have you ever seen your old car after you got rid of it?

droopsnoot

I saw an old Audi that I'd sold, a few years after. Didn't look in bad condition, but it hasn't been taxed since 2001. I sold a Vauxhall to someone who was going to restore it, instead he removed some parts and re-sold it, and I bought it back about nine years ago.

interstellaflyer

Years ago I found my old Datsun 120A FII coupe in a local scrap yard, I sold the car 2 years or so previously, fond memories of that car.

lesbro

Yes! We were sent details of a house for sale in a nearby town and our old car was on the drive.

fred990

Part-ex'd an old escort estate and was told it would be scrapped, it was quite tatty and a pig to start. Friend at work said he'd seen it at an auction. Some weeks later I saw it, apparently now owned by a community nurse.
Saw it frequently for about three years!

Absinthe_Fairy

My parents sold their car and a few months later spotted it in Sunderland (which was fairly near to where they lived), first time that had ever happened!

LavenderBee

Yes, except I didn't know it had been sold.

I'd gone to visit friends in another part of the country whilst my car was up for sale, so I left it with a relative to handle viewings/sell if someone wanted it. About halfway home on the coach I looked out the window to see my car on the side of the road. Got back and called my relative to ask if he'd sold my car to someone from the area I saw it in. He had, and wondered how on earth I knew!

paulandalex

Yes, my very first car had a particular reg so we nicknamed it Smuffy, it was absolutely wrecked and in tatters (first bumps etc!), part ex’ed for scrap 30 miles away from home, about six months later saw it going down the road in our neighbourhood, exclaimed ‘Smuffy!!’ and have seen it a few times since, used apparently as a boy racer car with no care for it! Brings ‘Drive it like you stole it’ to mind but it is taxed and MOT’ed haha!

thebigstillmeister

sevenhills wrote: »

You can go online and see if its still on the road, by check it tax/MOT status.

Years ago I had a Toyota Supra Twin Turbo, my pride and joy but I changed jobs and had a long motorway commute so was costing me a fortune,

Needed to (reluctantly) sell it quick as I was buying a Diesel Passat, dropped the price on Autotrader and a guy came that morning to test drive it and to be honest drove like a little bit of a maniac,

I said to my gf (now wife) that its going to end up upside down in a hedge in about a week as he drove my little baby away,

Just checked the site and its doesn't come up, .......sniff

fatrab

Seen a few of my old cars on the road but the worst "reunion" was with my Peugeot 306 Dturbo back in 1999. It had been stolen 6 months earlier, I was in the local scrappy and saw a 306 shell the same colour as mine. Mentioned to the guy that mine had been stolen and he said that one was a police recovery that they were storing (they had the contract for police recoveries at the time), went over and checked and it was my car! The only thing left on it was the windscreen, it had been picked completely bare by whoever had taken it.

Santamaria

I've never seen an old car of mine and never really been bothered. Until now. My last car was my pride and joy (because it was black, waited all my life to own a black car) but was roughed up by a motor home on a supermarket car park. She was written off as uneconomical to repair so went to Coparts auction. I cried when she was driven away. I checked the auction to see that she was sold and then regularly checked online car sales to see if she had been restored to her former glory and put up for sale but never saw her. She has been taxed and has an MOT now but the MOT site doesn't show the addresses of the testing stations anymore so I've no idea where she is. I couldn't find a black replacement so had to get a blue one. I'll never love her as much as I loved Baby (yep, that was her name).