The Drew Johnson fleet: an inside look

Take a peak inside my garage.

As a professional automotive enthusiast, I tend to amass a lot of cars, or at least a lot for a person with a two-car garage. At current count I'm up to five (six if you include my wife's car), which means I spend most of my time as a valet parker, moving two cars just so I can get to one.

Obviously buying a Jay Leno-like off-site garage would be the perfect solution, but I lack the Jay Leno bankroll for that. So I'm doing the sensible thing and thinning the herd.

If you've watched any of my recent videos you'll know my 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.9 Limited. It's a lovely vehicle that's had just one owner before me and traveled just 42,000 miles, which means it's too nice for my fleet. I have a two kids and a dog which, as it turns out, is the perfect formula for ruining the interior of a car. So instead of seeing its interior covered in crumbs and mud, I'm going to pass it on to its next caretaker.

Hopefully Project RAV4X4 doesn't need an introduction, but just in case, it's my 1997 Toyota RAV4 that I turned into a mini monster truck. All the work on it is done, but the rear limited slip differential, which was the main selling point of my RAV4 is kaput. Toyota doesn't make the repair parts anymore and they're impossible to find used, so that's that.

I'll be taking the RAV4X4 off-rood soon (hopefully by the end of the month), and then it will probably be going up for sale.

My 2013 Toyota Land Cruiser -- the purchase of which I documented earlier this year -- isn't going anywhere. It's perfect in every way (fuel economy not withstanding) and I love it.

In the early days of this channel I featured both my 1997 BMW M3 Sedan and 1978 Jeep Cherokee, and then went radio silent on them. But despite being hidden from sight, they're still alive and well in the Johnson fleet. The M3 serves as my daily driver during the summer months and the Cherokee is the vehicle the family piles into for cars and coffee. Or at least that's how they used to get used.

The M3 has been sitting more and more because I just love driving the Land Cruiser so much. And in a sad twist of fate, the cars and coffee we used to attend went out of business, so the Cherokee doesn't get used as often as it should, either. And for those reasons, they'll probably be headed for sale.

But fear not -- the fleet isn't being pared down to nothing. I'd really like to plan another project and, as I said before, I tend to amass a lot of cars, so I'm sure the state of the fleet will be strong for the foreseeable future.