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

[Boosted92LX]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Mike.... is... speechless!

 

[Boosted92LX]

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

ORANGE.... I PAINTED IT ORANGE.

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

ORANGE.... I PAINTED IT ORANGE.

Orange you gonna tell me why you painted it pink?

 

[Boosted92LX]

Orange you gonna tell me why you painted it pink?

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

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

 

[Boosted92LX]

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

 

[95BlueStallion]

Look like a pink mustang rock crawler to me.

 

[Gearbanger 101]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.