Posted on 01/09/2022 5:54:08 AM PST by super7man
Let's get right to business.
What car have you owned and then sold, that you wish you could get back? When did you buy it and what did it cost? When did you sell it and for how much? Why did you sell it? What is it worth today?
Pictures are allowed.
I'll start.
I would go to pick up my car at a parking site...The guy would say....Oh, you’re the lady with the Monte. I loved it!!
‘38 Ford Vicky, 2 Door. ‘59 Olds 394 J-2 with 3/4 Isky with 750 CFM Quadrajet. ‘39 LaSalle trans and 3.90 Pontiac posi, Dropped 2 In., ‘58 Roadmaster binders w/ ‘54 Skylark wires. Atlas Bucrons. Six coats deep coachwork maroon lacquer. Original seating and trim redone in grey horse hair. Lovely ride and very, very quick.
Owned a 1970 Porsche 914. Bought new for $3,987. Drove the hell out of it and it was fun as no one had seen them when I got mine. Terrible to start in winter or drive on snow or ice. Drove it across the country and had a ball. You are right, at 90 mph it was great but above that it was subject to floating around a little. The yellow one on the wikipedia page is like mine.
Put four people in a a number of time which shows how wide and comfortable a two seater it was. Sold it for 2800 after 40k miles for an early Audi Fox which was another wonderful car that was tough to get properly serviced. The Audi I took across the old Wolf Creek Pass highway with a foot of packed snow on it.
bought 1969 datsun spl311 1600. bought $2000 in 1974.
traded in for 1975 chevy monza 2 plus 2.
present listed value between 7500 and 50000!!!
1966 Shelby. I fully restored and sold it in 1974 to get married. Sold for $12,500, now worth $125,000. Value of wife??????
The yellow one on the wikipedia page is like mine.
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The one I had was also a yellow one. The color was a pure bright yellow. It looked great against the black targa top and black bumpers.
I had the same MG. Was driving back to California from Phoenix…..in a huge windstorm, which was bad enough….but as I passed semis on the highway I could actually feel the car lifting off the highway due to the wind and the trucks. Pulled over into a rest area and slept for the night. Got back to California the next day and sold it.
Chevy Camaro LT 1976. Black vinyl top..red/orange paint. Clean..nice 305 v-8...voted worst Camaro ever by some car mag. Put out 160 horses...early smog control bs. Bought 4.5 k..sold 2.7 k....worth about 12k now. I would buy it again and trick it out nicely. If I could only get interior door handles that wouldn’t break!
I went to a party once, and when I came out my car was not where I left it. A bunch of jokesters had bodily picked up the car and placed it precisely between two trees where there was absolutely no room to get it out!
I got volunteers to help me free my car...:)
No real regrets.
Had my grandparents 57 Ford Custom 2-door post in college. 223 6 with overdrive. Got 23 MPG in the early/mid 70s that was unheard of for a full size car. Was ugly ugly brown. Painted it black (like Milner’s 55 in AmGraf). A set of American chromes and 60 series tires and it looked great but still just a 223 six. Super reliable. Last year of college sold it to little brother and he still has it. But now with a 390 - so it now also GOES.
Moved to a 64 Custom. Ostensibly white with a red interior 4-door. My father bought it from a co-worker who was told the tranny was shot. Unfortunately it was stored under some cedar trees and the exterior was rusty - even the rust had rust. And the rubber seals on the windows on the doors were gone. A good ice storm and I could not hardly get the doors open. Then when I did, they would NOT latch closed again. So here’s me, driving back to college on I-80 with the passenger door held shut by twisting the seatbelt and running it through the door handle. Meanwhile I’m driving with one hand and holding the handle on the driver’s door with my other hand to sort of keep it closed. The weird thing was, the interior of the car was beautiful and immaculate. I would go somewhere with my buddies and park in the lot. I would always say “I’d trade my car sight-unseen with any other vehicle in the lot.” Then we’d walk out and I’d confirm that. I think once there was one that was pretty much a wash. Then one day it wouldn’t shift out of low. Called my father and he told me it was probably a vacuum hose on the side of the transmission. Sure enough, I crawled under and pulled it off-it was cracked. Walked down to the parts store and told the guy I need 4” of 1/2” vacuum hose. He said the minimum was a foot. He must have felt sorry for me because he just cut off 4” and gave it to me. Car was fine after that.
Eventually had a 65 Mustang convertible. Rangoon red with red interior. 20 years later it was time for someone else to enjoy it.
I did buy new special order an 89 Mustang 5.0 GT convertible. Red over argent with white leather interior and white top. There was a special at the time. Either upgrade to an automatic or get free A/C. That was a no-brainer. Gimme the A/C. Love the 5-speed. The happy ending is, I still have that car. About 38,000 miles. Sometimes I think about getting a newer one, then I just run through the gears on that and I get a huge smile. No, I think I’ll keep it...
My dad spent some serious bucks restoring his Jag of a similar age. It was close to 6 figures..
Quite frankly, none. I’ve bought practical vehicles for most of my life. I did buy a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon when I retired, but almost seven years later, I sold it. More and more trails are being closed off to the public, so it was time. But no regrets about selling it.
I was so lucky to have that van in high school...not for the reasons you might think, but...because anywhere a group of us had to go somewhere, we went in “The Van”!
I had so many stories about that van.
Chasing kids in it through a rock-filled gully and getting stuck.
Being awoken by the Maine State Police in February as me and two friends spent a freezing sleepless night in a pull off of I-95 where my sleeping bag froze to the floor in a spilled drink.
Carrying band instruments for our CYO band following a bus and having the drive shaft fail catastrophically, while the busses full of band kids drove the next twenty miles without realizing we had broken down.
Driving down a small twisting rural road at high speed with my date in the passenger seat after watching a drive in movie on a double date with my best friend and another girl we had called making out in the back. I had a “black book” and we were looking for two girls to go out with, so we called them and they agreed. As we sped down the road which I was unfamiliar with, we went around a corner, over a small bridge where the road on the other side dropped drastically away and the road curved away, and the entire van became airborne. As the van slammed back to earth, the camping top popped up, the cot with the iron bar came crashing down on my buddy and his girl as they both came back to earth on the floor of the van. (We didn’t get killed)
So many stories. How I loved that vehicle.
Bought a 67 cuda with a 426 hemi in 1970 From a friend for 75 dollars.
He didn’t want to bother with the car because of a bent wheel spindle.
Well, I had the car for about a month before my dad made me get rid of it .. a kid and a race car don’t mix! Lol
Sold it for 200 dollars.
I saw a 57 Porsche on the road a few years ago, $150K. Don’t want to think about it. Sold it to a friend in ‘68 who collected them.
My dad’s biggest regret is not buying the gull winged Mercedes back in the day. It was slightly out of reach of his military salary..
67 Mercury Cougar converted to the XR-7 package
73 Gran Torino Sport Fastback
Don’t even want to know what they’re worth these dayz.
My dad’s biggest regret is his mom trashed all of his trading cards when he went to college in the 50’s. LOL.
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