What do you regret?

I get mad at myself for not coming back from Atlanta with an empty trailer rather than paying what I now think was too much for the Model A I bought. I suppose I was too interested in getting the deal done and getting back on the road rather than really looking at the car objectively to see how cobbled together it was. Buyer beware!!


Lynn
 
dean from bozeman said:
I bought my first Model A, a '29 Tudor, the summer before my junior year in high school. My dad said, 'Drive it. Have fun.'

I said, 'No, dad. Guys in the club do frame off restorations.'

I took the Tudor apart, restored the chassis, did all the body work and went to college and never did the final coat of paint or reassembled it.

Years later, after it stayed in a garage by my dad's for 35 years, I went back to retrieve it and found that someone had stolen everything except for the chassis and the shell of the body.

So I never really drove the Tudor that I bought with money I earned throughout grade school and two years of high school. I regret not listening to my dad.
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What do I Regret.

Well it’s purchasing things for my kids that I think they either want or need. It took me years to figure out it’s best to support them with what they want.

First regret. The case in mind is my vintage cars. 4 in all, 3 A’s and a locally produced Holden FX. I have always loved the A, since I was a kid and figured my kids should each have one.Well that wasn’t a good thought process. They have their own interests and they weren’t vintage cars. In addition I had made for each of them a heavy beautifully crafted dinning table and chairs. Again, my taste wasn’t the same as theirs. An antique dealer told me it is quite usual for kids not to want their parents possessions. He said it is the grandkids who do want it. So salvation looks likely for me at the end of the tunnel.

There is a second regret. My first purchase was a Tourer (Phaeton) in pretty poor shape.It cost a fortune to restore. I purchased it simply because I just had to have an A. A bit like a spoiled kid. I wish I had known there was a specialised club that would have helped me, even though it was a long way from home.

In summary I wish I had sort help. One A and one dinning set was all that I needed.

Whilst we are all wise in retrospect I don’t dwell on the above. However I do love each of my children, the Tourer, the Pickup and the Roadster. I do love the Holden as well but it is an orphan. No, not the same blood line.

 

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Scrapping my first vehicle: 1931 AA 280A. It was just an old underpowered truck in the '50's.
 
What I regret? Now let me see,
Not saving much of anything, I junked a lot of stuff that would be valuable today.
Selling my 47 Crosely, selling my TR3 (That was a "Fun Car!"), Selling My 47 Merc. convertible! Selling a 46 Ford coupe, Selling my 1931 Harley Davidson. Giving away my 59 Edsel Corsair convertible! My mother was screaming at me "When are you gonna get rid of that Car!" Anyone have a mother like that? another "Fun Car" Selling my 56 Packard cause it had no title, AARRGGGHHH!Selling my 1957 Buick that was factory Stick! Man, That 364 was fast, it could pass anything but a gas station! Letting my cousin's tractor be sold at a farm auction, It was a running, working John Deere, 1937 Model B that he had bought new. It went for $900. Not buying a 1936 Graham-Paige, in perfect condition for $500 (Who wants a stupid flat head 6 with the lamest looking supercharger on it?) And so it goes......
Terry
 
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