Did you get told you are having a "Mid-life Crisis"?

[PJR202]

I got the midlife crisis comment a few times right after I bought the car and my reply was "I'm 36."

I've loved mustangs and sports cars in-general since high school, but due to a bad first marriage and some other general life circumstances I wasn't in a position to buy something until this year. I had a 67 camaro project car for a long time but it's never come to fruition for a number of reasons. My dad has it now, still in pieces. A guy at work was in his mid 40's with grown children when he bought his SS and his reply to people was "It's not a midlife crisis. I've ALWAYS wanted one, but it took until now to be in a position to do it." Basically the same as me, but I managed to be in position a bit sooner. Mine had to be a second car and I can't float two payments so I had to get my truck paid off first. He uses his SS year round. That dude has driven to work in some serious snow, even when he was running P-Zero's..LOL

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[PatrickGT]

TIL having a 3-car garage makes you rich.

Interesting.

 

[IA350]

Like others have said I don't think it's age as much as being able to afford it and practicality of the vehicles at the time in my life. I had cool cars when I was younger (69 Mach I and a 66 Sunbeam Tiger) but then got married had 3 kids and had to sell the cool cars for Mini-Vans and Mazdas When kids got out of college I started buying toys again, priorities changed. So since turning fifty (9 years ago) I've owned 5 different mustangs and currently have a 2007 Shelby GT and the 2017 GT350 in the stable...and I'll keep adding to the collection as long as I can afford it and the wife approves.

 

[Jon|3.7]

i see nothing wrong with something you enjoyed having/watching when you were young and getting it when your older and financially stabled.

 

[Strokerswild]

TIL having a 3-car garage makes you rich.

Interesting.

Not to mention hilarious.

I've got five garage stalls total on my property and am far, far removed from anything resembling "rich"...

 

[macroy]

46 - so the age fits. However, no one has accused me of having a mid-life crisis. I actually have joked about it a few times.

The wife does call it the loud redneck car. Thinking of getting the Dukes of Hazard dixie horn for it....

 

[Dalton@Evolution]

I'm 18 so is this an Early Life Crisis ?? I got a 5.0 tho

 

[Jon|3.7]

I'm 18 so is this an Early Life Crisis ?? I got a 5.0 tho

that's the first symptom!

 

[ncrisis]

yep.. license plate reads NCRISIS

 

[Norm Peterson]

I guess if you always drove a boring car like a Camry and then suddenly bought a GT350 people might use the mid-life line on you.

I think that's the way people who aren't car enthusiasts see it - because they've been the world's Camry drivers their whole lives and always will be. In particular, I think being a car enthusiast hardly registers with them. All they can see about a fun car purchase made later in life is people like themselves waking up one morning - about the time of their AARP eligibility - with the scary thought that they could miss out forever if they didn't start treating themselves RIGHT NOW.


I'd just turned 60 when I bought the '08. But I'd never bought quite the same kinds of cars that other family members and co-workers always seemed to, or driven them in quite the same fashion as they drove their cars, so I guess it didn't come to them as all that much of a surprise.


Norm

 

[vernonator]

I certainly did - at 53. I do have to remind people that this IS my 4th Mustang. I had an F-150 and a Taurus SHO for a while between #3 and #4 but that was only because you can't fit 2 car seats in the back of the GT.

Mid life crisis my butt....I am back to driving what I had been since I was 17....a MUSTANG GT BABY!!!!!!! :ford:

 

[AGGT350]

Not when I bought the Mustang but I got heckled pretty good when I bought this.

Hahaha love it!

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