He bought a new electric car, so he doesn’t use it, covered in dust and pine needles. He doesn’t want to sell it to a stranger, and asked if I’d take it back. We built it up over several years together, swapped in a manual, and I sold it to him for a dollar. He’s driven it all over the country, it has 210,000 miles.
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Scrubbed up my son’s old E30 while on vacation.
He bought a new electric car, so he doesn’t use it, covered in dust and pine needles. He doesn’t want to sell it to a stranger, and asked if I’d take it back. We built it up over several years together, swapped in a manual, and I sold it to him for a dollar. He’s driven it all over the country, it has 210,000 miles.
He bought a new electric car, so he doesn’t use it, covered in dust and pine needles. He doesn’t want to sell it to a stranger, and asked if I’d take it back. We built it up over several years together, swapped in a manual, and I sold it to him for a dollar. He’s driven it all over the country, it has 210,000 miles.
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I would buy it back for a buck.
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Me too! I think I’ll pay him real money, he’ll object. But I’m his dad.
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Guaranteed he’ll want it back in 10 or 15 years. There’s an elastic magnetism we car guys have with pretty cars we’ve owned.
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An E30 with a handle, assembled together with my son, and with such mileage - not just a car, but a memory in metal. I think there is little that compares to when you take back a car that you built together. I completely understand why he doesn't want to sell it to a stranger.BlackBart wrote: ↑13 Aug 2025, 14:39 Scrubbed up my son’s old E30 while on vacation.
He bought a new electric car, so he doesn’t use it, covered in dust and pine needles. He doesn’t want to sell it to a stranger, and asked if I’d take it back.
We built it up over several years together, swapped in a manual, and I sold it to him for a dollar. He’s driven it all over the country, it has 210,000 miles.
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Am I weird that the first thing I noticed (other than those bad le car decals) is that she has to open her door to get in while he sits belted in? Maybe he’s busy getting the mix tape into the cassette…
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