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Had a mate sell his first car recently. He is in his mid 30s now, and yes it was a toyota. Sad day for him. I decided to look up my first car's rego. Loved the shit outta that thing, sold it probably 12 years ago? maybe more. It was utterly ruined when I sold it! A combination of its previous owner, age, high km and a young 20 something me living his rally fuckboi fantasies in it. The rego was cancelled jan this year. So it went on to be driven (or at least parked and rego paid) for another 12+ years. Cant believe it! The quote I got to keep it on the road 2011/2012 was $10k. I sold it for 2.
Im a bit heartbroken. I coulda kept it going way longer than I thought.
Wonder if I can order the number plate and just shelve it for now till I can one day stick it on a WRX?
It likely had that $10k spent on it to keep it going.
Dunno. I THINK the place I traded it in sold it for like 7-8k. Cant imagine you buy it then spend that money again on keeping her going. She was nice, but she wasnt a collectors item or anything.
my first was an Austin 1800 , then I got a Holden station wagon and after that a gemini diesel, then after that a bmw 318 , then an avocado saab, then a blue one, no car since then
I think my first car got hauled off for scrap. It was a Corolla, I think from some time in the 70s. The panels were about 50% fibreglass patches at that point and I was not in the slightest attached to it.
I managed to total the next two cars and claim insurance money, so even though I have bought 4 cars in my life I've never actually sold one.
If we're counting cars registered to me... I'm on my... 5th. But 1 of those was a holden cruze so its understandable why THAT didnt last long haha. And my 4th was sold to save my mrs's ass on her car.