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Jeff(WC)(MI) View Drop Down
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    Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 7:21am
I was just wondering since I have my wd45 up for sale, how many of you have sold a tractor and then regret it....lets hear about it!
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I have regret that when dad sold his 7045 back in the late 80's that I didn't buy it from him.  I was just too wet behind the ears then.  What a dope I was.
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Yep I still miss my 65 vette nd harley FXRS

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Wish I still had my XT190D, now I'm trying to find it. I was the second owner and knew its history. I won't do that again!
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And my 60-A combine. I was the second owner of that to. The old boy next door bought it new. He was the closest thing I had to a grandfather, one passed before I was born in a car wreck (in front of local AC dealer!), the other when I was 6 months old.
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Regret is a easy thing to feel on any sale , but one never thinks of why one sold in many cases. Then when is enough / enough. Just what would one due if he kept all the things and never shared? Sold a D6-9U to buy HD4, Sold a HD5B to buy a F/A FD5, Sold the HD4 to buy a AC 715B, TLB..
 Regret is selling the Norton N15-CRS or not buying my brothers 63 BSA Gold Star 650-A10.
 Then when I think of all the 49-51 Olds cars I had and sold or scrapped , then I have regret.
 But still have my 65 Olds Cutlass Convert 442 that I bought new , and the 68 Norton N15 and 76 Norton Mk3 all first owner. And then the rest of the bikes 10 + British that need a little attention.  


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I'd like to have the CA that my grandfather gave me rides on when visiting as a child. I also kick myself for selling the 1965 Corvette, and the two 1966 Chevelle SS's that I had back in the 60's and early 70's.
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Wish I had Dad's D-15 and my SMTA back that I sold when I quit farming in 1977. But by far my biggest selling regrets are cars. Had the whole back yard full of mussle cars back then. 2 '66, 68 and 69 SS396 Chevelles. 68 RS Camero, 70 440 6 pack Road Runner, all originals and runners. Dad would yell, when ya getten rid of some of that junk! 
Sold them all when 2K was LOTS of money for one, LOL.
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Yea Butch, I sold my Vette for $2500 in 1969.
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I am OK with tractors, purty much replaced all that I have owned at one time or another. But I dont think I will ever get another 1933 Essex Terraplane 8. It was my granddads. I sold it for $100 when I was 14, and bought tires for my tractor.
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YUP,65 Vette,sold it for $2500,5 years later it would have been worth $10,000,10 years later more than that!!!!
Why do today what you can put off til tomorrow.
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Traded a 2 year old 69 GTO on a new pickup and got $2500 for it.
Sold my first D21 to buy a JD 4430. Sold Ben a D-17 Wheatland that maybe I should have kept. OH Well ! Have a 69 Judge and D-21 again (would have been a lot cheaper to keep the first ones) and Ben is taking care of the wheatland. Lots of good muscle cars and pickups came and went.
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Traded my 64 GTO for a new 66 Chrysler, wife said GTO rode too hard after the baby was born. 
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WOW!!! Chuck, I saw a 64 GTO once and almost forgot about the girl I was with for the next hour or so. LOL
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cars yes, 64 GTO 4 sp conv, 68 GTO 4sp conv, 65 cutlass conv., big regret racing and totalling 68 Ventura 428 4 speed loaded w/hood tach that Dad bought new, never saw another one, but I still have 428 emblems, walnut 4 speedknob, power seat unit and posi unit !!  this decade, 95 Z28, 4.10 T56 SLP Ram Air + mods, excellent condition, hit a deer for second time, sold too cheap and kept ins. money.
    I would regret selling Grandpa's tractor, but then it would be my last resort, to old or $$$$$$ and I would get over it.
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I wish I still had my 71 Maverick Grabber. It had a 351W with Cleveland heads on it, Comp Cams Magnum 292H cam, toploader 4 speed, 9" rear with 3:73's with a Detroit locker and disc brakes ft and rear. Yeah, it ran pretty good. 
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Have no regrets selling any of my rehabs; it allows me to get another one to rehab and keep away from the TV set.
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Wow ! a Pontiac crowd. My fun business card
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Yeh, I regret tradin off my 69 roadrunner 4 speed with air grabber hood, although I did get a 68 GTX 4speed much later on.   Also regret the 74 185 that I sold cause I had absoutly no use for two of them, the wife got a new deck on the house for that one,  go figure!!!  Although I like the deck!!
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not many tractor regrets?
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 Sometimes I wish I had kept this one , it pulled well and was pretty to boot.
 But a guy wanted it badly, paid my price...oh well....
 
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Yes regret will kill you, I have a list of cars, and tractors I want, but they were never mine, but my dad's, but I don't want to think about it. I just saw a refurbished 1964 Pontiac GP like I had once and is going for 10000 , I traded mine in for about 300 way back when for a Chevy Vega, go figure.  As the old German saying goes from my parents, you get  old too soon and smart too late. 
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Every thing I have sold in the past I've regreted...2 '69 Chevelle's 2 dr HT, '64 Chevy II Convertible, some tractors, guns, Land I should have bought but was talked out of, but I'm getting over it now and ready to sell almost everything and move to Florida (if I had the money).

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I regret selling the first tractor I ever drove, Dad's D17 Series III back in 1998, after he passed away.  Sold it for mom as she needed the money...should have bought it myself...but my story has a very happy ending as I sold it to a friend of my farming partner, he fixed it up and finally sold it back to me this year so it's home where it belongs!  Mike
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yeah, sold my buddy my WD45 after he pestered and pestered to buy it.....now he wants to sell it back to me because he found the Nuffield he wants....
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I didnt sell it but dad did,   52 or 53 wd still got the serial number and kinda know where it went, that was 20 years ago, i think i'm gona start looking for it.
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Really wish I hadn't sold my little Sears Garden tractor. That thing was a beast!
Should not have sold my 1973 Ford Ranger SB. That truck had too much of my time and money in it for what I got out of it, and the current owner has pretty much destroyed it.
Should have held on to my 1966 Chevelle. That was a sweet little runner.
The one I regret the most is my 1951 Willys CJ-3A. I really want that one back.
Wish my dad had held on to the 1965 GTO he bought new. That was the only new car he ever bought until 2 years ago, when he FINALLY bought my mom a new Corolla.
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1964 Chevelle, 1972 Monte Carlo w  bucket seats, 1946 Dodge pick up. and something I did not sell, but just walked away from her name was Michelle,  I was young and just out of the Army and thought the bottle was more fun. WHAT A MISTAKE. learned to little to late. < id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall;" id="jsProxy" ="">
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 AC 190 that old gal ran nice. That was a sad day. On a happy note when I was in high school I restored a 46 JD B, I helped load that one on the trailer That no good bleep bleep and more bleeps. I bought the wrong B I should have bought one with the engine in the right way!
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I really messed up and sold my old MM 708, diesel fwa. It took 40+ acres to turn it around but it ran out real sweet.
I also miss my first tractor I bought, a D-21 series I, bareback, I sold it when I was 19, bought it at 16. It got me two dates with the owners granddaughter. She didn't hang around as long a s the tractor did.
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