Which car from your past do you wished you could have stored

[Trixxz]

Black Mk1 Fiesta Supersport
S1 RS turbo

and probably my Granada Cosworth (sold for the engine) PIcture isnt of mine but was same year/colour

[nickod]

1968 SEL 6.3 paid 4 sold it for 4 in 2004.
Fiat 130 coupe - was in amazing condition too. Sold it for 3k
Saab 99 turbo.

Bit depressed now.

[Jim AK]

My automatic Triumph 2500S. It was Old English White & the original owner had it retrimmed with very soft beige leather.

I really didn't appreciate what & how nice it was until I sold it for a few hundred pounds!

[Saleen836]

For me it would be my old 1974 1275GT Clubman Mini sold it about 25years ago, prices for these today are bonkers!

[exitwound]

My 1967 Honda S800 that I owned from 1972 to 1980. Everyone should have a shot in one at some time in their life.. Its like nothing else you'll ever drive.

[Hoolio]

Should have kept, in no particular order; BMW Z3M Coupe, T350, Sagaris.

[ChilliWhizz]

Ford Cosworth powered Lotus 7 bought in 1969 ('62 MY), Morris 1275 Cooper S bought in 1972 ('65 MY) and Sierra RS Cosworth bought in 1989 ('86 MY)...

[Dream355r]

Scary but 944S2 ...9932S ...F355 great cars especially the 355!!

But one I miss for lots of reasons ....wee black polo ...airport run car park anywhere and never missed a beat!!

[j90gta]

In early 2005 I went shopping for my boss and on my recommendation he ended up with a 288GTO; paid all of £166,000 for it! It had about 20,000 miles on the clock when he sold it a couple of years ago for £825,000, despite my pleading with him to keep it. I think the asking price for one now is about £2,000,000!!!

[Searider]

Fiesta Supersport. Sold in 1992 for about £700. The original fast Fiesta.
205 GTI 1.9. Sold in 2001 for about £1800. Prices on the up.
Corrado VR6. Sold in 2006 for about £2700. Probably worth about the same now.
B5 RS4. Sold in 2013 for £11,000. Can't get a decent one for that now.

[richyrichbfb]

Lancia Integrale Evo 2 ('93 MY) in 2007. Decided to sell as was using as a daily driver and didn't want to put miles on it, etc, etc. Couldn't sell it privately and eventually sold through dealer I bought it from. 6 (or so) months later that infamous magazine article named "Greatest Drivers Cars" was published and the asking prices doubled almost over night. Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong believer in using cars and not storing them (cars should be seen and heard by others who cannot afford to own them themselves e.g. me), I just got the timing wrong! Where are you now L313RGX, it fell off the DVLA radar in 2009.

[80quattro]

I regret selling quite a few cars when they were worth peanuts -

1971 Mini Super
1981 Mini City
1983 Audi 80 quattro
1990 Peugeot 205 XS
1975 VW T2 Microbus
1992 Renault Clio 16v
1992 Renault 19 16v

And I'm just about to put my 1987 BMW M535i on the market. Fingers crossed I don't regret that as well !

[coogy]

My DC2 Integra Type R. Restore it back to its OEM glory and I reckon it'll be worth a bit in the future. Sadly, some damaged bodywork and a engine starved of oil meant I sold it off cheap as didn't have the funds to repair. According to DVLA it was scrapped. Sad.

[anonymous-user]

Not me but a relation had a Pagoda SL around 2000-2002. Sold it for around £10k!

I think now it would be worth anything from £50k-£100k! And I can't ever see them falling as the original 300/190SL are becoming scarcer, so are these pagodas. It will be interesting to see how the subsequent models 107/129 are valued in years to come.

[the wicker man]

my red nova gte it was standard, low mileage & immaculate condition



it was the same as this one but my hubcaps where white

i sold it in 2003 for £500

just watched a gorgeous black one go for i think it was around £7000

[dunnoreally]

Haven't been in this nearly long enough to have these sorts of regrets, but it's sad to see how many once-common legends I'll probably never come close to affording.

I wonder if in 30 years I'll be saying the same about my MR2...

[a6khu]

In a couple of years time, it will be more like the cars we wish we hadn't stored and just driven or sold. The silly prices won't keep going forever and do people really think in 20/30 years time, the roads and infrastructure will allow us to keep running these old classics? Enjoy now I say!

[AlvinSultana]

Paid £11,250 for it 10 years ago. Would be £40k plus now.

Fabulous car. Unfortunately written off when an old lady in a Rover 200 pulled out of a junction without looking.

[JeffreyLebowski]

My S2000, waited 5+ years while I saved up for one and they very slowly depreciated. I had it for ~18 months and then I had to sell it due to my commute going from 10 to 50 miles a day. The value plummeted to around 60% for what I paid for it, now 5 years later it's worth the same if not more than what I paid for it originally! Thinking about it, what I've saved in fuel is probably less than price difference now
One of my biggest regrets about it though is that I should have kept it for my wedding day that was 9 months later, would have been great to have driven there in it (ended up going my best man's wife's pug 206! ) and had a photo with it. Oh well, you live and learn!

[bigmuzzie]

Can't say I've owned anything special early enough on but as a child my Dad went through:

1977 Capri 2.0s - in red. He used to take the wheels off and paint the lettering on the tyres white (Firestones if memory serves) . Those were the days....
1981 XR3 (Carb, not 'i') in that lovely tommy soup orange
1982 XR4I - The bi-plane winged 2.8 v6 - loved it as a kid. Black with grey skirts, brilliant car
1991 XR4I - This time the 2 litre twin cam 8v motor, in diamond white. Interesting car, not really worthy of the XR badge but was nippy for it's day. I actually got to drive it (he sold it to a friend of his) when it hit about 120k miles. It was sloppy and on budget tyres but my hell did the back end kick out for the fun!

If I could keep any or all of those 4 now I'd be happy!

Went a bit boring after that, E36 320I Saloon in cosmos black, then some nasty Vauxhalls (Astra 1.4, Frontera LWB 2.2 etc) and down hill from there.