Martin Konkel - I have too many cars

Last one of my choice (I think).


I am 21, and I have 4 cars. Why the hell do I have 4 cars I do not know, but most people find it interesting.

First is the 79' Malibu which my mom bought brand new and kept it around. I got it when I was 16, a few later I took the engine out and made it faster, and today it sits in the garage and collects dust. I hardly even drive the thing, partly because I'm lucky to get 10mpg, and second well, because, I don't have too. So my best car, my most favorite car, I do not even drive but once a week at the very best. Most people can't comprehend owning a car that doesn't even get driven, and until you've been there, I can't explain it.

The next thing I have is a little Pt Cruiser. My grandma is rich and needed to get rid of some money or the government was going to take it away, so she gave us grandkids (I'm the only one below the age of 30) money to go get a car. It was the best, most practical and nicest car I could find for the money. Actually, I got a killer deal on it, and it can't be beat for taking on trips.

Then there is the 1983 Jeep CJ7, which I bought in my first year of Community of College. I paid $1,500 for that wreck, and a few years later I've spent twice that and countless hours performing a rolling restoration on it. I've made a lot of progress on it, and recently it's been to the Outer Banks twice and central Virginia three times. It got my dad to his house when everybody else was stuck because of the flood, and it's gotten me around back ups by driving through ditches. It doesn't have A/C, it's pretty slow, it handles like crap, it's noisy, drafty, the heat barely works, but I love it. Simple as simple, old, I can hose out the interior, there is hardly any plastic on that thing, and despite getting wheels off the ground, driving it through floods, pulling a tree or two out of the ground, the thing just keeps on going!! Ok, so sometimes it breaks, but it's nothing that some time and cash can't solve.

Then I bought a truck, not just any truck, but a giant 71' Chevy C30 1-ton flat bed truck. It's huge, old, gets about 3-4mpg, and I've painted it flat black with a skull on the hood. This I actually picked up for cheap and plan to sell this spring after I get the body work squared away.

Also, my grandma has a 1975 Corvette sitting in her garage at WV thats going to be mine. When I go up there to visits I set my PT Cruiser aside and use the Vette. It's not extremely fast, and my Malibu would leave it behind, but it's a absolutely beautiful car the drives nice and nothing beats cruising those back country roads in it. It's a beautiful old Corvette, enough said already.



So I kind of have 5 cars, even though I really only have 4 technically. Why do I own 4 cars?? Because I can, or I'm a bit off in the head...... most people think the later, but every now and then I meet somebody who understands me, like the guy I worked with how had 14 cars; ok, he was on a whole new level of insaneness, but still. And alright, the old ones break now and then, and I always have something to do on at least two of them. However, nothing beats getting them out and just going for a drive, espicially after standing at the end of the driveway and pondering for ten minutes which one I want to take. Crazy?? Perhaps, but I love every minute of it, and you can damn well bet this is only the start to a long life of car craziness.