2020 is the first calendar year in which I haven't purchased a car in...

[AkioOhtori]

Seven years. I haven't not bought at least one car since 2013.

@davesaddiction post reminded me that I haven't bought a car in 2020. I'd always joked that I buy a car every year but never actually looked at the data.

Yup. As of 2020 my 10 year rolling average is 1.0 cars per year.

• 2009 - 1
• 2010 - 0
• 2011 - 1
• 2012 - 1
• 2013 - 1
• 2014 - 2
• 2015 - 1
• 2016 - 1
• 2017 - 1
• 2018 - 1
• 2019 - 2
• 2020 - 0?

The last time I didn't buy a car was in 2013, after I'd sold the Scout but before I bought the Dune Buggy. It was also the last time I was without a project car, but honestly if you knew the story of the Scout that wouldn't come as a surprise.

Luckily, a 0 for 2020 isn't going to mess up my average and I'll likely end up with 2 cars in 2021... probably.

And... yeah I could buy a car this year. Might, even, but between getting the house painted (seriously OMG how was that so expensive), the Alfa needing a top end rebuild, and the garage looking to get a remodel early next year, my budget is stretched to the max as is.

[HoustonRunner]

@akioohtori Honestly, there is still time.

[AkioOhtori]

@houstonrunner Time but neither money nor garage space, sadly. Alfa still needs love and I actually need to thin the herd before starting garage work next year. (actually going to update the post to indicate that...)

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@akioohtori how can we influence a change in this apparent acquiescence to fate? There's still time to make poor choices!!!

[davesaddiction]

@akioohtori So, you'll also not buy a car in 2030, I presume?

[WhoIsTheLeader]

Cars too expensive? Two wheels good, so I've heard.

That figure is very impressive indeed that you kept it up so long.

[Rusty Vandura]

@akioohtori said in 2020 is the first calendar year in which I haven't purchased a car in...:

(seriously OMG how was that so expensive)

Because painting takes time and if you won't want it to look like s**t it takes skill and if you want it to last, it takes fifty-dollar-per-gallon paint. And did I mention prep?

[AkioOhtori]

@whoistheleader Haha that is a fair point. While I bought 0 cars I did buy 3 bicycles...

I love the idea of owning a scooter/ motorcycle, but I also love the idea of keeping all of my skin, bones, and organs right where I left them... so it is a pass. Nothing against the bikes, everything against other drivers and US roads.

That said a friend of mine recently bought a motorcycle of some ilk and I told him I wanted to take the class with him so... you never know.

[Italia]

How am I clicking on a scout but there is no scout pic in here?

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@akioohtori Same thing here really. I don't trust other drivers around here not to run me over on a bike. I like the idea however.

[AkioOhtori]

@italia Clickbait! I know what you people want! Err by that I mean I tend to be sort of coy about my Scout ownership because of how terrible everything about owning it was. So yes.... I owned a Scout once.

ONCE.

[Italia]

I think my name is on a 64' scout title but it is my wife's

[jminer]

@AkioOhtori I don't know the story of your scout, but having owned a Scout II project I understand why it left and you needed a break...

[AkioOhtori]

@jminer Funny enough I was planning on doing a "So this is my Scout story" on Oppo for the last day before lockdown/deletion. This, obviously, didn't happen. tl;dr it wasn't really the Scout's fault, though it was a terrible first project car, it was the drugged out crazy PO who though he still owned the car.

[LimitedTimeOnly]

@italia Because @AkioOhtori used it for the thumbnail photo on the topics list but didn't insert the photo into the post. One has to do both on this platform.

And yes, the post could benefit from the Scout picture, but the picture of the fleet is impressive.

[Italia]

Thanks for the explanation and also answering my question of why I don't have thumbnails on my posts. @LimitedTimeOnly

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@akioohtori said in 2020 is the first calendar year in which I haven't purchased a car in...:

drugged out crazy PO who though he still owned the car

Hold up, now I really want to know what your Scout Story is.

[Huzer]

So far, I'm at 20 cars since 2000. I currently don't have any plans to buy anything next year, but I don't think I ever really plan when it comes to cars. It just kind of happens.

[LimitedTimeOnly]

@italia Yes, it's a bit confusing at first because the "Picture" icon is for the thumbnail, but then the "Upload Image" icon is for photos in the post itself.

[Just Jeepin']

By decade (using the canonical definition, of course, so 2020 is the end of the current decade, not the beginning):

1991-2000: bought 2 cars, del Sol and old Lincoln I didn't keep very long
2001-2010: bought 0 cars (del Sol just kept chugging away for 14 years)
2011-2020: bought 3 cars (Civic Si, Jeep, Jeep)

So, I should be good for another 10 years or more.

[pip bip]

@akioohtori 2020 is the first time I bought a car in 17 years