[Closed] All the vehicles you sold.... but should have kept

The Volv V50 we sold in Nov 2019 when we bought the current car. Done 4k miles since we bought it thanks to lockdown, would have been better keeping the volvo

BNW F650 just fun.

Sold itvas ****ed my knee falling off mtb, so bought:

Rover 75 auto...only car I've ever had that just made me laugh every time I got in.

North of a 100k today that lot today

But you would have spent a lot of that £100k storing them, keeping them running, restoring them when they go rusty etc,.

Celica VVTi 2005, I still miss it when I see one, which is rare. If I had had somewhere to store it I would probably still have it. Love Toyota cars, wish I could afford a GT86.

FS1E
RD350LC (x2)
RD350LC F2 YPVS
RD400
GPz900R

oldmanmtb2 wins humblebrag thread of the day! 🙂

Me - none, they all went for a reason. Only one I really had any attachment to was an Octavia estate I kept for 10 yrs. Had it's own eco-system in the back by the time it went to the scrapyard!

DT175MX
RD350LC YPVS
VFR400R

Toyota Celica GT4 ST185

D-reg red Honda C90

2007 Fiesta ST
2010 Focus ST
2006 Clio 182 FF

That's the order I owned them. Miss the Clio most, closely followed by the Focus.

Renault 5 GTX. Let's put a 1.7 engine in a normal Renault 5 said the man from marketing with a Gallic shrug....what could go wrong?

None here either, I usually keep them until they die / nearly dead

VW Polo - it went as I'd blown the cylinder rings
Peugeot 306 - rusty holes around the sun roof
Mondeo - fuel pump
Seat Leon - faulty turbo
VW Sharan - needed repairing more often

TL1000S - Tried to kill me everytime I got on it but it had *cough* "character"

S1 Lotus Elise: R10 TOP : I wonder where you are now

VFR750 - so much better than the Triumph Sprint 1050 that replaced it, but the cycle parts were getting a bit tired from winter commuting.
Brodie Holeshot Ti - beautiful, should have stuck some longer forks on it or put on the wall.

Other than that, I'm quite happy with the changes I've made

2003 Impreza Spec-C
2011 Clio 200 - With megane 225 engine conversion
2016 Husqvarna 701 Supermoto

All wonderful machines!

J150LKL Polo G40, 14.04 quarter mile, plate diff, hilarious
F233RDC Nova GTE with Redtop, 14.78 quarter mile, I was only 20 when I did this, my Brother had it after me and then a mate had it, ended up being used as a rally car.

Haven't had many cars tbh, but I should have kept my TT Roadster 225, with the baseball glove seats.

It was mint.

TVR S3c
Pug 205 1.6 GTI - with the full glass sliding sunroof - like a massive go-kart.
Rover 216 GTI
Golf 2.0 GT TDi - great fun driving it across France/Belgium for a long weekend trip blasting round the Nurburgring, so much torque!

CB400F1 is the only vehicle I really regret letting go.

Renault 5 GTX. Let’s put a 1.7 engine in a normal Renault 5 said the man from marketing with a Gallic shrug….what could go wrong?

Renault 5 Gordini Turbo. Let’s put a 1.4 Turbocharged engine in a normal Renault 5 and put it in the hands of a 19 year old said the man from marketing with a Gallic shrug….what could go wrong?

Sold for scrap after getting destroyed in a crash. My neck still hurts most days 29 years later.

None.

I'm closer to 50 than 40 and I'm on my 4th car. All the other 3 went to the scrapyard with north of 150,000 miles on the clock (250,000 on my Type-R last year).

I effing *hate* spending money on cars. I used to like driving a lot, but not so much now.

But they're a colossal waste of money. My 3 cars added up probably cost me about 20 grand to purchase (a few years old, low mileage) over 25 years of my driving life and they got serviced irregularly.

It absolutely boggles my mind that self-worth is so wrapped up with car ownership in Blighty. People could have saved early-retirement levels of money by simply not spending money on cars. Never mind the environmental destruction inherent in the industry (most of the bad is in the making of the car - so buying more cars compounds the problems - you're much better off running a well-working car into the ground).

Idiocy IMO.

R300 CYA
2002 Caterham R300, upgraded to 208 BHP ....what a Numpty

S1 Lotus Elise: R10 TOP : I wonder where you are now

Last MOT expired in May 2010. I'm guessing all the metal bits, a Chinese blast furnace and the plastic body, road filler.

Fiat Panda 4x4
Mk2 Golf Gti
Omega MV6
Rover 620SLDi
Vauxhall Frontera
VW Passat
VW T5
Audi TT
VW Passat
Suzuki GSX650F

I miss the T5 on a near daily basis, but I cannot put into words how much I do not miss the shitty PoS that was the Rover.

I'd likely have the Golf back if pushed, the T5 in a heartbeat, but the Passat and Bandit are better for me now.

1996 Jeep Wrangler TJ straight 6

306 Gti-6
XM V6 24v

Got company car and these went in quick succession. I really liked them both although I have "better" cars now the charm of these two will still make them some of my favourites.

Porsche Cayman S. Got it used for a great price, most fun I ever had in a car without silly speed, just so nicely balanced and flattered an average driver.

Unfortunately not much choice about getting rid after I got rear ended by a 'gentleman' in an Audi

If I still had my S1 RS Turbo in the condition it was in when I owned it, it would probably be worth £25k now, looking at the price they seem to go for now. Possibly more as it was the only factory painted Mercury grey one.

I loved my Nova GTE as well, not worth anything but would love to have a go in it again!

I've only ever sold 3 cars and they were unremarkable a-b cars.
83 Datsun Stanza dull, but first car.
89 Ford Sierra Sapphire dull but all I could insure.
93 Vauxhall Cavalier, dull but cheap

No I wouldn't want them back.

I've had loads of company vans, can't remember them all, had 3 in a year once.
The only one that stood out was the Astravan Sportive, was hilarious, no idea what the power should have been but it just wanted to go everywhere at warp speed, made more turbo noises than my 951. I'd quite like that back, we got a speeding ticket through from the next owner not long after it was sold. Not a surprise.

Actually I quite liked a Hiace I had around 2005, wouldnt want it back though.

83 Porsche 944, killed by fire.
89 Porsche 944, killed by rust
86 Porsche 951, still got it.

The Elise may well have changed to a different private plate. As long as they aren't crashed SI Elise are still going strong 25yrs after launch. Well maybe after numerous head gasket failures. Ask on somewhere like SELOC and someone might know of R10 TOP

It's probably too late now, but this thread needs a re-title to list all the cars you ever purchased.

Had a few motorbikes but if I could have kept one it would have been the Yamaha RD350LC YPVS N2.  Much better than the RD350LC it replaced that got nicked.

sniff ;-(

I'm guessing I'm the same age as oldmanmtb2 and mrsparkle

Garelli Tiger
Yamaha RD250E
Yamaha RD350LC * 2
Yamaha RD350 YPVS
Yamaha FZ400
Kawasaki ZX9Rc1

Renault Fuego * 2
Citroen BX 16 valve
Peugeot 309 GTI
Peugeot 405 Mi16
Vauxhall Omega MV6

And loads others that were just 'transport'.

S1 lotus elise
Tvr cerbera, but I'd probably be bankrupt by now

350 LC
GSXR 750
Gary Fisher Level Betty

Don't miss any of the cars

I never regretted selling a vehicle. Always replaced them with something better. I did regret wrapping my old Datsun 510 round a fencepost, but I got over that.

Integra Type-R.

Miss it every time I drive any other car.

My 2001 Yamaha R1.... but it would have either got me banned or killed in the end.

The only car I've regretted getting rid off was the Subaru Impreza 2.0GL (R23 ONL)!

Renault 5 Gordini Turbo. Let’s put a 1.4 Turbocharged engine in a normal Renault 5 and put it in the hands of a 19 year old said the man from marketing with a Gallic shrug….what could go wrong?

My Dad ran the import centre for Renault, had one of these for a while:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_5_Turbo
#barking

The three cars that I had in succession of each other:
BMW E30 325i M Sport
BMW E30 318is (the baby M3)
BMW E30 M3

Never had a Fizzy but I wish I'd bought a few & stored them.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/yamaha-fs1e-108-genuine-miles-original/164675162259?hash=item2657679093:g:D~0AAOSwmOpgFErR

My mate had one till recently, he's still got his 400 Yam that he's had from new.

https://flic.kr/p/2kyR8Ze

As for me,
1600E Cortina
Triumph Tiger Cub
All the twin shock trials bikes I had.

S1 Lotus Elise: R10 TOP : I wonder where you are now

Last MOT expired in May 2010. I’m guessing all the metal bits, a Chinese blast furnace and the plastic body, road filler

Sheesh! Only survived 3-4 years after I sold it. 🙁

I had a 1973 Reliant Scimitar. 3 litre Ford V6, auto box 16mpg, fibreglass body.

It was wonderful, a 2-door 4 seater small estate. Every time it rained there were puddles inside. I once was about to give a lift back from work in Leeds to a certain Bob & Jo Thorogood (Bob was Drummer for Joe Cocker for a while) and as she was getting in Jo noticed that the rear seats (they were in individual pods) were about 2" underwater.

If ever there was a topic for Maxtorque. His car list is fairly memorable.

Mk1 Fiesta 1.1L - even they go for relatively daft cash now.
XR4i - took in px for a mk3 Escort
Rover 220 Coupe with a T16 turbo lump. Silly fast. Loved it

I have had quite a few hot hatches throughout my younger years but the one I wish I kept (well I couldn't as I wrote it off) was my Mk2 Fiesta XR2. Either that or my Mini Clubman 1275GT.

XR2.
XR2i.
Saxo VTS.

All going for silly money.

Ah man, so many 🙁

• S1 106 Rallye – sold it for less than £1k.
• Clio Williams – sold to a guy starting a collection, was mint and under 100k miles, that was about 7 years ago, I can see it's done less than 1k miles since and is worth 5x as much
• Racing Puma – another modern collectible gone too early
• Lupo GTI – as above but to a lesser extent
• Z4M Coupe – financially ruined me at the time, another modern classic now

Sigh. Probably regret the Williams the most, absolutely should have kept it.

Fiat strada 65 cl
R100GS, black and yellow, chopped in for a Honda firestorm which was quite a nice bike.
Triumph Bonneville T100 centenary replaced by a k1100lt which was the worst bike I ever owned by a long way 🙁
Went back and bought a kmx200 for my fiftieth, that was the first bike I ever owned aged 25, it was awful 🙂

2003 Triumph Speed Triple. I've had 7 bikes since and none of them could/can match it. I'm thinking of trying to find another minter.
Car? 1973 MGB

Hummer H1 petrol
Vamtac H1 Pickup
Ramrunner Baja Chase truck fully caged and DK long travel suspension.
E46 M3 CSL with Dinan tuning
Range Rover Sport SVR
I30N

Now just a kangoo maxi!

A lot of 50s and 60s bikes as I started riding on the road in 68 and obviously in farmers' fields earlier than that. Of the cars only the Mexico Mk1 stands out for monetary reasons but the Mk1 Scirocco GTi and the 72 VW Transporter were great fun.
I'll try to work out what bikes I had but I was probably shifting them a dozen times a year but never had more than one on the road and two in bits at any one time.
Bliss. Student days.
A mate had 2 stripped down bikes in his hall of residence at City University. No room in wardrobe or drawers for clothss as they were full of wheels, frames and engines.

VW Golf GTI 16V
Lancia Delta Integrale 8V
106 Rallye

Nothing myself but I need to show this thread to my dad, he keeps pondering selling his 993c4 Cab. and a pristine ‘75 MGb.
Best to keep them I think.

Mk 1 Golf Gti - had 100k on the clock and I had two small children so it had to go. Since then I've only had dull cars.

3 yes 3 Moto Morini 500 bikes, lovely bikes suited me to the ground but my head got turned by a big guzzi, easily tripled in value since I sold them 😕

Not me, but my dad. Sold when skint in the mid 1970s to pay rent. All I can remember of it is some huge wire wheels and a gigantic chassis in red oxide primer.
He tells me it was sold for £400 to a film company who drove it off a cliff.

Renault 5 Gordini Turbo. Let’s put a 1.4 Turbocharged engine in a normal Renault 5 and put it in the hands of a 19 year old said the man from marketing with a Gallic shrug….what could go wrong?

At least the turbo had an attempt at sorting the chassis and handling, though my mate always struggled to get his round a roundabout 🤣

1984 VW Jetta GTi 16v. It had a Recaro interior. Quick, refined and comfortable. I sold it to buy a Citroen 309XS. No I don’t know why either

The only vehicle I've sold that hasn't gone to the scrap yard was a Mazda 323f.

Bought it as a local commuter, 13 years old, one female owner from new, all invoices in date order in a file, nothing, but nothing wrong with it.
Ran it for 18months, 12k miles, it cost me one service and a tyre at MOT.
Sold it for £100 more than we paid for it.

Sold when we moved to Scotland and didn't need a second car.

Like this.

72 vw type 2 dormobile conversion - RRA 911K put it in for resto but house and babies it had to go. Was neptune blue but now brown when I last checked.
Scirocco GT2 - sold to a bloke at work for £400
Hilux Surf - couldn't afford the fuel costs back then so even less likely now.

Honda CB250RS - nostalgia value only 1st bike
RD350 YPVS FN2 - obviously
TRX 850 - just a great bike
BMW Funduro - practical commuter

Space was an issue at the time, now have a bit of space but no money. The irony

My first car, a 1984 Mini 1000 City. Sold it even when I didn't have to, regretted it the next week.

My first new car, a 54 plate Ka. Stupidly traded it in for a Fiesta that turned out to be an absolute dog.

Saab 9000 Carlsson that Abbott Racing had modified. I loved that car. Absolute bloody money pit though (6000 miles from a set of front tyres...)

All of them. I’ve not owned many as had company cars, but:

I had to sell my R53 Cooper S as we had a dog and a child in the way.

I swapped my 218VVC Rover Tomcat for a Mk2 MR2 - which I regretted initially - then sold the MR2 to a former colleague for £1k. Probably worth 10k now, it was a mint import.

I regret my 309Gti nearly killing and killing itself due to a moron who didn’t dip his lights on Christmas Eve 2000.

MK2 escort Rs2000, mk3 escort 1600i, mk3 xr3i, mk4 rs turbo all worth a bomb now, the one i enjoyed the most though was a renault 5 gt turbo..

1995 Honda Accord 2.0i ES. I miss this car. Nicest, comfiest, bestest car i ever owned. No toys. No gimmicks. Not fancy. Not flash. Just the best damn car. Bugger my idiocy.

K492RJC

1993 mini british open classic. Didnt really sell it, an old mate kinda absorbed it and then it rotted away in a barn.

Bought from minis bristol minis and driven back up to my house glasgow area.

British Racing Green, leather and tweed interior, full sunroof and walnut dashboard. 1.3 engine with a full stage 1 kit and loads of chrome additions.

Prob would have been worth 12k now.

1967 Ford Mustang convertible.
Still curse my Dad, who was the major shareholder.

Suzuki RGV250M - 30 years old now but IMO still look fantastic
Honda Civic TypeR EP3. Bought it when it was 12 months old, ran it for four years and apart from tyres and petrol (lots of) not a thing was spent on it. Sold it in an immaculate condition for 5k. Regretted it ever since 😢

Minari roadsport - alfa 33 based monocoque kit
205 Mi16 - although tricky keeping it "not part of the scenery"

The one I miss the most, sold it too hastily due to job loss. I'd only just got the suspension on it sorted too. Tempted to get another GTI6 as prices are on the up now

Honda CRV, was really fuel thirsty and about as fast as a concrete block but I miss it. Great off road even though it wasn't a proper 4wd, we live high up, lots of snow and I build mountain bike trails so had it all around Gisburn Forest. Cleaned up really well inside and out when covered in mud and was the most reliable car I've ever owned.

Got a company car and it was just sat on the drive going slowly mouldy cost £1k a year so sold it (wbac).

Never missed another car in the same way.

Racing Puma – another modern collectible gone too early

I had to sell my Puma 1.7 Zetec, got made redundant and subsequent job didn’t pay enough to cover the running costs at the time. Broke my heart to get rid of it, I loved that little car. 😢
If the money was available, I’d be after a Racing Puma, and have a ground-up, down to bare metal rebuild done.

@halifaxpete is the reg on that Peugeot P45? The irony...

There are very definitely insufficient photos on this thread.

Renault 5 GTX. Let’s put a 1.7 engine in a normal Renault 5 said the man from marketing with a Gallic shrug….what could go wrong?

Renault 5 Gordini Turbo. Let’s put a 1.4 Turbocharged engine in a normal Renault 5 and put it in the hands of a 19 year old said the man from marketing with a Gallic shrug….what could go wrong?

Were either of those the one with the massive turbo that had a lag of about about two days? A mate of mine had a GT right up until he found himself upside-down in a field rotating quietly to himself because he'd stood hard on the loud pedal without first filling in the required paperwork. Stupid, stupid machines and I'd kill to have a play in one.

Mk1 Fiesta 1.1L – even they go for relatively daft cash now.

Really?

Exactly my first car, in Arizona Gold. I have fond memories because, well, it was my first car and I was a teenager, and because it was relatively quick as rust weighs nowt. Not wholly convinced I'd want another one today, mind.

93 Vauxhall Cavalier, dull but cheap

No I wouldn’t want them back.

On the other hand, I'd have a mid-90s Cav in a heartbeat. I had a 91-plate (and several more subsequently) and I felt 'connected' to it whilst driving like nothing else I've ever owned, it felt like an extension of my body.

Loved loved loved that motor. Dull? You're just not trying, back when I was young and stupid I used to leave roundabouts sideways in a 1.6. Shitloads of fun and utterly predictable. And for its time, so very pretty.

Actually,

I'm not sure that I should have kept it, but that's the one I regret selling. I mean, she was borderline rotten when I sold it and the lad I sold it to (a good friend's brother) basically ran what was left of her into the ground, there was little to keep. But I still remember first seeing her for sale in the garage and it was love at first sight. It's the only car I've owned that I've given name to other than for comedy reasons.

Man, that's absolutely pathetic, isn't it. (-:

VW Polo G40.

A rare small supercharged Q car that packed a serious punch (easily tuned) for it's displacement. The brakes were dangerously under powered though!

Bought mine off Jet from Gladiators........not really but she did have one.