Anyone else have a ride that can't be bought?

My old Racer..

I've had it for a long time, been through a lot with it.

And I have a couple of manyears in it, wrenching on it.


I came close to selling it once to a really good friend of mine( 20 years or so ago ), but I built a clone of it for him instead....

 

Nope, anything and everything is up for sale. No attachements, they are just mechanical metal money pits. lol

kgdb

 

well, unless your going to heave it into the grave with you, someone's going to sell it...even if your kids keep it, it won't be theirs forever either...
sooner or later, its going to get sold. There's no escaping it....

 

I would sell evrything I have ever owned to the crusher if the price was right and the didn't make me watch!

 

I've never sold a car/truck that I haven't driven.
Even if I had to lose money on installing an drivetrain and work on it outside in the cold for weeks, I've gotta get my jollies off rolling around at night at least once

 

I want to see it to

 

Some of you guys are pretty cynical, the A coupe that My dad & I built will never be for sale at any price. Yes I could build another, even replicate it exactly but it would not be the car that I built with my dad. They will have to pry it from my cold dead fingers & even then it will be passed down through the family. Might not look like much & it ain't finished yet but it means a lot to us.

 

Yeah,

My 49 Merc just became 'unobtainium'.
Too nice of a truck to part with.
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Yep my 56 chevy. Me and my dad built it when i was in high school. I cant imagine needing whatever money i got for it more than i want the car. Though i guess if it was in some sort of f-d up movie senerio thing, maybe.

 

2 of my cars can NEVER be bought.

 

Not even really mine, but this one will never leave the family.

1971:


2009:

 

Once you are gone it will be sold or maybe even given away. I really like my cars but for the right money they can be replaced with better cars or other stuff.

 

Actually, it's in my will who Big Olds is to be GIVEN to. My family will not need the money to bury me nor do I have any bills that would need to be paid off from my estate so Big Olds is going to a certain person that I know will take care of him and continue to drive him like he's meant to be driven. If in fact I outlive the person I've willed him to, I will pick another person. He will be given away, not sold and I hope that continues.

 

My Buidillac's never leaving!!! Rags

 

good on you. Many things in life are more valuable than gold. But you already know that........................

 

My first car was a keeper, forever I said. Lots of personal feelings, sentiment and help from friends helped build it, so why should I sell it? But after the new wears off and you get other ideas / influences bouncing around in your head, the only way to raise the needed $$$ for it is to cut the embilical, eh? Gary

 

Atleast for now, no. I did have ol' Fuzzbox for sale over the summer, had nearly a full price offer, but just couldn't do it....

 

For me, I have a strong sentimental attachment to my Bel Air. The reality of it is that the car is nothing special, just a 56 Chevy 4 door sedan. Therefore, it will never be worth as much to someone else as it is to me - hence, I'll never sell it.

 

Honestly, if someone were to offer enough cash, I'd sell any car I own. They are cars, no matter how old, rare, or otherwise. I lost nearly every vehicle I owned in 2003, in an F-3 tornado, EXCEPT my Coronet (it was not at home at that moment!) and my truck (which got repaired), so losing it all simply meant replacing it with other stuff.

With that said, my '66 Coronet 500 is the car I've owned the longest (30 years in April), and I've had people wanting it over the years. I've driven it through every State West of the Mississippi, and the western Canadian provinces. Lots of miles and memories! It would be the hardest one for me to let go of, but I'd still sell it for the right $$$.

Everything in life can be replaced, except people, pictures and memories. Stuff is exactly that - stuff.

 

I'm planning on having my four favorite cars used as a tomb....

 

I have a car my dad bought new.So no,it will never be sold,my son is getting it.Also I have a Vette that I bought long long ago that one of my daughters has claimed so no, I wouldn't sell something I promised to her.Everything has a price,but sometimes the stuff we are attached to has such a high price that no one that is not sentimentally attached to it could afford it.

 

maybe you can stipulate that he ALWAYS be given away?

 

The only way to really own it is to destroy it.

 

I just sold my wife to get another car....

 

When I was 14 years old, I used to spend some time at our retired neighbors house, shooting the breeze with the old guy. This was in 1972. He had a beautiful 64 Ply Fury 2 door hardtop with a big block and push button tranny that he bought brand new and kept in his little 1 car garage. I fell in love with the car and tried to talk him out of it and it for several years. He always declined and said that even though he no longer drove, his wife still needed it. We moved away in "75 and he passed away shortly after. I saw the car a few times over the years, and even visited his widow a few times in the mid and late 70"s. Never got the car, and she passed away a while later. It made me always want a 64 Plymouth, but I figured that one was gone forever. In 1987, I spoted the car at a McDonald's! I approached the owner and found out it was their son who still had the car! I talked to him a while, and he said he that while he remembered his Dad had said he would like for me to have the Plymouth one day, he did not want to part with it. I left him my phone number anyway. About a year later, I got the call! He needed the bucks for a down payment on a new truck! I finally got my dream car for $2600, which was a pretty good deal even then! I wanted the car when I was 14. I finally got it when I was 29. I am 51 now, so I reckon it's a keeper until I check out! LOL

 

I have a deep emotional atachment to my Fairlane. It was my first 1950"s car and I picked it up just after my grandfather had passed away. I took it over to see my grandmother and she wept. She went inside and came back out with an old black and white photo of my grand father next to his 1957 Ford Fairlane. Mine is a 1956 but in many ways I think my granddad would have been proud. I have alot of friends whom constantly flip cars and I got in to an arguement once with one of them. Some just don't get it that not every thing needs to bring in cash. I do this for the love of cars not for monitary compensation.
The Theo has Spoken!

 

My 55 is the first and last car that I'll ever own. I bought it in April of 1977, when I was 14 years old. Paid $800 for it with money from my paper route. I actually first saw it in 1971, when a previous owner drove it from Somers Point NJ to Canton ILL. It passed through some friends of my older brother Bob, then he bought it, and then I bought it. It still has the same 283, (bored to 301), Muncie 4 speed, and 4:56 rear end that I put together in 1977 - 1978. I even still has the same liscense plate number that I got when I first put plates on it, in 1979. The cost of the plates was $15 back then. By the way....I'll probably be buried in it.

 

Both my rides were my fathers at 1 time who recently passed, so they will be with me till I can no longer drive.

 

i could never get rid of my ol 64 vw bug. thats the car me and all my buddies rolled around town in, got in trouble in, did all the crazy stupid stuff that kids do in. its in the garage with about 3 inches of dust on it but every time i see it i think of somethin goofy ive done in it. way to many memories to ever sell it. could sell all my other ones tho. anybody wanna buy a 68 camaro? lol

 

Never say never. I thought and said many time that I would never sell my 51 Merc and a guy (who still owns it) caught me at just the right time with way more money than I thought it was worth. The Merc was my high school rider and in my name for 32 years when I sold it.

Times change, situations change and there is always that offer of way more than you thought it was worth or that chance to get the absolute dream car that you always wanted.

The 48 probably will be part of the family for a long time but the boat tail roadster will probably find an owner after a season or two to fund the A V8 which will most likely be the last of the rods that I have or want. I may build something else more for the fun of building than having but it's not in the plans now.