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  • JoeyM

    Sept. 27, 2011 7:47 p.m. JoeyM SuperDork

    Motorist buys back his first car 44 years after he sold it (and it's done just ten miles in that time)

  • familytruckster

    Sept. 27, 2011 7:49 p.m. familytruckster New Reader

    Wish I could do that.....but all of my cars went to the crusher.

  • mad_machine

    Sept. 27, 2011 9:06 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    My first car went to a kid who was woefully unprepared for the tail happy nature of an overpowered VW Superbeetle. It only lasted 6 months before backing quickly into something hard and unmovable

  • Sonic

    Sept. 27, 2011 9:09 p.m. Sonic Dork

    That's great. My first car is still in my garage some 17 years later. In fact, I just worked on it tonight to try to get it back on the road for the first time in 8 years.

  • Duke

    Sept. 28, 2011 11:32 a.m. Duke SuperDork

    Sonic wrote:

    That's great. My first car is still in my garage some 17 years later. In fact, I just worked on it tonight to try to get it back on the road for the first time in 8 years.

    That's about the sitch I'm in, minus the working on it part. And I've had it for almost 30 years.

  • bravenrace

    Sept. 28, 2011 11:36 a.m. bravenrace SuperDork

    My first car, a '68 Camaro, I sold to a friend with the proviso that I had first dibs if he sold it. I forget why, but for some reason he wasn't intending on keeping it long term. So one day I see it on the back of a flat bed tow truck. I was curious about what failed, so a couple days later I called him to see what happened. It turns out that the flatbed driver was stealing it at the time I saw it. It was never found.

  • itsarebuild

    Sept. 28, 2011 11:52 a.m. itsarebuild HalfDork

    Sonic wrote:

    That's great. My first car is still in my garage some 17 years later. In fact, I just worked on it tonight to try to get it back on the road for the first time in 8 years.

    i was working on mine last weekend. its been a decade since it last ran...... stupid thieves!

  • Sept. 28, 2011 11:58 a.m. egnorant Dork

    Bought my first cat for $450 and drove it home. Being 14 my Dad made me return it and get my money back (got $425). Saw it on the road last month but I might not be able to afford it or talk the guy into selling....1969 Shelby Mustang w/428 and 4 speed. I might have crashed and died in it as I was only 14 and rather...daring!

    Bruce

  • Sept. 28, 2011 12:27 p.m. dj06482 HalfDork

    Here's my friend's story (added bonus for this board was that it was a Miata):

    http://www.miata.net/motm/2005/dammers.html

  • Sept. 28, 2011 2:36 p.m. fasted58 Dork

    this is one of those 'meant to be reunited' stories

    now I wish that '64 Fairlane Sport Coupe would find it's way back to me along w/ that redhead in HS

 
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