Why is old gun collecting better than old car collecting?

[Dr. Sandman]

I know guys that collect old guns, and guys that collect old cars. I am an old gun collecter and I tell Mrs. Sandman that she is getting the better deal of the 2. Here's why collecting old guns is better than collecting old cars.

1. It is less expensive. The price of one old car is equal to tens or even hundreds of old guns.

2. It takes up less space.

3. The old guns may leak oil, but not on the garage floor.

4. Old cars usually depreciate in value (with exceptions of course), old gun values go up every year.

5. You can't mail that old Fairlane back to Ford for repairs, but you can do it with you old S&W.

6. You don't have a constitutional right to a car.

 

[Roadkill]

Be kinds hard to hang old cars on the wall

 

[ratt_finkel]

What is that collection exhibiting Roadkill? Very nice by the way.

 

[Bubbles]

While almost everything the OP said is true, an old gun just can't give me the top-down cruising on a summer night feeling that my 1969 Mustang convertible can.

 

[Ranger Roberts]

Fortunately for me my wife has learned to put up with both! If you ask her, my guns are more expensive because I can justify buying them more often!

 

[dprice3844444]

you can get more guns into a smaller space

 

[BSA1]

HA!! You try telling a senior citizen they don't have a Constitutional Right to vote and see what happens.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

I'm not a car guy. Just ain't. I like a pickup truck made in America with a V8 and four wheel drive with a decent paint job. After that it don't really matter to me. I don't cruise in my truck, I have a bicycle for that and it keeps the waist line a little less bulbous. But guns, well guns are fun. Because holding a Colt New Service .45 LC in one hand and hitting red dixie cups at twenty yards is awesome even if the gun isn't in original condition (no collector's value). Because using a Colt 1903 harkens back to a time when politicians were only fist becoming obviously corrupt allies of criminals.

Because a Mosin Nagant or a German Mauser will give you some appreciation for what it had to have felt like racking the bolt time and time again as you had to either charge a fixed position or you were defending one. Because a ugly old Remington made 1911 made for the Airborne, is a sweeter shooter than a Colt 1911. Because a S&W 1917 uses technology harkening back to the turn of the 20th century, and is still the same technology we use today more or less.

I can make primers, I can make gun powder, I have laboriously made brass casing that have fed and lasted a few reloads, and I can still cast projectiles. I can't make gasoline, I could make bio-diesel but that's about it.

Oh, and I will let my woman shoot my old guns but I won't let her drive my truck.

 

[stellarvore]

I don't have that many guns, and my car is a 2012 Eclipse....but I can only enjoy one car per day, and for so long before I have to buy gas, or have simply run out of places to go.

I can take ALL my guns in that car, and enjoy ALL of them all day long. I can fit many firearms and plenty of ammo and a cooler full of food and drinks in my little car.

Only thing I have to work on is sometimes taking my own target holders, depending on where I feel like going.

 

[87hurricane]

I've used some of the same excuses for collecting motorcycles vs cars, mainly the space and expense parts. I love bikes, cars, and guns, but guns are definitely the last I would part with.

 

[Rom828]

I was heavily into cars but now don't have the resources, that being time and money. I've been around guns my entire life and in the last few years have been collecting and tinkering with them. They don't require plates, are easier to store, the tires don't dry rot and you don't get them dinged up in a parking lot. I've kept my old vehicles, they are just on hold right now.

 

[ricebasher302]

Because most old Colts and Smiths don't have a dead cylinder.

 

[slumlord44]

I can sneak another gun into my garage and my wife will never know. When I snuck a '65 Mustang into the garage when she was on a bowling trip, she noticed. Old cars can also go up in value too.

 

[rcmodel]

Because I can afford an old S&W or Winchester now & then.

But I will never, ever be able to afford an old 426 Cobra, Ferrari GT-250, or GT-40 Ford?

rc

 

[jim in Anchorage]

a 426 cobra? Now that's a rare bird

 

[rcmodel]

Dang guy!
Cut me some slack!
My dog died today, and it's after 1:00 AM here when I typed a 6 instead of a 7!!

And yes, a 426 Cobra is rare.
That's why I can't afford one.

Guess I'll just have to continue to make do with my old 427 Cobra!

rc

 

[Trent]

Sorry bout the dog, RC. This is a hard time of year to lose an animal. Ground is hard and frozen. Buried my last dog on new years day, to the rising sun. First thing I did back in 2011 was say good bye to my best friend.

But I digress.

I love old stuff.

I keep telling my wife that's why I'll be with her to my dying day. She gets sweeter with time.

(And that is how I stay out of trouble when I bring home new old guns.)

 

[jim in Anchorage]

Oh now you want to make me feel bad because I caught you're typo on the day ypu're dog died? Is that not pulling out the heavy artillery?
Sorry about your dog though. I have been through it several times and it can break your heart.


All though as bad as it was I could still tell the differentce between a cobra and a cuda

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Gun safes take up less real estate than garages. I know folks who have more guns than Jay Leno has cars but don't have a huge hunking garage out back. Just a gun safe or two (or and a beefed-up closet with lockable metal door and the strike plate for the bolt secured with 6" decking screws into the 2x4 of the doorframe).

 

[bannockburn]

For home defense my old M&P revolver and trusty flashlight fit better in my nightstand than my car did.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Dang guy!
Cut me some slack!
My dog died today, and it's after 1:00 AM here when I typed a 6 instead of a 7!!

And yes, a 426 Cobra is rare.
That's why I can't afford one.

Guess I'll just have to continue to make do with my old 427 Cobra!

rc

Sorry about your dog rc.
That 427 Cobra wouldn't be the blue one with white stripes that goes up and down Wellman Rd in the summer would it?

 

[Vern Humphrey]

And:

7. If an intruder breaks into your house, you don't have to run to the garage and start your gun so you can run over him.

 

[230RN]

And cars don't go 750 mph, like even the lowly .22 LR standard velocity will.

 

[guyfromohio]

I can sneak a gun past my wife.

 

[deputy tom]

I don't know anyone with a fifty car garage. tom.