Buying A Car You Once Owned

[JMF]

Anyone ever done this? Bought the actual same car they used to own? I'm not talking about the same model i'm talking about the actual car, I always thought there was an unwritten superstitious rule like there is with jobs where you should never go back to the same job

[Brock Samson]

never heard that  sure are alot of folks on here though looking for their old chargers though, some have had to have been successful,  well,.. seems their might have been one or two, and more that recreate their old ride or replace it with one similar, usually the color and some options..

[CB]

The person I bought my 68 Charger from back in the days has this story:

http://www.smithvalleymopars.com/72_340_cuda1.htm

It does happen...
CB

[BMOTOXSTAR]

I want to buy me 73' SE back from the Mo Fo Flipper in Florida that has it for sale on MOPARTS for $14,000.

[Alain426]

a friend on mine sell me his 74 duster, a really clean car, i run about 1 year with it, and so i wasent able to keep the car, and he wanted his car back, so i sell him the same price that i bought it

so yes it does happen, sometime mistake, maybe

like my old 71 dodge dart, if someone is able to find it, im willing to buy it back

AL

[ChargerSG]

Been trying to buy back my fathers Charger(he sold it 79), that 4speed Pistolgrip RT did set my goal for the future But the owner today dont wanna sell it(fully understand it since its restored)

[MichaelRW]

To put the following in perspective I graduated from high school in 1966. Went to work right away and went to college part time.

In late 1966 I bought a 1965 GTO convertible for $1999. Drove it until 1968, sold it to a friend for $500 and then I bought a 1966 Corvette roadster for $3000 (car payment was now about $90 per month, a lot of money then). Got laid off from my job in 1969 so I sold the Corvette for $2900. (Yes, I actually drove that car for a year, put on about 20,000 miles and it cost me $100 plus gas and upkeep) Bought the GTO back from the friend for $450 since he was now married with a baby on the way and he bought a 1965 Dart 4 door sedan. I drove the GTO for about a year when the Charger bug bit me. I had a new better paying job now so I then bought my first Charger which was a 1969 R/T in 1970. That car had 18,000 miles on it and I paid $3500 for it. At the time I bought the Charger I was making about $7200 per year which makes the car price almost 1/2 of my annual wages. And that is why I didn't buy a new one. Too expensive since they were over $5000.

[Ghoste]

I tried to a couple of years ago but it turned into a VERY bad experience.  In my case the old adage about not going back was true.

[Tilar]

In 1976 I bought a new Ford F-150 truck, and sold my 1968 F-100 Ranger. Always liked the old Ranger. Well, a few years later the guy I sold it to wanted to sell it, so I bought it back from him. The truck was really in pretty much the same shape as when I sold it but with about 30,000 more miles on the clock. It just wasn't the same truck for some reason.

[69_500]

I've tried for probably 12-13 years now to buy back 2 of the cars that my dad used to own. Nothing I owned but they are cars that I'd LOVE TO HAVE though.

[71ChallengeHer]

Shelby's god-father sold his 1st car. A 78 Dodge Aspen Super Coupe to buy his house. In 1998 I bought a Super Coupe from a friend of mine. We discovered that it was Chad's car. He made me promise if I ever sold it, that I would sell it back to him. A few years later I sold him the Super Coupe for what I had into it. Chad passed away 4 years ago and left the car to Shelby.

[moparstuart]

thats a great story , and great car for her

[71ChallengeHer]

thats a great story , and great car for her

Thank you. After 6 1/2 yrs of college for her. We can start the resto.

[jdiesel33]

My first car was an 86 Chrysler Laser. Awesome car, especially for your first one. Everything was digital inside, all sorts of on board computers - kind of Knight Rider-ish. It was a Turbo too and was pretty damn fast. Some drunken idiot plowed into me and totaled it. I ended up selling what was left to a friend who was going to repair the frame and do the bodywork, etc.. A couple of years later I got in contact with him to see if I could buy it back but he said it was a lost cause and he ended up taking it to the junk yard.