taking the same cars to the monthly car shows and everybody just walks by and shrugs now because they've seen them all before. People only stop and look at the ones that are new to the show. I should do that, however, I have "separation anxiety" or "post-partem depression" or something. To any newbies reading, if you haven't started hoarding cars yet, just don't start. Once you do, its too difficult to stop.