selling car patheticness

Oh god, I am exactly the same, as is everyone in my family.

I am trying to think of something to say to make you feel better, but actually I agree that your car must be feeling a bit sad, and it's mean of you to sell it ?

I feel bad about trying to sell my Beetle, I would love to keep it but with 3 childrens its not exactly a family car so it is currently sat on my parents drive. I feel like I have let him down because we can't use him anymore.

Oh good im glad im not the only one. H keeps saying to me "its just a car" but I keep getting visions of it like Herbie, all sad and crying in the rain...headlights all dimmed....? I feel I should do something to make up for being a traitor and selling out to the Germans.

I know exactly what you mean, i get far too attached to things and then get upset when it comes time to part with them. Daft really but that's how it is!

I'm sure your punto will go off and have many more adventures with its new owners and you and your new car will be mates in next to no time. ?

I'm the opposite. MrKB works with cars day in day out so to me they are just machines. TBH I'm sick of the darn things ?

I actually had a lump in my throat the day my car was driven out of our gates by a man who bought my car for his wife.

She didn't test drive it, but I took her out in it. She was too nervous to drive it.

It shouldn't have then come as a shock when I emailed him a few months after we'd got here to ask how she was getting on with it, and whether she enjoyed driving it as much as I had that he had sold it! ?

By all accounts the weather was sh!te so she couldn't take the top off, but the real reason was she was scared of it and wouldn't drive it. I was gobsmacked, and disappointed too as I'd felt my beloved car had gone to a good home.

The car before that was even worse! It was a Renault 5 GT Turbo that I absolutely loved driving. I was only talking about it day before yesterday funnily enough! I had that beaut for 14 years and only sold it due to peer pressure and Mr P egging me on! Rest in peace little Ovadraft.

My first car was a Fiat Punto, called Bambina. I loved her to bits. She was dead reliable, you could fit anything into her boot (including a range cooker, or a washing machine).

In the end she failed her MOT and would cost too much to repair. when the scrap guy came to take her and gave me £50 for her, I felt like I was selling a friend. I felt awful!

When I sold my first ever car (Fiat Cinquecento) which had served me well for 8 years I cried. I still from time to time wonder how its doing and I sold it 4 years ago ?

Living on a small island I do from time to time see old cars of mine and H's around the place. It's a bit of a weird feeling sort like seeing an old friend. It can be frustrating though as around Christmas time I saw the car immediately previous to my current one. It had 'modified' badly in my opinion. The new owner had taken the original wheels off and replaced them with others which were pretty nasty, also they've seemingly bolted various spoliers and such like to the back of it. ?

My lovely little car had been turned in to a chav mobile, I was not a happy bunny!!

Oh i'm terrible for doing this - i have named all our cars over the years (of which there have been many due to H's constant swapping and changing) but have got most attached to my (not our) 3rd car a mark3 golf gti called graham, which i loved. I only sold him under pressure from H who wanted to pool our cash and buy a joint car (big mistake!!) - 4 years later i still wonder how he is gtting on up in lincolnshire somewhere (presuming he hasn't been sold on again) and have even comtemplated seeking him out and offering to buy him back!

Wahhhh [rofl]

these stories are so funny and its good to know its not just me. I stuck some 'for sale' signs on it today and I felt so sad. Its ridiculous but she literally has been with me thru thick and thin ?. When H and I had a trial separation (before we married) i used to go on long drives and everything ?

Im sorry for your loss LP, to Freddy ?

I was the same when I traded in my first car, a Clio for a Punto, I think I shed a tear. I didn't like my Punto for the first few months, I kept comparing it to my Clio, and telling everyone that would listen that it just wasn't the same. ?

Then after 8 years, the Punto failed its MOT and would have cost too much to get fixed, so sold it for £150. I had to go out and sit in it for a while (my excuse being I was cleaning it) before the man came to collect it. OH just thought I was weird.

I sold my last car to a dealer and I'd had it 6 years. I got the tax disc reminder yesterday and a parking fine from Lancashire so at least I know she's still on the road.

The car before ( a K reg 205 diesel called 'Dave') was sold to a mate of my grandad who turned it into a chicken coop ?

I was the same with my first car - it was an E reg Nissan Micra, and I felt awful when it had to finally go the scrapyard. I still have the key for it though

Micra ?