My pants still fit me from college.
Well, they are sweatpants after all.
They were given to me by a friend of mine who is known as a “Datsunaholic”. He keeps a few old cars. A few of those models have been written up by Paul Niedermeyer who now keeps a lot of houses along with his new web site. He invariably finds ‘keeper folk’ from all walks of life. But most of the people he finds are not car enthusiasts at all.
Why do they keep these cars then? Are they perhaps hoarders? Do they suffer the afflictions of the wantless?
Or is this just another write-up inspired by Kevin Bacon?
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Tagged as car ownership, cheap cars, Hammer Time, Keeper, Steven Lang, tightwad, traders vs keepers
Tagged as car ownership, cheap cars, Hammer Time, Keeper, Steven Lang, tightwad, traders vs keepers
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