Emotions when selling a car

[Dave Rifkin]

I think anyone who is in the hobby for the right reason (they simply love musclecars or any collector car) is bound to become emotionally attached to their cars.
I have never owned anything near the caliber of cars on this site but, I have sold a few that made my eyes well up with tears as I watched them pull away. I take it a step further in the fact that I try to make it a point to sell my cars to people who live far enough away from me that I am not going to see "my car" running around after I've sold it.

[ORIGLS6]

I don't understand the concept of 'selling a car'. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[mockingbird812]

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[427TJ]

I can close my eyes right now and see my first car, a '67 Camaro, driving away from my house on the evening I sold it in October, 1985. Had a ton of cash in it, sold it for 2500, replacing it with a mint '64 Nova hardtop. I was in college and needed eco-wheels and the Camaro was a gas hog. The kid I sold it to trashed it within a year or two and it's now a rotted hulk in a storage yard, far beyond my $$-ability to save it. So yeah, it'd be nice to be the guy who buys and sells cars without care but I'm one of those sensitive types who has a hard time seeing things go. Someone once said of Jack Parr, the host of the Tonight Show back before Carson, that Parr was so sentimental that he couldn't bring himself to take the empty pop bottles back to the store. I'm not that bad but selling/trading-in my cars has always been tough.

[MrsBillyBobcat]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: flyingn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It is VERY tough to sell a car. Its not the car itself, because its just a machine, but it is the memories you have in this machine that people get attached to. If you bought a car and never ever drove it and just let it sit in a garage vs. one you enjoy with your family taking to cruises and shows and making memories, it makes a huge difference when selling it.. </div></div>

You &quot;hit the nail on the head&quot; with that Frank! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

I bought my first car, a '66 Biscayne, from a couple who were the original owners. Here I was all excited getting my first car [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img] and the wife was crying [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/cry.gif[/img] as I backed it out of the driveway! I will never forget that!