Ever sell a car and miss it?

   Like, a lot? A few years back I sold my Acadia green Subaru Impreza to NoCones for him to pull parts from to bring together his epic Challenge build. Lately, I've been REALLY missing it. I first bought that car waaaay back in '03, then sold it in '06 when the wife and I had our first kid on the way and we needed more than a haggard, two-door Rallycross beater. I then bought it back with a locked up engine in '08, I think, and scrounged together enough parts to get it back on the road for a few more years. It never ran quite right and eventually stopped running altogether. I never really had the time and money to care for it properly; I had either one or the other, never both. 

   I keep finding myself dwelling on the old Scoob and missing it so much it almost hurts. 

   Anybody else similarly afflicted?

I should not have sold my dually. That was a big oof.

Yep! I absolutely regret selling my '91 318is. It was in great condition, I put some 17x7.5 SSR Type Cs with 215/40 RT-615s, GC coilovers, Mark D chip, all black leather sport interior with houndstooth door cards, euro bumper trim (eliminates the ugly turn signals) and a few other things. This was how it looked right before I sold it back to the guy I bought it from. 

This was it's ultimate fate after it was sold again. 

https://jalopnik.com/bmw-driver-survives-nightmare-crash-when-his-e30-loses-1795500447

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In reply to chandler :

Is that a 190? I'm not nearly as good with classic Merc's as I am BMWs. 

Yes, but I somehow managed to buy the same car back 30 years later.

Not really, they were pretty used up and/or rusty by the time I was done with them. Two cars off my list I'd own other examples of if the right deal landed in my lap would be an MkI GTI or mid-00's Hyundai Accent.

Two.

My 79 LTD, bought the last year I was racing horses, drove it through ten years of school and three more years after. Got taken out when someone ran a stop sign, but could have been repaired. 
 

My first Miata. Couldn't afford to own two of them at the time, and I had bought my 99 sport. It already had about $5000 in deferred maintenance in the year I owned it and was a suspension swap away from being a great track car. Already had a hardtop, aftermarket seat, coolant bypass, and a roll bar. 
It took months to sell, only got $5400. 
 

I guess I shouldn't forget my 67 Dart GT, sold to my brother. He wrecked it, so he decided he didn't have to pay me. 
 

z31maniac said:

In reply to chandler :

Is that a 190? I'm not nearly as good with classic Merc's as I am BMWs. 

It's an AMG 5.6 SEL, AMG west built 51 cars in 1991 and two were this and an exact match built for the same business in Chicago. 

1966 Datsun Roadster 1600 - should've kept it but I was in my poor years and needed money more than a toy.

I still have the occasional twinge of regret at selling my 73 Challenger. In reality it was nothing special (318/auto) and a bit of a pile if I'm honest, but it was the first car I owned, got me through college, and was intermittently entertaining. I rapidly lost interest when I bought my first BMW 2002, which was probably the right direction to go in.

I miss em all. The '63 Sprite, the "69 Javelin, '89 Swift GTi, '09 Fit, heck, I even miss the '77 Comet I was too cool to inherit from my sister. All the Toyotas-Mr2, Hiluxes, Corolla AE85 fall in that category, too.

But yeah, the GTi really held a special place in my heart.

Note; not my car pictured above. Mine was a E36 M3 box.

Yeah, there's a few.

Elise speaks for itself. Really liked the CTS-V, but consumables weren't as cheap as I expected and it went through them pretty quickly. The miata was a very clean 94 r package that I sold way too cheap right before the pandemic hit. The steering feel from the manual rack was sublime.

My 2011 GTI.  But to be brutally honest, at almost 100k miles, and (more critically) with rust setting in, it was time.  

1986 Saab 900, got it new and put 185,000 on it (my record for owning a car BTW).  So I just bought another one.  Avid Saab  guy neighbor has a red SPG reworked to 500hp, "OMG, I've never SEEN as 4 door coupe".

Wow.

Datsun310Guy said:

1966 Datsun Roadster 1600 - should've kept it but I was in my poor years and needed money more than a toy.

I'll take a picture of the picture in my office. My dad had a '67 Fairlady that he raced at Hallett back in the 80s. It's what got me hooked on cars from a very early age. 

In reply to Datsun310Guy :

I think this would have been about 1987 or so? I always skipped church on Sunday's with my mom to go to the track with dad when I could. This looks to be coming into "The Bitch" at Hallett running the normal direction. Not a great pic, no matter what I did with the blinds there was a glare. Right below that is a picture of the 67 Camaro drag car he had back in the 70s. Low 11s with a street legal car back then was fairly impressive. 

The first 944 Turbo S I had, when I watched it drive away I knew I should've kept it.  That's really the only one I truly regretted selling.

There are others that I realize I should've kept because they were good cars or have jumped up significantly in value, but that's different than regret.  In that category were the oxford green E46 M3 and the silver E36 M3 I had.

1976 Ford Pinto Wagon, 302 V8 (cam, compression), C4 w/shift-kit, 9".  I needed it gone at the time, but still miss it. I am still a recovering Pintoholic.

1987 Pontiac Firefly (Chevy Sprint), 350V8/RWD conversion. Like a hot/psycho girlfriend, it was giggles full of amazing, but not something I wanted to live with.

Yeah. I sold it when it needed some repair, a rusty body mount that I didn't want to deal with. In hindsight it wasn't a big deal and the rest of the truck was pretty solid. Should have kept it.

It was one of the most fun to drive things I've had, in its own way.

It wasn't sold but totaled in a crash- 13 Mazda Cx-5 Manual. More fun to drive than an SUV should ever be.

In reply to z31maniac :

Nice car - great memories 

The '87 16v GTI I shared with my brother. Did not sell, he gave it away after it developed a fuel problem, he did not know I had spent $1k worth of injectors/fuel pumps, etc. :(

To this day he apologizes for not asking me.

66 Delta 88 2 door hardtop, bucket seats, console, floor shift, 425 Ultra High Compression Super Rocket V8.

I sold it 40 years ago.  It's the only one I'd like back.

Quite a few, but the one I miss the most was a 1986 Corvette. With the Z51 suspension, its handling was much better than my driving skill. But with nearly 200,000 miles, it wasn't the best car for a long commute, and I didn't have the space or money to make it another toy while something else took over daily use.