Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[lowdrag]

Me, it would have to be my Goldie. I bought it optimistically hoping to use it to ride to work but the RRT2 gearbox was just too high geared so I sold it for the princely sum of £40. Then I bought a Trophy.................

Least I still have my Scottish Trials Greeves.

[Rich5ltr]

Good question, I really, really really regret selling my MGA Twin Cam Like so bad it hurts... I was an MGA chap as a teenager and I sold two 1600s to find a Twin Cam for the princely sum of £550. I bought it unseen from a chap in Barrow-in-Furness and it was a non runner He put it in a pantechnicon and got it as far as Nottingham for me and my brother to collect and we towed it, with his MGA 1600 back to our garages in Ealing. I got it running and passed an MOT, amazingly and used it for a summer but coming home from a evening out in the country I lifted off (at around a hundred) and holed a piston, it never ran again. I moved it to my new house and then to another but eventually when interest rates went sky high in Thatchers era I had to sell it, I got £5,500 for it, which was a pretty good return but when I look at pictures of my small boys playing in it (they are in their twenties now) it hurts that I never did rebuild it and achieve what I wanted. I still hanker for an MGA Twin Cam, sort of like a baby XK140.

[Brian M]

I have said in another post that of the 40 or so cars I have owned there is only one I regret selling:



But at the time, I had fallen for the charm of an Alfa Romeo Guilia TI, and while my Dad was willing to fund the purchase, he wanted his money back so the FrogEye had to go!
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1970 Volvo Amazon and 1978 Safari 15-4 Caravan
Classic Safari Forum: www.classicsafaris.co.uk

[lowdrag]

Lovely Frogeye Brian. Oh, in the day, the sheer power of those 40 odd horses! I hanker for one still but with a 1275 seriously tuned engine now. Incidentally, what's up with that car of yours in the photo? Rear looks very high on the suspension.

[Brian M]

Lowdrag

Mine had a bit more than 40bhp, thanks to a 1098cc engine with a gas flowed head, special cam shaft and 1.5 inch SU's. I bought the fully built engine from Oselli in Oxford, and collected it in the Frogeye by taking out the passenger seat and they lowered it in using their engine crane. Oh how we abused our classics before they were called classics!

The picture has been on my office wall for over 20 years, and I hadn't notice the high rear end. Possibly because the front right wheel is down a hole at the waterside?
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1970 Volvo Amazon and 1978 Safari 15-4 Caravan
Classic Safari Forum: www.classicsafaris.co.uk

[the fly]

My 1929 2spd Scott super they were a realy nice vintage bike.

[Dirty Habit]

Has to be my 170 Mercedes


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1964 International Harvester

[pigtin]

My KTT 350cc Velocette. I'd managed to bend the crankshaft in an accident and let it go for £12. 10s. It was in 1957.
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Due to the onset of my mid eighties I'm no longer sprightly and rarely seen in my Austin special. I have written a book though. https://amzn.eu/d/7rwRRqL

[Jim.Walker]

Almost every vehicle I have ever sold! Memory plays funny tricks and I (mostly) only seem to remember the good points. Nearly all vehicles have at least one good point!
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Quote from my late Dad:- You only need a woman and a car and you have all the problems you
are ever likely to want". Computers had not been invented then!

[P3steve]

The one I wish I had kept was a TR6 which I sold so I could buy a Mk 10 Jag dont get me wrong I loved all the cars I've had but when Im out on a sunny day and I remember the wind in the hair motoring (when I had some that is) its then that I wish I had kept it. mind you I sat in a friends one the other week and his must be a smaller model as I dont recall mine being that "snug"

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[Gaz]

My regret will have been selling my 1976 Yamaha FS1E DX. The DX was the higher spec 50cc bike with a disc brake on the front, and the bike was painted in racing colours. But as everyone knows, needs must at the time. These bikes are now worth a couple of thousand pounds in excellent condition.

I bought the bike, which was only 4 years old at the time, for £80 and ran it for a year until I passed my driving test. I had to sell my Scalextric and two Raleigh Choppers I owned to get the money together. That's another thing I regret selling, my original Raleigh Choppers. (I now have three)

These photo's were taken when I was 16, way back in 1980.



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[fordf350camper]

I could say quite a few Austin somerset convertible,new Austin devon van shell,really nice splitscreen ca bedford mini bus.But have to sell each one to buy the next.Dont want to ever think of selling the fire truck.

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