It’s okay. I just haven’t had a reliable car in years now and every time I try something happens! I have given up, I just don’t know what to fill the hole with
I miss that tinkering and modifying and getting to truly know and love a car, you know? The driving is part of it to be sure but just naming it, having it like a pet. Just miss that so much too.
Anyway I do appreciate it, I’d certainly take you up on it.
I feel like the lockdown and the rise of bring a trailer killed a lot of the potential for cheap tinkerer cars. FWIW the early Volvo 5-cyls can still be had for cheap and they can be so much fun
They are also not super desirable to non-weirdos (read: not thiefbait)
I don’t think you’re wrong but time takes more cars off the road every year, especially as the Accords and Camrys we knew as bulletproof road warriors time out.
there’s a pretty big void of personal joy that’s been left where I used to have (personal, not work) automotive enthusiasm and I’m not sure how to fill it.
It can be tough to maintain personal enthusiasm when work and pastime converge. I worked for several years in the winter sport industry. I thought it was my dream career. It resulted in me not even wanting to go skiing for several years, including a few after I left.
This too. I went through a stage, pre-covid, where the driving I was doing during the week for work meant that when I got to the weekend I simply didn't want to go near my own cars. I just stopped driving for fun because work wore me out on it.
The personal bit to the enthusiasm is something I often struggle with. Definitely comes and goes. Sometimes work intrudes, sometimes it just gets too expensive, sometimes I just don't get enough (or any) opportunities to drive purely for fun. Hard to keep the ball rolling for sure.
I’ve tried getting back into it two or three times now and every time something unexpected and completely insane happens and throws me back out of it. I think it’s been over a year since the last time I drove for fun
If I'd not done the Japan stuff I'd be going a bit loopy by now I think. Stability is definitely a part of it though and it sounds like you don't have a lot of that at the mo. I'm guessing buying another car is out of the question at the moment?
Hopefully you have some enthusiasm left for when your situation changes. You've had some cool stuff in the past so it'd be good to see you back in something fun.
I'm in the weird position of wanting cars to be dethroned as default transportation in the US but wanting to keep my cars. I wish I could show more people how great and fun cars can be, when you separate them from the nightmare that is US infrastructure
i want my 2 bikes and 2 cars to be STRICTLY toys that i only pull out when i don't Need to do anything. capitalism will take care of the needing to do something part. Put me on the fucken bus, i'm fine with it. You get to pull the cord! ding ding stop here please!
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Then again sometimes the palliative is worse than the disease.
Anyway I do appreciate it, I’d certainly take you up on it.
They are also not super desirable to non-weirdos (read: not thiefbait)
One day a friend needed to get rid of a (rough) Skoda Favorit. Free car, circumstances a bit better -- so what the hell.
It's going to come back (100% sure).
I get the feel though.