I need some guidance/motivation

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I usually don't do this but here it goes..

A year ago I had two cars, lived in the city, life was good. I moved in August, now I'm living on the country, entertaining myself with a couple of girls and four cars, they go like this:

I've got a Daihatsu, right now it's sitting in winter storage in a garage with a smashed door and fender after lift off oversteer shenanigans at 90 mph. Less talk the better.
I've got a Benz W124, stuck outside said garage with a broken prop shaft or axle (I guess) after a failed burnout.
I've got a KE70 Corolla that I'm building inside the shop around the garage.
I also got another KE70, my first, sitting at a buddies place after I sent off the road in July, that's the only thing I've done to a car that I'm embarrassed about.
Plus a pocket bike and a skateboard, hows that for transport :)

Question is what to do, where to go now. Sentimental these days, it's about a year since I got my first KE, the white one, now and I drove it as often as I could, love the car to death. I see myself selling the Benz, completing and selling the beige KE and giving love to the Daihatsu show car and the white KE daily, then I'd be where I was a year ago. Or maybe I should move on? I have to possibility to build a mafia Benzo daily and a show quality beige KE70 (drift car?), I could scrap the white car and sell the Daihatsu. Keeping all cars is out of the question, gotta narrow it down to two or atleast three cars. What do you guys think? I know they're my cars and I gotta do the decisions, but I need some advice or atleast some motivation to get my act together. I need to collect the white car before the winter comes if I want to save it and I feel now is the time to do something anyway :)

The Daihatsu and white Rolla, playmates and best friends:
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And the Daihatsu (whore) and its new lover:
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Fix the Benz and sell it. It's most likely to be your best asset, which can then be used to repair the other cars. Make the best Rolla you can out of the nicer of the two Rollas and sell what's left of the other.

Then stop driving like a hooligan in cars you actually like.
 
Fix the Benz and sell it. It's most likely to be your best asset, which can then be used to repair the other cars. Make the best Rolla you can out of the nicer of the two Rollas and sell what's left of the other.

Then stop driving like a hooligan in cars you actually like.

This. Or you'll end up like me with a M3 in the garage :guilty:
 
With all understanding and love for the cars and respecting them,the owner shouldn't be a slave of the car itself,and the car should be driven properly if the owner likes it that way no matter what.

I would sell the KE's if i were you,made the Benz daily mobster,and Charade for show/driving etc.
 
If the Benz can be fixed cheaply, do it and then sell it.
Get the parts you need off of the worst of the two Toyo's and use them to fix the better of the two.
Sell the worst one, part out the rest of it, but make it go away, else it become a stripped shell that entices you to spend more money on it.
Diahatsu and Show car are not really words that belong in the same sentence in this country. So do what you will there.

With the Toyota, build the best, most reliable, daily runner/funtoy you can.
And stop driving like a hooligan and breaking cars.
 
This. Or you'll end up like me with a M3 in the garage :guilty:
You still haven't fixed that thing?

Depending on how much money you have laying around, I think you should focus on a good mix of dead-nuts reliable and kind of awesome. And stop drifting Corollas in the dirt. That's just asking for trouble, lol. Cars don't last forever and getting attached to them is goody. It's just a machine. If you want to keep the same one forever you'd better be able to pony up for many expensive repairs and replacements.
 
He broke his Corolla by accident... when a tire blew on that insane road trip he did earlier this year... isn't that right, erik?

I'd love to know how you broke the Benz... what were you doing burnouts on... superglue? :lol:

I'm going with the general consensus on this... sell the Benz... it's the costliest to maintain and the one with the most resale value... mix and match Corolla parts and sell the worse one, and keep the Charade. I'd suggest selling both Corollas and getting a newer daily driver, but I understand you're well and truly attached to the KE.
 
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