Vehicles I used to own and maybe would like to have back

I was 90% done and felt like I needed to sell it to do house and yard repairs after a hurricane. We fought with insurance for a long time before getting a check.
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At one time, I had the 90s jeep trifecta.
1 owner Comanche with a HO 4.0
Wagoneer.
90 auto, ac, yj. The yj is the only one I kinda miss.

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That and a 1 owner 2004 Chevy 1500hd. That truck was the best thing I even owned, but I sold most all of them to get the down payment on my house.
 
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some day I'll have another one
was an ex-DNR truck; that lovely mint green, but I had to paint it when I bought it (guy I bought it from was very insistent) so it got house paint
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Buy one now before every asshole who wrecked one in highschool gets midlife crisis nostalgia for them. Witness what those ******s did to squarebody prices. You'll never buy one if you wait for that to happen.

If you buy a semi clean one and park it on something other than grass it'll stay decent even if you don't touch it for a decade.
 
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This pile.

That amount of dollar per fun can never be re created. Had my best times behind a steering wheel in it. It was just a ****ty beat up ranger but damn I miss it.

Thinking about it though, not sure I’d want it back today. I had it at the perfect time and place in my life. It just wouldn’t work nowadays
 
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arse_sidewards said:
Buy one now before every asshole who wrecked one in highschool gets midlife crisis nostalgia for them. Witness what those ******s did to squarebody prices. You'll never buy one if you wait for that to happen.

If you buy a semi clean one and park it on something other than grass it'll stay decent even if you don't touch it for a decade.
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Ummm.... hate to break it to ya but the midlife crisis thing has already been scooping up trucks from the 80s and early 90s. They're 30+ year old trucks. park another decade and it's a 40 year old truck. Just like that 1946 Triumph roadster youcthough was cool in High School.
 
BDK said:
1968 SS 396 El Camino I had in high school. Sold it to get a GT Mustang. Friend I sold it to let his little brother borrow it and he rear ended a big rig.
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I don’t know if I’m sad because the El Camino got injured, or because you got a Ford.
 
Ranch Hand said:
1962 Chevy Nova with a built 292 I-6.
1965 Ford Mustang with a 289 four-speed.
1971 Chevy Nova with a 370 HP 350 LT1.
1975 VW Rabbit.
1987 Mazda MX-6 turbo.
1999 Chevy Tahoe Z71.
2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee with a 357 HP Hemi.
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You can’t talk about Novas and not show pictures. I bet that Mazda was a lot of fun.
 
'67 Baja bug-stolen
'69 Porsche 912- sold cuz knocked wife up
'62 vw squareback
'75 fj40
'72 bronco- will likely get this back eventually, dad currently owns it
'87 Lincoln towncar
'05 KTM 950S
'77 seagrave firetruck

i'm sure theres a ****load more if i actually thought about it...
 
How it looked when I had it and sold it,
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What it looks like now,
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Frame was tender 15 years ago when I sold it. Im still in contact with them. Guess they're on their 3rd 4th or 5th ECM. They keep replacing them with diagnosing the problem.

Love to buy it back, but they're not budging. That and im sure the frame is probably toast.
 
I miss my 85' 350X. I had the forks and rear shock rebuilt, all the bearings/bushings were new, and it was jetted perfectly for the Supertrapp pipe.

Sold it and a couple other things to justify a pair of KX 450X's for the boy and I (which we hardly ever ride anymore).

That being said, its the only ATV I ever sold that I actually made money on.


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RunningProblem said:
Ummm.... hate to break it to ya but the midlife crisis thing has already been scooping up trucks from the 80s and early 90s. They're 30+ year old trucks. park another decade and it's a 40 year old truck. Just like that 1946 Triumph roadster youcthough was cool in High School.
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There's a bunch of factors at play. Being X years old doesn't magically make vehicles nostalgia worthy. You also need to think about who is nostalgic for them and what period in their life they are nostalgic for. Like look at all the dumbass boomers. A third of them are nostalgic for whatever late 60s car they crashed while blackout drunk on new years in 1970. A third of them are nostalgic for whatever early 1960s car they remember learning to drive in. And a third of them are nostalgic for the mid 70s compact or early 1970s barge they bought in the mid-late 70s kicked out of their commune and having to find a real job and sold after they knocked up their first wife in 1979

You can paint similar patterns onto newer vehicles and generations.

Every asshole who got a job at their uncle's firm and bought a house with daddy's down-payment money as in a position to have hobby project cars way earlier than the people who needed to work for that **** so whatever they're nostalgia for gets driven up in price sooner in terms of years. So the 1995 Toyota (because that's what those kind of people bought in 1995) they got given in high school 2003 jumped in price in like 2017 or something.

We see comparable in the XJ market. People who are nostalgic for them are nostalgic for 1997-2010ish. Prices went crazy recently, but they were always middle class vehicles and prices have tanked because the people who would be nostalgic for them don't have the money for a "classic car" or a "project car".

People don't have nostalgia for -90ish Rangers when they were new. They have nostalgia for when they were low value enough to be the kind of thing you or your buddy drove in high-school or college. And because they were fairly useful vehicles with some sticking power that took awhile. So like late 00s early 2010s for those early 90s Rangers. And like XJs they weren't rich people vehicles so not a whole lot of people who would be buyers right now are.

Some vehicles will never jump in value beyond simple age + condition because there isn't a cohort that's enthusiastic enough about them (i.e. basically everything I own except the Ranger, lol)

So basically if he wants a 90ish body style Ranger there's still a little time but he has to figure it out before the economy picks back up in however many years and all those people say "ah, now is the time for a project car".

On a semi-related note, vehicle service lives have been increasing with time. Those sorts of "X years old then vs X years old now" comparisons don't make as much sense as they once did.
 
rockmup said:
Friend of mine had a square body he built and painted, kids came and he sold it to a guy he worked with.
His family presented it to him last weekend.
His 15 yr old son found it, made a deal with the owner 7 yrs ago. He's been getting it running, new motor, all the little ****, theres still lots of little **** to do.
Anyway, family went to a car show and as Tims walking he's all, hey, that looks like my old truck. Well, thats because it is and heres the keys.

We beat that truck senselessly in the dunes but Tim always took care of it, clearly, its had a hard life

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Thank you! That is an awesome story.
 
SKULLYOTA said:
my mint tin-top 1987samurai that used to be my DD a long time ago. i'll probably never own one this clean again :(
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also my 1990 HZJ73 diesel landcruiser. Japan import. loved this thing
sold it pay off my now ex-wifes car :mad3::mad3::mad3:. ****.
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1989 4runner. 22RE, 5spd. actually kinda a POS that i couldn't wait to be rid of at the time but now with time money and some space i could build something out of it. would be worth an easy $5-7k in my area now. sold to my dad who used it to plow his driveway before he parted it out. used to see a couple trucks running around with my doors and front fenders before i moved away lol
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pretty decent 1985 solid axle PU i had for a few years. 5.29's, rear lock rite, stock ratio dual tcases. engine needed a rebuild that i couldnt afford so band-aided it as well as i could and sold it had a nice flatbed on it that also went to my dad and this **** bed and ****tier canopy went on when i put it up for sale and painted it CARC tan
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Suzuki used to make some awesome little vehicles. I wonder why they stopped.
 
arse_sidewards said:
There's a bunch of factors at play. Being X years old doesn't magically make vehicles nostalgia worthy. You also need to think about who is nostalgic for them and what period in their life they are nostalgic for. Like look at all the dumbass boomers. A third of them are nostalgic for whatever late 60s car they crashed while blackout drunk on new years in 1970. A third of them are nostalgic for whatever early 1960s car they remember learning to drive in. And a third of them are nostalgic for the mid 70s compact or early 1970s barge they bought in the mid-late 70s kicked out of their commune and having to find a real job and sold after they knocked up their first wife in 1979

You can paint similar patterns onto newer vehicles and generations.

Every asshole who got a job at their uncle's firm and bought a house with daddy's down-payment money as in a position to have hobby project cars way earlier than the people who needed to work for that **** so whatever they're nostalgia for gets driven up in price sooner in terms of years. So the 1995 Toyota (because that's what those kind of people bought in 1995) they got given in high school 2003 jumped in price in like 2017 or something.

We see comparable in the XJ market. People who are nostalgic for them are nostalgic for 1997-2010ish. Prices went crazy recently, but they were always middle class vehicles and prices have tanked because the people who would be nostalgic for them don't have the money for a "classic car" or a "project car".

People don't have nostalgia for -90ish Rangers when they were new. They have nostalgia for when they were low value enough to be the kind of thing you or your buddy drove in high-school or college. And because they were fairly useful vehicles with some sticking power that took awhile. So like late 00s early 2010s for those early 90s Rangers. And like XJs they weren't rich people vehicles so not a whole lot of people who would be buyers right now are.

Some vehicles will never jump in value beyond simple age + condition because there isn't a cohort that's enthusiastic enough about them (i.e. basically everything I own except the Ranger, lol)

So basically if he wants a 90ish body style Ranger there's still a little time but he has to figure it out before the economy picks back up in however many years and all those people say "ah, now is the time for a project car".

On a semi-related note, vehicle service lives have been increasing with time. Those sorts of "X years old then vs X years old now" comparisons don't make as much sense as they once did.
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I get more comments about how nice my 87 Ranger is than almost any other vehicle Ive had besides maybe my Blazer.

Mine was my Great Aunt and Uncles. They bought it new and it was always kept inside until my Aunt went to the old Folks home around 2010. It is sentimental so I will never sell it.

I think most of them were trashed because they were cheap trucks. So who cared. Now there are not many clean ones left.
 
SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
You guys sell your vehicals?


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Sold... not exactly.

S15 Jimmy got donated because I didn't want to screw with it anymore after buying Tacoma.

FJ40 got parted out. I kept frame and ***le because I wasn't going to play that game. I got back the back of the tub back and decided to start a slow revival of it. I got the frame restored a while ago.
 
It's an odd thread. Guess I'm more with RunningProblem

If y'all want them, why not buy another? Does it have to be that specific VIN :confused:

I get saying "oh I shouldn't have sold it when I did because the price went up and I could've sold it later for more" but hell, that's everything. It's gone for a reason, build what you want for the now :flipoff2:
 
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