Too many cars in a lifetime?

[1BADZL1]

Just curious as I was talking to family members the other day.
Last I counted, I have had over 35 cars in my lifetime. If you take my age which is 47, and the length I have been driving is the age of 16.
If you take 16 years and subtract them from 47 years that leaves around 31 years. So I have been driving for 31 years. I have had 35 cars, over half of them being camaros! If you take 35 cars and devide by 31, that leaves .885 or less than 1 car per year for every year of driving. Lets just call it an even 1 car for every year that I have driven.
Is that too many cars?
My family says I have an addiction to cars. I say I do, and I also admit since it started at a young age, I do not see anything changing anytime soon.
I met another guy on a car forum (maybe on this site) that mentioned he has had 72 cars and he is in his mid twenty's!
Now that to me is too many cars! What about you guys and gals have yall had too many cars too? Is there help for me people like me?
Car-a-holics anonymous? Do I need treatment and do I have an addiction to cars?

[98_Camaro]

Um... You might want to check your math again.
35 cars in 31 years is more than a car a year, 1.129 to be exact, which for the sake of ease we'll say is about a new car every 11 months?

If you have the money to pay for it, I saw who cares? There's nothing wrong with wanting something new and exciting to drive.

[Berean]

Hmmmm...let's see, 26 yrs driving, 14 cars/trucks, five of which I currently have counting the two hand-me-downs my kids have. 4 Camaros among the 14.

[Ladybugsmom]

I think there's a 12 step program for it... I believe it was posted here a while back....

[Ladybugsmom]

Found it! Sort of - it's about Camaros specifically.....
http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showth...Camaro+therapy

[TOMS1SS]

12 years driving and 5 cars, 2 I still have. At your rate I'd have 15 in 36, so yeah you've owned a lot over the years.

Edit: Since everyone is doing a list this is mine:

1. 92 Pontiac Sunbird
2. 97 Chevy Silverado 4x4
3. 02 Ford Mustang GT
4. 10 Chevy Camaro SS
5. 11 Ford Fiesta SE

[2010 SSRS]

one of my friends who is 20 years old is on his 17th car already.

[IROCanSS]

I have had a crapton in the 18 years I've been driving. This is in the order I got them. Some were winter beaters. I think I'm done for a while. No plans to sell the Camaro, just got the 12 Civic, the S-10 is a total beater for on the property, the big truck is for towing and the 89 was my dads car he got new so I'll never sell it. Wife wants a toy next so that will probably be #29 in a few years...

1. 86 Cavalier
2. 87 Cavalier
3. 86 Celica
4. 85 Camaro
5. 88 Cavalier
6. 94 Eclipse
7. 80ish Chevette
8. 86 Z24
9. 95 Eagle Talon turbo
10. 98 Integra
11. 99 Protege
12. 91 Miata
13. 00 Z24
14. 99 Eclipse Spyder turbo
15. 98 Grand Cherokee
16. 00 Corvette
17. 95ish Sentra
18. 04 RX8
19. 91 Camry
20. 92 Wrangler
21. 07 Corvette
22. 67 Camaro
23. 89 Camaro - still have
24. 10 Camaro - still have
25. 91 S-10 - still have
Plus my wife:
26. 98 Civic
27. 06 Ram 2500 - still have
28. 12 Civic - still have

I think that's all.

[Ruin]

24... driving since 16... Have owned ten cars. Wrecked two. Haha. Sent one off a hill and the other's brakes gave out. Ooops.

[SamHouseIII]

I got one you can buy.....j/k

If you could afford them then why not

[cowboy1948]

Lets see here.
1. 1963 Pontiac tempest 326 3 sped on the floor
2. 1965 ford falcon 289-4 speed on the floor
3. 1971 Chevy Vega 4Cly 4 speed ont he floor
4. 1973 ford grand torenio-hated this car-390 Ci auto
5. 1960 ford pickup 6 Cly 3 spped ont he column
6. 1965 Chevy pickup 350 Ci auto
7. 1966 Chevy station wagon 350 auto
8. 1975 Chevy pickup 350 Ci- 4 speed on the floor
9 1970 Nissan pickup 4 Cly 4 speed on the floor right side driver-I was stationed in Japan for 3 years
10. 1979 ACM AMX 302 ford Eng 4 speed on the floor-loved this car
11. 1975 Chevy impala 350 Ci auto-for the wife and kid.
12. 1960 dodge pickup stright 6, 3 seed on the
13. 1975 Chevy pickup 350 auto
14. 1972 Chevy pickup 350 auto
15. 1989 gmc S15 4 Cly auto
16. 1993 Chevy 1 ton extend cab 350 auto
17. 1985 Chevy pickup 3/4 ton 350 auto
18. 1992 ford van 6 Cly auto
19. 1996 Chevy pickup 4.8L auto
20. 2002 gmc pickup extended cab 5.3L auto
21. 2008 Chevy pickup crew cab 5.3L auto-still have it.
22. 2005 Chevy cobalt 4 Cly auto-wifes car
23. 2010 camaro 2LT/RS love this car- the first new muscle car i have had. and all thanks to the wife
47 years of driving. There is about five years accumlated thru out my 21 years in the Navy that I was at sea. Could not drrive on a aircraft carrir.

[Fightinfire921]

Forty years of driving.

1. 1962 Mercury Comet 1st
2. 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28
3. 1970 Dodge Demon
4. 1970 Chevrolet C-10 pickup
5. 1973 Chevrolet El Camino
6. 1975 Pontiac Trans Am
7. 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
8. 1988 Chevrolet S-10 4X4
9. 1990 Dodge Caravan, best mini vans on the road.
10.2001 Chrysler Town & Country, see #9
11. 2006 GMC Yukon Denali
12. 2009 Cadillic CTS
13. 2011 Cadillic SRX, daughters birthday present

Red=gone but not forgotten

[Sterling]

24 years of driving...

I've owned 9 cars... not including what the wife drives.

1. 1986 Subaru RX Turbo
2. 1969 VW Beetle
3. 1970 VW SuperBeetle
4. 1987 Pontiac Firebird
5. 1989 Nissan Pickup
6. 1980 Chevrolet Camaro Z-28
7. 1990 Honda Accord
8. 2002 Honda Civic
9. 2010 Chevrolet Camaro

[Synyster]

One of my buddies is on his 23rd truck and he's 27. He owns 11 of them right now plus a 2002 WS6.

I do honestly feel that I'll end up owning at least 30-40 cars and trucks before I'm 35. About to be on number 3.