The " i shouldn't have sold that" thread

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If this is has been done before please slap my wrists then delete this thread.

What cars should you have kept?

For me, a

Mk1 golf GTI, loved that car, paid a lot for it when I bought it then sold it for a lot less  as I got bored of it.

Early series 2 landrover, would have been worth a few quid now.

e28 m535i.

1949 chevy pickup.

[Jem45]

About 8 E30s

[PistolPete]

I sold this about 10 years ago now, was a real solid shell but running two cars at 22 and thinking I’d find another easy if I wanted to I sold it.

The decision may or may not of been swayed by a holiday to Vegas though

[keyring]

My one owner 1.3 C mk2 golf, old woman had owned it since new, 80k on the clock, flew through its mot with a tiny weld in the rear inner arch with comments from the tester on how clean it was.

Sold it for silly low money when I didn’t really need to, but I had just bought a new car and didn’t see the point in keeping it

[okp]

Astra gte
Fiesta xr2i
1988 Vauxhall nova

Bikewise
yamaha rd350lc
Honda c90


Had these all back in the late mid 90s, they were considered curse word heaps then but try getting one now

[strikey]

just about everything i have sold...which is why don't like selling cars!
81 2dr rangie
86 mk1 caddy
90 827 vitesse hatch (huuuge regret)
95 v2 wrx (loved it but money pit!)

[Mercdan68]

This

[Waxoyling Lyrical]

Was forced to sell a very nice gloss black 1988 BMW E30 325iSE 2-door, as my landlord was demanding their pound of flesh. It did at least go to a good home (Or so I thought; a DVLA check reveals it ran out of tax and MOT 2 years back now, so I wonder what's become of it...)

[kusanagi]

For me 3 of my previous cars stand out.

A light blue B Reg Granada 2.8i Ghia X Estate, a very practical car, had to get rid of it as I had just bought my mustang and had nowhere to keep it.

A white Y Reg 1.6 LS Capri, Very low miles and in very good condition, had to get rid of it after some one pulled out of a side road in front of me and shortened the car by a foot. Knowing what I know now it would have been an easy fix.

A regency green S Reg ( 1978 ) 1.3 Ghia Fiesta, this is the car I truly regret getting rid of as I had just restored the car and tuned the engine to my liking when I got rid of it, it had to go as the insurance went crazy and I could not afford to insure it ( I was 21 at the time ), also I only found out a couple of years ago that the car was a little bit special as the colour that the car was painted was only available in that year on a Ghia model ( something to do with the queens jubilee ) and has not been available since, so it meant it was a little rare.

I will see if I can find some photo's and post them up.

[igor]

Mini 1275GT
RX30 Cressida
Allegro
I can solidly blame my ex-wife for losing all of these.

[chris y]

This Scimitar.

Picture found on Scimitar web when this thread made me remember that I've been meaning to find out if the man I sold it to still had it and wanted to sell.
It turns out that he sold it in 2014 and its sold again since so now the trail has gone cold.
Just as well because I don't need more cars.

I shouldnt have sold it, I'd only had it a year and solved the huge amount of problems it came with but family reasons and no practical car meant I had to sell.

Edit to add - when I sold it the new owner drove it straight to France, hence the number plate, it was an S reg.

[kevralpina]

Bmw 700cs now racing at good wood Mazda Montrose Audi Quattro mk2 cortina

[docjock]

Sunbeam Lotus.

[Kelvinator]

Its not a retro, but i regret selling my first DC2R Turbo

[ChasR]

Almost all of them. But are there particular cars I look back on? Yes.

-'79 MGB GT Sebring Replica. It's the very first car I really cut my teeth on, as a mechanical virgin. I had tinkered with bikes prior to this but that was it. Doing a full on resto when you are 18 is bad enough but doing a serious conversion is ambitious to say the least!



I sold it at the time as it seemed back then the car had consumed alot of cash (around £6k over 9 years), but with me only really driving it for the last year. It still needed a paintjob (another £2k) and ideally an engine swap to either a Zetec/K-Series or RV8. When I looked at what it would cost for even one of them it made sense to me to just move it on. A shame as it certainly looks great now! But you have to do these things

-'91 944 Turbo. If I had my business head on I'd have kept this. What was bad about it? I bought it with no history, and it was on 170k. What was good? It was a very well known car in the 944 circles, having been ProMax's old car and then a while EMC Motorsport's. With new wings & sills, KWv3s, Wortec switchable exhaust in addition to Big Black brakes on 17" Cup 1s shod which Michelin PS2s. It also a new cooling system, an LR Stage 1 intercooler and 300BHP



It was the spec that I wanted. It was spot on! Why did I get rid? The mileage fear got the better of me (i.e having an unsellable car; not handy when you don't have a mortgage...) and someone offered me £6.5k when I was looking to sell the car; My Stag was very troublesome at the time.

Yes, I know what they are worth now and yes, while the M3 is a better car in almost every way yet still with soul, I still miss that 944!

Finally?

A strange one. An '05 Mondeo Ghia X V6 3.0. It's funny, I bought that car without really considering it; I wanted a diseasel for work. But its condition tempted me otherwise. It was a gorgeous car to drive and immensely practical! It cornered well and went along well enough! I remember doing St. Davids from Warwick in around 2 hours! I also took that car to Le Mans, Blanes, Barcelona and then later to Lille! It also took my bike and I to Cannock Chase alot thanks to its practicality, and did a couple of house moves. Even when I took the car from 110k to 262k and it having shot suspension I still loved it! It used to do my sister's Uni run down to Brighton without a care in the world! it was something my E36 323i could never match.

If it was so good, why did it go? Simple. It had someone go into the back of it and the insurance company wrote it off. I seriously debated buying it back off them despite knowing I'd need to throw £1k at the suspension to get it how I wanted, but I didn't really care.

Funny isn't it? It set me back £3.5k in 2009 when I was stuck for a car and it really was an 'ideal' car for me. It's not the flashiest or most braggable car I've ever owned but it was so 'right'. I've debated getting an ST220 at times instead but truth be told I know it wouldn't be the same. Some things are best left to lie and that car is one. Well, it was...

Mondeo V6 3.0 WX05 OXS by Charlieboy, on Flickr

[lightyearman]

The red Jetta was a 1 owner car when I got it in 2010. 1.6 TX model, factory fitted big bumpers and little Sport /Raider alloys. Original bill of sale and factory option sheet. Swapped it for 2 tickets to Download Festival that year...



The white 16 valve CRX was my first love and ignited my passion for J stuff. It was pretty leggy when I got it but I took it from 125k to nearly 180k in 2 years. I did everything in that car. In the end it needed too much welding for my skill or budget at the time so I sold it for next to nothing to a guy in the owners club on the agreement it would be restored. True to his word he did have it restored and its on the road with a different member of the CRX OC now

[andyf]

Any number of Mk1 & 2 Escorts that we used to rag the off of back in the day.

A MK2 Jaguar that I got as a resto project then had to sell it for bits due to divorce.

A MK2 Lotus Cortina that I bought, then sold on very quickly when I found out it was rotten as a pear.

Not me, but my mum had a MK1 XR2 in white with a sports exhaust that was awesome that went for a song.

Unsurprisingly all were 20+ years ago. If we only knew then what we know now etc etc.

[neilsdavies]

1966 Beetle, roof-chopped 12-second drag car. Scrapped 8 weeks after I sold it.
1951 split-window Beetle, I'd owned it for 7 years and not touched it, just collected parts. Sold it for half what it was worth. Idiot.
1970 Beetle. Nothing special but I just bonded with it.
Pictures when I'm at home and on Wi-Fi!

[scmick]

For me it was the last Ford powered car I owned. Magenta Tarragon TXR built in 1986. from parts of various rusty Capris I'd run. It was crude, mine was I think, only the second Capri based Kit they'd done and I ended up finding out what doesn't fit and modifying to suit. Used it as daily transport, a bit of sprinting and later as towcar for my oval and circuit racing efforts. Finally sold it in 2001 when an Espace took over towing duties. The Magenta went to a guy who dealt in Old Ford parts so probably got scrapped for the 1700 crossflow, Cosmic alloys & 3 Litre struts to go back into Dagenham 'tin'. Wish I'd still got it when I think of the running gear available now and the time and facilities I've now got.

[Sammo]

I've sold/scrapped numerous XR2's and XR3i's over the years. Couple of 1.3 SR Nova's as well. However the one I really wish I'd never sold was my 1993 Ford F-150 Lightning truck. Only sold it so I could buy a TVR Chimaera which I ended up hating and sold on again about six months later!