how many cars are enough?

[Charley Lillard]

I built what I thought was my dream garage 8 years ago. 1700 square feet layed out to hold 6 cars. We now park one car and a Kubota in there. The rest is my kids motorcycle crap, old furniture, Pool table, shuffleboard table and just stuff. Then I build my dream shop. Traded my 70 Hemi Cuda, Lemon Twist yellow frame off 4 speed car at $44K and money for a used 80'x100' shop. I have 4 project cars, a car trailer, kids boat, old steam engine, old tractor, Kubota tractor, tons of old furniture, car hoist and a bunch of crap in there. Even put a second floor mezzanine in that is 1500 square feet. It looks like crap in there with all the crap. Then I do the new car barn at 5000 square feet and it is filling up fast. Whatever you build it will fill up fast. Then it will start to piss you off.

[427TJ]

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One is more than enough for me, and I can barely afford that the way prices are going anymore.

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Same here. But, I can imagine having five to ten cars and having my hads full keeping them running and enjoying them. Don't get me wrong, I'd find a way to do it, but 10 cars max would be fine with me. Don't ask me which 10 I'd want!

[427TJ]

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It looks like crap in there with all the crap. Whatever you build it will fill up fast. Then it will start to piss you off.

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My 3-car garage suffers from the same crappy buildup. I have to go out there about once a month and spend a day throwing out crap, cutting up cardboard boxes for the recycling bin, and just generally keeping it clean and reasonably organized out there. One thing I <u>will not do</u> is stack crap on my Camaro! That is just blasphemous. I've begun selling my old model car and airplane kit collection on eBay and it's been opening up a lot of space in the garage. Feels great to get rid of crap plus make a little $$$ at the same time.

[Keith Tedford]

Charlie, you can not fight the number one natural law of the car world. "Stuff/junk will accumulate to fill any given space". Our garage and barn are both full upstairs and down. I gave up fighting it about 40 years ago.

[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

When you start getting so SKINNY from not eating!and you have to sell one to buy GROCERIES!LOL

Bobby Dodson

[Born30YrsLate]

It's easy to build a big enough garage/building for your cars/crap...just spend every cent you have on the building, that way you won't have any money to accumulate more stuff...granted, I think some guys would end up with a garage the size of a stadium, but then you have a goal to shoot for - try and fill'er up...

Hey Charley...wanna get rid of any old furniture

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

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Did you see Don Fezells' collection featured in the March 06 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines?
I've never met the man,but he sounds like a real true enthusiast with interests in so many different things.Now that's a collection I would like to have.
Proof you can never have enough!

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Been there, loved it

[musclecarjohn]

When I had 4 collector cars,I never could seem to get them all running at the same time.Now that I've sold one,it's still a huge chore just to keep all of them maintained...let alone drive them all on a regular basis.Weird stuff seems to happen when you don't drive these cars regularly.

I cannot imagine how some guys do it with multipule (more than 4) cars...I just don't.

[Canucklehead]

The more you get the more $$$ for maintance and insurance. With the price of musclecars these days im sure insurance rates arnt cheap.