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

I play with alot of cars too and most all can be bought for the right price but I/we have one that I won't sell-wife and I have had for 36 years-it's her black 55 BelAir (in our photo album here)--maybe when I kick off she may sell it or just give it to my son BUT unless I'm totally destitute, it won't be sold as long as I'm still kickin'-if i'm too damn old to drive it, I'll just go out in the garage and sit in it.

 

I have one driver & 2 projects I will never sell. I have a motor build and A speedster project I intended to sell but I doubt it now. The parts are too hard to come by.

 

I'll never be done with the fleetwood, yeah, i'd like to have a 30's coupe & yeah, i'd like to have a two door car, but that damn thing just strikes all the right notes with me. By the time my young self is done with it, it'd hurt to much for me to watch it go. Cash or not. I mean i've already had two other's, 49' F-1 & the 58' Del Ray, but they were no where near the potential this yacht has. Will the day come i set the tool down & turn the ignition off on it? yeah, but that days not comming some years now.

 

Like Denise said there aint a suitcase big enough. And I am taken my Compact with me. the others show me the money.

 

SIR. WOOSH...i can tell some of you will never sale, well that is to say that's your true intention. but consider this situation. carol shelby just sold his cobra for $4,000,000.00 and in my view no car is worth that...POP.

 

the best things in life are truly free.. I thought this was bullshit until a woman named Karen gave me a green 1950 dodge coronet. As the story goes she drove it everywhere untill some idiot crashed into the passenger front corner (probobally looking at her). bent the front frame horn and front crossmember, turned the drag link into a bananna, demolished the fender, and managed to fold the doorskin back a bit. then she had it towed to near her house where it sat for 10 years (she moved and left it after about 7 years) after that there was a landslide that partially covered the car. then in 2007 she gave it to me. had to dig it out with a borrowed shovel (didn't have a penny to my name). about 3 days later I had a borrowed trailer and my best friend with his 320k mile cherokee to tow the trailer. The day before we to go out there to tow this thing up to the gold king my buddy's landlord pulled my car out with his loader to an easier place to load it on a trailer. it made it to the gold king where i worked on it and got the frame mended and replaced the body panels. I've moved because my landlady called netty a junker. I'll never sell this car. and btw THANKS to: Karen, Lauren, Phil, Don, Chuck, and Val. Without yall i wouldn't have netty.

 

My 41 Nash coupe will never be sold. Its staying with me till i cant walk or talk anymore. Same thing with my 42' Dodge truck. It will stay with me forever.

Everything else though will probably end up getting sold eventually

 

Sometimes you just gotta say

'Go find your own'

no if's and's or but's.

Some cars are keepers. (and we never actually "own" a car, we're just temporary caretakers)

-I figure you may as well hold onto at least 'one' for as long as you can, -maybe just to have something to believe in, or something to cruise in, or possibly just for something to pound on or maybe just something to keep the hotrod faith in.


Then it's someone else's turn,
maybe even someone you choose.
Hopeing that they will carry on the cruising, the believing, the hand polishing and the loving and maybe most importantly, the care taking....

Till then
"go find your own'




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I have made arrangements for the Kripple Kart to carry my body to the cemetary,and then my eldest son will get her.No amount of money will make ME sell her;



UNLESS my loved ones well being or health depended on it.
Paul

 

Doubt Id ever sell mine,,, but someone offers me an obseen amount, i just may

 

They're cars. Assets or liabilities, that's what they are. I've been fortunate to be able to build, hot rod and restore many different cars over the years. I've been very fortunate to have bought and sold nearly as many to keep things going. I find it a bit off how attached some seem to be to one of the most common highest production makes ever, a Ford. If needed and I had a popular Ford to get the assets required to survive, G O N E. I'll replace it with another, maybe better, maybe different. I've always wanted a bubbletop Chevy. I got one. I dearly want to see this through. You want it? Make an offer, a real offer, and it may be yours. My 54 Chev pickup, well I tried to sell it. Changed my mind. In a sense it was free. That's right, free. I have a vision for it inspired by my late mother, but that vision doesn't mean I have to keep it until I become fertilizer. When it's done, if someone made a mega offer on it and I didn't sell it, Mom would haunt me. I was raised with a solid sense of obligation, responsibility, work ethics and family. Having the ability to restore and mod cars, as well as buy and sell for profit, I guess it's hard for me to get my head around the whole "not for sale" concept. Everything I have could be replaced with another just like it at a later date. Selling is usually done for one reason or another. Life happens whether you're busy waxing nostalgic over that old iron or not. Even if it was dear ol Dad's one-off-bought new-only color-original-still-in-the-family ride, the day may come where you have to face a decision like it or not. Those of you who've stated "NEVER", well you're 1/2 right because you've NEVER had to deal with the idea. What would you do if...

 

yup- my own 56 chevy- had it since 1981. Was offered $65K about 10 years ago (cash too) and turned it down. Way too much blood sweat and work into it for me to ever give it up- was my first 'child'. Gonna re do it starting this year.. Ill probably be buried in the damn thing....

 

"....Everything as a price"

- BULLSHIT. Not everyone here is desperate for cash at the expense of selling out on a dream they've built or searched for for years. Any ridiculous scenario you want to throw out there to argue this wouldn't happen anyway. Nobody's offering you $200k for your car you've got $20k in, regardless of your blood, sweat, and tears markup. The only reason any car is sold because it's not "priceless".

 

I will never sell the 52 stude coupe my dad owned for 26 years before giving it to me this summer. That car has been with me since I was about five years old. I have let go of my 55 safari wagon, a bunch of model A's including roadsters, and 4 steel 32 fords, but there is no amount of money anyone has that could buy that car. On a good day I feel the car is only worth 5-7 grand but its worth way more to me. I plan on giving it to my son one day if he's worthy, if not I will donate it to the studebaker museum.

 

I'd never sell my 51 Chevy. It's my first car, bought it when I was 13, traded it to my brother when I was 15(he sold it shortly after), and reaquired it about three years ago. I have owned several old rides since I let her go way back when, and I always wished I had her back. Now I do and she will be with me forever.

 

My siblings and their offspring have a special place in their hearts for our grandpa’s ‘29 Model A, not only for the car, but deeper than that, the legacy of our family will remain where it. If we in this generation, the custodians of grandpa’s legacy (including his car) have succeeded, it will remain intact for generations to come. Most of us have been penniless along the way, gone hungry, and turned off the heat in the house at night in dead of winter to save, but selling the car was never even a consideration. Had we chosen the latter the money would have been gone in a week and the house would still be cold. Sell the car to buy groceries? How trivial. Somebody get a job instead. We know who we are.

The man, Toner383, that vows to keep a car he and his daddy built together has something that a lot of people just can’t fathom. His insight, based on the most human traits, respect and love, is apparently beyond them. To not understand what that means is one thing, but to imagine other people have their same materialistic values, or lack of humanistic values is another, and for them to call that “bullshit“, is in and of itself bullshit…...

 

How about this I have ones that cant be sold and there are ones that I want to buy that I cant afford

 

Hell, I'd sell my wife and kids if I got enough!

 

I'd like to say that I'd never sell my Galaxie but truth be told, if an imaginary figure wanted to offer me an insane amount of money ... I am a dirty whore, show me the money.

 

The romantic part of me says I will never sell....I have this pipe dream that if my kids have no interset, age 4,2,2 mo., that when I am done with them I will go to some car show or cruise night and have all the stuff in the car and give one to some starry eyed kid that seems to have the passion? The kids would be dumb to not express the interst though, so it may never happen....

 

You just contradicted yourself. You say you put your family first but then that your grandfathers watch would never be for sale. So one or the other is not true. I would guess it is the second and that if need be the watch would be for sale.

Myabe the OP shouod have worded the post other than extreme circumstances is there a car you would never sell. Obviously if some hypothetical emergency circumstance or some crazed millionaire came along most people would sell but I really don' think that is the point of the origianl post.

For me my 1937 Chev truck would fall in this category. It's not done but my Dad had done a lot of work and made a lot of parts on it before he passed away and these are things I can never get back if sold. Yes if I was broke and needed money to survive I would sell it but it would definitley be a last resort.

 

Come on guys...

Its not a competition.


I'll hang on to my stuff as long as I can.

But if shit hits the fan, and my back is against the wall....


Who knows.



This is really a personal decission for each of us.

And a weird thing to be argueing about...

 

I have owned my 32 roadster since the 70's.
I have always wanted a 32 3W and NOW ... I have one.



Both are Henry Ford steel cars and neither of them has ever had a " FOR SALE " sign on them while I have owned them. I have turned down what I call stupid money for both of them ... over the years. I have no plans to sell either of them in 2010

But let's face the FACTS ...

Times and things change ... They BOTH will be sold ...
SOONER or LATER ...

 

Turned down 20K for mine the 1st weekend out! That would be about 900% profit. Had to tell the guy, IT AIN'T GOING NOWHERE! To much sentimental value in it to me. If times get hard, I'll just roll it in the corner and cover it up. Things will get better later.

 

I could never sell my truck, but who knows what the family will do when I'm gone. I want my son to have it.

 

I've had my coupe 26 years. I've thought MANY times of selling it, but since it's THE perfect Hot Rod to me...why?
I will eventually end up with my Dads 53 F-100 he's had it for over 35 years. I with him the day he bought it, and I'll NEVER sell that one either.
They are 2 cars that are special to me. I say I'd never sell them, but we all know that life can get in the way sometimes. Being faced with loosing a home, a sick child or other life changing events sometimes force us to change our minds.

 

Hardly any way to post anything without it becoming some kind of argument, but what I see is a lot more positive feedback about our love of cars and hot rods than I've seen in a long time.

I've been amazed at the number of people who still have their first car from their early teens and plan to keep them always. You have my admiration for such dedication.

It goes without saying that hopefully no one would starve to death or let their family suffer to keep any car, but some will always feel they have to point out the obvious like no one else has a clue. We can't have or keep every car we desire, but I hope everyone will have the opportunity to fall in LOVE with and own a special car at some point in their life. If you can keep and enjoy it, and maybe pass it along to someone else who will love it, happy ending...........

 

I have other cars I would sell if the need would arrive and I have a bunch of 50s and 60s baseball cards that can be liquidated too,actually the baseball cards and one car might be sold soon so I can put the money towards a 40 ford I have always wanted.

 

I've got several. I've had some nice, rare, cars, and sold them and then the money disappears. '32 Plymouth Roadster, sold. '31 Chevy, sold. '54 Lincoln 60's custom, sold. etc. etc.

I'm just not going to sell them, I reduced my collection last year, and the money went nowhere.

 

I don't see the thread as an argument but as alot of adults discussing a topic. Everyone has their own opinions and are just voicing them.