| Come On Fess Up.......................... 09:15 - Mar 14 with 4755 views | A40Bosh |
Have you ever owned a car for a really long time, then taken the decision to send it to the scrapyard and then felt REALLY guilty about it and found the parting *ehem* "emotional"?
Or is it only me?
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 09:25 - Mar 14 with 4731 views | pomanjou |
Had a 2door Mercedes SEC500 in Almandine Red from new (company car). Awesome power and speed (it could do 140mph on a certain motorway leading to Grimsby) or so I understand .
After 14 years I decided I needed a change and 'gave it away' to an enthusiast.
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 11:31 - Mar 14 with 4587 views | Juzzie |
I generally keep my cars and motorbikes a long time and yes, do get emotional when they go.
All my bikes used every day come rain or shine;
Kawasaki GPz550 - 14 years from brand new. Did 65,000+ miles on it.
Kawasaki ZX6-R - 7 years (2nd hand)- Loved it. Licence killer. As I was doing more trips around the UK (QPR away games mainly) and into Europe I needed something more able.
Honda VFR800 - 10 years and still have it. Does everything. Commutes (solo and 2 up), trips across Europe (before son born) and is even a capable track day bike (not that I've done that but have heard others who have).
My cars have tended to be more for weekends and now family.
Mitsubishi Pajero MKII SWB 2.8 - Had it 5 years. Loved it and it was bullet proof and with brand new BFGoodrich tyres it was no problem in snow, handled like it was on rails.
New owner got a bargain as the tyres where still like new even after a couple of years as I only did a few thousand miles each year. It had a new starter motor the year before and a new alternator juts three weeks earlier. The whole lot combined were the best part of a grand and the cheeky fukker still wanted to slam me down on price. I didn't budge. I told him I'd rather pay to keep it on the road than give it away.
The Paj made way for the Subaru 2.0 Forester I now have as I bought a few months before my son was born. Great car, handles well in the wet being AWD and decent carrying space in the rear. MPG not bad but not brilliant but as I only do a few thousand miles a year it's not a problem. |  | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 11:50 - Mar 14 with 4558 views | BromleyHoop |
No it's not only you. I am actually going through this at the moment. I've owned and loved my Merc CLK for many years but decided it needed replacing due to low mpg and a change in my motoring requirements. I've bought a Peugeot with incredible mpg but just can't bring myself to scrap my merc which is a lovely motor and as a result they're both sat outside my house. |  |
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 12:22 - Mar 14 with 4504 views | Toast_R |
Bequeathed my Dad's well kept Nissan Bluebird- the family car we had from the 80s. Only had 45k on the clock when it was nearly 18 years old. Immaculate in and out. Drove it for about a year but being 21 and it being a 1.8L family saloon and at the time I living and working in the same town, I couldn't justify the expense in keeping it as it was barely getting used. Plenty of childhood memories from Holidays all over the UK and France sold with that car. Quite a sad moment. |  | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 12:59 - Mar 14 with 4438 views | kensalriser |
CLK should still have a value unless it's completely knackered. |  |
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 13:04 - Mar 14 with 4422 views | A40Bosh |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 12:22 - Mar 14 by Toast_R |
Bequeathed my Dad's well kept Nissan Bluebird- the family car we had from the 80s. Only had 45k on the clock when it was nearly 18 years old. Immaculate in and out. Drove it for about a year but being 21 and it being a 1.8L family saloon and at the time I living and working in the same town, I couldn't justify the expense in keeping it as it was barely getting used. Plenty of childhood memories from Holidays all over the UK and France sold with that car. Quite a sad moment. |
Thank God it is not just me, I was beginning to question my sanity or at least my manhood!
I think your last comment has hit the spot, I think my actual upset this morning is that it is a realization that so much time has passed and the memories that you associate with the car are brought back to you. I was only 34 when I bought it and now I am gonna be 50 this year and the kids are all in their teens and it only seems like yesterday.
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We got the Audi A4 Avant in March 2002 as the Mrs was expecting number 3 and we needed an estate car and - number 3 will be 15 later this year. The Audi was 3 years old exactly at the time and was a mate's company car with 90K motorway mileage on the clock. I think I paid £9K and if that is the case then it was the best £9K I ever spent, because for the last 15 years that car has never really ever let us down, only minor silly stuff that could be sorted cheaply. It did Ireland and back every summer for the first few years until we got a second family car and had various people carriers come and go as the main family car, but on it went year after year, taking me to the office or to gigs with the band at weekends. Used and abused and in the last few years only a most basic service to get it through the MOT. However, with the two eldest wanting to start driving this summer and a quote of around £350-£500 to get the brakes and discs through the MOT this year a decision had to be made, and it was time to let it go and get a smaller runaround with a 1 litre engine that is going to be cheaper to ensure the girls on. If there is any profit through the Givemycar scrappage scheme then that is going to MacMillan Cancer Care and Support, so I hope at least that some little good may come out of this hard parting.
(puts head in hands and starts sobbing again ) [Post edited 14 Mar 2017 13:04]
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 13:13 - Mar 14 with 4387 views | Juzzie |
I've had two vehicles scrapped (others were sold on).
My first ever car, a Ford Escort MKI. Tax, MoT, insurance all ran out and I couldn't afford to keep it. Tried to keep it sneakily down a quiet side road but got ratted out by a neighbour and had a knock on the door from the local plod. Got it towed away a few days later and it ended up going round the Wimbledon banger racing track.
Forward wind a dozen years and I'd been given for free my brother's father-in-law's old Volvo 240 saloon (in classic maroon). Beast of a car and great to drive but again, just cost too much to run and I'd hardly used it.
I could not give it away, literally advertised it for free. No one wanted it.
Tax & MoT also then ran out and local garage towed it away for scrap/parts. | | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 13:15 - Mar 14 with 4378 views | BlackCrowe |
I got rid of TOB (chistened by my kids The Old Banger) part x a couple of years ago. Parts were becoming increasingly difficult to find and it was getting the stage i couldn't rely on her.
When i handed over the keys, i actually think i tapped one of the wings and said 'look after yourself old girl'. Mrs Crowe was delighted to see the back of it. Soul-less old goat.
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 13:23 - Mar 14 with 4360 views | A40Bosh |
If the finance comes through tonight, I will be getting over the loss and mourning by getting one of these as the family run around and for the girls.
Is there a respectable amount of time you are supposed to leave after a loss before hooking up with a new younger model?
At least it is from the same VW Group as the Audi was. | |
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 15:37 - Mar 14 with 4222 views | essextaxiboy |
Maybe because of the freedom that they represent I have always had more of a soft spot for bikes than cars . Bikes have more soul IMO |  | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 15:41 - Mar 14 with 4207 views | Bluce_Ree |
My first car was a fking lemon. A Talbot Samba. I thought I loved that car though. Two years of freedom. It was the car I drove to QPR in when I got my season ticket. It got me to band practise, got me to gigs, got me to see my bird who lived miles away.
But when it finally I died, I'd was happy to see the back of the automotive c*nt. It had cost me a fortune in repairs and was never anything other than shit. I remember driving to see us beat Reading away 2-1 and I could only do 50mph on the motorway.
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 17:07 - Mar 14 with 4139 views | SimonJames |
3 litre X-Type Jag (that I bought from Car Giant with about 13,000 miles on the clock).
I hated to see it go, but it did have an unnerving random habit of the bonnet flying up as I was bombing along the motorway. [Post edited 14 Mar 2017 17:09]
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 17:13 - Mar 14 with 4124 views | hopphoops |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 15:41 - Mar 14 by Bluce_Ree |
My first car was a fking lemon. A Talbot Samba. I thought I loved that car though. Two years of freedom. It was the car I drove to QPR in when I got my season ticket. It got me to band practise, got me to gigs, got me to see my bird who lived miles away.
But when it finally I died, I'd was happy to see the back of the automotive c*nt. It had cost me a fortune in repairs and was never anything other than shit. I remember driving to see us beat Reading away 2-1 and I could only do 50mph on the motorway.
It was like that car was disabled or some shit. |
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 17:39 - Mar 14 with 4083 views | dolcelatte |
On my drive waiting to one day be restored is my first car. MGBGT. 33 years owned. Sold it once and bought it back off had guy when he sold it! |  |
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 18:22 - Mar 14 with 4038 views | plasmahoop |
I've never felt that sentimental when I've got rid of a car. Bruce Rees Talbot samba reminded me of my b reg Talbot solara that I owned in the late 90s. That was also a pile of shit. But at least in the end several things malfunctioned at the same time, so it was at least a decisive end |  | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 20:11 - Mar 14 with 3946 views | collegeranger |
Grandad left me his 1967 Rover 2000TC with wire wheels and all the extras has 44K on the clock in 1981 - kept it in a garage until I was 18 in 1985 and took the decision to sell to buy something more economic - a Vauxhall Shoveit (Chevette). Guy from Pennsylvania bought it and shipped it to the US. Found some paperwork a few years later and sent it to him and he wrote back telling me it had been T-boned in an accident and written off.
A couple of years later bought an MGB Roadster HBB 454N .... wished I never sold that.....
A short while after I bought an Alpine Renault A110 - 1973 1300cc screamer. Falling to bits. Owned it for 3 days having given £1500 for it - got offered £3K and bit the traders hand off - now worth 30K even in rough condition!
Spin thru to the early 2000's and had a Jag XK8 Convertible - got oil and water in the same part of the engine and part exchanged it double quick after 5 years ....... wish I had it repaired and still in my garage. |  | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 20:23 - Mar 14 with 3931 views | theQPRking |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 20:11 - Mar 14 by collegeranger |
Grandad left me his 1967 Rover 2000TC with wire wheels and all the extras has 44K on the clock in 1981 - kept it in a garage until I was 18 in 1985 and took the decision to sell to buy something more economic - a Vauxhall Shoveit (Chevette). Guy from Pennsylvania bought it and shipped it to the US. Found some paperwork a few years later and sent it to him and he wrote back telling me it had been T-boned in an accident and written off.
A couple of years later bought an MGB Roadster HBB 454N .... wished I never sold that.....
A short while after I bought an Alpine Renault A110 - 1973 1300cc screamer. Falling to bits. Owned it for 3 days having given £1500 for it - got offered £3K and bit the traders hand off - now worth 30K even in rough condition!
Spin thru to the early 2000's and had a Jag XK8 Convertible - got oil and water in the same part of the engine and part exchanged it double quick after 5 years ....... wish I had it repaired and still in my garage. |
You had an Alpine A110 and sold it!?!?!!? Dear oh dear, why!? .. One of the handful of cars the French have got right! haha The designer also created the Triumph GT6 and a shed load of Ferrari's.. |  | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 20:52 - Mar 14 with 3901 views | isawqpratwcity |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 13:15 - Mar 14 by BlackCrowe |
I got rid of TOB (chistened by my kids The Old Banger) part x a couple of years ago. Parts were becoming increasingly difficult to find and it was getting the stage i couldn't rely on her.
When i handed over the keys, i actually think i tapped one of the wings and said 'look after yourself old girl'. Mrs Crowe was delighted to see the back of it. Soul-less old goat.
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Are you sure TOB referred to the car?
My first car was a seven-years-older-than-me '49 Chev (like this but in much worse condition except for a metallic blue paint job) which I reluctantly let go after killing a diff and two motors. The bloke who towed it away had a motor ready to go in it so she wasn't dead yet.
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 22:15 - Mar 14 with 3839 views | BromleyHoop |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 12:59 - Mar 14 by kensalriser |
CLK should still have a value unless it's completely knackered. |
125000 miles and slightly frayed around the edges but a lovely runner. Probably only worth £250. | |
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 22:23 - Mar 15 with 3627 views | collegeranger |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 20:23 - Mar 14 by theQPRking |
You had an Alpine A110 and sold it!?!?!!? Dear oh dear, why!? .. One of the handful of cars the French have got right! haha The designer also created the Triumph GT6 and a shed load of Ferrari's.. |
Yup - it was actually very scary to drive and was shaking itself to bits. I thought I had overpaid when I drove it home so at the time to double my money I thought I had won the pools!! If only I had just stuck it in the garage and forgotten about it! Did the same with a Lotus Europa - that was horrible and smelt like an old boat! | | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 00:04 - Mar 16 with 3583 views | Boston |
I'll ask my chauffeur. | |
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| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 07:31 - Mar 16 with 3516 views | SterlingArcher |
Bought my first car off a mate for £50 a metallic blue Austin Metro. I was so scared at stalling
at traffic lights that I used to leave it in first gear so no wonder the clutch went after 3 months.
One of the last journeys was to Loftus Rd to see a Reserve game then drive down the
Uxbridge Rd to watch Yeading that night. As I pulled into the Car Park I lost power and was
going to leave it there to be dumped. By the end of the game a fog came down so thick I
thought we'd been transported back to the 50's ! I decided to see if the car would start. It did
and I drove three of us back down the Uxbridge Rd towards Kew Bridge with weakest lights on -
no beams or full headlights. We could see about 5 feet in front of us and the journey back felt
very ghoulish. Kew Bridge, Richmond, Kingston and up to Stoneleigh Hill. The fog was so bad
that my mate advised me to take the, " next left " thinking it was a road, but we ended up
turning into someone's drive ! It only stopped twice more on the journey home, but we made it
in one piece. Still my favourite, scariest journey and the car did end up at Wimbledon Banger
racing as previously posted. |  | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 16:48 - Mar 17 with 3369 views | TWheeler |
It's definitely not just you. I'm going through the same problem right now, trying to make the decision to let go of the car I have now because of how expensive maintenance costs are running. It's been with me through so many pivotal moments in my life that it 'hurts' to let it go, but alas it seems like that is what I might have to do. Then again, a few of my friends told me that feeling instantly vanishes as soon as you bond with your new car, not sure how true that is though | | | |
| Come On Fess Up.......................... on 17:31 - Mar 17 with 3350 views | Monahoop |
I remember feeling sad and a touch emotional when my older brother sold the trusty old family Wolsely 15/50. Mind you he abused it after acquiring it on passing his driving test. When he got rid of it I thought that was it. I'd never see the old heap again. But low and behold eight years on when I got my first job I stumbled across it again, parked in a works yard. I tracked down the owner and on telling him the old Wolseley was once our family jalopy, we got chatting away. I questioned him whether he would sell it again as I felt a sudden pang of emotional interest in buying it and having it back in our family. I wasn't expecting his reply of it going to Mr Scrappy the following week as it was totally on its last legs. Another emotional well up came over me, but I tried not to show it. I never spoke to its owner again after that. |  |
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