Does everyone get attached to their vehicles or is it just me?

I’ve been trying to sell my pickup for a couple of years now. I say "trying" to sell it because I can’t get past the point of actually putting it up for sale. The truck’s nothing special except that I built it from the ground up and know every little secret spot it likes to be tickled. We’ve had over 12 years and 85 K hard miles together and the old girl has always been there for me. It’s gonna be tough to say good-bye. I feel your pain.

 

1973 NSRA Nationals ... check out the event registration number



34 years later ... @ the 2007 All Deuces " Run to the Rock "

I am attached ...
Plain and simple . I will never sell the 32 roadster. I have owned it for decades ... I do not always drive it much ... it sits for weeks or months at a time ... but it is there ... patiently waiting to get out and go.

I get side tracked at times ... ( 40 coupe and now the 32 3W ) ... but the roadster is number #1 in my automotive heart. Something about where it has been, who owned it, things is has seen and experienced ... all play into it for me. I wish the roadster could talk ... and tell me it's life story .

Yes ... I get attached ...

 

I'll never sell my 56.

 

I've got 6 running driveable hot rods (1948 and older). All built by me. This spring we decided to go to Norway on a trip. I decided to sell one of the rods to pay for the trip. After several hours in the back garage trying to pick which one to sell, I cashed in an insurance policy to pay for the trip. None of my babies are leaving home unless something drastic forces a sale.

 

Alright. I've got teh cash in my pocket now and off to pick up my new ride tomorrow.


I feel much better now.

 

I still miss my SIX FO. I sold it, to build a shop... and I still don't have a shop. That was nearly 10 years ago. It needed a lot of work to be up to my standards, but it was too nice of car to blow it all apart and restore. So I sold it to someone who would enjoy it the way it was.

I miss it, I made a bunch of memories in that car. A lot of them were from it STRANDING me.

But on another note, I get attached to cars I own in ANY condition. I tense up when I think of getting rid of any of them. But sometimes I just have to make a rational decision.

Should I keep them all? Hmmmm...

Reverend Jake

 

Well, the 54 sold today. Going to a good home. Shoppin' for another toy is just about as fun as ownin' 'em!
Todd

 

Attached to cars??
noooo, except for my grandfathers 1937 Ford that I got in 1965 and the 47 Mercury I got in 1967 and the 1950 Ford that my best friend and I bought in 1967 and the 1966 Chrysler we got in 1972 and the 1946 Harley I got in 1975 and the 66 Chevy pickup I got in 1977 and the 1942 Harley I got in 1982 and grandpas 1940 Farmall tractor that I got in 1984 and the 1956 Farmall that was my other grandpas when I got it in 1984 and those Indian motorcycles in 1985 and the Cushman Motorscooters I got starting in 1986 and .......other..............manyolcars...............all of which I still own

 

I'd have to say it's more like a love/hate relationship. I love the car when it is running good but swear up a storm when it breaks down. I love working on it, I just hate the unscheduled pitstops.

 

Stop crying......just sell the truck before it leaves you stranded.

 

I still have my first car ( Econoline pickup ) but almost eveyother car was sold to finance the next one. This includes daily drivers and rods built from the ground up. If I had kept some of them I would have never moved on to something else I wanted.This includes cycles I have built or owned. As many times I have rebulit my old econoline in the 37 years I have been driving it, everyone of them was enjoyable. I think you should keep at least one vehicle to grow old with.

 

my first car i ever purchased was on old 63 vw that i found in a chicken house. no motor or transaxle, brushpainted brown. i was 13 but thought that would be the coolest car. i had found a big stack of old hot vw's at the "sun city" dump in kansas when we were hunting, and i just had to have a vw. the car sat for years in our barn, while i had numerous other cars. i even sold it twice, but it always ended up back in my posession.
for some reason one day, i decided it was time to put it on the road. i built a strong rhino case'd transmission, a 2332cc monster with a scat crank, carillo rods, je pistons, comp e heads, weber 48ida's...all the good stuff. all hidden in that ugly brown 63 vw! i drove it for years slowly adding to it. i clipped a 63 ragtop roof on it, repainted the primer in black, new interior, narrowed the front beam until it rerally was a cool little car, that also would run high 12's! i really loved that car. it was total fun!

but then i decided to build a hot rod! i couldn't stand the thought of someone else having my car, so with sawzall in hand, i dissected that little car and sold it piece by piece. do i miss it? yeah, every now and then, but when my sons get old enough, they're first projects will be early vw's. i guess they're like a gateway drug to hot rods!!

i haven't been attatched to any other car like i was that vw. i'm not totally sure that when i finish "ovaltine" i'll keep it either. we'll see.......

 

An old time car dealer told me long ago-"a car is for sale,that is what a car is,it's for sale".I have one car I've kept over 10 years now,everything else along the way has been exactly what he said.

 

what ?sold a car what are ya gonna parkout back and store loose parts in, and make a bee hive and mice nest outa?

 

I usually keep my cars a long time. I always wash them one last time just as your speaking of.

When i sold my wagon last winter the guy kinda came at the last minute to look at it. he wanted it and had cash on him. I told him he had to come pick it up the next day just so I could take my final drive in it.

My son was sad for quite some time. I had not seen it till about a month ago. Pulled in at a gas station and there it was. That was when I realized I missed it.

I told my boy we will have another wagon later. Just have to get the current project on the road first.

 

I have nicknamed my 94 Dodge 4x4 Big Red. And I actually talk to him like he is a person. I know it is stupid but this truck has been with me for 13 years now and I've had very little repairs. The first tune up didn't occur until 130,000 miles. Big Red has just been good for me and to me.

 

it bothered me when i sold my jeep,didnt like seeing it on someone elses trailer.

 

I like all my cars... even the rusty 51 chevy fleetline 4 door I got last week to part out, I walked by it tonight on my way in and patted it on the hood, as if I was somehow comforting it since it has by now figured out I am parting it out and its days are numbered

I bought a 73 datsun pickup in 1979. drove the hell out of it for about 13 years, then it sat for another 4. wasn't worth fixing, and wasn't worth selling. I lived in an apartment at the time and paid someone $150.00 to make it into a trailer. the guy told me he had one already done he'd sell me for $100.00 and I told him I didn't care... I didn't really need a trailer.. I just didn't want to send my old truck to the junk yard to die.

I still got it.

 

Our family car while the 5 kids were growing up was an 87 caprice wagon. The wife hit a deer with it one evening. The next day it became the DEER SLAYER. When it was time to get rid of it the kids were so heart broken they put the seats down and slept in it over nite. I still have my first IH Scouts sitting in the back garage for maybe 25 yrs. So I am attached also.

 

Attached? hell my cars become part of me. The first car I bought new is a 1980 280zx that my son is driving now. My parts chaser is a 86 D250 that I bought new and my wife says the only reason that she married me is to get that truck. I started building my roadster in 93 and it made its first pass in 95. Lately I have been looking at pictures at mid 60s A/GSR drag cars for inspiration to transform the look of the roadster. I still have the remains of a 68 Camaro that I have owned since 83 that someday I will build into tube framed road race style street car. I have only sold 3 cars in my life, My 70 big block Charger, 1982 I wish I still had that car, a 78 MGB that I sold in 1980 (happiest day of my life) and my 88 Monte Carlo SS. If I had more space I would have more cars and no doubt they would all become family.

 

In 1968 Sally bought a 1946 Ford Panel truck (we are old hippies) I put a 327 three-speed innit and waved goodbye to her as she drove off to college in Oregon, me to San Francisco in a 1955 Int'l school bus..she came back from college a few years later, and sold the 327..a mutual friend bought the panel..35 years go by, whoosh..earlier the friend told me his landlord would no longer tolerate the panel in his backyard so I had towed it to my backyard..Sally and I get back together and we are going to do the panel again..attached? the truck is our History together..then there is the story of my 64 Riviera I have owned since 1977, ditto everything Lux said and more...

 

My 52 F1. My grandparents bought it new and I learned to drive in it when I was 13. It became mine in April of 68 when I was 17. It spent 10 yrs on blocks in my garage while the kids were growing up form 78 to 88. Painted it in 89. 3rd engine in 90 along with new suspension and lowering 4". Lots of road rash on it now but I could never part with it. Accumulated other toys along the road but it is still number 1. Plan on redoing it after the Model A is done.

 

My very first car was a 66 Nova I bought in 1973. I beat the hell out of it for about two years and sold it so I could afford my next car (64 Falcon Sprint convertable) but I missed the Nova so much I've owned 4 more over the years (actually had my last 67 Nova for 10 years which for me is a record). I'd love to find another 66 or 67, but it seems I spend my money buying and building other stuff because I found out that most of the fun for me is the build. Don't get me wrong I love driving the cars and trucks I've built, but I'm not independently wealthy so I have to sell one to afford the next one.

Do I miss them...yes after there gone, I miss them, but then I get into the next project and I usually forget about the previous one. HOWEVER, I had so much fun with a 39 Plymouth I built about 7 years ago I'm in the process of dupilcating the build, but with a 40 Studebaker body right now. So will I keep this one....definite maybe. I'll more then likely drive it for a while and find something else that I need to build and it'll be listed here (ok, in the for sale section)sometime down the road.

 

I'm kinda attached to my first car my coupe!
I`ve had it since I was 13/1979 !
no body will buy my first truck ? so I guess I`ll keep it till I die. I`ve had it since I was 15
still have my first convertible, 17? and my first bus? 21 ? no I'm not attached to anything ? ha...ha...

 

i have my 50 chevy for25 yrs my 58 ford 20yrs and my 65 caddy for7 yrs a few other i would buy have fun with and then they go but these 3 our my keepers