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Even though I've only owned "Baby Blue" for only 3 months and have a boatload of items on the to-do list for her, I find myself thinking "I'm going to do (crazy idea) on my next LBC". Then I start measuring how much room I'd have in the garage if I had two LBC's nose-to-tail. I think the financial reality, not to mention the spousal reality, would probably prevent that from happening at this time...yet the thought continues to cross my mind/
 
shhhhhh shhhh shhhhh. Yes it's normal, there's no potential for obsessive compulsive LBC hoarding...Nope, can't happen...:nonod:

Just keep the urges quite and they can't control you. OK?
 
They will follow you home. I just closed a deal on Bugsy III, a '59 I've been chasing for 4 years. I need sone parts off of this one for Bugsy II but this BE will be available in Spring
. Pics to follow as soon as I get it home.
 
Perfectly normal for those of us with the old car addiction. My non-car friends have never understood how I've managed to go through so many cars/bikes in the last few years, but there are other things to try all the time.
 
Rest assured it is normal. Readings from the 1920s and earlier show something called the "Law of Attraction" it says that like things are attracted to like things. So if you have one British car, another one comes near. If you have a shelf with some parts on it, it will fill up with parts, etc, etc, etc.
 
Definitely have the parts thing happening in my garage. Slowly, but surely, LBC parts and supplies are starting to fill up all my garage shelves. They may put a squeeze on the bicycles and bike parts.
 
You've seen our garage. At one point there were four lbc's in there (one turned sideways). It seems that there is always room for one more, or at least you can convince yourself of that. Having been down to just the Bugeye and the 100-6 for a couple of months now, I find myself "just looking" at craigslist. I really can't justify another one - see all the issues we just had with the 100-6's brakes over on the Austin Healey forum. One of my biggest problems is my wife. Her usual response when we see another one is "why not?" That makes it really hard to ignore them!
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It is quite normal. I have five bays, one of which houses my wife's car. Recently I suggested that she can park outside so I could have more room. She didn't go for it...she can be so unreasonable at times!
 
The way I was able to justify buying the Sprite to the Mrs. was that we could fit the Sprite and her Corolla in the garage nose-to-tail. Number of times we've done this since I bought the Sprite: 0

Half the garage has become a Square Sprite Shrine, another half for the bicycles and a third half for...
 
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