Sell it! Would you?

[XWdarcy]

General question to all,

I was walking my dogs this morning and passed a group of fellas looking over a 6cyl XY Falcon 500. I stopped to look at the car myself and got chatting with one of the blokes. Turns out he was looking at the car as a possible purchase. As it turned out this particular vehicle was not what he was looking for. During our conversation I mentioned that I had a V8 XW at home. Upon hearing this the bloke asked "Do you want to sell it?". He had the money and was keen to buy. I declined the offer but it did get me thinking on the way home. Would I sell my car? Would you sell yours? I'm not talking about big dollar ground up restos with all the trimmings. I'm talking about the standard runner with a bit of wear and tear. Is there a price that will override sentimental value. You don't need to sell this car, but the offer is made. Would you sell it?

Your thoughts would be very interesting,

[XR6T0Y]

No dollar value can compare to what the car means to YOU

[Mr Hardware]

Everyone has their price

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by Mr Hardware

Everyone has their price

Okay....

My Fairlane is for sale. Virtually stock. With only little mods.

My price?

$100,000 or above. No I have not miss typed. You read that right. In fact sometimes I feel that's too cheap. I really feel it needs another zero chucked on the end of that.

Am I joking? No.

That is what the car is worth to me. To anyone else it sends them into a fit of laughter.

A car is not an engine, tyres panels & glass. That's what a car needs.

But what a car is.....

That's the question you have to ask yourself.

[svo supporter]

It's upto you whether you want to sell or not....No one on this forum can tell you whether to or not...

[satria]

Originally Posted by Revolver 45

Okay....

My Fairlane is for sale. Virtually stock. With only little mods.

My price?

$100,000 or above. No I have not miss typed. You read that right. In fact sometimes I feel that's too cheap. I really feel it needs another zero chucked on the end of that.

Am I joking? No.

That is what the car is worth to me. To anyone else it sends them into a fit of laughter.

A car is not an engine, tyres panels & glass. That's what a car needs.

But what a car is.....

That's the question you have to ask yourself.

I once had my XW parked on the side of the road (was helping a mate out in a broken down VT SS ) and some old guys in a ute rocked up and asked how much to buy the XW and I told them not for sale. They kept on asking whilst I wasn't interested in chatting with them so I said fine 100k and they laughed, it at least got them to ****** off which is what I wanted

[MrEL]

Everyone and everything has its price.
I joke about the fact that when Im dead I will be placed inside my 4x4 , it dropped into the ground and pumped full of concrete. In other words its not even going when Im dead.
But realistically if someone come up and waved $30k under my nose I would learn to get over the emotional attachment as I was building my next one.

[H.G]

I did sell a car that the dollar value was right but the sentimental loss was far more costly..
eventually I bought it back and slowly starting to rebuild the relationship I walked away from... for a woman.. NEVER AGAIN haha

[svo supporter]

I wouldn't say everything has a price....I made a promise to a dying aunt 10 years ago, when I bought her car,I'd never sell it....I've been offered decent coinage (well over what it's worth on the open market) for the car and it's still sitting in my driveway....

Promises aren't a thing I break

[chamb0]

I don't ever plan to sell mine, and picture myself going through big and small life events with it keeping me company. Who knows though what life circumstances I might find myself in down the track which necessitated selling (not that it's worth a lot). I couldn't let my family or relationships suffer for the sake of stubbornly holding on to a car, if it ever came to that. If I absolutely had to sell I'd be very fussy about who the new owner was. I love it too much to hand it on to just anybody.

[Fantome]

I look back on the cars that I have sold over the last 30 odd years and they sort of fall into three lots;
1. Thank heavens that's gone, pity the twit that buys it ( VK Calais)
2. OK, what's next? (AU, BA XR-8)
3. WHAT WAS I THINKING!!!! ( Mini Cooper S, Charger E55, LJ Torana XU-1, XA Fairmont hardtop)

[UberKnee]

Everything and everyone is for sale, just comes down to the right price.

[Elks]

Originally Posted by UberKnee

Everything and everyone is for sale, just comes down to the right price.

100%.

My TS50 and Fairlane are both not for sale. Yes everything has its price. But mine would so far above market value that I'd get the old tell em their dreaming. They would walk away and I'll keep my cars. Win win.

[302 XC]

Unless an offer is cold hard cash,its a pipe dream
Most those offering good coin,couldnt afford more than a slab of beer
Ive been offered 10 times more than I paid for my XC,money doesn't faze me
Its sentimental,it holds history,itll rust to death before it leaves this place

[redxm]

Originally Posted by UberKnee

Everything and everyone is for sale, just comes down to the right price.

OK. How much for ya avatar ??

[H.G]

Ive got $20 for it..

[RAPID_BA]

A car is just a car. A good hobby for many of us but just a car..

also its not worth what you want for it, its worth what.the market is willing to pay.

[RAPID_BA]

Originally Posted by chamb0

I don't ever plan to sell mine, and picture myself going through big and small life events with it keeping me company. Who knows though what life circumstances I might find myself in down the track which necessitated selling (not that it's worth a lot). I couldn't let my family or relationships suffer for the sake of stubbornly holding on to a car, if it ever came to that. If I absolutely had to sell I'd be very fussy about who the new owner was. I love it too much to hand it on to just anybody.

I find this strange. A mate of mine spent heaps of money on a car and it was in show cindition. He sold it to a friend of a friend. The new owner completely trashed it. I mean destroyed it.

My mate saw it a year or so later completely battered up, he was dirty? Whats he dirty about he got his money??

[2011G6E]

Yep, everything has it's price.

My absolute pride and joy is a motorbike, a 1974 Kawasaki H2-750B two-stroke triple...three cylinders of smokey goodness. They were the superbike of the day, the fastest accelerating 750 until the mid 1980's, and even today can show a clean set of heels to a lot of modern sports bikes...well...until twisty bits come up. Apart from the big-block-V8-like fuel consumption (it can get down near 10mpg when you are flogging it hard), they're like a drug and hard to give up.
We were talking one day at work and someone said "Everyone has its price", and I said I'd never sell, at any price. The guy said "Well, hypothetically, what would you take for it then...anything?".
I laughed and said I would take a brand new Kawasaki Ninja...the top of the line one, as a swap for it.
His reply? "Well there's your price"...and he was right.

Then again you can set what I like to call a "Wife Price" on something you are torn about selling or what your better half would like you to sell..."Maybe you should sell that old car/bike sitting in the shed".

The idea is, you set a price at such a level that you would be happy, despite missing it terribly, to sell the thing, but which you suspect no one would actually pay...or if they did, they'd be just as much of a nut over the thing as you are and so would be a "worthy owner".

The added benefit is that when no one buys it, you can honestly tell the wife that "I tried to sell it dear, but obviously no one was interested"...

[neptune blue]

Originally Posted by chamb0

I don't ever plan to sell mine, and picture myself going through big and small life events with it keeping me company. Who knows though what life circumstances I might find myself in down the track which necessitated selling (not that it's worth a lot). I couldn't let my family or relationships suffer for the sake of stubbornly holding on to a car, if it ever came to that. If I absolutely had to sell I'd be very fussy about who the new owner was. I love it too much to hand it on to just anybody.

Never sell
I've owned mine since I was 17 and I'm now 52 so 35 years and it is my first car
I have had plenty of offers some way way way more than the car is worth
I didnt sell it when the misses wanted me to get rid of it in the mid ninetys
I didn't take up an offer of a trade for a 67 mustang convertible recently

I havent called back any of the guys that left me their numbers in case I " change my mind"

My car has been with me at just about every single milestone in my life, a work horse from 1979 untill 1986. I had driven it into the ground and it was a very sorry looking coupe, practically ready for the wreckers.

I made the decision to rebuild it from the ground up and and to retire it as my daily drive
I put up with the critisimum that " it aint going to be worth what I spend on it" , haven't times changed

I can't describe the feeling when I jump in to it and its just me and her, no one else and we just drive.
To me it's not just a possession but an extension of me, a link to my past, but is also my future

Cars mean different things to different people, selling my car would leave a hole that I probably couldn't fill
You see I could by another one, but it wouldn't be my one

[strobe]

I'd swap my XR8 for a brand spanking new GT...seriously. Someone make me an offer. Comeon! Please...pretty please!

[UberKnee]

Originally Posted by H.G

Ive got $20 for it..

Originally Posted by redxm

OK. How much for ya avatar ??

Bidding starts at $20...

[arronm]

Originally Posted by Mr Hardware

Everyone has their price

Not true, i would rather cut of my left arm than sell my car.

While I am alive MY car wont be sold at any price.

[neptune blue]

Originally Posted by arronm

Not true, i would rather cut of my left arm than sell my car.

While I am alive MY car wont be sold at any price.

I gather from your post that your car is something you specifically wanted and aspired to own , its not just a set of wheels to get around in

That's the difference

[MITCHAY]

I will sell my car when I no longer want or need it. Sure it's nice to drive and all but it is only a car at the end of the day and I really don't hold much sentimental value.

[arronm]

Originally Posted by neptune blue

I gather from your post that your car is something you specifically wanted and aspired to own , its not just a set of wheels to get around in

That's the difference

I read your post so you know how I feel about my car. For me as soon as I sit in it it has this smell. I cant describe it but its only in my car (its probably in my mind). Then as I drive its just the best feeling. I wanted an F6 ever since I saw the TV add and saw them in the show room. My car is a BA and is old now but I dont care.

I have a company car so I dont drive it much. Its a BA F6 2005 model with only 30K, but everytime I do ,boy do I enjoy it.

[Neale]

Last week I took my cortina for a spin up to the mountain for the races up there.

I parked it next to the track on the top of the mountain & hopped out for a look at the races, & before I could close the door I had a guy ask me if I wanted to sell it. Its no show pony so it came as a bit of a supprise that someone approached me to buy it.

I said no, becuase Dad & I have put alot of work into it & it means more to me that what its worth to most people.

It did get me thinking though. I tried to see the corty a couple of years ago when it wasnt running & needed some work to get it on the road.
No one wanted it & thats how it became a father son project to get it back on the road.

Now I think it would have to take a really good offer or desperate times for me to sell it. Its funny how things change

[NX74205]

Originally Posted by chamb0

If I absolutely had to sell I'd be very fussy about who the new owner was. I love it too much to hand it on to just anybody.

Likewise. It's not a buyer's market, it's the seller's market. If I were selling, I'd advertise it for above market value, and accept offers only from people who I'd trust to look after it.

[XWdarcy]

All very interesting indeed. I'm glad I'm not the only one out there who feels the same about their hunk of steel on wheels.

[flooded one]

my ute is defiantly not for sale. it was my dads before he died (he died 16months ago). even if someone offered a decent amount I still wouldn't sell it. sentimental value can not be brought. the sedan I would if someone came up with a stupid amount of cash for it (as it is mine)