Selling Cars Sucks...

[Spinal]

As the title suggests, I hate selling cars. Not because of the buyers, but because I get emotionally attached to my cars and hate saying goodbye.

This is particularly hard when you've had to make the decision to sell a car to a scrapper... In the last two months, I've had to sell a few of my cars...

Yesterday, I called a local scrappie to take away one of the probes (stop laughing) as they would offer more for it as scrap metal than I could get by selling it as a car (partly due to my poaching of parts for the other probe).

I been telling myself when selling a car that it's going to someone who'll have the time to take care of her... but in this case, it's just painful.

M.

 

[wemorgan]

I wished I kept cars long enough to get emotionality attached. I've had plenty of practice of getting financially attached to cars - but I've just learnt to bite the bullet and move on. The very best cars I sell on to my father so I can monitor their future progress. He'll be getting another of my cars in a few weeks time.

 

[Charles Morgan]

It's funny, but I have never become attached to a car, it is in the end simply a lump of metal. The biggest impediment to me selling is normally not finding a buyer!

 

[Spinal]

I'm quite the opposite... one of my cars I have no need for, I know I really should sell it, and the only moving it does is to the garage for it's service and mot... but I spent so long preparing her for something that never happened that I like her too much to throw her out in the cold...

 

[haggis2768]

Yup.hate selling cars or bikes. In my perfect world I'd shrink wrap them and pop them into safe storage.with only very few exceptions,( a Vauxhall chevete) I wish I still had all my previous cars. In particular an HB Viva, a magnum,a vx4/90,an SD1, a 190,smart roadster,the 109 Landrover safari
And on,,

 

[BEJ]

If only I'd kept some of my old cars, i would be worth a fortune.
3 1275 Mini Cooper s's ( the old ones ), 1954 MK 7 Jag, 1963 Mk 2 Jag, ex works Monte Carlo rally Triumph TR3 etc. etc.
Only trouble was that 1) I couldn't afford to keep them at the time and 2) I didn't have a barn to keep them in.

 

[developer]

Don't get selling that Duke though

 

[Peter DLM]

I'm totally the opposite. Once I've made the decision to sell, then my attachment ends there and then. Normally it's because there's something new and shiny to take its place !

 

[Mr. B]

I always compare my cars to the mother-in-law, so getting shut is never a problem.

Having said that I should do it vice versa and keep the cars.