Projects Would you sell your car to a friend?

My father has a policy of not selling vehicles to anyone he knows or even to someone in town. Once he sells something he never wants to see it again.

I still have the old Convertible I drove to college. I don’t drive it much anymore. A good friend I hung around with in college remembers us cruising in that car and has offered to buy it. He lives a few provinces away so I agreed that when I was ready to sell it was his on the condition that we roadtrip it to his house together and that I get the option of buying it back if he ever decides to sell.
Would you?


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Sell with 10/10 warranty. 10 feet or 10 seconds from money exchange. I never had a problem with selling to someone I know. Just be honest about car and what it is. Any car could blowup the next day. Stress your selling as is, cut short any topic of issues with car if it comes up later.

 

In 1990, I sold my house to my best friend. A couple of years after that, he bought my '37 Chevy. We're still great friends.

Not too difficult - just treat him (or anyone else for that matter), like you'd like to be treated.

 

A few years ago I sold my 65 Nova to a good friend. I gave him the taillight warranty and he said that was all he expected. He still has it and still enjoys it.

 

I see no problem with selling to a friend or someone that I know. Because, they know how I take car of my stuff! Be honest and up front about anything and everything.

 

To a Friend, yes. In fact, I have. But to someone I just know.....maybe, maybe not. It would depend on my knowledge/opinion of them and if I thought they understood what they are buying.

 

I’m conflicted about this. After owning it forever I don’t think I could. Too many memories.jmho. Snowman

 

BTDT.
If it was a good friend that understood vehicles and was a 'car-guy'. Sure.
If it was just a friend and didn't understand some basics, like maintenance. No(never again).

 

NO!!!!!!

 

Sold my '55 Desoto to my best friend about 7 years ago. He loves it, has done lots of work to it and drives it everywhere...

 

Sold an OT el camino to a friend of 35 years after repeated requests. It was running, driving, stopping 68 that needed finishing touches. I sold it for WAY cheap. He is not handy with cars and I offered to help with fixing it up multiple times. He is no longer talking to me.
That will never happen again

 

Yes. A buyer is a buyer.
Why say "no" to
someone you "know"?
Just be honest.

 

No, he's already asked.

 

Being honest is the point. There are people I ‘know’ who are not savvy enough about cars to understand the implications of old cars. They would not be pleased with the maintenance required etc. In some cases, they are ‘whiners’......I don’t need that.

My Friends, on the other hand, are into the same things I am and know what they are doing and may be facing.

I actually think, though, there is more risk in selling an OT later model that is being bought for transportation and if a catastrastroke occurs, they will not be happy.

Ray

 

I sold a friend my 53 Merc about 20 years ago and we are still friends, my 50 Ford went to a guy I know about 25 miles from here about 10 years ago and I've never seen it since. The friend with the Merc still has the car and drives it quite a bit. The rest of my cars have been sold over the internet, on here and Ebay, I still have some regrets about selling the Merc when I see it but glad to know it's still in good shape and being enjoyed.

 

Over the years I've sold several cars to friends with no problems or complaints. I don't build junk and my friends know I build decent cars.

 

There is a big difference between a "friend" as opposed to someone you know or someone with whom you are acquainted.

I only have four real friends and several hundred with whom I am acquainted. That being said I would sell (or buy) from a friend but avoid selling to someone I know. I did that once and it was a colossal pain in the ass.

 

Nope, I will never sell a car to a friend. That was the policy growing up around my grandfather as the few times he decided to, went south. Sold a O/T Camaro that was perfectly fine as sold, agreed on the tail light warranty. Guy blows the motor up a week later (by revving the pee out of it) and promptly blames my grandfather and myself for a bad engine.

We restored a 65 El Camino, buddy in our group wanted it bad, so gave a price (we thought was high enough to get him to back off) and he bought it. He owned it the next couple of years complaining of everything on that car. Mainly over the style choices we made when restoring it, well then why were you so instant on buying it in the first place?

 

I have bought and sold cars to friends and never experienced any problems, when selling I am honest to a fault, I want them to know everything I think is wrong with the car or truck. HRP

 

Ive bought & sold vehicles,parts ,tractors , horses and even land to friends. You just tell everything that you know is wrong with it when you sell. If something happens you can look them in the eye and honestly state I never knew that. Many people who ive sold stuff to became my friends. Its close relatives that I don't want to sell anything to . buy anything from . Or do any work for. You can pick your friends. Relatives/ family your just stuck with.

 

I have both sold to and bought from friends, but we always both new everything about the cars.

 

Not only would I sell to a friend, I have built three cars and are building another right now for a friend. All four still talk to me, all are cars I was going to do for myself. They walked in to my shop, decided that was the car for them and I finished them just the way I wanted. I won't sell to a whiner, I won't build for a whiner, too many issues, people who don't understand that cars break, things happen, tailgate warranty applies here too.

 

Why not sell to someone who understands and appreciates the history of the car. I say go for it.

 

I have no friends who are car guys, so yeah, whoever has the money can have the car...

 

x2 - if stays local people will always say that they saw my car, and/or did you see what the buyer did to your car? - not for me

 

I’ve always had pretty good luck selling to friends and even acquaintances. Seems they are happy with my buy high-sell low policy. I’ve never been able to buy one back as cheap as I sold it though.


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I don't have a problem selling to a friend. I have sold cars and projects to friends. It made me feel good for someone to want a car that was done my way, my style. Projects are cool too, you get to see another dream finished and on the road without using your own money to fund it!

 

Slipperly slope for me. I sold my 56 Chevrolet, Model 150, Utility Sedan to my best friend, as he wanted it really bad. This was a car that had a really good body and perfect floorboards (rare in this part of the country). He went to a wrecking yard to get a 'better" front seat for it, bought one from of all things, a Road Runner. To install it, rather than drill the mounting holes, he took a center punch and a big hammer to the floors. Used the same hammer to roll the rear wheel well lips under to fit bigger tires. Then, he ran the snot out of the 360 HP 396 BBC; it was a street car with 5.38 rear end gears!!! I helped him rebuild the engine, new clutch, traction bars, and some other work, then his Father told me he really wished I'd buy the car back. A couple of weeks latter, his Father died while riding his son's bicycle; the front brake caliper came loose, tangled in the spokes, and flipped the bike forward. His Father landed forehead first into the street. What could I do? I bought the car back, and it became my first dedicated drag strip car. So NO, never sell a car to a friend; at least that was my experience. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

When I've sold to anybody I've always pointed to my shoulder and said, "This shoulder isn't here for you to cry on." My one real friend has never heard this statement. He doesn't need to.

 

I always say, "I would love to buy a car from me." I can't leave any known flaw unfixed. A good friend bought my 54 Chevy and knows he got a car that was ready to roll wherever he wanted to go. In fact, we caravan together to car shows and in 2 years, he has had zero hiccups. So, I would sell a car to just about anybody I know, with confidence that they will like it. If there happened to be a problem with it, I would for sure tell them.