| Author | Message | ||
| Howie (Brokerofexotics)
Junior Member Username: Brokerofexotics Post Number: 242 Registered: 11-2001 |
On the flipside, what car were you happiest to get rid of and why? Will start a new topic. | ||
| Mike Dawson (Miked)
Junior Member Username: Miked Post Number: 62 Registered: 2-2001 |
I dug out the only pictures I have of my old 1956 XK-140MC DHC (circa 1970) and took a picture of them with my digital camera. They aren't the greatest so I probably will get them digitized before the original snapshots disintegrate completely.     | ||
| Hubert Otlik (Hugh)
Member Username: Hugh Post Number: 341 Registered: 1-2002 |
Howie- I'm w/ you on missing you're E30 M3, one of the greatest enthusiast cars to come to US from BMW along w/ it's latter cousin the E36M3 CSL. I don't regret cars sold, as I haven't owned enough, I regret the various motorcycles I've sold, among them, my last Ducati. | ||
| James Glickenhaus (Napolis)
Junior Member Username: Napolis Post Number: 160 Registered: 10-2002 |
Jake If you post the vin# I'll look it up for you Jim | ||
| Mike Dawson (Miked)
Junior Member Username: Miked Post Number: 61 Registered: 2-2001 |
I agree with Taek-Ho Kwon, their best feature in today's world is that they look great. They make lovely sounds and would be good for fair weather drives at moderate speeds after a complete rebuild down to the last nut and bolt. By today's standards they drive like a semi truck and take longer to stop but they are fun in the same way as any old MG or Healey. It's been over 25 years since I owned one and they were almost antiques then (read cheap and readily available). For my money an E-type is a far superior car but they are a much more complex and can quickly drain the pockets of any owner that pays someone to work on the car. When I had my cars the XK-120/140/150's were at the bottom of their value curve, at the time even cheaper than TR-3/4, MG-A/B and AH 3000's but with better performance. The worst feature was the 16" wheels (15" E-type or sedan wheels fit) for which the only options were very expensive, skinney Dunlops and Pirellis or pick-up truck tires. My friend with the 121LM had raced Jags (which is how I came to know him) and he got some Goodyear Stock Car Special dirt track tires for me. He used them on his daily driver XK-150, the hard dirt track compound gave me over 30K miles of tire life and as one could imagine they handled far superior to 5:50-16 truck tires. I drove my cars to both east and west coasts from Ohio and was thrilled to get 17 mpg even with OD, but then premiun gas was 30 cents a gallon. One time when traveling to Maryland in a friend's XK-140 roadster his voltage regulater failed. I rewired the heater fan rehostat (the heater didn't do much anyway) to the field terminal on the regulater as sort of a manual control switch. It worked great for the rest of the trip so there is an advantage to a simplistic car. | ||
| bruce wellington (Bws88tr)
Intermediate Member Username: Bws88tr Post Number: 1191 Registered: 4-2002 |
i had a 1988 reeves callaway corvette, the best sports car i ever owned, had it for 2 yrs and then sold it for a 1992 zr1 vette, worst mistake i did.... sorry to this day 10 yrs later  | ||
| Bruno (Originalsinner)
Member Username: Originalsinner Post Number: 759 Registered: 5-2002 |
Nice Doc.007. The duetto would be 2.nd on my list but I dont miss it like the 928. | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Junior Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 72 Registered: 11-2002 |
Najib, I have owned a Jaguar 120 and currently am sharing a 150 with a friend (until nut and bolt restoration is complete). My experience has been that they look fantastic but are a misery to keep on the road unless extensive and expensive restoration is done on the machines. Even then they break down. Look very closely before taking the plunge with one of them. The money is worth it if the owner did a lot of work on them. A lot of people mistake this as the XK's "market value" and jack up prices on poorly maintained cars or survivor cars. There are also noticeable differences in drive between the DHC and the FHC. Drive them both and you'll know what I mean. Especially at speed. | ||
| Najib Amanullah (Najib)
Junior Member Username: Najib Post Number: 233 Registered: 4-2001 |
Mike Dawson: What were the Jags like? I am thinking of buying an XK 120 or 140 DHC. Are they worth the money one has to pay nowadays? Would you say the coupe was a better car? | ||
| Mark (Markg)
Member Username: Markg Post Number: 314 Registered: 2-2001 |
Highly modified (engine/suspension - body stock) 1972 240Z; also wouldn't mind having my P-car 911 back.... | ||
| Martin (Miami348ts)
Advanced Member Username: Miami348ts Post Number: 3333 Registered: 5-2001 |
BMW 840Ci what a piece of **** This is when I saw my mechanic almost daily. Lost an arm and a leg selling it and the other arm and a leg maintaining it. | ||
| Frank Jaloma (Carmel348ts)
New member Username: Carmel348ts Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2002 |
2 cars; My first car ever, 69 Olds 442, 400ci, 335hp, posi, dual exhust. 120K miles when sold. My 2nd car ever, 75 Datsun 280Z, What I consider to be one of the last true sports cars they made before all the "fluff" was added to appeal to women drivers. 310K miles on this one. Loved that car. | ||
| L. Wayne Ausbrooks (Lwausbrooks)
Member Username: Lwausbrooks Post Number: 492 Registered: 8-2002 |
Mike Dawson: Ouch. Current value of that 121 LM? Around $1 million. Maybe a test drive (850kg, 330hp) would have made you forget about that missing bank of 6 cylinders. Again, ouch. | ||
| Jon P. Kofod (95f355c)
Member Username: 95f355c Post Number: 314 Registered: 8-2001 |
Sold my 1989 911 Carrera 3.2 after two wonderful years of ownership (first real nice/new sports car I bought). I traded it in for a 1991 Corvette Convertible for my wife's 28th birthday. Biggest mistake I ever made, but hey you do really stupid things when your in love. That Corvette was a constant headache and the repair bills could have bought me another Porsche. I spent six months tracking my old 911 down (this was before the days of Carfax) only to call the owner and have him tell me it had been for sale but had been totaled by him two weeks prior. To make matters worse the engine in the Vette needed a complete rebuild only two months later. Regards, Jon P. Kofod 1995 F355 Challenge #23 | ||
| Erin Patrick Pierce (Fulmina)
Junior Member Username: Fulmina Post Number: 56 Registered: 3-2002 |
You may laugh if you wish, but I miss my 1985 GMC Sierra 1500. It was big, black, loud, and unstoppable-- it was also my first "car". Not particularly fast, but fill the bed with ice, beer, and girls... who needs to be in a hurry? It seemed supernatural to me-- looking at it parked in my yard was like standing before an adventure waiting to be had. It was my chariot at a time in my life when it was so easy to find roads I had never been down, and new places were under a 30 minute drive in nearly any direction. My truck was the catalyst for nearly every interesting thing that happened to me as a teenager. I traded it in on a new one just like it in 1994, but it just wasn't the same. There can be little doubt that it has since been turned into a farm truck or sold for scrap, but I sometimes wonder... | ||
| peter brinzey (Ferraripete)
New member Username: Ferraripete Post Number: 23 Registered: 11-2002 |
shuda never sold my 930 turbo! what a car...could not do anything wrong. had 450 "real" hp with every suspension mod from the 934's. drove it daily and had 140,000 mi. on it when i sold it (gave it away)! 7 years of owner ship and less than $3000.00 in total maint. the only thing costly about the car was the 9-12 insurance points that i had over the entire term of my ownership!!! cool car!!! the police could never take the joke!!!!! | ||
| jake diamond (Rampante)
New member Username: Rampante Post Number: 23 Registered: 4-2002 |
James (Napolis), Yes, I do know the serial # of the Shelby GT 500. In fact, I still have the car's original registration document from 1967 (in mint condition). | ||
| Mike Dawson (Miked)
Junior Member Username: Miked Post Number: 60 Registered: 2-2001 |
3 cars, 1956 XK-140MC DHC, bought it for $400, a daily driver for almost 7 years, sold it for $800. 1955 XK-140M roadster, bought for $700, sold for the same money two years later. 1966 Alfa Duetto, one of my favorite cars, one of the first Duettos built, it had Dunlop 4 wheel disc brakes, the rear brakes were Jaguar mechanical parking brake calipers operated, via a push rod, by a Jaguar clutch slave cylinder mounted on the rear axle tube (Alfa changed it's brake supplier to ATE very quickly), bought for $450 with the engine in the trunk, found the PO had used a section of heater hose for the oil pump pick-up tube hence "engine in the trunk", sold for $650 after a couple of years. My son always reminds me that the Jaguars could have been his to inherit, ie. I could have given them to his all-so-worthy self. On the opposite side of the coin: "best sale missed" was an old Ferrari race car that a friend had raced then retired to his garage where it sat for a decade. I could have bought it for a few grand (which I didn't have and it wasn't a V-12 so why would I want it?). 30 years later I found out that it had been the pole sitter at LeMans in 1955. | ||
| Mitchel DeFrancis (4re308)
Member Username: 4re308 Post Number: 731 Registered: 6-2001 |
I wish I had not sold my 67 MGB GT! I will not make that mistake by selling my 308! Its a permanant fixture. | ||
| Todd Gieger (Todd328gts)
Member Username: Todd328gts Post Number: 263 Registered: 6-2002 |
I would have to say my 67 Firebird, 400 Ram Air, 4 Spd, Posi Rear, Hood Tach, Line Lock...etc. I love those old muscle cars...I would still like to scratch that itch someday and get a 69 Trans Am | ||
| Peter Polasek (Peterp)
New member Username: Peterp Post Number: 15 Registered: 8-2002 |
1972 Datsun 510 - I put everything on that car, 2 liter motor, big valve head, dual webers, interpart suspension, ... I sold it when I ran out of things to do to it. Sold it for $4700 to somebody in Melbourne, FL in 1984 -- that was pretty good money for a 510 at that time, but this car had everything and was a bargain. It was light metallic green and I would buy it back in a heartbeat if my garage didn't already overfloweth. I can't even find the VIN to see if it's still around. The car with which I shed the least tears was my 1972 Opel GT -- although I didn't actually sell it as much as watch with pride as it drove off into the sunset attached to a tow truck to take it to, well, wherever they take cars with perferations in the hood that are approximately the same size as a connecting rod and piston fragments. My final joy ride was a top speed run where my curiosity about why it was unable to break 75 MPH was finally answered after about 3 minutes of "brick on the accelerator" driving with a symphony of gnashing metal under the hood. It was a bittersweet experience -- sweet in that I knew I would never have to see the car again and bitter in that I had to walk to the gas station to call the salvage yard. | ||
| Raleigh Smith (288gto)
New member Username: 288gto Post Number: 36 Registered: 10-2002 |
I had a 1978 280Z. It was great. Last year of the race engine inline 6. My dad sold it for $2100. I didn't have the cash at that time. He even regrets selling it. We now decided that it would have been a great race car. | ||
| Brian W Dimetres (Acnberlin)
Junior Member Username: Acnberlin Post Number: 58 Registered: 11-2002 |
I actually regret selling two cars: 1) my first Porsche, a black 1986 944 Turbo - I LOVED that car - far better than the 911's that followed 2) 1968 Cadillac DeVille Convertible | ||
| James Napolis (Napolis)
Junior Member Username: Napolis Post Number: 143 Registered: 10-2002 |
Jake if you know the vin # The Shelby American Car Club can tell you where they are. | ||
| Howie (Brokerofexotics)
Junior Member Username: Brokerofexotics Post Number: 229 Registered: 11-2001 |
I regret selling my 1989 BMW M3. My daily driver that I tracked often. Evertime time I see one on the road now, I get an empty feeling inside like I lost the love of my life. BTW, Happy Thanksgiving to all! | ||
| Byron (Bmyth)
New member Username: Bmyth Post Number: 29 Registered: 10-2002 |
1990 300ZX... loved that car. | ||
| Dave Penhale (Dapper)
Member Username: Dapper Post Number: 374 Registered: 4-2002 |
Biggest, my mint 928S2, I detailed the engine bay and underneath, wheelarches, brakes/componentry, the lot. Sold it and it immediately picked up a 2nd place Porsche event concourse first outing with new owner. I'm a perfectionist so I wouldnt ever consider anything good enough to me to be brave enough to concourse...my loss. least regret, any of my Fords. mixed regrets...my Merc SLK230, with all the extras and 'Designo' range paint and Interior it was undoubtedly a stunner, to drive it was awful, it did nothing well. | ||
| jake diamond (Rampante)
New member Username: Rampante Post Number: 22 Registered: 4-2002 |
Two cars: My 1965 Sunbeam Tiger (sold in 1966) and, my 1967 Shelby American GT 500 (sold in 1969). I always wonder where (or if ) they are. | ||
| Joseph (Mojo)
Junior Member Username: Mojo Post Number: 133 Registered: 9-2002 |
Should of kept my 1969 camaro. | ||
| Terry (Dogue)
Junior Member Username: Dogue Post Number: 140 Registered: 9-2001 |
My first car a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro, 327, manual 4-speed trans. I bought it for $2400 and sold it 7 years later for $4500 to put a down payment on our first home. I really wish we had waited a year for the new home and kept the Camaro. Now I would have to spend close to $10,000 - $20,000 to replace it I cannot justify that. | ||
| martin J weiner,M.D. (Mw360)
Member Username: Mw360 Post Number: 680 Registered: 5-2001 |
'79 aston martin vantage v8-gold with NY plates DUBL-07 | ||
| Steve Anderson (Sranderson)
New member Username: Sranderson Post Number: 4 Registered: 11-2002 |
For me it was a '25 Rolls 20 HP. Top speed--50 MPH (down hill) | ||
| Jeff (Jeff_m)
New member Username: Jeff_m Post Number: 29 Registered: 9-2002 |
I would have to say my 94 911 speedster. I never had a single problem with it and it was to make room for an SL with no soul that cost twice as much. Now the speedsters I see are selling for more than the benz is worth. I also feel your pain on the 928, another one of the best I have ever owned... | ||
| Paul Newman (Newman)
Member Username: Newman Post Number: 699 Registered: 12-2001 |
2 cars, My 71 challenger 440 sixpak, last one built. 68 hemi roadrunner, black on black. dam! | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Junior Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 60 Registered: 11-2002 |
Funny thing is that I've been scouring the CA Bay Area for another good '88 Civic CRX Si and I haven't been able to find a single one that doesn't have stupid spoilers or tin can exhausts etc etc. So so sad. Any good Civic CRX restorers out there?  | ||
| Hans E. Hansen (4re_gt4)
Member Username: 4re_gt4 Post Number: 593 Registered: 4-2002 |
Probably my 1st car: 1972 Vega GT .... NOT! | ||
| Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Member Username: Wsawyer Post Number: 552 Registered: 2-2002 |
The Lotus Elan S1 I drove in college. It weighed 1400 lbs. and had a 140 hp tuned engine. Ecstasy when it ran, which wasn't often. I bought it for $1500 and sold it two years later for $1200. | ||
| J. Grande (Jay)
Member Username: Jay Post Number: 815 Registered: 10-2001 |
Rob I got you beat! My first car was a 1980 Lada! Wouldn't take it back if you paid me! I don't regret selling my Northstar V8 Fiero but I do miss driving it, especially since the Dino isn't ready yet. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 2842 Registered: 12-2000 |
Y'all have nothing on me, first was a '82 Renault Le Car and next was a '89 Toyota Tercel. No regrets though for selling them. I'll regret if I ever sell my 1993 BMW 325is. | ||
| Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Junior Member Username: Stickanddice Post Number: 59 Registered: 11-2002 |
OK, don't laugh... The first car I ever drove and the first car my father gave me. I was 11 years old at the time and the car was a 1988 Honda CRX Si. | ||
| Ernie Bonilla (Ernie)
Member Username: Ernie Post Number: 442 Registered: 11-2001 |
I drive my cars until they are no longer drivable. All of my cars have broken the 100,000 mile mark, and a one of them 250,000. My 348 will be no exception. So I can't regrent what I haven't sold. | ||
| djmonk (Davem)
Junior Member Username: Davem Post Number: 134 Registered: 1-2002 |
My 66 Cutless i had in H.S. Put a lot of money into it befor i sold it. I beat the car silly an it came back for more every day. | ||
| Patrick Pasqualini (Enzo)
Junior Member Username: Enzo Post Number: 89 Registered: 2-2002 |
2 Cars a 1972 Challenger and a 1993 VW Corrado VR6 | ||
| Bruno (Originalsinner)
Member Username: Originalsinner Post Number: 758 Registered: 5-2002 |
What car if any do You regret selling.I mean really regret. Me my 928. Would buy it back in a minute 10 years later now. |