like this one:
Several years ago, I was offered a private plate for very little money but had even less to fund the purchase. It was my name followed by my surnames first initial. A near identical one - M1 KEG is for sale for £35k!!!! Gutted!!!!
selling my cooper s for £350 30 years ago
Not buying my dads Mk1 Range Rover off him when he got rid of it
like this one:
Easy, there is two.
1 selling my Triumph Herald after 20 years of ownership because I didn't have time to rebuild her, then 3 months later being made redundant, so I
did have the time.
2 When I was 19 buying a house instead of putting the money into a season of formula ford. Yes I was being sensible, and I hate myself for it.
Getting caught speeding so many times!
Selling my RX7 Turbo II
Yes it was a 'rotter' but it would have made a stonking donor car now!! 
Sending my Mk1 Cortina to the grave yard instead of keeping her going.
AND not spending the money I spent on the engine on a house instead. In 1980 £2000+ would have mostly bought a house in this area.
Oh the devil and the deep blue sea, .........................
Hind sight is a wonderful thing.
Giving a MK11 2 door Cortina exactly like the 'Get Carter' one to the scrapman about 6 months before any old Ford in any condition started to be worth really stupid money
selling both my first and second tin-tops....
first an almost mint Mk1 fiesta 1.1l with 50k on the clock (half of that was done by me) sold for £300 - sorting the body would have cost me £500
(I've seen worse ones selling for £1500 now )
and second an s1 106 1.0 in poverty spec - carb, 4 gears and no toys at all (not even a rear wiper) one of the cheapest A to B's ever
once worked out the total cost inc. petrol, incurance, repairs etc... = less than 16p a mile! - sold it to mango for his adventure to rome and back,
should of kept it and used the money its replacement has cost me to finish the dax
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and letting my dad give away a sripped down (but complete) super imp for free
only needed a little body work before rebuilding...
[Edited on 24/7/2012 by mcerd1]
Getting rid of my MK1 Escort 1300E. It would be worth a fortune now
Giving up my delivery slot for a mk1 focus rs because I got tetchy spending £21k on it, could have had it a year and still turned a 4k profit, cock
Did get my 2k deposit back though
Selling my metalic yellow Megane 230 F1 Team R26
Selling my Lada.
Crashing my old peugeot 205.
Giving away my very solid part restored Alfasud Sprint Trofeo and a shed load of spares.
Stu
Selling a metro I once owned. C869EUD.
Could not afford to keep it
1. Selling my last 205 GTI for £500 - it was a minter and now probably worth 5-6 times that
2. Buying a mk3 Escort 1.1 popular - it was an absolute nail of a car
1. Crashing my first mini a week before my test!
2. Getting rid of all of my other minis (including a 1275 GT, a 1974 de-seamed job that I re-built and a 850 I sold for £21 and a packet of fags!)
2. Strangely selling my wife's MPI Seicento Sporting which was a cracking little car I'd now like to have as a runaround or do an engine
swap with.
Not been in a position (financially) to develop the MKGT1 into a race winning proposition during my RGB days, I had the time but not the funds.
Oddly enough I could now find the budget but don't have the time.
Another regret that will stay for ever is selling my old MK1 escort, now that is regret.
Selling my Exige.
Selling my Caterham.
Not buying a 340R.
scrapping my perfectly good mk5 cortina when I listened to others who just looked down at it as an old car, now I can't even afford as good a
cortina as mine was
hence I'm keeping my bluebird regardless of people opinions about as they sound just like the twits did with the cortina and I like it anyway
[Edited on 24/7/12 by Mr Whippy]
buying a ford
selling charade gtti
All sorts really...
'74 Marina 1.8TC
'81 Mk2 1.6 Escort
'80 Yamaha RD350LC x 2
'80 Kawasaki Z1000
'75 Honda 400/4
'79 Honda XL100
'72 Yamaha DT250
And, really, I wish I had kept ALL the bikes I've ever had
Oh, hang on I haven't sold it yet!!!!!
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Originally posted by MikeCapon
Selling a metro I once owned. C869EUD.
Could not afford to keep it
Selling Triumph Tiger Cub Trials for £7.50 !
Selling immaculate 1978 monoshock Yamaha DT250mx when it only needed a new pilot jet!
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Originally posted by loggyboy
quote:
Originally posted by MikeCapon
Selling a metro I once owned. C869EUD.
Could not afford to keep it
yum... 6R4
Selling my 306 GTI-6
My Modded Peugeot
The car was a mint low mileage one!!!
oh and selling my MK
quote:
Originally posted by MikeCapon
quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
quote:
Originally posted by MikeCapon
Selling a metro I once owned. C869EUD.
Could not afford to keep it
yum... 6R4
Was wondering if anyone would have spotted that. Well done loggyboy. Bought it to sell sadly. It was worth more than my house
I felt sorry for my mates brother who was moving from Whitby to Rugby (that wasn't why I was feeling sorry for him) as he was skint so hitch-hiking up and down carrying as much of his gear as he could carry each time, so I lent him my Minivan. It was my first (legal) car that I leant to drive in and it was ace. I never saw it again. Mates brother said it broke down on the way back from Rugby so he got out and hitch hiked home. He had no idea where he left it.
selling this (stickers for lemans)
and this
Description
[Edited on 24/7/12 by Twin40]
quote:
Originally posted by MikeCapon
quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
quote:
Originally posted by MikeCapon
Selling a metro I once owned. C869EUD.
Could not afford to keep it
yum... 6R4
Was wondering if anyone would have spotted that. Well done loggyboy. Bought it to sell sadly. It was worth more than my house
Not buying a genuine red 289 Cobra for 2000 pounds in 1972 - I had the money but not the time to get it back to Cape Town from the then Salisbury Rhodesia before tech started. (There was an orange Lambo Muira in the showroom as well for similar money but I thought that I stood a better chance of driving the Cobra the 3000 km home without a breakdown - still think I was right..)
Not buying a genuine lotus s2 for 10000 rand not many years back
For selling both my sevens
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and second an s1 106 1.0 in poverty spec - carb, 4 gears and no toys at all (not even a rear wiper) one of the cheapest A to B's ever
once worked out the total cost inc. petrol, incurance, repairs etc... = less than 16p a mile! - sold it to mango for his adventure to rome and back,
should of kept it and used the money its replacement has cost me to finish the dax Well What can I say after making her famous she went on for
another 20k after I put 20 k on her
First car I messed about with was a morris minor traveller with the wood and pop out indicators, anyway it must have broke down or failed its mot. I
took it to bits aged about 6 or so, just stripped the loom and got covered with tar like stuff. Anyway my old Dad scrapped it a few months later. Now
get this, the reg plate was WWW 101 this was before the world wide web was around. Whish I had that reg still. I can remember reg as we used to call
the car wee willie winkie.
What would that reg number be worth today.
Selling my part-built freestyle buggy when I lost my job
Selling my tuned mini to pay for my honeymoon
Not buying the GTM Coupe kit when I was 20.
Motoring regrets - I regret letting my wife drive my Alfa Romeo which she crashed
quote:
Originally posted by Surrey Dave
Selling Triumph Tiger Cub Trials for £7.50 !
Selling immaculate 1978 monoshock Yamaha DT250mx when it only needed a new pilot jet!
Becoming interested in motoring. A cocaine habit would be cheaper and healthier.
Giving away my old split screen VW camper, crashing my P6 3500S, selling my Mini pick up for peanuts because I had started to build my Locost and couldn't. be bothered to replace the bent front wing. Not buying the XK 150 for £50.00 the Porsche 356 that needed a new wiring loom again for £50.00 and various other cars I could of had
Not buying a Ferrari dino for £1k cos the sills had rotted (1979) so bought a 2+2 elan
sold a flat floor series 1 etype convertable for £6.5k that i had bought a few weeks earlier for £4.5k and still not on the road 20+ years later
sold 2+2 elan to buy a caravan, for wife and dustbin lids to enjoy, sold two years later, as we had misrable wet holiday in devon
sold a marcus 3 litre, as i was bored with it
Probably more, but depressed now ......................
quote:
Originally posted by melly-g
Getting rid of my MK1 Escort 1300E. It would be worth a fortune now
I should of maybe brought a track dedicated track slag and abused it for a few years instead of a se7en. Driving on the roads is not as much fun as I
first thought.
I have not owned enough cars to regret any buys or sells and have missed out on the golden days of iconic cars and number plates.
Swapping my 205 for a new car. I loved the Panda but If I'd put a tiny fraction of the money I spent on it into my 205 it would have been amazing, and I'd have loads of money now. Also not buying a Granada Cosworth I was offered for £250 last year with tax and MOT on it, I could have scrapped it and sent in the tax and made a profit.
westf27
I think that related to the BSA Bantam I sold H.Ball for £2.50 or so , and yes he didn't pay!!
You got a good memory !!, hey that was the Bantam you burnt your leg on!!!
Not much to put on here till friday:
Really stupid bit of driving which has caused a lot of work (breaking it as insurance is not worth the premium hike) right when I dont need it.
Daniel
Selling my 1937 SS Jaguar saloon in 1962 for £40 - what I paid for it.
Selling my 1948 MG Y type saloon in 1970 for the same.
But in both cases - nowhere to store them.
Selling my vespa t5 for £200
Dozens of what then where scrapers but are now collectable.
1275 clubman, traveler and god knows what elts.
Not buying my dads friends 1957 Morris 1100 (JFT678) for £100 in 1984
50,000 miles and absolutely immaculate.
quote:
Originally posted by Macbeast
Selling my 1937 SS Jaguar saloon in 1962 for £40 - what I paid for it.
Buying a Ford Orion 1.6i Ghia.
Buying my piece of s**t Mazda 6 after getting rid of my 5 series BMW.
Grrrrrr
Getting rid of everything good I ever had.
The Alfasud ti, the BMW E3 3.0Si, The Vauxhall Royale Coupe, The MK1 Golf GTi, The GTM Rossa.
The first Sylva, the second Sylva, both Robin Hoods. (Yes, honestly.)
The Ginetta.
Selling the MK3 Golf GTI to Mango.
Grrrr........
I regret getting rid of all of these.
However.
At the time there would have been reasons for doing so.
If there were reasons, then it was the right thing to do so why regret having done so ?
Onwards and upwards.
Going splits on cars with mates - never a good idea!
- We had a 205 GTI track car (road legal - just) - I handed it over to one of my mates in great condition after driving it for 4 months - it needed
one gear linkage replaced. I gave him the part, and instructions on how to do it (10 minute job). He didn't do it, and wrecked the gearbox trying
to find gears over the following weeks. The car sold on ebay for £112 - less than 10% of what it owed us! 
Other regret - selling my Impreza as it was costing too much in fuel to commute - replaced it with a 1.8 Vauxhall Vectra estate. The Vauxhall was
TERRIBLE, costing more in fuel and parts than the Scoob ever did. Never again will I own another Vauxhall!
Selling my Mk1 Escort and 1.9 205 GTI Pug
I forgot to add the two 924s to my list.
Not 2.5 924S, just the basic 2.0 8 valve 130bhp cars.
Hugely underrated.
This:
quote:
Originally posted by coozer
And, really, I wish I had kept ALL the bikes I've ever had
Selling by 330 bhp Focus RS
Returning by Porsche 924 Turbo (931) back to standard and selling it plus all the bits (944 turbo intercooler, adjustable boost, leda suspension,
light weight panels, evo vent on bonnet and rear roll cage etc)
And finally losing my 300PS LHD M3 GT
Midde-age and the premature death of my entire family and younger relatives has taught me an important thing -
I've never regretted what I've done, just things I haven't.
Motoring wise, I could have done without the experience of crashing my RD250LC at age 17 and 10 days, very, very high and insane speeds. Not just the
6 months in hospital at the time, but the injuries are catching up big time now....
Not keeping all the Mk2 RS2000's I had....especially the mint one i paid Mike Young £4500 for in 1993....it was absolutely straight! Lots of
money then, but she was a nice one.....
Selling any of the Alfasuds and Citroen GSAs I have owned. If only I had a barn!
Selling my Grinnall converted TR7 V8
Selling my Volvo 850 T5 estate when 10 years old and done 130k as I thought it would start to cost me money. What an engine.
Selling my first car a Morris Minor Traveller to by an MG Midget. Minor always got me home even if I had to start on the cranking handle - now there
is some history for the youngsters. Midget left me stranded more than once a month for the 6 months I put up with it.
Buying a Rover 827 beacause it was cheap when my MkIII White Escort was stolen - they all were!
Not buyi.ng a Metro 6R4 when offered a new one for £12k inc spares package when BL had a car park full of them.
Letting wife buy an Audi TT because now she won't accept anything else.
Only ever having sensible and practical cars, like my current 206 hdi
Selling the 2 door Mk1 Escort I learned to drive in for £150.......
And checking the fan rotation last week........with my fingers
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Originally posted by clairetoo
And checking the fan rotation last week........with my fingers