Have You Ever Sold A Car And Then Regretted It?

My father had a 1970 Pontiac Firebird Esprit that he sold before I could drive. I loved that car and had dreamed it would be mine but he sold it. I’m still on the hunt to find it and have the VIN. It looks much like the pic attached of a 1971 model but same color and Rally wheels.

I have two of them, and always missed it. The first one was a 2005 Lexus IS200 with the manual Gearbox. Buy it with 150’000 km and sold it with 240’000 and I never have a solid and trustfully car like this one.

The second one was a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V (5) from 1998 and I sold it after the cops always stop me for everything. So i sell it with profit, but this Evo are still in my heart.

Long story, but in short, I grew up with my dad having a 1979 924. We loved that car. It was the a member of the family. On my 13th birthday, my father bought a 1986 944 for me to have and sort all the bugs out together as a team. At 18, my father and I decided to open our own machine shop and I couldn’t contribute financially what my father could, so I took it upon myself to contribute a heavy duty diesel truck for towing our jobs. You see it coming. Yes, I traded my 944 to a man hours away for a dodge 3500 that wasn’t nearly in as good knick as described. My friend and I delivered my car to him and immediately I regretted my decision. I threw up. I was dizzy. I was depressed. On my arrival home with my ‘business contribution’ , my father’s reaction was much the same. It took 2 and a half years, but I found my car, 6 hours away on Craigslist. I had searched the entire time after to find it and the next morning, I was in route, cash in hand to buy her back. I’m now 22 and appreciate my car more than ever. I was the 2nd owner of a mint, low milage 944 and now I’m the 5th owner of the same car that needed much sorting, but is now near the shape she left me in.

Sorry it was a 1987 Monte Carlo SS not a 1989. But it got me looking and now I am really ticked. Almost positive my old SS sold at Mecum auction Feb 2014 for 13K. Will post link later when I settle down 🙁

Around 1994 I was working for a blimp company and travelling extensively throughout the country. NASCAR was really starting to get big and I decided I wanted a late 80’s Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS. Think Dale Earnhart in the Wrangler car. I started learning about them and began checking around every time I hit a new locale. After about six months of looking we were at Teterboro Airport in Eastern New Jersey. I found a 1989 model in East Orange and took off to take a look. The car had spent its whole life in New Mexico and was silver on silver with no T tops. Condition was near perfect but the mileage was a little high at 64,000. The original owner wanted $4500 and I got her down to $4300. I had my mom do a wire transfer and the SS was mine.

These cars weren’t anything special nor were they fast, but it looked good and was sporty. Only mod I did was to run straight pipes. After about ten years of constant travel with the blimp job I threw in the towel and decided to move from Orlando to St Augustine, FL. I sold the car to a guy in the Orlando area for $4800. I was quite proud of myself for turning a profit. I only put about 10K miles on the car during 3 to 4 years of ownership.

About three years later I was in the Melbourne area and spotted a car that looked just like my old SS, just nicer. You guessed it! It was my old car. The guy remembered me and pulled over. He was real excited to show me my old car. He had it resprayed with the original color and decals with beautiful clear coat. Then he pops the hood and shows me the L-82 motor he had dropped in. He did what I would have liked to do to that car and that was the first time I wished I had never sold that car.

68 mecurey cyclone GT 390 hp also a 65 buick skylark 355 wild cat motor

My mom sold my dad’s 73 Nova when he passed. I can’t really ever forgive her for that one.

Had a 1967 Datsun Roadster. I had taken it all apart. Got the parts in boxes while I worked on the frame and body. Lost my job and couldn’t pay to continue living in a big house. Put it up for sale but no one would buy it in pieces. So, I gave it away to a kid that was looking for a school project. Before having to move to a apartment. It’s been 5 years and 4 months ago I met the kid’s dad. He told me his kid never finished the car and sits in the back of his house. If only I had a place! I’d go get it.

My ’74 GTV, which I sold in ’02, but the regret was missing until they regularly started fetching five figures.

In order to prevent future regret, I’ve stopped selling cars. I now have another problem: I’m out of room.

What about regrets over taking a car to the auto-wreckers (simply because it needed a new CV joint). A weird looking Subaru that came over on the very first shipment to N. America. I’m guessing mid-70’s vintage. I don’t ever recall seeing another one — even back then.

I’ve too many automotive regrets. Perhaps the largest is selling my Fiat Panda 100HP – fabulous fun, but I needed to free money I had tied up in it, and it coincided with me not using it enough anyway. In retrospect, it would have been a nice one to keep and tune to my tastes – a fruity exhaust, better dampers. I’m interested in too many cars to hold onto just the one, though.

I had a 1991 honda crx si in highschool and college. It was fun from 0 to 60. I always had dreams of swapping the engine out for a vtec b16 or do a mini me swap by putting a vtec single cam head on it. I use to abuse the hell out of it redlining it and topping it out coming from college at night from classes and studying. It had an exhaust on it sounded great. The only thing that did not work on it was the AC because the part was over $500 to buy from honda put in the dash. I think that driving a black car in summers in Florida made me get rid of it. The fact I am a tall and big guy that could not drive it with a helmet on. I still want to buy Civic hatch from the early to mid 90’s one day. The prices are very low right now. Maybe even an elusive Integera GSR I lusted after when I had the honda bug.

My uncle had a 1969 AMC AMX and it was in very good shape with a few performance upgrades to it. I remember driving around with him in that car to shows, events, and just plain ole joy rides. I always loved that car because it was two seater a unusual thing to see in a car at least to a kid and every time we went to a show was always the only AMX there. Sadly my uncle had a illness that he couldnt recover from and we had to see that lovely beast. I still kick myself for letting it go.

A 1988 Porsche 928S4 that I sold in 1996 after owning it for three years. I felt depressed for a month. I managed to track it by using the VIN # and toyed with the idea of making an offer to its new owner to buy it back. However, after a while, I realized that I sold it for a reason and moved on.