Collectors are a weird bunch. It's a strange mix of passion and financial investing, along with hype, favoritism, forced scarcity, and ego.
I am not a collector I am a user. I hope to drive my jag into the ground. I want that thing to have a half a million miles on it at least when i give up driving. That is what it was built for. to be driven and enjoyed. Right!
My motorcycle is from 1985 and it only has 20,000 miles on it. I hope I have the vehicles I need to last me forever, though I often think about getting a pickup truck. But I don't want any other car to drive every day, nor do I want any other bike. though if I had the disposable money that you do, I would probably build a collection of my favorites and dream cars for myself.
At some point, your Jag is gonna be too expensive to maintain. It's the sad truth with all cars, no matter how well built. It'll reach the point where metal fatigue means the motor needs to be replaced, or similar. At some point, you're gonna have to buy a different car. Probably... Well, it'd make better financial sense to replace it than to keep trying to fix it. You could make bad financial decisions. They're your damned decisions to make!
Yeah, at some point. I relly don't put that many miles on it. I've had it for like 6 years now and have put less that 50,000 on it. It's a nykasil engine so it was designed to run for a million miles. The rest of the car wasn't though. I may have to buy another car someday, but I hope not.
I was just talking with my son, I will be 70 in 15 years! Fifteen years fly bye like a blink of the eye. Man. I dont want to be old. I am so fucking lucky, I feel like I am 25 years old. I don't wake up with any aches and pains and pretty much everything I wished I had when I was 25 is all at my disposal. What a wonderful world!
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