Selling a car you have owned for over 10 years
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Sold my Ford KA after 10 years and 100,000+ miles of motoring. It carried with it some enduring memories of driving around Scotland with Mrs.T66 many times (including a memorable 12-hour drive from Manchester over Applecross to the Torridon Hotel), trips to motorsports events, holidays and numerous days out, many trips to the Goodwood Revival, and sadly many memories of blasting over the Pennines to Yorkshire when my mother was diagnosed, then slowly dying, of cancer.
I 'chauffeured' (if you can call being driven in KA as that!) my mother in it on her last family night out before she got too ill to go out (listening to The Dropkick Murphy's all the way at full blast - she wanted it LOUD!). Mrs.T66 took a photo of me stood next to it on my last trip to Scotland in Glencoe, when my mother was very ill, and the pain of that time is etched into my memory (and face!), and two days later when Ma T66 died the little KA took me back home and then to her funeral.
I was terribly, terribly sad to see it go.
I 'chauffeured' (if you can call being driven in KA as that!) my mother in it on her last family night out before she got too ill to go out (listening to The Dropkick Murphy's all the way at full blast - she wanted it LOUD!). Mrs.T66 took a photo of me stood next to it on my last trip to Scotland in Glencoe, when my mother was very ill, and the pain of that time is etched into my memory (and face!), and two days later when Ma T66 died the little KA took me back home and then to her funeral.
I was terribly, terribly sad to see it go.
Not sure that I would have let that one go.
I have a similar problem.
My E36 318is has just hit 161k & I am loath to keep adding to the mileage as I can do in excess of 700 miles some weeks.
Don't know what too replace her with & when I get a replacement I am not sure that I can face moving her on.
Almost sold her a few weeks ago when I got chatting to a bloke in an E36 M3. I got the impression he wanted to turn her into a track day car & wasn't keen on seeing this getting ruined like that.
So do I let her go & not give a toss as too what happens to her or do I keep on running the car until it ceases to be.
I have a similar problem.
My E36 318is has just hit 161k & I am loath to keep adding to the mileage as I can do in excess of 700 miles some weeks.
Don't know what too replace her with & when I get a replacement I am not sure that I can face moving her on.
Almost sold her a few weeks ago when I got chatting to a bloke in an E36 M3. I got the impression he wanted to turn her into a track day car & wasn't keen on seeing this getting ruined like that.
So do I let her go & not give a toss as too what happens to her or do I keep on running the car until it ceases to be.
fatboy69 said:
Not sure that I would have let that one go.
I have a similar problem.
My E36 318is has just hit 161k & I am loath to keep adding to the mileage as I can do in excess of 700 miles some weeks.
Don't know what too replace her with & when I get a replacement I am not sure that I can face moving her on.
Almost sold her a few weeks ago when I got chatting to a bloke in an E36 M3. I got the impression he wanted to turn her into a track day car & wasn't keen on seeing this getting ruined like that.
So do I let her go & not give a toss as too what happens to her or do I keep on running the car until it ceases to be.
Looks in good nick. I have a similar problem.
My E36 318is has just hit 161k & I am loath to keep adding to the mileage as I can do in excess of 700 miles some weeks.
Don't know what too replace her with & when I get a replacement I am not sure that I can face moving her on.
Almost sold her a few weeks ago when I got chatting to a bloke in an E36 M3. I got the impression he wanted to turn her into a track day car & wasn't keen on seeing this getting ruined like that.
So do I let her go & not give a toss as too what happens to her or do I keep on running the car until it ceases to be.
Just keep piling on the miles until something goes wrong with it and then readdress. If you simply want a better car then change now.
fatboy69 said:
I have a similar problem.
My E36 318is has just hit 161k & I am loath to keep adding to the mileage as I can do in excess of 700 miles some weeks.
Don't know what too replace her with & when I get a replacement I am not sure that I can face moving her on.
Buy a cheap diesel car (Octavia/306/whatevs) to do the miles in, and keep your E36 for weekends?My E36 318is has just hit 161k & I am loath to keep adding to the mileage as I can do in excess of 700 miles some weeks.
Don't know what too replace her with & when I get a replacement I am not sure that I can face moving her on.
456mgt said:
You did the right thing; as much as it's been part of your life, it's your past life and that time is done. It would only bug you if you held onto it.
Did the same thing with my old 456. Owned that for over 10 years, the longest I've owned anything apart from my teeth! Swore I'd never sell it as it was my first Ferrari. But it was the same deal, it just wasn't getting enough use and the costs were still there so it had to go. It would be worth far more now than when I sold it ( a manual M), but no question it was the right thing to do and I don't regret it. A few years on all that I really miss is the smell of the interior, which was absolutely sensational. I doubt you'll miss the smell of your car's cabin though..
Much appreciated! I think that I have missed every car I have ever owned in one way or another!Did the same thing with my old 456. Owned that for over 10 years, the longest I've owned anything apart from my teeth! Swore I'd never sell it as it was my first Ferrari. But it was the same deal, it just wasn't getting enough use and the costs were still there so it had to go. It would be worth far more now than when I sold it ( a manual M), but no question it was the right thing to do and I don't regret it. A few years on all that I really miss is the smell of the interior, which was absolutely sensational. I doubt you'll miss the smell of your car's cabin though..
456mgt said:
You did the right thing; as much as it's been part of your life, it's your past life and that time is done. It would only bug you if you held onto it.
Did the same thing with my old 456. Owned that for over 10 years, the longest I've owned anything apart from my teeth! Swore I'd never sell it as it was my first Ferrari. But it was the same deal, it just wasn't getting enough use and the costs were still there so it had to go. It would be worth far more now than when I sold it ( a manual M), but no question it was the right thing to do and I don't regret it.
Strange isn't it......I owned my Sunbeam-Lotus for almost 17 years, never thought I'd sell it, but, circumstances in life change, and like you one day, the realisation that lack of use, and other things in life meant when on the spur of the moment I advertised it for sale, and it eventually sold, it really didn't wasn't the end of the world that I was expecting.....however, like my Escort Twin Cam though, 25 years earlier, I knew I was selling it at the bottom of the market.Did the same thing with my old 456. Owned that for over 10 years, the longest I've owned anything apart from my teeth! Swore I'd never sell it as it was my first Ferrari. But it was the same deal, it just wasn't getting enough use and the costs were still there so it had to go. It would be worth far more now than when I sold it ( a manual M), but no question it was the right thing to do and I don't regret it.
Twin Cam would be worth north of 40k now, and the Sunbeam-Lotus probably north of 20k
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