That's a good question, was just thinking about that thought, selling a car is a big pain in the ass, when it comes down to selling a car, does it come from your spouse, need money, give away to someone that needs it?, ready to crap out on ya, not enough money to fix her? There's thousands of reasons guess, guess it's been said you either love em or ya hate em, how could you hate them though?! They're one of the coolest if not one of the sexiest cars out there! Well... there are some pretty ugly ones! How hard is it to let go of something you love? Once it's gone, it's gone. Could you live with it? Are you beating yourself over the freakin head cause you gave it to some douche that won't care for it? The question is how hard is it to sell your Maverick? Sometimes the Maverick won't let you sell them, has anyone had that happen? Kinda like a marriage huh?! Married to a mav wow, that would be really funny if somebody actually went into a church, brought the mav in, got legally married to it, now that would have to be caught on tape! So how hard is it to sell your Maverick?
no offence but reading that i feel like im reading the words of of someone hopped up on caffine lol usually when someone asks if i want to sell my mav i quote them a really high price, far above what its worth because i know 1 of two things will happen. there most likley going to leave me alone about it or buy it for that amount. either way im happy. i'll just get a nicer one lol. but you really have to look at the situation. sure we all love our cars but would we chose it over our famlies, tuition, etc. you have to proritize and in the grand sceme of things a car is just a car and a few $$$ might get one a little further in life then the old maverick sitting out back
i have thought about it a couple of times. then i go to the garage,start having second thoughts. still decide to sell. going to take it for one last ride. start it up feel the rumble, still going to sell. pull out of the garage, get out and close the garage door. get back in, put in in gear small tear rolls down my cheek. going down the road getting some "hey nice car" and thumbs up signs. a big smile appears on my face. turn the radio up a little more sit back get a little more comfy. there is no way i am selling this feeling. and some people say i dont have feelings. so how hard is it to sell my maverick? i dont know i never sold it.
I just went through this process, not with a Maverick since I am new to them, but with one of my Cougars. I decided to sell my white '69 conv that I had used for 2 years at the shows and then made my daily driver for 2 + more. I have put over 25,000 dependable miles on the car and was very happy with it. However, my son kept after me to finish an XR7 conv project that I had been off and on working on to complete. A fellow in the Cougar club was very interested in the car. I met with him and his son. I had already given him a price lower than what I felt it was worth to make it a good value for him, since we had known each other for 10 years in the club. Well, his son picked the car apart and the whole process made me so mad that I said "screw it, I am keeping the car". He wanted a concourse car for a project price. Since then, I have added some things I had put off on the car and am happy as a clam that I didn't sell it. The other car will just have to wait a little bit longer. Some day, when I croak, I will let my son worry about selling my stuff. Until then I will just build up his estate in my own way. To most of us here, old cars are more than just things, they are a big part of our lives and what we work for to make us happy. At least, that is how it is with me. Jim
well, I've been asked that more than once,..more like "why did you" or" how could you"? it took some hard thought and consideration when we sold the 77 last year. I hated seeing it sit ,covered in the garage,not having time to mess with it. In the middle of a new build I knew I wouldnt be doing much with it and after the other one is done, it was only going to sit even longer, sitting is harder on cars than driving them(IMO) and it was way to nice to just let that happen to.I figured someone else may as well enjoy it ,that way it would at least be getting put to a good use. was the decision hard? yeah, would I do it again, yes. are there regrets?...not really, but thats most likey because I am doing another.
It would be harder for me to sell mine. Same reasons as above, but also tied to family, since this was the departed great-grandmother's car. I get encouragement and thumbs-up from all her children and grandchildren, and they would all be pretty upset if I tried to sell it. Of course, the thought has never even crossed my mind, and we have hit a couple of monetarily-deprived times when we could have used a couple thousand bucks...
It's never easy to part ways with a car you have become very attached to, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do. The decision to sell our Stallion was one of the hardest things we had make. We had spent years working on it, and even though my husband swears he hated the car, deep down inside he was as attached to it as I was. It's hard not to become rather fond of a car that started out as an ugly duckling that was one step away from the crusher and piece by piece turning it into a swan. Selling it was never something we planned on doing. But those plans were soon to change. Years earlier, it was discovered that my husband had an Aortic Aneurysm. The aneurysm stayed small for several years and then last year it all of a sudden started to grow. My husband was facing a life or death situation and the surgery could not wait. We both knew he would be out of work for months. I alone would not be able to handle all the work in our shop and take care of him too, so that meant no income would be coming in at all. We had to do something to tide us over, so we sadly put the Stallion up for sale. My husband's life was far more important than the car. In the end, it all worked out very well. My husband's surgery was a complete sucess and he's back in the garage doing what he loves. The Stallion went on to a new home were I know it has new owner who loves the car as much as we did. It hurt like hell to see it go and we still miss the car, but knowing it is in good hands does make us feel better about letting it go.
My dad sold his '71 Comet GT for the same reasons as RadMav lists. He just didn't have time to mess with it anymore, and it just sat around forever. This is the car he had owned for 18 years, put over 350,000 miles on it, he and my mom had brought me home from the hospital as a newborn in it, he had rebuilt the car multiple times, the last of which, it made it into Popular Hotrodding. He figgured it would be better to sale it then just let it sit in the garage all the time since he didn't have time to drive it much anymore. Guess what... he has time for it now. And he regrets selling it big time... I am about to sell my '72 to a friend of mine. I gave $100 for the car with no engine or trans, and totally went through the mechanicals and wiring and got it back on the road. It is by no means a show car, but it's a solid, reliable car for the most part. I have put 46,000 miles on it since I got it back on the road. I keep going back and forth on weather I should sell it or not, and I know I am going to question myself about it right up until I hand him the keys to it. But I am building another Maverick right now that has a much better body that will last me many years, so the '72 would end up just sitting in NC and rarely get drove if I keep it. My buddy is very excited and has alot of plans for it, including body work and getting the car repainted. So I know it will be better off with him. Plus I'll still see it all the time, and I'll have the first chance to buy it back should he ever decide to get rid of it. My '74 Grabber, I will never sale. Not that anyone in their right mind would want the car anyways, except the guy who owned it for 26 years before I did.
Thats why you have to keep buying more Mavericks and Comets all the time, one replaces the one before, and so on and so on...... Their like rabbits kinda...
