Starting to think I should try to find a home for my 40 and F250 and roll the funds into a 4 door Tacoma. I would have decent mpg, a truck bed, less vehicles to insure. Just thinking this through, by no means am I set on this.
In another thread a few years ago, someone was asking whether or not to sell his built 80 because he couldn't afford to drive it anywhere.
The question I asked then is the question I'll ask now:
Does your vehicle support your
lifestyle, or does your lifestyle support your
vehicle?
There's nothing wrong with having a "hobby vehicle" if that's what you're into and if that's what you want. If you'd rather spend a day working on your vehicle, adding accessories, shining and polishing, or making your vehicle exactly what you want it to be, then by all means that's what you should be doing.
But if you're spending so much time and money building and maintaining your vehicles that you don't have the time and money left over to actually use them the way you
want to, then you've got to ask yourself the question above.
You've got one life to live and time and money are finite things.
I get attached to vehicles, especially the 40. My Dad and started working on it back in 1998 and restored it to a solid DD and trail rig.
You certainly aren't the first person to fall into this kind of trap, where you want to keep some tangible iconic thing that connects you to the past, but where doing so keeps you from enjoying
today.
But ultimately it's up to you to decide: Do these "things" you have enhance your life, or are they just anchors, dragging you down and keeping you from doing what you
want to be doing.