You can part out two Ferrari models in one month and still make the rent. Model cars don't affect your auto liability policy. Model car tires never go flat on dark deserted roads. Model cars never leak oil or gas on your driveway. You can have five nice show model cars that stay nice, but keeping one real one nice is a full-time job.
Nobody brings five real cars to a show all by themselves, but five model cars fit nicely in a box.
You can buy five model cars at once without signing any loan papers. Written by Tom Geiger as appeared in the Music City Modelers Newsletter. You don't have to scrape snow and ice off your model cars' windshields on winter mornings. It's a whole lot cheaper to paint them. Replacement parts are a lot less expensive.