Cars you are gutted you sold or scrapped

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cryrst

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Following a post I thought I would ask.
What cars you had and wished you didn’t sell for a few quid
I had a mark 1 escort sold £30
3 mk 4 cortina’s all less than £200
Mark 1 fiesta sport
Mark 1 Astra sport froze the engine no antifreeze
Mk 1 Orion scrapped
All gone and now worth a mint
Ffs I’m gutted but I bet some had mexicos and cossies they flogged for peanuts.
I saw an escort cossie go for 95k on bangers and cash
Anyone a bit pissed off like me 😂
 
MK1 Escort 1100 1973 feckin great little bird puller.
Citroen CX2400 Prestige mad as a box of frogs but bloody marvellous.
Daimler Double Six V12 5.3 litre proper guzzler.
 
1998 VW Transporter T4.
2.4 diesel

the Harley Davidson of Vans. So much torq...It was fun to drive. Would go up a hill the same speed as down. VW transporters. They go up in value over time. My mechanic loved working on it, he wanted to keep it.
 
1973 Mk1 Escort 1100 that I added a small racing steering wheel from Croydon Race and Rally Centre plus a classy wooden centre console.
1983 mk3 Capri 2.0S, jet black with stripes removed, wheel spacers and a red reflective panel on the boot......
 
My biggest regret was selling the first car I ever owned. It was a 1936 Austin 7 'Nippy', which was a two seater sports version of the little car. I bought it for £75 in 1963 with money I made from doing paper rounds.

I sold it for £95 after just a couple of years and a great deal of fun. It's still on the road somewhere and would probably fetch around £15k today.
 
I had a 1985 XR3i. To be honest it was not actually great. I had a 1983? Cavalier SRi which was faster but had four gears and no power steering. And they're a big car. And I had a 1990? Fiat Uno Turbo - which a bit like the XR3i always needed fixing. It was in a five car pile up on the motorway in the end.
Cavalier was the favourite of these but least cool. My girlfriend crashed it.
Let's face it - they're cool but they're not actually good cars. My Hyundai CRDi would easily piss all of them. Not a bad car really. I have the old luxury model. You get absolutely everything and crazily - everything still works.
 
My first car was a mk 3 cortina back in the early 80’s, exactly like Gene Hunts in Life on Mars, same Copper colour, GXL the lot, but I didn’t look after it, I run it into the ground and let it rust, if only I’d known what an iconic car that was to become
 
BromleyMonkey said:
My first car was a mk 3 cortina back in the early 80’s, exactly like Gene Hunts in Life on Mars, same Copper colour, GXL the lot, but I didn’t look after it, I run it into the ground and let it rust, if only I’d known what an iconic car that was to become
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My mate had one of those with the 1725cc burton engine I think it was called from memory.
A mechanic on here might know if that is correct. Rare as hens teeth now.
 
Had a few but these stand out:

MK1 Scirocco - a lovely car
MK1 Toyota Celica - bought it from a mate who had kept it immaculate and I ruined it - don’t think he has forgiven me 45 years later.

My brother had an immaculate MK1 Mexico which his girlfriend crashed!

Both my older brothers had MGB’s in the late 70’s which I always loved so I bought one about 15 years ago which I still enjoy using today (this does get looked after very well).
 
30 years ago I was sick of the depreciation on every car that I sold so when I spotted a 1966 Alfa Spider Duetto for sale at an Alfa dealer I bought it. The car had a ground up restoration and was superb in every way.

I was living in Newcastle at the time and a couple of years later I was offered the opportunity to buy the rented house I was living so the car had to go. I don't remember how much I paid for it but do recall that I sold it for twice that amount and of course the values of cars like that have gone up considerably since then
 
cryrst said:
My mate had one of those with the 1725cc burton engine I think it was called from memory.
A mechanic on here might know if that is correct. Rare as hens teeth now.
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No I wouldn’t know either, like I say I didn’t look after it, all the sills started to rust and I just let it happen until it was unMOTable(I’ve invented a word there)🤣 I was only 17/18 and it did me a couple of years cruising and posing up and down Bromley high street with the stereo which cost more than the car blasting, like a dick head 😇
 
First car - mark one cortina, then saved like a hermit to buy a Mustang Mach 1, side exhausts, Wolfrace wheels…looked the business. Got rid after hitting a Rolls Royce that was turning right as I was trying to pass on the inside. Totally impractical car but great fun at the time…apparently I am now a grown up and shouldn’t lust after such things!
 
Mk1 1964 E-Type Roadster 4.2 Dark Blue.

I was not in a financial position to spend the necessary £££ on it that it deserved and needed. 2nd hand E-Types were cheap back then.

Not too gutted I simply had no choice back then.
 
BromleyMonkey said:
No I wouldn’t know either, like I say I didn’t look after it, all the sills started to rust and I just let it happen until it was unMOTable(I’ve invented a word there)🤣 I was only 17/18 and it did me a couple of years cruising and posing up and down Bromley high street with the stereo which cost more than the car blasting, like a dick head 😇
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Let the alpine blast. I had one that you removed from its mount on the dash with a handle 🤣
 
Common Sense Club said:
First car - mark one cortina, then saved like a hermit to buy a Mustang Mach 1, side exhausts, Wolfrace wheels…looked the business. Got rid after hitting a Rolls Royce that was turning right as I was trying to pass on the inside. Totally impractical car but great fun at the time…apparently I am now a grown up and shouldn’t lust after such things!
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We never grow up don’t ya know.
Mentally about 12, that’s why women don’t understand us as they generally are adults 🤦😁
 
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