Art & Inspiration How many of you here has owned your car more than one time?

While changing the valve covers on my old 32 Ford coupe I was waxing nostalgic when I was considering putting the Holly valve covers back on it that I bought back in the 80s.
I didn't...I decided to use some polished finned covers....but....it got me to thinking.
I have owned this car twice. You can read the story of how I found it again here:https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ng-it-once-again-happy-ending-include.737793/
This old coupe is just part of my family history and I always regretted selling it when I did. So, is this a pretty common thing to do, buying back your old car?
Let me see some stories of your "repossessions".
Here is my old car, before and now:

 

This is what a happy man looks like. HRP

 

Nope, never have. Have had a few I'd like a second go at, but have no idea what became of them. I know the Maverick I traded for my Lincoln ended up in GA, a friend sent me some pics a few years ago where he had seen it, it had changed so much I would have had to completely redo it to make it look like it did when I had it.

 

Yep, my feelings exactly.

 

I am one of those very lucky guys!!
Here is what mine looked like when I bought it in 1962 for $25.00



It looked like this when I sold it in 1967.

Thirty two years and six owners later it resurfaced at the Carlise Pennsylvania swap meet and was purchased by the Timoszyk family in Michigan

In 2002 Tom Timoszyk and the the family graciously allowed me to repurchase my old car. Here it is on the way back to Virginia.

And here it is at the NHRA Gatornationals a few years ago. I said it before, I am a very lucky guy!!

 

I built my first car (a '56 checy truck) in the mid '70's. It took a few years ( about 7) but I finished it.
It was too nice to drive often and I eventually sold it to a co worker.
It changed hands a few times and about 5 years later I found it and bought it back. It was a mess.
I built a totally new IFS/IRS frame for it with BB chevy this time.
When it was done I hated the truck. It wasn't what I had as a kid.
I put it on the internet and sold it to a guy in Georgia in a half hour.
This was when then internet was just starting to get big. I got 12K for the truck in 1992 and am glad it went away.

 

I never buy a car back. Once its gone and someone else has changed it its dead to me. Its cool that some guys get attatched and it makes them happy to get one of their old rides back but I'm just not that guy

 

When my mom was fighting for her life battling cancer I sold what to me was my Holy Grail 1932 Tudor sedan to try and help with her be as comfortable as possible with the mountain of expenses, unfortunately it was too little, too late.

Mom succumbed to the disease just a few months later, life moved on.

I saw the car the next year at Maggie Valley swap meet and talked to Roger and was pleased to see he didn't change a thing other than the steering column & seat, I talked with him for more than a hour and jokingly told him if he ever wanted to sell the car please call me and he said you will have to take that up with Beverly when I'm dead and gone, soon after that we parted ways and again life went on - until I got a call from a fellow hamber that was a close friend to Roger and he told me that Roger had passed away, I was shocked, just a few months ago wwe spent time together.

He said Rogers illness come on quick and he went fast, I attended his funeral but never mentioned the car, that wasn't the time, a few months later i got a call that te car was for sale but I didn't have the cash, so I put my old black flathead powered 4 door deuce up for sale and it sold fast to a gentleman in Toyko and within 3 weeks Brenda & I went to North Carolina to pick the car up.

Brenda took this photo when I pulled out into the highway for the ride back home. HRP

 

I hold on to the cars, it's the women that come around again........

 

Today I made an offer on a Fairlane I sold in 98, waiting on him, wasn't planning on selling but has him thinking.