private mw Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 my 2 lightweights and the sumb . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Every vehicle I've ever sold but particularly: A '67 Mk2 Cortina Crayford Savage - to pay bills A '63 Van den Plas 4 Litre R - to pay bills A '78 Pontiac Trans-Am, T-roof with totally de-emissioned 6.6 litre engine and 4 speed manual box - because the DVLA cocked up my license re-issue and told it got put back another year and the local kids thought it would be fun to start using the bonnet as a slide whislt wearing studded jeans. 6 weeks after I sold it my license turned up in the post.... A '86 Saab 900T 8v - one of the fastest 8v's in the country - sold to pay bills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero-Five-Two Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Some things had to go, even if I didn't want them to. Thing to remember is did you sell it to a good home? My regret would have to be a Mk3 Zephyr I used to show some 25 years ago, according to the Mk3 owners club (I used to be a member) it is currently residing in a barn somewhere in Kent awaiting a future restoration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locolines Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 Some things had to go, even if I didn't want them to. Thing to remember is did you sell it to a good home? My regret would have to be a Mk3 Zephyr I used to show some 25 years ago, according to the Mk3 owners club (I used to be a member) it is currently residing in a barn somewhere in Kent awaiting a future restoration That's 2 votes for z cars then ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford 369 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 That's 2 votes for z cars then ! better make that 3 cos I really miss my mk2 zodiac,it wasn't anywhere near as good as he mk2 zephyr I replaced it with but we had so much fun in that car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spood Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 :)Sold my Mk 1 Escort Mexico to go towards my house......... I still think I should have kept the car and lived in that :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 gpz750 Had one of those too for a while - how flipping fast were those things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcot1751 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 :)Sold my Mk 1 Escort Mexico to go towards my house......... I still think I should have kept the car and lived in that :-) I wish I had never sold the five Mk1 Escort Mexico's I owned in the late seventies early eighties, my '66 Ford Thunderbird, Austin A40 pick up, VW Split Screen panel van, '46 Cadillac 62 series, Morris 1000 pick up, Bedford MW aero screen, Capri 3.0s, Corsair 2000E, 2.8i Capri, Rover P5b, Massey Ferguson 165, ....................... the list goes on :cry: One I did sell but couldn't live without was my '43 Ford GPW, I just bought it back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff66 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 yes they were fast at the time !, had a test ride on a gpz750 turbo remember them jack? now that was fast ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 yes they were fast at the time !, had a test ride on a gpz750 turbo remember them jack? now that was fast ! I do! That's what I had.......I had two choices really - 1. get rid of it or 2. die :-| I think 0-60 was 3.1 seconds :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff66 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 and it had 112 bhp, latest sports bike are getting close to 200 bhp! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeePig Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 (edited) I have no regrets for the stuff I have sold, scrapped, had stolen etc, I always prefer what I am working on now. However, if I wake up one morning and find there is a rusty, beige Mini Traveller sitting outside, I will go back to bed until it goes away. :-D Edited July 29, 2013 by GeePig typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarrett Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 As a 17 year old bought a m20 with sidecar for 35 quid,could see a ban on the horizon so took the chair off and went ripping around the fields then took the oil drain plug out and walked away,jesus what a mug,and the ban didn't materialize! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero-Five-Two Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 (edited) That's 2 votes for z cars then ! Worse bit is you could say they were MV's as they were used as staff cars for a while Edited July 29, 2013 by Zero-Five-Two typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 I regret selling my 1942 dated Rocket Propelled Grappling Hook, it now resides in a museum in the States :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.303fan Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 i had a girlfriend who put me at a choice. sell your land-rovers and get a lexus, or we split up. i can still remember her look on her face, when i put my duffle bag in the 1962 109 and went to belgium. the car i regret scrapping was my alfa romeo 33sw type 2. engine failure, loads of work and i had enough of it. regretted it after leaving it at the scrappy. my wife to be regretted selling her 109 raf landy. after a few years she bought it back, and i work on it ever since :-) cheers, Arjan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locolines Posted July 30, 2013 Author Share Posted July 30, 2013 i had a girlfriend who put me at a choice.sell your land-rovers and get a lexus, or we split up. i can still remember her look on her face, when i put my duffle bag in the 1962 109 and went to belgium. the car i regret scrapping was my alfa romeo 33sw type 2. engine failure, loads of work and i had enough of it. regretted it after leaving it at the scrappy. my wife to be regretted selling her 109 raf landy. after a few years she bought it back, and i work on it ever since :-) cheers, Arjan Ah duffle bags... ..they were the days.... Many a good fellow has gone off over the horizon with nothing but a duffle bag. they use bin liners nowadays you know, it doesn't have the same air of adventure does it.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big ray Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 In the late 1960s I bought a Triumph TR 4A for my wife, she did not like it, said that she felt a little too near to the ground, so I used it for twelve months. After the twelve months I parked it in the garage and covered it with a dust sheet. I was not sure what I wanted to do with it, but decided to keep it anyway. My brother told a friend of his that I had it mothballed, he had had one but had wrecked it in a crash. He must have come to my door ten times trying to buy that car, I kept telling him that it was not for sale, but each visit he asked could he go into the garage and (drool) look at it. On one of his later visits my wife also walked into the garage, saw the look on his face when he loked at the car. After he had gone she said, why dont you sell it to him, he`s in love with the thing, I relented and rang the guy and told him that he could have it if he was so desperate, my wife had convinced me that it would be going to a good home............................ 3 months later he wrapped it around a tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 and it had 112 bhp, latest sports bike are getting close to 200 bhp! Yes but the gpz had little spindly tyres and tiny 2 pot brakes and a bendy frame...lethal but oh what fun..!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Ah duffle bags... ..they were the days.... Many a good fellow has gone off over the horizon with nothing but a duffle bag.they use bin liners nowadays you know, it doesn't have the same air of adventure does it.? That's true. Has the black deployment bag now taken the place of the duffle bag? it doesn't quite feel the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Just realised that this thread has made me sad because if the only I regret ever selling was my bike then I must have had a really boring life.:cry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Not so much sold but just reached the end of her days. An old Series 2a Land Rover Safari. My son (about 4 at the time) was in tears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redherring Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 The old farm Landy. Early 50's model. Broken springs, shackles rusted through, gleaming aluminium - on account of all the paint wore off over the years. One day it was parked on a steepish section of hill. The driver got out... and it rolled side over side down to the creek. The ground was soft, the windscreen was bolted flat, and the few minor dents gained just added a bit of character. No other Landrover could replace it! I still have one door and the original fuel tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big ray Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 The old farm Landy. Early 50's model. Broken springs, shackles rusted through, gleaming aluminium - on account of all the paint wore off over the years. One day it was parked on a steepish section of hill. The driver got out... and it rolled side over side down to the creek. The ground was soft, the windscreen was bolted flat, and the few minor dents gained just added a bit of character. No other Landrover could replace it! I still have one door and the original fuel tank. If its full, its worth a fortune !!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason1968 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 My 1949 v8 eighty inch land rover that I built from parts and my 1941 11 cab chevrolet fat both went to fund a girl friend with expensive tastes who is now long gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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