The one that you never should have gotten rid of?

So I said goodbye to my 40 ford pickup today. bought it six years ago, put a lot of work into it. Sold it for the $$$. So lets hear your story on: " The one I should have never sold!".

 

1962 Impala SS..............Sold it so I could keep my house, its hard to live in a car.

 

64 malibu.
6 cyl PG bench seat car.

what a peach.

sold it for a song.

 

Sorry you sold it...............my worst was a perfect 57 BelAir with 53,000 miles on it.....$950!.............I bought it for $450!

 

52 F1 truck. Everything there but gl***. Ex-wife was being a bee***, which was pretty much par for the course. Given away, then subsequently crushed before I could get it back.

 

My '27 T. What a dumb*** mistake. "I needed the money"...********. I should have found other means to come up with the money. I let myself down, and I kick myself in the *** everyday for it.

 

My '59 p'up. I know exactly where it's rusting away and there's not a damn thing I can do about it

 

'67 Malibu, marina blue hardtop. Sold it to some clown who painted it orange with silver stripes.

 

My 51 Merc coupe that I bought at age 16 in 1963 and sold 32 years later. I miss the car but doubt seriously that I would have it finished up to the state that the present owner does by now. Too many years of tight money to get car projects completely finished.
Sometimes it is a lot better to think about what you have going on now than to dwell on the past mistakes if indeed they were mistakes.

Isn't this about the third thread just like this we have had in the last month?

 

Two,really---my old high school car,58 Chevy 2 door wagon.My 29 roadster--had to sell it to buy my new house--my wife is SO tired of me crying about it---

 

O/T vehicles - 1969 Dodge Dart GTS 440, 1967 GMC Suburban, 1966 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, 1967 Chevy Biscayne.

On-topic cars - 1950 Ford V8 Club Coupe, 1963 Dodge Custom 880 hardtop wagon, 1964 Chevy C-10 short stepside, 1955 Chevy Cameo, 1953 Hudson Wasp, 1956 Hudson Super Wasp.

 

This one's easy for me. A cherry '36 Ford 3-window coupe. It was loaded with speed equipment, a dash full of Stewart Warner gauges, beautiful blue paint job with white running boards and top insert (it was the '60's). I sold it for $1,200 because I was in the navy and had no place to store a second car.

 

A 1955 Pontiac 4-door wagon with 389+421 superduty heads, dual AFBs, B&M built Hydro, 57 rear with posi, early VW low back bucket seats Mickey Thompson's all the way around with Original CASTLER Slicks.

I loved going thru the drive thru in it!

And I miss it!

 

I sold a 58 Impala that was really nice. It was the very 1st Impala to roll off the Saint Louis ***embly line. Also I sold my 59 Corvette. Wish I had never sold either one.

 

Yep, still kickin myself. '59 Ranchero, shiny black, 390/4spd, WWW.
It didn't go cheap but I'd have it back in a flash.

 

Wife eh? This is why I'm divorced.

 

Yeh but have you tried to drive a house?

 

Sold my '31 Tudor last week to pay the wife's medical bills.

 

A few really.

'49 Merc. '51 Merc, '32 5 window, '57 Ford, '63 Impala.

Shall I go on?
Too sad just thinking about them..

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1970 BMW 2002. It was all a woman's fault. I've forgiven Pam but I haven't forgotten.

It would have been traditional to go to Africa at that point, but as I was in Africa already I went to England, and sold the BMW for air fare and a bit to live on.

 

The ONE would be a 99% finished 56 Pontiac 2dr hardtop about 10 years ago. The buyer hauled it home and parked it behind his barn.....in the weather where it rots away as I type. Other notables, 40 Ford Coupe, 37 Chevy coupe, 27 T coupe, 32 Ford 2dr sedan, 39 GMC, 3 55 Chevy trucks, 48 Chevy coupe, 66 SS Chevelle conv, 68 Dart GTS, 69 six pack Roadrunner and last a 70 hemi Roadrunner. I can find em, just can't seem to hold on to em.

 

I also remember when I was around 7-8 yrs young (41 now) my pops and I was heading home around evening time on the 91 west bound in Norwalk( for you Califonians) & my pops spotted his old ford woody. He tried to buy it back but the person wouldn't budge.

And how do you ask he knew it was his??? My Grand pops God rest his Soul took two Desoto bumpers (front & back) and cut the middle rib out and welded them back together. And I think to this day its the only one I know of that has bumpers that way.

 

My trusty old 57 Pontiac 2 door.. I put a 389, 4 speed in it.

 

My 37 Plymouth coupe that I wish I still had.

 

So many stupid sales:
52 Ford Vicky, 53 mainline (both black), 35 Ford 5w w/327/PG, 67 Datsun SRL311, 58 Ford pickup w/354 Hemi/Torqueflite and New Yorker brakes up front. Probably others I don't want to remember.

 

My father sold his '55 chevy bel-air 327 with rock-crusher 4 spd in 1996 for $5,000. Bought a boat with the cash (idiot!). From time to time I have to remind him how much it would be worth today.

 

Several, but the one I miss the MOST was a '62 Stude Hawk coupe w. 289-4B, Borg-Warner 4speed & TwinTrack rearend. But the couple I sold it to really wanted it, treasured it AND became best friends of my wife and me. So not all bad, at all.

 

Sold my 40 coupe when my business was going under, however found it and bought it back 9 years later for the same $$$.. Lucky. Now I realize that after the car is gone and the money is gone and got ****.... So now I keep them all and act like they dont exist... The money will show up somehow.

 

Back in 1994 I had to give away my 1949 chevy 2 door fastback,heavy channel , mustang front suspension caddy 500 motor,I was leaving the UK to go and work in Europe,couldn't afford to pay storage on it.

 

Sorry to hear that...
I'm ***uming your better half is ok?

Scott