The what keeps your from selling your car thread?

[CorvallisBMW]

Every time I almost keep up with a minivan off a stoplight I know it was totally worth the motor swap.

You just made my new sig!

[phreshkid]

Those damn vtech Honda minivans

[Wh33lhop]

Every time I almost keep up with a minivan off a stoplight I know it was totally worth the motor swap.

[Ryan Stewart]

Damn Ryan, I'd love to own your car! Is it still looking pretty?

Its still looking pretty good, it just sits in the garage now. I never drive it. I at least have it on a battery tender but the last time I drove it the exhaust had a lot of white/gray vapor and a funny smell (not sweet or anything) so I am betting/hoping the gas went bad (it sat all winter without a stabilizer). The problem is I dont really have the time to drain the tank so I dont know when I will brave driving it again. .

[BigD]

-if I sell it, I'd have to replace it with another toy car
--this means finding something else that appeals to me (small, light, rwd) and nothing realy does, and relearning the car, starting all the mods from scratch... just thinking about that makes me want to shit

-my $ loss would be absolutely epic (this winter's turbo/5lug phase alone is well into 10s of thousands), I know everyone says this but I'd seriously likely get better value out of it setting it on fire than selling

-sentimental reasons... this car has been with me almost as long as my wife, who has been there for me when I changed the clutch in an apartment underground lot, prepared the engine swap in our livingroom, towing it cross country etc, it's a member of the family now. When we moved, the engine swap wasn't finished and the house purchase wasn't closing for another 6 months. I had it in a friend's garage, trying to do as much as I could. I contemplated selling it unfinished. She told me, in no uncertain terms, that it's not happening.

[Jonny Cash]

I would sell it for an m3 to replace it, or take a shell and build from scratch. Other than that..

Its such a pita to get into another car and back-track what every other moron over the years did to it. The more you know your car, and where/when things were addressed, its that much harder to sell it.

You could buy a really clean e30, spend over 5k, and not know of any stupid little issues its had until you dig into it. same goes for any car, even moreso for your average bmw.. look at the people who drive them..

Ive been working on an Mcoupe for the past week.. What looks like a nice car from the outside.. What many people out there would pay over 15k for- including me up until this learning experience.... OMFG

[Emre]

I've run the same E30 for 20 years now. I can't let it go for sentimental reasons: my dad bought the car new and gave it to me when I started med school.

Then there's the fact that I've slowly modified and tuned it into one of the best handling and most reliable E30's I've ever driven. I spared no expense with that car; I would never be able to recover enough money to make it worth selling.

Even though I have no real use for it and it just eats up valuable garage space, I'm not sure I'll ever bring myself to sell it.

[CorvallisBMW]

The looks and attention I get from driving a white-on-white convertible straight out of Miami Vice, while bumping Ice Ice baby and fist pumping as I drive down the freeway in my oversized shades.

[MR 325]

Not much right now. I'm actually considering selling it off to bolster a down payment on a new car. Might even part it out because its worth more in parts.

Damn Ryan, I'd love to own your car! Is it still looking pretty?

[Ryan Stewart]

Not much right now. I'm actually considering selling it off to bolster a down payment on a new car. Might even part it out because its worth more in parts.

[hotghias]

Every summer for 6 years I've sworn I'd sell it (broken AC). Then I change my mind every fall when I realize there isn't a more-fun, better-performing, more-character-having car for the $1500 it's worth. It does just about everything I need, including towing my sailboat(haha).

[BMWerke]

the amount of people who stop me on the streets telling me "I love your car" or "clean BMW". i wont get rid of it until it gets stolen or catches on fire.

[Streichholzschächtelchen]

ban

Lol I came up on e28 euro bumpers, flares, german gauges, bbs spoiler, the whole 9 yards and my e30 is beyond whooped with 300k+ on it. If my Valiant and wheels sell though...

[BillBrasky]

-~$1 a day for insurance
-around my parts...rare
-no car payments
-it has a dipstick
-appreciating
-The smiles I have when driving them.

Ditto, especially the part about no car payments. I made that mistake once for an e36 when I was 17 and I'll never do it again.

[DeM3n]

My friends...thank goodness for them. I get in these spells when I decide I want to sell the car. Then my friends slap me back to reality.