Here is my viewpoint on this, and this is coming from an addict of more than just cars.
When I was 17 I got my first Ttype and fell in love with it. I wanted it to go faster and broke it many times. At that time, yes I wanted the car and felt lost without it but at the same time I also wanted my drugs and they won that argument.
After about a year without my Ttype I got the bug for another one. With the little money I had I bought a POS that probably wasnt even a real TR. It broke two weeks after buying it and I figured I just wasnt meant to own one of these cars.
I went over ten years without one. Always had the emblem from the first one on my keychain (still do) and went through my "dark times". After almost dying from everything I had done to myself I was forced into treatment and did at home rehab. I never forgot about the TR's and I wont say they helped me come back to the world of the boring but at some point I made it a goal to get another one.
Once I was thinking more clearly I told myself I would only get one when I could afford to work on it and thats what I did. I am perfectly fine with letting it just sit in the garage, at least I can go look at it when ever I want. I do not have plans to sell the car and would try to keep it even if I bought a house. I just couldnt bring myself to get rid of it, not after all the work I have done to it. It will just sit there, its not really broken right now, just needs a water pump but if it did break I am fine with letting sit for years before I did anything to it again.
Thats just me, it wont go anywhere, no matter how fed up I get with it. My mother jokes that she gets pictures of her grand kids from her daughters and pictures of a Grand National from her son. Thats how it is, my kids college fund was spent on a motor. I guess its a good thing I dont have any kids.
remember it's only a car!!
Prices quadrupled what I sold them for 2 years after the fact:frown:
