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I had a 72 510 coupe that had too much rust for me to deal with when I had no garage. Sold it to a guy that worked at a body shop with the promise that he'd fix it up.
I saw it on the Ratsun forums a few months back, stripped to a shell and headed to the scrapyard. 
My first car I owned, got it when I was 17.
Some time after I turned 24 it started acting up with electrical problems. A new alternator, voltage reg ecm and wiring harness later I had that problem licked.
After fixing the electron leaks I drove the piss out of it to ensure the alternator was good to redline. Poor little car kept warning me that there was zero oil pressure, idiot light, gauge etc. Well, I thought it was due to voltage surges damaging the dash and ignored it. After all, I NEVER had to add oil to this engine, it just didn't leak. Nope, poor little engine had no oil left. 20 mile trip spent beating the snot out of it was too much for the oem bearings. Suprisingly ran it to redline numerous times with the pressure gauge dropping to zero before the engine started knocking a few blocks from home.
All I had to do was check the oil.... poor car.
poopshovel wrote:This is embarrasing and sad to say, but pretty much everything in my stable right now:
I won't go into details, but I can relate to that.
I had 2, first was a '86 CRX HF, my first car. It was hit 4 months after I bought and instead of getting it fixed I spent the insurance money on stupid stuff. Still drove the car around and beat the piss outta it, eventually just gave it away. Had no idea how cool that car was until I was way older.
2nd was my 3rd car when I was 19. It was a '64 Corvair. Bought for $1200 from a guy who started a resto but ran into money issues. New interior, rebuilt motor, all body work done, just needed paint. Drove it for a year then I couldn't pay for tags or insurance and it sat. Finally was ticketed from the city and eventually towed. Still didn't have money for the tags and now the tow or storage fees. Ended up losing that one....
Just about every car I have ever owned. More than one went from me to the junk yard. Bought cheap road hard and sold or junked wet.
Miss the most, a 81 Corolla Wagon (junked), a 79 Ford Pinto (sold $400), 67 Chevy Impala (junked), 81 Malibu Wagon (junked), 79 Malibu Sedan (gave away). There were a bunch of others that were much abused also that weren't as memorable.
'78 Cadillac Sedan Deville D'elegance. 38K original miles, brownish color with crushed velour red interior (with living room sized back seat!). Vinyl top. 425 big block V8 (7mpg FTW!!). Ultimate pimp car. Drove it the last winter i was home. Sold it to my boss when i left for basic cheap just to get ride of it, he re-sold it to some punk kid, needless to say it wasnt on the road much longer. RIP pimpmobile, ill always have the memories...
Toyman01 wrote:Just about every car I have ever owned. More than one went from me to the junk yard. Bought cheap road hard and sold or junked wet.
Sadly this applies to me too. 80 AMC Spirit 87 Prelude Si & 97 Cavalier Z24 are the ones I miss. Though, the Prelude wasn't me, that was a 17yo kid in a f-150 and wet roads.
Yes, but not one of mine. A buddy of mine who lived with me for awhile wasn't an enthusiast, but had a competitive nature. After beating him at his videogame (Madden 90something for the Nintendo 64), I built him an S13 chassis 240sx in GT2 with race suspension, etc. so he could at least keep up with me in 2-player.
He went to the used car dealer looking for a 4-door sedan, took me with him, and freaked when he saw the 240 convertable. I should have talked him out of it, but I just wanted an S13 around the house to play with. He fell behind in the payments, and thought the little hesitation in the automatic tranny meant it was about to break. He returned it to the finance company before I could swoop in and pay it off...gone to an auction somewhere. I hope the guy that bought it there did the 5-speed conversion I'd planned for it.
OTOH, he spun it once in the rain, and realized driving sports cars ain't no game...
'76 Fiat 128 3p. I rebuilt an engine for it's broken timing belt one but could never get the brakes to work properly. Pulled the engine back out and junked the car.
'72 Capri V6. Too obesessed with 'restoring' everything back then and couldn't get parts for it. Had I just driven the piss out of it, I'd have been much happier. Would love to find another some day. Wound up swapping it for a Fiat 124 spider. With no floors.
'84 Subaru GL 4x4. The electric stat on the carb didn't work because it wasn't getting power. I spent half the winter taking the air cleaner off and manually moving the choke plate only to fix it later by running a simple wire from an empty engine bay plug. I cursed that car every sub-30 degree morning for months.
I had a 63 Corvair monza spyder convertable, the one that came factory with the 140hp turbo charged engine. owned it for two years and never did more than look at it, and shuffle it around from storage places between 1991 and 1993 or so. it had a mint body and interior,good glass except the windsheild and a new oem soft top. the body had no rust at all, anywhere..but someone had stolen the turbo, and i didnt put enough effort into finding a replacement (long befroe a keystroke could find a new one, no internet then!) I sold the car no better than I had bought it, at the same price... $500.00 but at least i sold it too a true corvair enthusiast, who had already restored several of them. hopefully somewhere it is on the road today doing what it born to do...
The 81 GTV6 that has been sitting in front of my house for almost 6 years. It was my DD for over 4 years and I did take fairly good care of it when I had the money. Then something in the clutch when, it was still driveble but not right.
What started out as just something mechanical has now turned into rust and some other issues and I need to just get rid of the car, but it is not easy at all.
first was a '86 CRX HF, my first car. It was hit 4 months after I bought and instead of getting it fixed I spent the insurance money on stupid stuff. Still drove the car around and beat the piss outta it, eventually just gave it away. Had no idea how cool that car was until I was way older.
Next time you feel like doing that, please let me know. Heck, I'll give you a hundred bucks! 
My '73 Volvo 142 oh I tried and I miss it every day.
slefain wrote:'88 Mitsbubishi Mirage Turbo. I got it 4 years ago for dirt cheap (thanks for the tow Les). I got it running 3 years ago and since then it has sat in my parent's basement. It's not a bad little car, I just don't have the time or the space right now. It only needs different tires/wheels, a tuneup, and a little tinkering to button up the intake tract. But until I clear the back part of my garage, in the basement it will sit. I should be ashamed for letting such a cool little hot hatch languish.
I thought those cars were '89 only.
I had a 1972 Beetle that was a full out original cal look car and just needed an interior put in it and a new engine. The car had fresh metallic blue paint with early style fenders and euro blade bumpers. It just needed a little work to be an awesome car. I ended up not wanting to finish the car so I could buy something older and sold it cheap to buy the blue Karmann Ghia. The guy I sold it to has done nothing to it and it just sits.
