This Is A Sure Sign This Car Thing Is Out Of Control

about a year or so ago when i was jobless, i had to make the difficult decision of buying groceries or buying a very cheap 331 hemi. i decided i could stand to lose a few lbs. unfortunatly someone had just beaten me to the hemi.

 

I have a healthy dislike for eBay for exactly this reason - that damn temptress made me buy all those old cars. The Buy It Now thing just taunts me to this day!!!
Of course, I love 'em all, and the only thing that stops me buying more is I have nowhere else to store them, or anyone who will.
Oh well, thank goodness for the HAMB - at least I can come here and just dream about all the other cars I want without the same risk.
So long as Ryan doesn't start HAMBay!!!!!

 

You know you are a gearhead when when at the Doctor I tell him it hurts on the passenger side!

 

Great to be in such good company!

 

I always get hounded by the wife on what I pay for things.. I just tell her I traded.

I've also asked my wife what her factory hair color was. Then a week later seen a girl with similar hair color she said, asked if that was her OEM color. Some tines I wander about myself.

 

You have to think of the ones who will inherit the collection. This family has been dealing with it for almost a year now. Maybe we can help them out. There is some amazing stuff and people are stealing it. At least this time through I am marking stuff so my kids will know what it is.
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/general-chit-chat/1045486-help-me-id-some-cool-stuff-my-dad-had-27.html

 

I haven't darkened the door of a barber shop in quiet a few years,,add it up that's a lot of money that I throw at my cars!

Heck,that's about a grand over the last 5 years.HRP

 

The other day I asked my 2-1/2 year old grandson why he took his socks off. He said - why not?

Pretty much explains the cars and parts thing for me.

Charlie

 

It's mine,all mine

 

I have bumper stickers for sale if interested:

"He who dies with the most toys - WINS!"

 

my model A visit was a bust. 2 old frames, he only had windshield, cowl some assorted not the coupe I had hoped for.

 

Bummer .Well so much for bolonoge sandwiches.

 

I realized the problem was when I got credit at the junkyard..... And the guy that runs the yard nicknamed me "Boracho" sp? Comes to find out it is Spanish for cheap!

 

Uhh..... that means you're a "drunk". And it's spelled, "Borracho". Maybe he thinks you're drunk for parts.

 

Well,my grandaughter wanted this little doll and I did not know the kind of doll and my daughter tells me "In car terms the "make" is Baby Alive,Baby wanna walk is the "model"...Does she know her Daddy or what? I went to the store and got that doll! Tooooo Cooool! This from my little girl who would put her pigtails up inside her hood and draw the string so tight that all you could see was her pretty little face,and come out into my cold garage in the winter to help me change motors inna car! PRICELESS!!!

 

No crap? He told me it meant cheap! Kind of ironic when I have paid the man at times with bottles of tequila and got my best deals after 2pm (by then he had a heat on)!

 

...just spilled my coffee again , quit it you guys , I'm enjoying myself too much .

 

This is so true it's not even funny. Every time a friend of mine is around and one of asks the other if we remember so and so, the answer is oh isn't that the guy who drives....................?

Been doing this for years. The problem is I catch myself saying this to people who don't have a clue what they drive themselves, little lone what someone else drives.

 

No doubt, it is an addiction. With two old cars and an old truck I have run out of inside storage. The every day car and truck sit out in the weather. But I am always looking and wanting...

 

Hell guys.Its the funnest addiction going.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

LOL I've done that!

 

Hell, I was talking to a buddy about flying his plane the other day and said "Driver side". I'm thought to myself... THERE IS NO DRIVER SIDE YOU MORON!! He just said "I know what you meant". And I identify people by the car they drive all the time as well as Identifying with just about every post in this thread & then some.....Yeah I got it too.

 

yesterday i went out to the hotrod shop and i was going to inventory most of the big stuff like engines trans. oil panss etc. inventory what hangin on the walls and off the ceiling. that would just be a start. after about a hr. i walked over to the bike shop about 20 ft away and looked around and said screw it. now i know why im broke. but boy did i have a smile on my face when i walked in the house.i dont care if im addicted or not just as long as i can keep gettin my fix..and thats the same damn thing i told my pain dr..lol

 

Wow, that guy should have posted that thread over here... Or maybe he did and I missed it? Great stuff, but weird story as it unfolded...

 

2 Car garage is full of motorcycles/bikes and other crap, 4 parking spots in the driveway are taken up by model a frame im working on, body is off the frame so it takes up another parking space.,56 cameo project in the 3rd space, and now I nabbed a 50's trailer frame that I am planning to make a teardrop out of.
Daily drivers parked on the street!

 

My sign was when I looked down the street and realized that most the cars along the curb to the end of the block were mine.

 

Looks like you may be ready for the Henry Ford Clinic...

 

I had a yearning for a 57 150 Chevy................I searched and waited for the right one but nothing was around so I bought a set of the infamous rare side moldings and decided to build a car around them...........there is some Kool stuff goin' on between my ears.........every day too! I love this stuff .......we have a common culture with its very own language.....it really is too cool......one can meet an unknown car guy and start talking and the sickness comes out. although to some it may seem like a sickness, addiction ,or whatever one dubs it .....the good thing is the symptoms are actually the medicine............hmmmmmmmmm................. Oh, I finally found a 57 150 too.........

 

My Dad and I are both notorious for not knowing County Road numbers . So when we give directions we say things like take a left after the barn with the 57 Ford beside it . Go to the stop sign turn right its on the left just past the guy on the right with the barn full of Model As. And the scary thing is we both know what the other is talking about.

 

I don't know what you guys are talking about. However I did get a call last month asking me when I was gonna pick up the 50 chevy. I didn't remember trading for it!!!!!!!!!!!! peace