sellers regret?
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Topic: sellers regret?
Posted By: Jeff(WC)(MI)
Subject: sellers regret?
Date 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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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 7:30am
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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. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 7:34am
| Yep I still miss my 65 vette nd harley FXRS |
Posted By: StanOhio
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 7:45am
| 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! |
Posted By: StanOhio
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 7:51am
| 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. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 7:58am
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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. ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: Jim-Ohio
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 8:13am
| 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. |
Posted By: Butch(OH)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 8:17am
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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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Posted By: Jim-Ohio
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 8:35am
| Yea Butch, I sold my Vette for $2500 in 1969. |
Posted By: R Aiken
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 9:12am
| 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. |
Posted By: BobHnwO
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 10:48am
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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. |
Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 11:02am
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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. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: Chuck(ONT)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 11:18am
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Traded my 64 GTO for a new 66 Chrysler, wife said GTO rode too hard after the baby was born.
------------- Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway! 1C 1 WD45 1 AC180 |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 12:03pm
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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
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: bigfish_Oh
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 12:05pm
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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. ------------- 1941 WC sat for 29 years,started & dynoed 27 h.p. 1957 WD45 Grandpa bought new,factory p.s.,added wfe 1951 WD, factory p.s. 1960 D14 HnMk IV BkHoe 4 sale 2014 HD Tri Glide 2009 GMC CC SLT Dually |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 12:10pm
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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. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: GregLawlerMinn
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 12:54pm
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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. ------------- What this country needs is more unemployed politicians-and lawyers. Currently have: 1 D14 and a D15S2. With new owners: 2Bs,9CAs,1WD,2 D12s,5D14s,3D15S2s, 2D17SIVs,D17D,1D19D;1 Unstyled WC |
Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 12:55pm
Wow ! a Pontiac crowd. My fun business card ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |
Posted By: skipwelte
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 1:04pm
| 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!! |
Posted By: Jeff(WC)(MI)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 3:02pm
| not many tractor regrets? |
Posted By: Gary in da UP
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 3:24pm
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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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Posted By: richneu
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 4:01pm
| 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. |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 4:02pm
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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). ------------- |
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 4:13pm
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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 ------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: BennyLumpkin
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 4:29pm
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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.... ------------- Central PA Allis Express 1934 WC254 1945 WF 1945 WC135755 1951 WD68085 1953 WD45-150217 1957 WD45D-230744D B110 |
Posted By: bryan/silex
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 4:32pm
| 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. |
Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 4:48pm
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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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Posted By: Roger Nolin
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 8:17pm
| 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" =""> |
Posted By: D17 owner
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 9:09pm
| 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! |
Posted By: 1abfarmer
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 10:26pm
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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. < id="gwProxy" ="">< ="ifofjsCall==''jsCall;elsesetTimeout'jsCall',500;" id="jsProxy" =""> |
Posted By: DaveCinIN
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2010 at 11:25pm
Made the biggest mistake of my life in 84. I sold my 1970 HEMI Challenger RT!
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