Cars you regret NOT buying
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Zippee said:
4 years ago I agreed a great deal on my ideal 355, black on black (nero) manual targa, 99 R plate for 35k. Turned it down as my TVR felt more alive but that 355 is now worth almost double. This was the car on the day I agreed the deal (changed my mind the day after)
8 or 9 years ago I had the opportunity to buy a Ferrari Dino for a similar price ?
You muppet!8 or 9 years ago I had the opportunity to buy a Ferrari Dino for a similar price ?
Edited by Zippee on Friday 7th August 10:38
Edited by Zippee on Friday 7th August 10:38
MontyC said:
About 3 years ago I could of brought a ferrari 308GTB it was running but had front accident damage, but came with all the parts needed to repair it for £8000 I didnt buy it stupidly, but more recently in fact just this year I did purchase a 1990 964 C2 cabriolet running but needed work for £3700 
Another 308GTB here - when £35k would have bought a decent one. Bugger.Just few years ago, a Silver F335 Berlinetta for £28k IIRC, my brother in law suggested we go halves on it for the craic. I wouldn't normally have joined such a venture with him as he's a crap driver and wasteful with his money (which he's not short of), but I had the cash ready. He dithered for a couple of weeks, but when we were ready to go the car was gone, to OZ, to a PHer I believe.
With my £14k went and looked at a Silver 1992 911 C2 Cabriolet in York. Had a few niggles that would have taken a couple of grand to sort so I slept on it one day too many. Saw if for sale again last year for £25k.
With my £14k went and looked at a Silver 1992 911 C2 Cabriolet in York. Had a few niggles that would have taken a couple of grand to sort so I slept on it one day too many. Saw if for sale again last year for £25k.
Ferrari 328GTS around 2008. Could have had a really good one for about £25k. I couldn't really afford it but my then OH, who had a house which she'd paid peanuts for many years previously, told me she'd put it on her mortgage and I could pay the difference - a slightly odd arrangement, I admit - but it would have got the job done. The only thing stopping me was that we had no garage and there was nowhere else suitable I could have kept it. I now live in a house with a warm, dry, double garage but Ferrari 328s are £75k plus. Bugger!
Cactussed said:
Zippee said:
4 years ago I agreed a great deal on my ideal 355, black on black (nero) manual targa, 99 R plate for 35k. Turned it down as my TVR felt more alive but that 355 is now worth almost double. This was the car on the day I agreed the deal (changed my mind the day after)
8 or 9 years ago I had the opportunity to buy a Ferrari Dino for a similar price ?
You muppet!8 or 9 years ago I had the opportunity to buy a Ferrari Dino for a similar price ?
Unfortunately you are not far off the mark with that comment
About 20 years ago - I saw a Red Alfa 33 Cloverleaf for sale in the middle of the week - phoned dealer saturday morning to check they still had it - they did 
so jumped in the car after lunch to drive the hour or so journey to go and see it - they had taken a deposit on it just before lunch. It was sitting there with a sold sign on it - it was beautiful 
so jumped in the car after lunch to drive the hour or so journey to go and see it - they had taken a deposit on it just before lunch. It was sitting there with a sold sign on it - it was beautiful HairbearTE said:
Around the late 90s I turned down a mint low mileage Metro 6R4 for abot £20k 
I remember Austin rover selling the. Off for about 15k, but I didn't have the money to buy one, But if this thread is about cars you actually went to buy but didn't, then for me it was a chevette 2.6 HSR. Freshly built by mtrs in burton upon Trent from all the right bits in white with the dealer sport flashes. Up for 4k, but I bought a mk1 Astra sr instead (insurance, doh)
Always wonder what happened to it.
Princess Diana's Ford Escort Ghia - the car she drove when she came engaged and had enormous press coverage.
Aged 10 my dad took me to classic car auction pre view at blackbushe and I could see it was a car to buy, it was reserved at £1500 and sold for around that figure, this was the early 1990s.
The car was worth that even it was just a normal escort, apparently worth / sold for two million pounds and now in a now a museum piece.
Aged 10 my dad took me to classic car auction pre view at blackbushe and I could see it was a car to buy, it was reserved at £1500 and sold for around that figure, this was the early 1990s.
The car was worth that even it was just a normal escort, apparently worth / sold for two million pounds and now in a now a museum piece.
nct001 said:
Princess Diana's Ford Escort Ghia - the car she drove when she came engaged and had enormous press coverage.
Aged 10 my dad took me to classic car auction pre view at blackbushe and I could see it was a car to buy, it was reserved at £1500 and sold for around that figure, this was the early 1990s.
The car was worth that even it was just a normal escort, apparently worth / sold for two million pounds and now in a now a museum piece.
Seriously???Aged 10 my dad took me to classic car auction pre view at blackbushe and I could see it was a car to buy, it was reserved at £1500 and sold for around that figure, this was the early 1990s.
The car was worth that even it was just a normal escort, apparently worth / sold for two million pounds and now in a now a museum piece.
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