Ever see a car you've sold and wanna cry?

Boosted92LX · Mar 12, 2012

I sold this 84 GT in 2001 after working my butt off on it for a whole summer. It used to be bright orange with a perfect black hood accent. This is a testament for not using cheap paint. This car was stored inside until I sold it and it's been outside ever since. Good greif.

Used to be a nice little budget built car, too bad it's too far gone to save.

85_SS_302_Coupe · Mar 12, 2012

Yep, my first Mustang. I traded it for another Mustang and that guy did some body work and painted it and it looked amazing. Then he sold it and i saw it years later blowing smoke and looking horrible and all the "body work" bondo had cracked and broke apart.

VibrantRedGT · Mar 12, 2012

My 94 was perfect, garage kept for 15 years, not a scratch. I sold it for a lot of money but regret it everyday. The guy I sold it too went even crazier with it. Every month I go to his Facebook wall and see all the pictures over and over again. It hurts. I want to buy it back but he's in love with the car. He calls it his other girlfriend.

bonestock87 · Mar 12, 2012

I bought a one-owner 87 5.0 LX back in 2000 from my wife's boss. She and her husband had ordered it with a 5-speed, A/C and not a single other option. The thing was babied to the point of ridiculousness. It still had the factory brake pads and shoes on it!! I spent the next 2 years fixing all the little things, new tires, new paint, etc. Then the wife wanted to go back to school. So I sold it to help pay her tuition...........back to the original owner. I still have designs on getting it back one day. I don't see it out much since they just put it back in the garage I got it out of, but the few occasions I have seen it makes me want to junk punch myself.

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 12, 2012

SSeater said:
I sold this 84 GT in 2001 after working my butt off on it for a whole summer. It used to be bright orange with a perfect black hood accent. This is a testament for not using cheap paint. This car was stored inside until I sold it and it's been outside ever since. Good greif.

WTF did you paint it pink for? I thought you had more taste

Used to be a nice little budget built car, too bad it's too far gone to save.

Boss 351 · Mar 12, 2012

Mike.... is... speechless!

Boosted92LX · Mar 12, 2012

madmike1157 said:
WTF did you paint it pink for? I thought you had more taste

ORANGE.... I PAINTED IT ORANGE.

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 12, 2012

SSeater said:
ORANGE.... I PAINTED IT ORANGE.

Orange you gonna tell me why you painted it pink?

Boosted92LX · Mar 12, 2012

madmike1157 said:
Orange you gonna tell me why you painted it pink?

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 12, 2012

SSeater said:

So then I'd guess that'd be a no?.......

Boosted92LX · Mar 12, 2012

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 12, 2012

95BlueStallion · Mar 12, 2012

Look like a pink mustang rock crawler to me.

Gearbanger 101 · Mar 12, 2012

Found my first Mustang (an '83 Mustang L) that I drove all the way through my senior year of high-school and into the following summer in a local scrap yard a few years ago. Damn near broke my heart. Turns out the guy I sold it to, bottomed it out over a speed bump and tore a hole in the oil pan....then proceeded to drive it till the engine blew. He didn't have the money, or the means to fix it, so he scrapped it.

I damn near rescued it, but by that point the body was looking so rough and the interior was trashed from the windows being left rolled down, I had to let her go.

Had a lot of fond memories in that car.

Boosted92LX · Mar 12, 2012

Yeah, hi to you too, Bud.(Mike)

You know the engine I put together for it even got pulled out and dropped in a truck?

I really did work my butt off on it, not that it's remotely noticable now..

I built a brand X car once too, painted it with DuPont paint, spent weeks on prep work and the dude I sold it to called me two weeks later wanting the paint code because he'd wrecked it...

jsw81 · Mar 12, 2012

I had an 05 STi...white with gold bbs rims. Sold it for.................an explorer for my wife. When I see the pictures of it on my phone I haz a sad.

jdb3rd · Mar 13, 2012

I went through the same thing with my 85 gt. I had a 87 also and was buying a house and something needed to go. It was clean, just a driver white with white ponies, tinted windows, full exhaust and a decent stereo. I loved that thing and sold it to a friend for $2200 and he drove the dog sh** out of it for 3 months and sold it to a mutual friend of ours for $3500 and he preceded to pull it all apart to build a drag car which meant it sat in his back yard and rotted away for 6 years till he sold it for a couple hundred bucks.

txstang84 · Mar 13, 2012

How is it too far gone to save? Is it rotted from the bottom up and inside out? It looks pretty straight, just needs a powertrain based on the stance. I've seen far worse cars brought back...might want a different color though

srtthis · Mar 13, 2012

after selling my lightning the new owner would send me pictures of it after he did a lot of the stuff i had wanted to do...

i WILL own another 2nd gen 1 day. or im going to steal my moms 1st gen

Boosted92LX · Mar 13, 2012

txstang84 said:
How is it too far gone to save? Is it rotted from the bottom up and inside out? It looks pretty straight, just needs a powertrain based on the stance. I've seen far worse cars brought back...might want a different color though

Yeah, the whole roof's rotten.. pillars and all. It sat outside with a window open for years and now it's too late. I actually reaquired it for a little while thinking I would save it, but after pulling out the headliner and seeing how bad it was, I gave it back to the guy. He agreed to let me rob parts off of it if I ever need to.

Oh, and once again, It was bright orange. When I painted it I was poor as a churchmouse and I used some cheap Valspar paint I bought at lowes. The black stripe is actually Rustoleum. I wish I had some pics of what it looked like after I painted it, you wouldn't believe the difference. It looked great as long as it was garage kept.

Word to the wise- Doesn't matter how broke you are, Don't use cheap paint on your baby. Buy PPG, DuPont, or House of Kolor. Period.

Ever see a car you've sold and wanna cry?

Boosted92LX

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85_SS_302_Coupe

it sucks (I know) to be on the receiving end

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bonestock87

CarMichael Angelo

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

Boss 351

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Boosted92LX

It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

CarMichael Angelo

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

Boosted92LX

It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

CarMichael Angelo

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

Boosted92LX

It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

CarMichael Angelo

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

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It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

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