Im a multiple sinner.

Mk1 Escort Mexico. Sold for £600. Value now? 35k
Mk1 RS1600. (Sold for £1000) value now? 45k or more.
Fiat Dino. Scrapped it.! Value now? Lots.!
Mini Cooper 1275 S 1969. Value now 30k ish. Swapped for an XR2.
Ser 1 Escort RS Turbo. A real Minter. Sold it for £2000 to go towards 1st property.

I could go on but it just makes me depressed.

Not me but my missus had a Jeans Beetle with denim seats she let her dogs all over the seats and trashed it, ended up at the scrappy i think

Hmm only worth £4200 by the looks of it so not a great loss in the scheme of things

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/volkswagen/beetle/105897

HOW MUCH…..

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/volkswagen/beetle/209468

mellowyellow – Member

Im a multiple sinner.

Don’t beat yourself up. My dad had a works MK2 Escort Rally car bought from Cathal Curley which he swapped for a MK1 diesel golf when I was born. I get reminded occasionally.

Mk1 GTI (4 speed) in silver.

Sold for £300 (in 1998?)

I don’t want to know.

First car was a Mk1 Escort 1300. PX was £500 🙂
2nd car was a SAAB 99 in Yellow. Bought for £1000 with £500 for the Escort. 😀
Values today …Who knows

2.8i Capri swapped for a 1.1 mk3 Escort… needs must at the time..
2.2 5 pot Audi coupe burnt to death by a mad welder* while in the garage, given a 2.3 non turbo diesel Sierra called Donkey as a replacement,
*but it was a mate so shit happens..
The Capri was a peach, the Escort was a mahoooosive pile of shite.. 🙁

Mint, and I mean MINT E30 325i. Sold for £800.

I don’t care about the value I lost, I just want it back because it was gorgeous.

Couple of Mini pick ups, sold one for £200 😯

Mint, and I mean MINT E30 325i. Sold for £800.

Ditto! Exactly same price too. FBMWSH in immaculate dolphin grey.

Buyer stuck a 2.7 Alpina in it. Then wrapped it around a lamppost.

Nob.

My 1987 Porsche 944 turbo. Bought in 2004 for £6500, sold in 2009 for £6500 after clocking up 40k miles as a daily runner. My only regret was not keeping it standard. Cars in worse condition than that one was in are changing hand for well over £10k now. My only regret was ‘improving’ it. Wish I just kept it standard.

Alfa Romeo GT1600 Junior. Bought for £900, restored to (almost) perfection by me and a mate, sold to the Coal man who wanted it for his wife.. pestered me for 2 months.. sold for £2500. You can’t by a red bucket these days for that. Mind, it was 1999 when I sold it.
Also an AlfaSud 15Ti, bought £400 (I kid you not) sold for £800 or thereabouts, rebuilt the front struts and almost rewired the thing.. such a fun car, sold for £600.
But, by now it’s probably long since crumbled away so doubt any are still in existence..
2cv, bought new for £2999 in 1989, owned for 18myhs and cherished the damn thing.. sold for £1500 Iirc.

Mini Cooper 1275 S 1969. Value now 30k ish. Swapped for an XR2.

I’ve some magic beans I’ll swap you for a cow if you have one.

I’ve never actually sold a car, just run them till they had no value much beyond scrap and then given them away. I do have a 1968 1500 Beetle in Mum and Dad’s garage which hasn’t moved for over 10 years, one day when I have the time and money…….

Sold my 1983 Mk1 Golf Gti in 2002 for £150. It needed a bit of work but I didn’t have the time or the money to sort it 🙁

I’m still angry with myself now!

A 1974 bay window Westfalia exactly the same as this one, and in very similar condition…

http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C784469

Sold for peanuts 20 years ago. 😡

1998, Subaru Justy 4×4. My first car. Sold for £300 because I couldn’t afford to get it fixed at the time. 😥

A mate had a place on the waiting list for the Focus RS (original). Wasn’t sure it was going to be any good so flogged it to Chris Harris (yes, that one). And has kicked himself ever since.

Jimjam, a works Escort you say…that would be 100k if good provenance.

Bikebouy you sinner you, those Alfas are a lot of money these days.
Great cars.

Rich S. I too had my name down for the Mk1 Focus RS. Kept being fobbed-off on delivery date. After 8 months got fed-up with waiting and sold my place on the list, cant remember how much now. Recently dug out the info pack Ford sent out to keep those on the list quiet while waiting. Sold that on ebay for £200.! Made more on the car I never got than any I owned. Funny old world.

Sold my 1983 Mk1 Golf Gti in 2002 for £150. It needed a bit of work but I didn’t have the time or the money to sort it

Nearly snap. Scirocco GTII sold on as a donor car in 2010 for £150 after some dozy old duffer pulled out of a side-road into it and shunted the passenger door. I couldn’t afford it anymore. Only 58k on it. Gutted then. Gutted now. Was such a great bike-wagon. You could lift the back seat right out and loads of space.

RIPieces

My 1984 Mini, sold for £150. Was completely rust-free but the mechanicals were in need of TLC and I was skint so it went. Genuine 31k on the clock at 16 years old too.
Looked at one in a worse condition a few months ago and it sold for £2k! My old one is still running and I saw it recently sell for £6500 😯

Also scrapped a few Mini’s (and Metro’s) for parts so if I’d held onto all of them, just as donor cars, I’d have a few grand to play with!

Watched a college acquaintance torch his Delta Integrale for the insurance money, that was painful. Tried to buy it off him but couldn’t afford it, he got £2k back off the insurance. That would be worth 10x that now easily.

A very solid Triumph TR6 thta needed a new roof. Had it all through the summer of 1988 and sold it for £600 as autumn started, which was £100 more than I paid for it so I was very pleased with myself.

Less so when 3 years later it sold for £8000.

ok not quite peanuts but Porsche 964RS sold for £28k in 2007 was sold in 2013 for £140K 😯

My dad had a mk1 Mexico that was unfortunately written off in the mid 80’s a couple of years later for about a week he had an rs1600 that had a bit of of work done on its BDA. Think he paid £1400 for it and sold it for £1700 after feeling a bit nervous owning something so rapid and potentially needing a bit of fettling to keep it running sweet.

Similar to Andy, above, I sold a DB4 for a non-nutty £30K in 2005.

If you’d kept them, most if these cars would have cost you a fortune to keep them running and in mint condition for 30+ years though! So you probably haven’t ‘lost’ that much.

I appreciate there are exceptions, but cars that sold for peanuts years ago which are now worth £££ probably cost £££ to maintain/repair/recondition.

And this applies to anything – certain “antiques” become desirable and the price goes through the roof.

1973 original UK VW westfalia, immaculate, £1250 in 1990. was glad to see it go too…took me 26 years to realise what a mistake that was.

Mk2 Golf Gti for me. Early 16v one – small bumpers and LHD wipers. Sold it for £900 I think.

I once turned down a mint Rallye for £4k once…

My mate bought a Ferrari 328 GTS for about £28K, maybe 12 years ago. Kept it for a couple of years, sold for about £23K.

Value now? £70K+

E30 M3, sold for £7k back in the early 2000’s….

…I don’t like to talk about it…

bikebouy – Member
Alfa Romeo GT1600 Junior. Bought for £900, restored to (almost) perfection by me and a mate, sold to the Coal man who wanted it for his wife.. pestered me for 2 months.. sold for £2500. You can’t by a red bucket these days for that. Mind, it was 1999 when I sold it.
Also an AlfaSud 15Ti, bought £400 (I kid you not) sold for £800 or thereabouts, rebuilt the front struts and almost rewired the thing.. such a fun car, sold for £600.

Snap – more or less. My Alfasud 1.5ti was genuinely completely rust free when I sold it… for £600! Wonderful car which I’d have back in a heartbeat. I did get £4,000 for my equally smart GT Junior, though (also in 1999).

The one that hurt most, though was my 1750 boat-tail Spider which went for £4,750. Six months later my very car (complete with distinctive no plate) was on the cover of Classic and Sportscar magazine.

Wonder if my Skoda Fabia diesel will prompt a similar post in 15 years….?

Opel Manta 2.0 GTE.

Like the OP a Mini Cooper 1275 S.Bought it for $3000 in Aussie in 1988 and traded it for a big V8 thing that I can barely remember. Still hurting.

Any number of series one Land Rovers, Mini pick up and a VW Caddy pick up.

1990 celica GT-4. Loved it. It had frikkin pop up headlights for crying out loud!

Mint 1980 chevette hs sold in 93 with just 36k miles and Quattro ur 10k for the two don’t want to know how much now would possibly cause divorce as I sold them for first house deposit.

Not cars but bikes:

Yamaha RD350LC, had two and both ended in the scrapyard (like most did when you had 110mph bikes available to 17 y/o… Replaced with an original RD350YPVS, ended in bits too.

Which is why they are going now for big money now.

And just looking on ebay, even RD250E’s I had on L plates aren’t cheap.

Although I reckon my ‘sporty’ French cars (309GTI, Mi16 and BX 16 Valve) from the late 80’s will probably also be worth a few quid, but not in the condition I left them in.

Oh dear this will hurt, cars I’ve owned, we’ve had in the house. A couple my father’s, a couple my son’s:
Ex Works Mini Cooper S
X5 Mini Cooper Ss inc a 970 and a mk3 (both now by far the rarest)
A mini pickup and a Mini Van
Ex Works Escort mk1 Twin Cam
Escort Mk 1 Twin Cam
RS1800
RS2000
Series One Landy
Series Two Landy
2.8i Capri X pack
Lotus Europa
Aston DBS Vantage 6
Alfa Junior
Alfa Spider boat tail
Lancia Fulvia HF
Lancia Beta Monte Carlo
Fiat 124 Spider
Fiat 124 Coupe
Ginetta G4
Ginetta G27
Lotus 7 series 1
X4 Sprigets inc a Twin Cam
Moggie Traveller (with tuned Midget engine and lsd)
Sylva Striker (one of the best handling cars)
911 2.4S
And bikes
Ducati Darmah
Ducati 900ss desmo
Le Mans mk1
Honda C90
R100RS

Many great memories, many frustrations. What a great garage it would make now!?

Vauxhall Chevette … sold in ’84 for 400 quid. It was rusty shit heap that showed me that Vauxhall had no attention to quality , and has given a great hate of their vehicles , even to this day.
Value now … well, it will just be rust. Let’s face it, it was nearly all rust 2 years after it was built. Dreadful car with no redeeming features whatsoever