what have you walked away from and now regret?

[DAZZA]

Ill start........

 

1994 - A mint 4-door 1.6 ghia, £300 as I didnt like the colour.

[DAZZA]

oh, and try to keep it car related you naughty boys and girls

[sab6024]

Sold my XR4x4 LPG to my brother and now regret it

[ratman]

late 80's classic capri imnprial maroon silver roof

 

as I had no were to put it it was mint

[Anglia68]

I had a fire damaged Mk1 Escort estate,turretted,anti-tramped,roll cage,Capri front struts etc and instead of repairing it I gave it away.I even had new inner wings for it.If only I'ld known.

[Anglia68]

Then there was a Mk2 Capri I had for a year, fitted with 7 x 13" Minilites and a Rover V8,fabulous car and when the MOT ran out I swapped it for a 2.8 Capri which turned out to be a pile of junk.

[MK II Mark]

I tried to buy a mint MK II Escort mexico in the early nineties for £1500 but couldn't get finance cos the car was to old...

[BIG G]

yellow mk2 mex rally car

atlas

fortys

arched

caged

buckets

rac log book

and my dads words echo with me to this day "WHY DO YOU WANT THAT FOR"

 

£500 quid it was pristine this was back in 93

[escortmad79]

Regret selling my Mexico replica

 

Regret not buying Andy Micklewrights Mk1 Escort Sport

 

Could've had a 1600 Sport when I was 18, left a not & they never got back to me!

 

Tawny brown 2 door Mk1 Escort

 

2 Door Mk2 Escort from Exeter

 

An Anglia from an old man last year for £900

 

There are probably dozens of others too

[lotusless]

too many but one really bad one was

ten years ago + i had a few motors

at the time but it was a gen mk1 mex

73 all complete exept for the glass

+ a boot lid, + it wasn't even rotten!

i fannied about then said no to the bloke

cause of storing it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i know what a doughnut

+ the worst bit the price

 

 

 

 

 

fookin £100

i wish i could go back in time

[huxmk1estate]

i never walked away.... i've bloody bought it!!!lol

 

but i scraped a mk2 escort van in 2002....sorry peps

[pelvins]

sold my near mint mk3 granny and regret it

[mk1markfalkirk]

my dads mint and i mean mint gold 3 litre s with brwn recaros low milage stupid idea sellin it

[X FLOW EDDY]

Sold my 1 owner 50,000 mile mk2 4 door cortina cus i just didnt have time to do it up, it only wanted a osf wing,a boot lid and a engine putting in it

 

And for £400 as well

[escamino]

Selling this a couple of years back

 

 

Only cost me £50 but didn't have any money to sort it.

[R1.Andy]

my mk1 tina

i spent 8 yrs restoring and 8 grand doing

then sold it 1500 miles after finishing it for my now 2 door.

i really wish id kept it

[V8ian]

4 cars I regret selling,

1st, my Little Red Rooster, Genuine SuperSpeed 1650 Anglia, Sold it 2 days later it was wrapped around a Telegraph pole,

Another one was a Big Sploshy Mk3 Zephyr Zodiac Farnham Abbot Estate,

and another was My Mk1 ZephyrZodiac, 289, 4speed, Mint Shell I bought From Andy Harris, that was sold and broken up for no other reason that the sum of the parts were worth more than the car, including the reg,

Lastly a really good 63 Mk1 Cortina 2 door, Harris built Pre X flow, 5.5 & 6" steels, sold it and last I heard it was laid up in a garden, floor out ready to be Pro Streeted, and as far as I am aware is still there.

[Muttley MK2]

Only real regretted sale was 1976 jps mk2 capri fitted with 351 cleveland and 4 speed manual. Full four link rose jointed rear end, the capper was falling apart and needed re-shelling so I sold it to a stang owner for the running gear

[Nettles]

I regret getting rid of the four MK2 Escorts I owned when I was a teenager.

[kris]

I regret scraping my first ever car - 1979 MK2 Escort. Had a wee smack in the front and it was beyond me to fix at the time.

 

It would only take a day to fix if I knew then what I know now

[andy1980]

I Regret selling a set of brand new old stock ford mex wings! cause now i need some

[thelastbandit]

1980: 1970 Mk1 Escort, Bubble Arched, SUPERCHARGED 1760cc £300

1990: 1958 Ford Pop, SUPERCHARGED V6, Chopped, Centerlines £2500

1981: 1965 Mk1 Cortina, V6, Chopped, Unfinished Project £150

1982: 1961 Consul Capri 1500GT, £1500

1979: 1958 VW Beetle MINT £400 (yeah I know it's not a Ford but even so)

 

and the creme de la creme of them all:

 

1982.

I was 24 hours to late to buy a Mk2 Consul with one owner (deceased) and 1300 (yes hundred not thousand) miles on the clock from new, with original paper mats in back for .... £800 in 1982. It had sat in the garage since the owner died in 1962 as the widow didn't want to sell it because it was a reminder of her deceased hubby. I heard about it, went to see it and it had been bought by a "friend" the day before, so all I got was the story you read above.

[RS264]

mmm I should have bought an XA GT Falcon years ago just after I bought my RS2. It needed a tidy up and maybe a paint job, but for A$1500 I said no! Now they are worth in excess of A$60,000!

Should have kept the 3 near mint Mk1 body shells, but I had no where to store them when I moved. They went to the scrapper......

[davreeve]

Back in 1993 a guy at work was selling his mk2 2dr for 25 pounds as it had failed its mot on a brake pipe and a cracked screen!I was into cortinas at the time and turned it down .God i wish i had atime machine!!!

[mrcheese]

1992- looked at a gen mk1 rs2000 for £500 on the road was disgusted to see the 2.0 had been replaced by a 1.6 so walked away!