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badhuis · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1481 Location: Netherlands

Two from me

1968 Austin Westminster A110 Mk2, black, red interior.
Garage sold to first owner, who 4 years later traded it in for a new BMW. Garage owner kept it until 1994 when I bought it. Still as new red leather interior, original paint (except front wings).

1963 Triumph TR4, white, black interior
Bought 1994 (a good year for buying cars!). Bought from a dealer who imported it from the USA, two USA owners. Never restored although a respray 2 years ago.

clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

I would never sell my estate because I have done that much to it and where would I get another one.
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22857 Location: UK

I'd never sell my A40 Mk1, because...

- it's been in the family since new, my gt uncle and aunt bought it in 1960.
- I remember riding in it as a kid.
- I took and passed my test in it.
- it was the first car I ran on the road after passing my test.

In its current state it's not worth anything financially anyway, but even if it was I'd not sell it.

I'm unlikely to sell the Dodge truck, but I suppose the others may one day go elsewhere, time will tell on that one.

RJ
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emmerson · Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 1268 Location: South East Wales

Possibly my current Range Rover LSE, a) because it's such a great car for my needs, b) because the model is becoming rare and therefore expensive, and c) I've done a lot to it over the years, and in the process spent a lot of money on it, fairly certainly in excess of its current value, in spite of appreciation.
And I just love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Richard H · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 2154 Location: Lincolnshire, UK

My Island Blue A35, because it was my first car and I've owned it since I was 15. Before I owned it my dad had it for 20 years, so I've grown up with it always being there. Also have no plans to ever sell the A55 MK1 after all the work I've done on it.
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baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

I tend to either get rid of cars very quickly or hang on to them for years and years.As my present four I've had some time and I'm getting a bit long in the tooth.I doubt I'll sell any. I think I'd like to be buried sitting in the P5b.

bob2 · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 1728 Location: Malta

As mentioned in another thread recently I'll surely never sell my green mini, bought new by my dad who always took care of it, when he died my mother learned to drive and drove it around a bit, then I learned to drive and remember my mum taking me for training reverse parking etc in it too. I then took it on and its been mine ever since!
I did respray it and customised it a bit but everything is reversible though I doubt I'll ever return it to standard, as for the bodywork, its all the metal that left the factory in 1976, never had any rust!!

Jim.Walker · Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Chesterfield

My Austin FL1.
First driven as a learner and used for a first time driving test pass one month after m 17th birthday (and one month before my motorcycle first test only one month after purchasing the bike!). 1956.
Drove the car as a Taxi in between my other duties with the family firm for several years and about 100,000 miles (speedo going round for second time.
Sold to someone who wanted to make a pre-war Mercedes replica.
Obviously never done, because it turned up "out of the blue" rather sorry for itself, but still intact. I bought it for £200 and was promptly offered £700 by a dealer. That was around 1975.
The car still carries modifications and evidence of replacement repairs carried out by me in my apprenticeship days.
I have also driven quite a lot of famous persons in it. Some maybe unknown to a younger generation. But for "oldies" here are one or two names:-
Johnnie Ray, Winifred Atwell, Max, Bygraves, Lonnie Donogan...........and more.
The last of the famous were Catherine Zeta Jones and Pam Ferris.

A lot of memories, including being stopped in Ashover in Derbyshire after a HEAVY snow fall by a panicking man, to rush a heavily pregnant woman to hospital "because the ambulances have failed to get through": then skidding into a snow drift and digging the car out all the while imagining lurid newspaper headines "Baby born in taxi stuck in snowdrift" And me only 19 years old. I was panicking more than the man who stopped me! I still proudly reflect that the only tyre tracks in AND OUT of Ashover that morning were mine!
No! Although I doubt that I will ever see it on the road again at my age. There are just too many memories to let it go.

Jim.
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mid · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 136 Location: Northampton

My 1933 morris 10-4 tourer

This was the car my wife and I had for our wedding, it was run by a wedding hire firm in nottingham who trailered the car to northampton for our wedding after we had been let down by a local company... this is what trigged the start up of our own wedding car hire business, we bought the austin first, but i spotted the morris in classic car mart and i was convinced it was the one we had had for our wedding - it was way out of out price range so didnt do anything about it, over the followng 4 months, it was still in the magazine for sale, so i made a call, confirmed it was THE car, and then arranged to go and see it - that was it, i just had to buy it.

nice sentimental value and even the wife feels the same about this one.

but to be honest i dont think i could part with any of my classics!

Ellis · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:23 pm Post subject:

I have owned my Jaguar Mark 2 for 23 years and because virtually every part of has been examined, cleaned restored or replaced over this time I thought I would never sell it.
I was certain that I would own it into my dotage.

Positives and certainties are not however set in stone, car wise at least and now I'm not sure that I want to keep it and have ambitions for something else.

I think that if the car had been in the family for years, as some of yours are and have been, then the emotional attachment to the vehicle would be too strong to even consider selling.
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FrazzleTC · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:48 pm Post subject:

Ideally, I don't ever want to sell my 1967 Rover 2000. It was bought as my first car, in 2009, at the age of 18, and I've owned it since then, covering a large number of miles in it, travelling all over the country, I've met a lot of friends through owning it, and a lot about Rovers too.
It has been used in all weathers, has lived outside for a spell, has been used to go on holiday on several occasions, has been used for days out to the beach, going out for dinner, car club runs, going to the tip, and commuting to work. It has let me down many many times, inevitably to my embarrassment in front of friends. It's had more mechanical work than I care to remember, it still has various bubbles, there are still leaks, and I can't see it ever being worth a great deal financially, but, it has been a huge part of things from the moment it arrived, and everyone knows it's my car, as it's the only bright yellow series 1 2000 about.
I've threatened to sell it in the past, and couldn't bring myself to do it. As long as I've got any spare cash, it'll not be sold. I'd be very upset if I sold it.