The car you regret selling and might always?!

My Mc Laren M12C Spider. I got too little on the trade.

Joe

 

I'm getting the itch to make a poor decision and sell mine.

I keep battling myself about it. Regret is guaranteed.

 

2003 360 manual in grigio alloy. Funny looking at all the comments that said $77k was too high of a price.
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white 997.1 GT3

MDS

 

Lotus S260 Exige


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Way too many. Carrera GT, 2011 GTRS 4.0, 911R....

 

Here's the secret; DONT SELL ! My place looks like a used car lot.
It takes me sometimes years to pontificate over the next purchase but when the time comes...its a keeper.
Right now the decision is between a Caterham 7 or Alfa 4C. My big $ spending days are pretty much over being mostly retired.

However I did sell a yellow 74 Porsche 911 that would be nice to have back.

 

In 1983/4 I bought a 1973 Pontiac Trans Am 455 Super Duty with a four speed…for $2700. It was basically a NASCAR motor in a pony car…71 produced with the four speed. A few years later I felt like the King when I sold it for $5000. Now I’m older and feel like an idiot.


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‘84 Carrera Cab. White/Brown just like the one pictured on the cover of road and track.

No one wanted it in 2004 for $18k. 66k miles, perfect. Loved the sound. Clutch, shift linkage and ac sucked though.

While I do think about it at times, it would probably just sit in the garage like all the other cars that aren’t by the door.

 

LOL I was just scrolling through my brain the 50 or so cars I have owned and a Trans Am came up for me too. While not as rare as yours the 78 that I had would probably bring into the lower 5 figures today. Don't even want to mention what I sold it for in the late 80's so I could make the move up to a fox body!

 

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Getting emotional now looking at that car. I would flip a coin if you asked me F12 or Vanquish S and be happy with the outcome with no regrets. Not the 812 though.

ps that blue SL WAS the one car I truly regretted getting rid of.....it was my wife's and she had never let me forget it...... til this August when I got her a C8 convertible.

 

I bought a 1978 Trans Am with the 400, WS6 suspension but with the auto. Cameo white with bucksin vinyl interior. Loved that car but got hit by a deer one night driving home from college. I didn't hit a deer, it hit me broadside. Never looked right after that so I got a 1979 model. The 1978 cars are special.

 

2000 Viper GTS that had ALL the desired mods (brakes, suspension, exhaust/headers, cage, CCWs, hydraulic hand brake, etc) but the body was rough (LOTS of rock chips), not a sought after color combo and it had high miles. Did not need to sell, but sold it for the price of the mods.

Was a super fun car and should not have let it go.

 

When he was alive, my father had several cars, including a little Renault Twingo that he loved to push around. It was worth almost nothing but it was emotional for me to let it go (I’m American living in the U.S., he was retired living in Europe). I guess the Twingo is in a graveyard now…

 

My Dad had one too. He made me sell it for him when he lost interest in sports cars and got into flying instead. He doesn't miss the 993 at all, but I do.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

1995 Ford Escort GT. Not special except that it was my first sporty car and the car I was driving when I met the woman who is now my wife. We put ~200 K miles on that car, drove it to almost every corner of the CONUS plus a bit of Canada. Tons of great memories. Donated it to a local charity, so no seller's regret...T

 

I regret selling my Ariel Atom 2 and my 330 2+2.

Matt

 

I bought mine senior year in high school. It was gold with tan interior, t-tops, cragars, 400 with a muncie 4 speed, which was a bulletproof tranny, and a hurst shifter. We did cam, intake, headers and aluminum intake, holley carb to wake it up a bit it went pretty good. Paid 3500 for it.

 

73' Grand Prix SJ w/ 455 ....had it when my wife and I dated in high school..

 

Nice!! I had a 71 think it was just a J., had a 400 with a quadraBOG 4bbl. Still have the button with the GP initials from the shifter.

 

Our 1990 black M3 E30 Sport Evolution...

 

Sold an ex-big block 1969 Corvette convertible for $2,500 in 1994. It wasn’t running and I needed the room for a new 1994….which one is more valuable now….. Doh!!

 

In some ways, almost all of them.

Shorter list? Ones I'll never miss.

1974 Chevy Vega GT
1980 Chevy Camaro Z28
1976 Ford Mustang II
1990 Saab 9000

The rest, almost all wort missing.

But, the one I miss the most?

1990 Porsche 911 C2 Guards red with tan leather

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Loved it, wife loved it, kids loved it. I have no clue what I was thinking the day I sold it. Oh yeah, I was thinking, I have a Ferrari now and don't need the Porsche. Boy, was I wrong. If I had the space then, I'd still have the car now. Sold for $18K, I think I'd need $70K to replace it.

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