Ever just hit a wall with your love for cars?

[Mikecobra302]

Long story short, I've had 2 different 1995 Cobra's, a LS1 Z28 and now a Hugger Orange SS that I LOVE. Been racing and modding since I was 16. I'm 30 now

My last Z28 sat for 3 years after I blew the motor up in awesome fashion before I got the itch to get back spending and get it going. After a long debate, it would have cost me too much to place the stroker motor back together so I sold it as a roller.

Searched for a few weeks and found a Hugger Orange SS that fit what I wanted. Flew to Kentucky to buy the fucking thing, got it home and I've been loving it. Now I'm back to searching boards for more parts to buy and things to do to it. It's wearing me out. My SS is modded NICELY. Built motor, built transmission, only 45K Miles on it, etc etc.

I just randomly have been sitting here searching for Prochargers for it online and I thought.... "What the fuck am I doing??? I should just sell this and enjoy that large amount of cash in savings"

WTF is wrong with me????

[talisman]

I did a few years ago and made some bad decisions based on it. It will always come back to you. I'm actually glad I went through it, because it helped solidify how I feel about them now.

[Mikecobra302]

I did a few years ago and made some bad decisions based on it. It will always come back to you. I'm actually glad I went through it, because it helped solidify how I feel about them now.

I went through my lull when my Z broke. I just stared at the car in my garage thinking of how damn expensive that stroker motor was I had in there, and how worthless it was after it broke. lol.

Then I got married, quickly and awesomely got divorced, and now I got the itch again. When I tell you I love my new Camaro, I really do. If I could just leave the fucking thing alone I'd be good. But NOOOOOO I wanna buy all kinds of shit for it and get ridiculous again....... It will never end.

It's a disease. I mean the fucking car is a built motor, good power, good suspension work, good mods list and I've already had to replace the alternator, I'm getting the hood repainted and a few scratches repaired. I'm putting a new exhaust system on it, and of course I then went off the deep end and started looking for another Procharger...... ridiculous.

[TexasT]

Get married, have some squids, that'll help your hobbies hit a wall in epic fashion. Choose the wife carefully, and get your squids(even my girls love the races and car shows) interested in your hobbies and it is tons easier.
Glad you got your 'itch' back.

[Baron Von Crowder]

"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty" - Peter Egan

[Damnittsteve]

buy an import

[Mikecobra302]

buy an import

Nah, I pimp around a Ford Fusion as my daily. I'm not going any more gay than that already is.....

[whitetrash]

yes. my cobra has sat for the last two years because it just kinda beats me down at times. i have figured out i'll never be out of it but i get away for awhile

[95ragtop]

I feel like a woman buying shoes when I'm looking at car parts. I almost put the car stock and sold everything to get into real estate but friends and the wife talked me out of it.

[goofygrin]

About every 6-18 months I get a wild hair and sell it all and start over. I typically do it when I start thinking about either adding or changing the forced induction setup. I'm about to pull the trigger on selling my 930, but I'm driving it more (too hot with marginal AC in the summer)... "Stuck" in the CTS-V for 3 years [lease], so at least I'll have some consistency lol.

[Vertnut]

I went through my lull when my Z broke. I just stared at the car in my garage thinking of how damn expensive that stroker motor was I had in there, and how worthless it was after it broke. lol.

Then I got married, quickly and awesomely got divorced, and now I got the itch again. When I tell you I love my new Camaro, I really do. If I could just leave the fucking thing alone I'd be good. But NOOOOOO I wanna buy all kinds of shit for it and get ridiculous again....... It will never end.

It's a disease. I mean the fucking car is a built motor, good power, good suspension work, good mods list and I've already had to replace the alternator, I'm getting the hood repainted and a few scratches repaired. I'm putting a new exhaust system on it, and of course I then went off the deep end and started looking for another Procharger...... ridiculous.

I'm old, and I'll tell you that it never leaves your blood. I got started as a teenager in the mid-'70's because "muscle cars" were cheap and plenitful. Around '75-'76, gas took a big jump, and big blocks of all makes were everywhere for $1200-$1500. I've been through 25-30 cars and bikes over the years, and fell in love with almost all of them for one reason or another. Never had anything "super fast" other than a few liter bikes (one of which I still treasure). I've now relegated myself to a very clean, fairly modded '95 GTS. It leaves the garage about two or three times a month.

[Sergio]

Long story short, I've had 2 different 1995 Cobra's, a LS1 Z28 and now a Hugger Orange SS that I LOVE. Been racing and modding since I was 16. I'm 30 now

My last Z28 sat for 3 years after I blew the motor up in awesome fashion before I got the itch to get back spending and get it going. After a long debate, it would have cost me too much to place the stroker motor back together so I sold it as a roller.

Searched for a few weeks and found a Hugger Orange SS that fit what I wanted. Flew to Kentucky to buy the fucking thing, got it home and I've been loving it. Now I'm back to searching boards for more parts to buy and things to do to it. It's wearing me out. My SS is modded NICELY. Built motor, built transmission, only 45K Miles on it, etc etc.

I just randomly have been sitting here searching for Prochargers for it online and I thought.... "What the fuck am I doing??? I should just sell this and enjoy that large amount of cash in savings"

WTF is wrong with me????

yup... i started when i was 16 and am 30 as well. a couple of yrs ago my c5 was totalled. at 1st i thought about what kind of car i wanted next, but after the insurance gave me so much more than i could have sold the car for outright... i took the large chunk of change and ran. i never looked back and can't really say i miss it.

[Mikecobra302]

yup... i started when i was 16 and am 30 as well. a couple of yrs ago my c5 was totalled. at 1st i thought about what kind of car i wanted next, but after the insurance gave me so much more than i could have sold the car for outright... i took the large chunk of change and ran. i never looked back and can't really say i miss it.

I totaled one of my Cobra's and got right back into it. The 3 year break I took was nice. I had a lot going on in my life. I'm more financially stable now and such, but there is now a small part of my brain that yells at me, WTF are you doing? as I look up superchargers, lol.

But I am like most in here. I'll take breaks, but it's never going to leave my blood. Some of the best times I can remember and also look forward to are having my best friends in the garage, listening to music, drinking beer, and cursing at the car as we install parts on it

[FreightTrain]

I'm on the fence right now. I learned a long time ago to hell with spending all my hard earned money, blood, sweat and tears making a nice car. It's much easier to buy something that someone else did all that to and pay pennies on the dollar. I've done this with my last couple of mustangs and I've made money on everyone of them when I sold them. So I just sit on the side lines waiting for that perfect deal to fall in my lap.

[46Tbird]

I've always tripped out on how much money people dump into, and lose, on their cars.

But sometimes when you want something, you just want it bad enough to do whatever you have to. My '57 Chrysler is that way. I buy things when I see a good deal and I have the spare cash. I'm obviously not in any rush, I've owned it four years and haven't driven it an inch. And I already have a ton of money wrapped up in it, lol.

But that car is really special IMO. I just can't imagine having $70k wrapped up in something like a Subaru WRX or an SN95.