I sold my mk3 gri vr6 to a friend of mine really cheap after it started to get really out of control unreliable. He got tboned 6months later and put the driveline in a mk2 jetta, then scattered the valvetrain all over the ground when the timing chain broke at like 150k (on the motor). Berkley those cars.
I must have all the luck! My first 2 cars (1974-76)are still nearby and hit the car shows every now and then. 1969 Mustang Shelby and a 1958 Ford 2 door hardtop.
65 Impala 4 door 6 cylinder just got its 3rd wind with the grandson of the guy I sold it to. 1974 Mustang that I sold to a kid just before he drove it to Arkansas and abandoned it at his Dads house after 4 years...1986. Dad fixed it and still drives it to cruises.
1986 Escort EXP served as a daily driver for a Mom for 11 years and was handed down to her daughter. I spent a day helping her get it in shape. Still in amazing shape!!
The range is from 5 cars at a Cruise night that I used to own, spotted 3 cars at the same stop light to 3 cars in the junkyard at the same time!
I'm the guy who caused the seller's remorse. When I got my WRX I immediately sold off the previous guy's "hot speed parts," (fiberglass knockoff aero lip, fart can exhaust, poorly installed pod filter, rice wheels), removed his eBay HID kit and restored the car to stock height.
A few months later he mentioned how the car didn't look as cool anymore but he was sure I was just waiting on even better parts.
In reply to ssswitch:
That is called de-ricing and is perfectly fine in my opinion!!!
Swmbo sold her hotrodded aspen white bugeye wrx to some kids parents that were trying to get him interested in cars (or anything at all) and its been parked beneath a pine tree ever since, im told he never got his license. I think the problem is there's too much porn available on the internet and it makes some of these kids never even try at anything.
I just bought a one owner SC300 with 80k and factory 5speed. Guy was a doctor who had every invoice for the car, since day one. He spent $4000 last year redoing the interior with new leather and installing a nav system. He was so proud of the car. Had the gold package with monogram on the doors...
I confessed the the intention is to turn the car into a Chump race car... He took the money anyway.
Sold my Mk2 G60 converted GTi. Kid bought it and took it to a body shop to have the rear windows replaced with metal (WTF!) and turn it into some kinda stereo sound off car.
Well, he couldn't pay the body shop bill and they put a lien on it and took it. Then called me and asked me if I wanted the car back. Told them if it still had rear windows in it I'd be interested...
The_Jed wrote: In reply to dropstep: That sucks. It's this sort of thing that made me initially hesitant to put my Mark VII on craigslist. I assumed somebody would buy it, yank the engine and rear end then scrap the rest. As time goes on, though, I'm getting less and less attached to inanimate objects. I've gone from valuing it as something rare, to viewing it as merely a tool meant to perform a task.
ive been looking for a v8 fox for a parts car for the wagon but i have an issue parting a car that is saveable. ill never understand why people destroy cars that arent rotted too death.
Two stories from my rotary days: 1) sold '85 GS that I had upgraded with almost every part available in the day from Racing Beat. She called back several days later to ask what the buzzer was that kept going off(redline warning that went off at 8500rpm as I recall) 2) sold '84 GSL-SE that had 74 13B housings, 4barrel Holley, full exhaust and suspension work. Buyer got a new girlfriend 2 mos later who talked him into trading it for V6 Mustang convertible.
maj75 wrote: I just bought a one owner SC300 with 80k and factory 5speed. Guy was a doctor who had every invoice for the car, since day one. He spent $4000 last year redoing the interior with new leather and installing a nav system. He was so proud of the car. Had the gold package with monogram on the doors... I confessed the the intention is to turn the car into a Chump race car... He took the money anyway.
This sounds like it is too nice to turn into a Chumpcar, frankly.
I get very attached to my cars. I traded an '01 Ram 1500 in on my Mustang, at the dealer. I loved that truck. I occasionally see it around town, and the poor thing has been beat to hell. It's filthy, half of my custom dual exhaust is held on with a bungee cord, mismatched wheels. It's an awful sight to see.
The first vehicle I "built" in high school was 88 Chevy pickup with a 383. A few months after I finished high school someone I graduated with offered me a lot of money for it, three weeks later he wrapped it around a tree.
When my grandmother died I was given her mint 87 Cressida. I drove the car for a few years, and then sold it to a friend of mine who's sister was a single mom and in a bit of a bind. Although the car was still in great shape, I sold it for just $500 to help her out. Everything worked, and that car would have run for another 100K miles.
Two weeks later it was in the junkyard--- smashed front end. The interior was trashed---- it was like someone had smoked 3 packs a day in it, and just scattered the butts all around. It broke my heart to see such a good car get abused and thrown away. Sure enough my friends's sister turned out to be a real piece of work---- lost her kid, got thrown in jail....etc. It's a shame the Cressida was a casualty of her irresponsibility. 
Biggest regret was selling a vehicle to a neighbor. Not long after selling one of my Rangers (for $500) to my neighbor, he immediately tried selling it back to me (for $800). When I said no, he started whining and telling me I should buy it back because his wife had cancer. It was a great truck, I just didn't need it back. As soon as I got my next truck, he tried buying it from me.
Back in the '90's I had a MR2 Turbo that was my DD and sometimes autocross / track car. It had about 300rwhp when I put it up for sale. A nice middle age man came to look at it and ended up buying it. Of course, the next day it ended up at my friend's shop with the front and back ends pretty much ripped out, and it had been rolled. He bought it give to his son that turned 16 on the day he bought it. It lasted about one hour after he picked it up from me. The kid jumped out of the throttle on a nearby mountain and rolled it.
I once found my friend's old Ford Cortina GT behind the town fire station, cut to pieces. It had been used to demonstrate the Jaws of Life for emergency crews. I guess you could say it dedicated its life to public service.
My $2002 civic I heard was spotted in a salvage year some years back. My $2010,11,12 MR2 (Mach 1.5) was sold to a guy using it as a daily 4 blocks from Manhattan.
If you have a car you like sell it on enthusiast forums.
I have not seen any of my previously sold cars. I'm curious where my WRX is now.
More like not-buyer's remorse.
Was offered an 85 FB GS-L Targa for $500. Didn't have the space. Guy parted it out.
Was looking at a 79 Mark V with the 400. They ended up selling it for $2000 to someone who didn't give a E36M3 about cars. Last I saw, there was lots of duct tape and scrapes.
MG Midget for $1200. No space for it. It ended up being used as a parts car.
FC Turbo for $2500. Couldn't meet the seller half-way. Found it in a local junkyard a month later.
Many years ago (early '80's) I owned a '70 Boss 302 Mustang. In the early '90's I found the crash damaged shell in a local junk yard. Most of the good stuff had been stripped, but I recognized some of the mods I had done. It was sad to see it in that condition. It appeared to have been put into a ditch, but I have no idea what really happened to it.
At the other end of the scale, I came across my old '74 X1/9 on a personal web page. The owner loves the car so much it has it's site. Of course some of his build info is wrong, but who am I to correct it when he has so much love for it.
Just for the record, this exchange happened on another forum:
me: "My white QSW was bought from (xxxxx) in 2009 or so and he bought it from someone in Utah. Cleveland has NOT been kind to it and it is in sad shape body-wise."
me: "Yes and yes. Also there appears to have been a CB antenna run through the roof at one point."
me: "Ha! That's mental. It's got 380+k on it now. I haven't driven it since October, though, since the wiring is so bad that it's not very safe to drive. Engine has a habit of cutting out for 2-10 seconds at random, and hasn't run well when the weather is damp in years."
(Knurled note: The odometer read 266k on it when I bought it. Someone had wrote "224k" with the finger on dirt/oil residue on the underside of the hood before I got the car. Currently the body is... mostly de-refined.)
Sold my truck.... 85 toyota PU, first car my wife and I bought, before we were married. I built it to be a go anywhere truck, we spent so many nights in the back. It was stolen and gone for 4 months, only to be found again with a blown motor. Swapped a new one in and went a couple more years. Had a kid, single cab just didn't work. Sold it to a nice guy, who immediately traded the wheels and tires for some 22" low pro chrome things..... Oh well, he sent me a pic, but I haven't seen it since.
I get attached to my cars too. I'm the type that DOESN'T want to see it again so I can imagine that it lived a happy, long life in the hands of someone who loved it as much as me. A man can dream, can't he? 
When I sold my Escort, it didn't have a scratch on it. Saw it a month later, and there were dents all over it. 3 months later, it was t-boned, rolled, and scrapped. Regretted selling it ever since.
I put a ton of work into my old WRX wagon, and sold it to a guy on NASIOC who flew halfway across the country to buy it and drive it home. The back of the car was literally filled with stock parts / aftermarket parts / tires when he drove away. A bit of time goes by and I check on NASIOC to see if he's still posting and what he's up to with the car... he had been slowly selling off parts and blatantly lying about their condition. He had hard-copy and electronic copy of a ridiculously detailed excel document, so he can't exactly claim ignorance on this... but he was selling tires, suspension components, spare turbo, etc. and claiming extraordinarily low mileage and BS excuses. "3k miles on winter tires, moved to the south for work and no longer need them.!" ... those tires had 3 seasons and about 20k miles on them. A 150k mile turbo "from an old project I abandoned, no longer need this, low miles, only 30k on turbo!". Old shocks with ~100k on them "replaced with performance shocks at 40k miles, these have been sitting in my garage, perfect for returning to stock!"
I spent days trying to figure out if I wanted to expose this guy or not... it was a tough call.
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