What’s The Longest You’ve Owned A Vehicle For?

I’ve had one of the Allards since 1976. It’s still going strong.

Ive owned many many high end german sports and luxury cars that i dont keep very long but ive owned my wonderful 2002 maxima 3.5 6spd for 7.5 years and im never, ever gonna sell it. Just the best all around car ever! Its always there for me when the germans are in the shop or just being annoying

Alfa….(’69…1750GTV)…..49 years….My Baby…….can’t believe how the years have gone by

My 1989 Range Rover which I owned from 1992 to 2016. I miss her, but she’s in a good home.

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the longest i ever onw a car so far was a daihastu feroza for almost 3 years, but i think that this last car i have will beat that personal record

Bought my 1982 Alfa Romeo GTV6 Balocco in 1995, was daily driver for 15+ years and now it’s my weekend driver.

I am 6 weeks away from owning and driving my 1990 Subaru DL Leone Wagon for 10 years. This breakable old car has taken me around most of the south eastern portion of Australia and I have many fond memories with it. this has been in the family since new, when my grandfather bought it for a trip from Melbourne to Perth. Looking forward to seeing what the next 10 years brings!

I bought a 1950 Austin A40 Devon in 1979 when I was 15. I still have it. I have 3 more now, one is a pick-up, one is a Jensen bodied sports and the other is a later A40 Farina. It’ll be 37 years in October!

I just sold my 86 Corvette that I had for 20 years. I drove it regularly right up until I handed over the keys. I’ve had my 71 Malibu since 86. It’s my daily driver. I would say there is an upside to familiarity. This is especially true when your do your own maintenance.

I still have my Citroen Dyane, which I bought in September 1992.
Drove it all over Europe: From the west coast of Ireland to Romania, from Nordkapp in Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean, and all the countries in between.
I also still have all other cars which I have bought since.
Why sell a car if I don’t have to?
Got a picture of the Dyane (and other cars) here:

http://citrovideos.blogspot.si/2011/12/1-introduction.html

Have a 1986 Yamaha radian bought in late 85. So that 31 years
My BBi owned from 93 is 23 years
05 M3 owned 11 years.
11 elise is the baby at 5 years.

The years fly by, and oen way to accumulate great cars is to buy them over time and before “collectors” catch on, and then dont sell.

My vehicles have been on an order of magnitude more humble than the cars mentioned earlier. But here goes…

My first car was a 1977 MG Midget in 1978 which my father co-signed for. I loved it but it was so unreliable over the two years I owned it I was going to trade it in for a ’66 Mustang Fastback. But on the day before I was going to trade it, I was attacking a corner too fast for my talent and rolled it. My Dad and I cobbled it together with junkyard parts but the frame was twisted and it crabbed down the road.

So I traded it in on a brand-new 1979 Toyota Corolla Liftback. Way before the import tuner craze, I crafted some tinted lens (and mounting brackets) for it, installed Momo steering wheel and shift knob, a Wink three panel rear view mirror, a sunscreen on the windshield, and custom self made racing stripes tape job. I autocrossed that for several years, then joined the Air Force, and I kept the Corolla for 10 years and 170,000 miles. I sold the Corolla because I bought an ’85 BMW 318i in 1988. I couldn’t manage both the Toyota and BMW, as well as my Kawasaki GPz550.

I kept the BMW for 11 years and 120,000 (it ended up with 190,000 miles overall).

I bought a 1991 Ford F-150 brand new in Sep. 1991 and I still have that so it’s been 25 years now. At one point I had 5 motorcycles, the BMW and the F-150 so I had to slim down the menagerie. Still being in the military, it was too hard to move all these vehicles each time I got new orders. So I sold the BMW, all the bikes except my ’88 Suzuki Katana, and kept the truck.

In 1996, I bought a new Ducati 900SS/CR and still have that so I’ve had that for 20 years now. It’s extensively modified and is my baby….it’ll go to my son when I pass.

I bought an unrestored 1966 GT Fastback Mustang in 1995. I really couldn’t afford or justify it, but the opportunity came up and it was just too good to pass up. It was pretty rough but “driveable”. We had just had our second child and had recently purchased our first house, so there was no money to restore the car. I drove it occasionally, but for the most part it just sat in the workshop with a cover over it, while we spent what little extra resources we had renovating our house. After more than a decade, I had a little windfall of cash and decided it was time to restore the fastback. I spent the next 4 years doing an extensive restoration and when it was completed I got to enjoy it for about another 4 years. During this time I purchased a ’65 Shelby GT350 (my bucket list car).

After 18 years of ownership, I sold the fastback and put the proceeds into my kids’ college fund. So 18 years is my record, but I plan to keep the Shelby for longer – unless something better comes along!

I’m still driving my first car too, a 1997 Peugeot 106 Rallye, that i have owned for 6,5 years. I picked it up when i was 19 (i’m 25 now), about one year after i got my license (legal limit is 18 here in Denmark), and i’ve put around 45.000 miles / 70.000 kms on the little bugger. It wasn’t really anything special when i got it – plenty of them around, but now most of them seem to have disappeared. I have also had people honk and wave at me, comment on it and wanting to chat about it – that’s new!
I don’t have any plans about selling it, still love throwing it around country roads 🙂

The 76 Maverick has been a part of my life since 1978. Parked since 94 because I made the mistake of leaving it in the “care” of my sister when I went off to university. At least she gave me the excuse to do an engine swap.

This Friday will be the 18th year that I have owned my E30 M3. It was the first car I purchased. Other cars have come and gone but that one will always be there.