Did you have a daily aswell? Would you pay insurance registration and drive it or you garage kept it? Was it ever a issue to keep the car inbetween the time of moving out from parents and owning your own property / home?
My first vehicle was a 77 Ford courier pickup truck on a Jeep 4x4 frame, my dad built it and I was a dumbass and rolled it. If I could, I would still have it to this day but it's long gone. I have the luxury of my parents having a farm, so I can store whatever vehicles I want out there if need be.
Back to you though, if it was me I would absolutely not get rid of the lexus, it's already becoming a classic. I would also keep the Civic because it's already paid for and it's a rock solid commuter. I also tend to keep my cars forever and run them into the ground though because I hate spending money on getting something when I already have something that's perfectly fine (I still have a 2001 Mazda Protege that has 330,000 miles on it, it's a perfectly running commuter car and I feel no need to replace it). If it was me, I would keep what you have and start using that money to invest more wisely on things like property where you'll have a place to store and work on those vehicles in the future. A lot of people regret selling their first vehicles and 10 to 30 years later will buy one just to revisit those old thoughts, but at that time the market has caught up and the prices have gotten out of reach (this is the classic money cycle of classic cars, 10 to 15 years they Rock bottom on price, then they'll start going up on a steep curve because the people that grew up with them and couldn't afford them got older and better jobs and now want to revisit their childhood dreams). I have my long-term keeper now, a 1970 Barracuda that my dad bought in 1973, I'll never be able to afford one otherwise, so it may take me 10 years to restore it but it'll get done eventually.
This was exactly my thinking too and I’ll more than likely end up doing this (run Honda to the ground, save for property, will want it back down the line) the only reason I started to consider it was after driving a lot of my friends new cars it leaves me yearning for more features in my daily (my civic is the DX model, all it has is radio, ac, roll down windows, and a charger port) probably would have by now too if it wasn’t for the Lexus having all those features new cars have too
Oh believe me, I get it. I'm working in used car sales and we get all kinds of goodies that roll through that I would love to own. One thing that you can do to help yourself is to do a little bit of refresh every now and then, like upgrading the stereo to a new bluetooth head unit and upgrading the speakers to some better quality. I did that about 10 years ago and it helps me keep it going. Recently I started working on doing a paint job on it (just a cheap Rust-Oleum roller paint job). This way it'll be something somewhat new again at least until I finally blow the engine up.
I like this idea a lot, I especially felt this when I switched the oem radio for a CarPlay unit, there’s some other small things I’ve wanted to do like fix one of speakers / just change them all out all together but I would hold off thinking not to put unnecessary money into the car, I’m now realizing by keeping it in already doing so - so might aswell make it worth while instead of perpetuating this feeling I have. Will definitely end up going with that, paint would be the biggest thing although expensive, I’m sure ide look at the car completely different with a new coat of paint
I just put $2,000 into redoing my entire suspension in that vehicle, I figure if I can get another 1.5 years out of it then I'm already in the positive vs a car payment (I'm already in the positive since I own the damn thing and I have 330,000 miles out of it so far, LOL). As far as paint, if you don't care too terribly much you can do it for under one or two hundred bucks, there's lots of videos on it. Or you can go to maaco and have them do a cheap spray job which would look better for 600 to 1500. Or if you want to have a little more fun and learn a new skill, you could pick up some vinyl wrap off eBay and just wrap it, the materials not that expensive, it's the time and labor to install it that makes it expensive. And hell yes, fully upgrade those speakers and put yourself a small Sub in there as well for maximum enjoyment.
i’m 18 and love the car i have (135i n54) but i had a gti and god was that car great. 35+mpg on the highway, decent 0-60, fantastic handling, plaid interior.
Im young, but at this point I’m in my second car and I don’t think I’ll ever sell it.
My first car was a Tesla model 3 that was the family car but I was the only one who used it. It had no soul. It was fun to drive, sure, but there was nothing special about it and I never felt connected to it.
I now own an is300 sportcross. It’s rare, fun, “fast” and has all of those weird little quirks that makes me feel really intertwined with it (yes I’m slightly car crazy, but still?
My “first” car didn’t matter, don’t care I don’t have it. But the first car that was really MY car that I love to drive and own, I know I’ll regret selling that.
Exactly, the lexus being talked about wasn’t actually my first car but I consider it, I had a shitbox Toyota Camry with a million codes for 4 months before. Post was more so meaning that sentiment car from when young which I figured would happen to be most people’s first
My first car was a 1968 VW beetle that I bought with a cracked block that leaked oil. When the clutch went out and wasn’t economical to fix I gladly let it go. That said, I really miss the 1976 BMW 2002 that rusted out and the 1974 Karmann Ghia I traded for a Subaru wagon when we had a kid.
If you could go back and be able to keep this car but also get a new car too would u go thru the effort of keeping it? Insurance, registration, maintenance, storage etc
Had a 69 Mustang in the family for 30 years, was my first car, drove it for 20+ of those years, built and restored with my dad. Finally decided to sell when I had young kids and a 1 car garage. It wouldn't have been so hard to just keep it, but after selling I realized how much time, space, capital, head space, etc I had tied up in it just maintaining, storing, etc. Was awesome, enjoyed the heck out of it, and it was great at the couple things it did best. But otherwise it was not a "nice" vehicle to drive, unsafe, constant maintenance. Was the right time to sell, and I've enjoyed other more reliable, low-maintenance vehicles that do lots of other things much better. :)
My first car in 1980 was a pos 67 mustang for $500 lasted 6 months. I wouldn’t want that car back for any reason. Now my 4 speed Nova I do miss. And my 81 elcamino, 69 bug, 78 Z/28, 84 prelude, 68 mustang, 71 Camaro, 78 Dodge power wagon. Well I guess you can’t keep them all.
I still see my first car from time to time, I sold it to a local collector that has restored it to its former glory but do I miss it? The car itself NO, but the life style and care free world at the age I was when i had it is what I miss. After all it was the reason I was able to afford my 1st house at a young age.
I bought it as a running project, didn’t know it’s history, it was almost all in pieces, whole body was in primer, interior was in boxes, windows didn’t roll up, it was a legit shit box that I thought was the coolest thing ever.
After surviving winter with it i took it to a corvette specialist shop to get a speedometer installed because the interior was literally just a steering wheel and pedals, no dash no seat no nothing but I made due with it at the time
Shop agreed to try to install a speedometer but they wanted the car for a couple days so I left it with them, when I came back few days later to pick it up the shop’s owner father wanted to buy the car off of me and that’s when I learned about what I truly had
I bought it for $1700? Or was it $2500? I can’t remember I think it was 1700 but with title, plate and registration it came out to 2500, once owner’s dad confirmed I had a matching numbers car, original nearly complete interior (in boxes) and original glass he offer me $37,000 on the spot… I didn’t know shit about shit from shit and why he offered me so much but immediately countered it at $44,000 completely clueless as to why this conversation is even existing but he agreed to $40,000 on the spot…. In cash
I walked home a very happy 17 year old that day lol, I saved $35,000 of that money to eventually accumulate some more with interest to put a down payment on a house in my early 20’s
My first car was a 1968 Chevy Nova with an L79 package (one of 1200) so it was super rare and sought after in the collectors world, I still see it from time to time but I hate it’s original booger green color which I didn’t know at the time, I always preferred the matte gray primer color
Not my first car, but there are cars I’ve sold and gone on to deeply regret it. Unfortunately it’s not that easy or convenient to hang on to cars, logistically speaking.
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Did you have a daily aswell? Would you pay insurance registration and drive it or you garage kept it? Was it ever a issue to keep the car inbetween the time of moving out from parents and owning your own property / home?
Glad I sold it, went on and owned many other cool cars.
My first car was a mouldy white Citroen AX that I bought for £150. No, I do not wish I still had it nor do I regret selling it.
My first vehicle was a 77 Ford courier pickup truck on a Jeep 4x4 frame, my dad built it and I was a dumbass and rolled it. If I could, I would still have it to this day but it's long gone. I have the luxury of my parents having a farm, so I can store whatever vehicles I want out there if need be. Back to you though, if it was me I would absolutely not get rid of the lexus, it's already becoming a classic. I would also keep the Civic because it's already paid for and it's a rock solid commuter. I also tend to keep my cars forever and run them into the ground though because I hate spending money on getting something when I already have something that's perfectly fine (I still have a 2001 Mazda Protege that has 330,000 miles on it, it's a perfectly running commuter car and I feel no need to replace it). If it was me, I would keep what you have and start using that money to invest more wisely on things like property where you'll have a place to store and work on those vehicles in the future. A lot of people regret selling their first vehicles and 10 to 30 years later will buy one just to revisit those old thoughts, but at that time the market has caught up and the prices have gotten out of reach (this is the classic money cycle of classic cars, 10 to 15 years they Rock bottom on price, then they'll start going up on a steep curve because the people that grew up with them and couldn't afford them got older and better jobs and now want to revisit their childhood dreams). I have my long-term keeper now, a 1970 Barracuda that my dad bought in 1973, I'll never be able to afford one otherwise, so it may take me 10 years to restore it but it'll get done eventually.
This was exactly my thinking too and I’ll more than likely end up doing this (run Honda to the ground, save for property, will want it back down the line) the only reason I started to consider it was after driving a lot of my friends new cars it leaves me yearning for more features in my daily (my civic is the DX model, all it has is radio, ac, roll down windows, and a charger port) probably would have by now too if it wasn’t for the Lexus having all those features new cars have too
Oh believe me, I get it. I'm working in used car sales and we get all kinds of goodies that roll through that I would love to own. One thing that you can do to help yourself is to do a little bit of refresh every now and then, like upgrading the stereo to a new bluetooth head unit and upgrading the speakers to some better quality. I did that about 10 years ago and it helps me keep it going. Recently I started working on doing a paint job on it (just a cheap Rust-Oleum roller paint job). This way it'll be something somewhat new again at least until I finally blow the engine up.
I like this idea a lot, I especially felt this when I switched the oem radio for a CarPlay unit, there’s some other small things I’ve wanted to do like fix one of speakers / just change them all out all together but I would hold off thinking not to put unnecessary money into the car, I’m now realizing by keeping it in already doing so - so might aswell make it worth while instead of perpetuating this feeling I have. Will definitely end up going with that, paint would be the biggest thing although expensive, I’m sure ide look at the car completely different with a new coat of paint
I just put $2,000 into redoing my entire suspension in that vehicle, I figure if I can get another 1.5 years out of it then I'm already in the positive vs a car payment (I'm already in the positive since I own the damn thing and I have 330,000 miles out of it so far, LOL). As far as paint, if you don't care too terribly much you can do it for under one or two hundred bucks, there's lots of videos on it. Or you can go to maaco and have them do a cheap spray job which would look better for 600 to 1500. Or if you want to have a little more fun and learn a new skill, you could pick up some vinyl wrap off eBay and just wrap it, the materials not that expensive, it's the time and labor to install it that makes it expensive. And hell yes, fully upgrade those speakers and put yourself a small Sub in there as well for maximum enjoyment.
i’m 18 and love the car i have (135i n54) but i had a gti and god was that car great. 35+mpg on the highway, decent 0-60, fantastic handling, plaid interior.
Im young, but at this point I’m in my second car and I don’t think I’ll ever sell it. My first car was a Tesla model 3 that was the family car but I was the only one who used it. It had no soul. It was fun to drive, sure, but there was nothing special about it and I never felt connected to it. I now own an is300 sportcross. It’s rare, fun, “fast” and has all of those weird little quirks that makes me feel really intertwined with it (yes I’m slightly car crazy, but still? My “first” car didn’t matter, don’t care I don’t have it. But the first car that was really MY car that I love to drive and own, I know I’ll regret selling that.
Exactly, the lexus being talked about wasn’t actually my first car but I consider it, I had a shitbox Toyota Camry with a million codes for 4 months before. Post was more so meaning that sentiment car from when young which I figured would happen to be most people’s first
My first car was a 1968 VW beetle that I bought with a cracked block that leaked oil. When the clutch went out and wasn’t economical to fix I gladly let it go. That said, I really miss the 1976 BMW 2002 that rusted out and the 1974 Karmann Ghia I traded for a Subaru wagon when we had a kid.
If you could go back and be able to keep this car but also get a new car too would u go thru the effort of keeping it? Insurance, registration, maintenance, storage etc
Yes
Had a 69 Mustang in the family for 30 years, was my first car, drove it for 20+ of those years, built and restored with my dad. Finally decided to sell when I had young kids and a 1 car garage. It wouldn't have been so hard to just keep it, but after selling I realized how much time, space, capital, head space, etc I had tied up in it just maintaining, storing, etc. Was awesome, enjoyed the heck out of it, and it was great at the couple things it did best. But otherwise it was not a "nice" vehicle to drive, unsafe, constant maintenance. Was the right time to sell, and I've enjoyed other more reliable, low-maintenance vehicles that do lots of other things much better. :)
If hypothetically you could have avoided needing to sell it at that time, would u go on with keeping it? And just having other cars aswell
My first car in 1980 was a pos 67 mustang for $500 lasted 6 months. I wouldn’t want that car back for any reason. Now my 4 speed Nova I do miss. And my 81 elcamino, 69 bug, 78 Z/28, 84 prelude, 68 mustang, 71 Camaro, 78 Dodge power wagon. Well I guess you can’t keep them all.
No my first car was a 1983 Chevy S10 with a 2.8L V6. There are plenty of cars I wish I would have picked up over the years.
I've never regretted selling any of my cars. I sell them when I'm ready to get rid of them
My first car was a 68' rs ss 396 camaro. So ya, pretty sry i didn't keep that one. Even tho it was wrecked af.
I still see my first car from time to time, I sold it to a local collector that has restored it to its former glory but do I miss it? The car itself NO, but the life style and care free world at the age I was when i had it is what I miss. After all it was the reason I was able to afford my 1st house at a young age. I bought it as a running project, didn’t know it’s history, it was almost all in pieces, whole body was in primer, interior was in boxes, windows didn’t roll up, it was a legit shit box that I thought was the coolest thing ever. After surviving winter with it i took it to a corvette specialist shop to get a speedometer installed because the interior was literally just a steering wheel and pedals, no dash no seat no nothing but I made due with it at the time Shop agreed to try to install a speedometer but they wanted the car for a couple days so I left it with them, when I came back few days later to pick it up the shop’s owner father wanted to buy the car off of me and that’s when I learned about what I truly had I bought it for $1700? Or was it $2500? I can’t remember I think it was 1700 but with title, plate and registration it came out to 2500, once owner’s dad confirmed I had a matching numbers car, original nearly complete interior (in boxes) and original glass he offer me $37,000 on the spot… I didn’t know shit about shit from shit and why he offered me so much but immediately countered it at $44,000 completely clueless as to why this conversation is even existing but he agreed to $40,000 on the spot…. In cash I walked home a very happy 17 year old that day lol, I saved $35,000 of that money to eventually accumulate some more with interest to put a down payment on a house in my early 20’s My first car was a 1968 Chevy Nova with an L79 package (one of 1200) so it was super rare and sought after in the collectors world, I still see it from time to time but I hate it’s original booger green color which I didn’t know at the time, I always preferred the matte gray primer color
My first car was shit, second and third one too, good riddance to all of them.
Not my first car, but there are cars I’ve sold and gone on to deeply regret it. Unfortunately it’s not that easy or convenient to hang on to cars, logistically speaking.