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Hi Guys.
The ones of us that have been gearheads for a long time, always seem to have a story or two about the cars you had/sold/traded but should have or wish that you had kept. Or even the cars we were offered a deal on and we turned down.
I have a few of them myself so I will make a start to get the thread going… many years ago I had a thing for the Jaguar XKE and over the years ended up with some 11 of them in various models Series 1-2 and 3. Them came the divorce and in the blink of an eye, Gone, wish the were in the stable now. I never paid a high price for any of them at the time. Now you have to talk serious number just to enter the market.
Over to you guys, what have you let slip by?????
John De Brit.
Here’s the one I miss the most, even with its Lucas Electrical System. This car always reminded me of a sexy lady, you just want to rub every part of it. It was about $6,000 brand new as I remember. It was 1969, and I just got a medical discharge after 10-1/2 years from the Marine Corps, and what better thing could I blow my money on.
Bill
Bad Bill
Her name was Colette.
Oh. Wait a minute. You’re talking about cars. Sorry was distracted there for a minute.
I’ve always lusted after an XKE. Never had one. And don’t really have a history of cars I let slip away.
First car was a 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 Convertible with factory air. But about fifteen years ago, I got close with my 1965 Plymouth Satellite. Sister car to the Dodge.
PMOSSBERG2015-05-27 15:17:44
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
Hi Bill,
This looks like something else we have in common, I’ve have a lot of E types but never a silver one. I think I’ve had at least one of every other colour they made over the years.
Regards
John the brit
My first car, a 1960 emerald green four door hardtop 1960 Chevy Impala. I didn’t appreciate that car when I had it and now I regret ever having sold it.
Vicenç - (bee sense)
Pembroke Pines, FL
1986 Aston - BCW Model 52 - "Montse II"(1983 FiberFab MiGi II - "Montse")
My first car was a 1962 VW Type 1 – Red. Now have a MGTDR based on a 1974 VW Type 1 – also Red. Guess things haven’t changed much.
Paul,
When you say, ” I got close with my 1965 Plymouth Satellite. Sister car to the Dodge.” Does that mean so close that mean you smacked into the Dodge and did grievous bodily injury?Bill
Bad Bill
1. 1962 Corvette, 327ci-340hp, with the heavy duty cooling and handling options
2. 1970 Karmann-Ghia convertible with mildly modified 1679cc engine
3. 1965 Falcon Futura with 289 HiPo, 4-speed
4. 1964 VW Kombi Deluxe, 1641cc engine
5. 1964 VW Beetle w/sunroof, mildly modified 1679cc engineKentT2015-05-27 22:13:05Early FF TDr on 69 VW pan
Slowly coming back from the ashes...1969 Mustang Fastback…
429 Cleavland…
Sold her for 2,000.00 to get married…
Marriage lasted a year and a half…
Ive been looking for that car ever since the devorce…
Do you think shell take me back???
THE CAR THAT IS?
1. 1949 Ford with flathead 6.
2.
1965 Corvair Manza Spider Convertible.Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The ShackRick,
When cars leave you that’s it, good memories etc., but when the woman leaves you it’s payments forever. But, we never learn, hope springs eternal, emotions trump common sense and we mary again, instead of looking for that old car we loved.BillBad Bill
4- ’65 Mustangs(2 coupes, 2 Fastbacks) 289 4sp.
65 Falcon Conv. 289 4 sp.
65 GTO
3- 79 Firebirds ( 2 Formulas, I 10th anniversary Trans Am)
86 el Camino Choo Choo Custom
72 Opel GT
73 TR6Bill Ascheman
Fiberfab Ford
Modified 5.0, 5sp., 4:11
Autocross & Hillclimb
"Drive Happy"This isn’t mine, but it is what she looked like…1965 Dodge Coronet Convertible 500.
Mine had a robin’s egg blue interior…with factory air!
This is her cousin, a 1965 Plymouth Satellite convertible, which I acquired about fifteen years ago:
This one will be for sale soon.PMOSSBERG2015-05-28 13:00:55
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
Hi guys
Another E type pic from the UK, this was taken at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire around 89 I think. I worked there at the time so basically had as much track time as I wished. This car is definitely one that I miss. Also one of the first that the Ex Mrs sold out from under me. Fun time memories looking at the pics again. The TDr is as much fun anyway.
John the Brit.
I had a mini cooper wagon when I was stationed in East Anglia. Great little car that never let me down. Had to sell it when I returned stateside.
Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The Shack67 Nova SS, mild 350 and Muncie 4spd. My first car. Paid something like $850 for iron 1982, when it was a 6-cylinder/powerglide car. Sold it in late 2003 while looking for work. Think I got $3000 for it. If I had not sold it I would never have bought Bridget.
1965 Mustang coupe Gt Pony interior 200 cubic inch motor. Burgandy with black interior. I could beat most 289 In the corners and in the hills. It had good balance for curves. The 289′ were heavy in the corners. I paid $2520.15 for it taxes and license out the door. At the time there was a 3 month wait. I said I had cash and needed a car. Next day was driving it home.
Blew trans while stationed in Maine. Put in a Falcon Trans in a hurry Linkage hooked up wrong had reverse were first was. Drove it for about a week with crazy linkage.
My first ride was a ’62 AH Sprite Mk II that my dad heard about on an early-morning radio call-in show. Bought it for $455 in 1969, trailered it home to Houston from Shiner, Texas, and spent another $70 to have the right rear axle replaced. Drove it during my sophomore year at college before getting the engine rebuilt. Replaced the carpet, upholstery, top and exhaust system myself, and found a boat shop to refurb the side curtains. That car took me all over the Lone Star State, including my summer internship at the Abilene Reporter-News in West Central Texas, and stranded me only once (alternator gave up the ghost about 4 a.m. outside Comanche). My folks convinced me that it wasn’t the best car to start my married life in, though, so I sold it to a cousin’s husband for $500 in 1971 with the stipulation that he’d give me first shot if/when he was ready to let it go. But he totaled it on a rainy street in Pasadena a year later, somehow managing to climb out of the wreckage unhurt. I believe only another Sprite, or possibly a cherry ’72 Karmann-Ghia, could persuade me to give up my Lafer now. (By the way, although the car is long gone, I’m still married to the same girl 43 years later.)
1981 Lafer TI
1600 cc Type 1 engineBack in 1976, I had a “cherry Karmann-Ghia” except it was actually a 1971. It was my first “real car” (after the 1930 Ford Model A that I restored in high school and then sold). Pretty, but I remember keeping an ice scraper handy to scrape the ice off the INSIDE of the windshield, and putting expanding bolts into the rust holes to fill them. Five years old and it already had rust-through. Sometimes the good old days aren’t as good as we remember. Now I have a TDR that looks a little like a Ford Model A and apparently has a 1971 VW powertrain. At least the body doesn’t rust and I don’t worry about defrosting the windshield here in Vegas.
Frost is very, very rarely a problem here in Southeast Texas.
1981 Lafer TI
1600 cc Type 1 engineHow about a 1964 Pontiac Catalina convertible 3 two barrels that sat above hood .Today it wouldn’t fit in my garage or a 1965 Ford Falcon convertible 289 4 on the floor painted grabber blue complete with hood pins
Greg,
That Pontiac sound like my Olds 98 with what they called a J2 carburetor set up, 3 two barrels linked together.BillBad Bill
Rosebud and Bill I believe you are right . It is hard to believe that I went from this type of car to a 1971 Ford Pinto .
In 1969 my ex almost gave away my almost new 1967 Pontiac Catalina Ventura when she flew out to Seattle to meet me as my “boat” (aka submarine) went into the shipyard.
It was factory equipped Tri-Power 428 cu in 2 Dr “Hardtop Convertible” that was supposedly dropped (the Tri-Power option) from the Pontiac line in 1967.
This was the “family car” as I was tooling around in a Sunbeam Alpine.Years earlier,in 1956, my first car was a 1948 Crosley Station Wagon with a 26hp CoBra sheet metal block. ….not a “Chick magnet”. Adam Sandler’s song “Piece of Sh*t Car” comes to mind. I was definitely fishing with the wrong bait.
But the one I regretted the most was when I swapped (even) my perfect MGTF-1500 for a 1969 Porsche 911T in 1984….which is why I eventually bought my MiGi TD replica (not realizing then that the replica was a better car in every respect).Royal2015-05-30 07:39:16
Ive really enjoyed reading these stories and the last one really made me think of how happy I am with Eliza Jane. Shes been the best car Ive owned so far and I hope to have her in my life for a very long time.
Im so greatful for the membership in this club that my little kit brought me. If not for the fun times and the friendships these cars have created then why own them…Thanks Eliza Jane and thank all of you my Brothers and Sisters of tdreplica.com!
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