Have you ever wished you kept that ?? My vintage cameras,

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, while perusing with my morning coffee waiting for the weather to be warm enough to go and enjoy a few hours on the farm, I came across some auction prices for vintage cameras that I used many years ago, I had 3 Rolleiflex TLRs 1 Minolta TLR and a Yashica TLR, wished I had kept the Rollie's, one sold for £3,000 🤔🙄, what do you wish had kept PW members ??

[DUNKS]

Very few film cameras fetch good money now.. Recently bought a Nikon F3 with case and original lens for a couple of hundred pounds . All in as new condition.

[pigeon controller]

In my Dads Shed I had three Vellocette Venoms 500cc, a Trials Triumph Cub and  BSA C15 clubracer. I was buying a Mini 1275 and told to get rid!! I virtually gave the Venoms away to get the room, ive seen some recently at £27,000 each.

Its only Money

[henry d]

My ABU 464, not too expensive but would have been fun to team it up with my 60's 6000C ambassador again. 

[Good shot?]

IThis is the extent of my camera knowledge, bought for me by my Dad in the early fifties. Not worth anything unfortunately.

Unlike perhaps the BSA Bantam I used, to get to work as an apprentice or the tiny motorbike used by American airmen on the local airbase or the Ariel Arrow bike I swapped it for.

Had lots of bikes and guns we lads swooped and bought regularly.

Edited November 14, 2022 by Good shot?

[Walker570]

I owned a Range Rover CSK and it required a bit of money spending on it so I decided to sell. I got what I paid for it ....£4000...My classic car owner friend tells me.one has just been sold at auction for close to £100,000.  Only 100 where made in recognition of the designer Charles Spencer King hence CSK.   ....sounds off of hysterical sobbing and wailing.

[millrace]

Wish id kept the girlfriend before i found the wife........😂😂

[chrisjpainter]

Receipts, usually.

The one that continues to haunt me is my previous bike, a rather lovely Specialized job with carbon fibre forks. I upgraded to the newer model - and my partner had the old one. She still has it and loves it, but I never got on with the upgrade. Every time we go out for a ride, I wallow in a grubby mixture of jealousy and regret.

[islandgun]

A 1962 mkII  Jag, a 1954 Austin A30, and a fertiliser sack full of very old ST my sister threw away , pic for illustration..🥺

 

Edited November 14, 2022 by islandgun

[DUNKS]

Fellow workmate mid 1960s asked as i had a garage would I store his old motor bike till he could find space. I did and for several years I looked after his 1930s Manx Norton, Would not run as no mag or exhaust but other wise perfect. I eventually asked him would he take it away as I needed the space and he said "just get rid of it.  I DID I GAVE IT AWAY!

[amateur]

2 hours ago, DUNKS said:

Fellow workmate mid 1960s asked as i had a garage would I store his old motor bike till he could find space. I did and for several years I looked after his 1930s Manx Norton, Would not run as no mag or exhaust but other wise perfect. I eventually asked him would he take it away as I needed the space and he said "just get rid of it.  I DID I GAVE IT AWAY!

Aaaagh!

[serrac]

Webley Junior confiscated by my parents - never found out what happened to that.

Honda 400/4 supersport.  Tried to sell it to a dealer for £350 and was turned down - too many little things wrong with it, would have to be a scrapper £175.  Gave it to my dad who rebuilt it and rode it until he developed MND, at which point he sold it to a workmate.  Some now fetching 5k plus on ebay.

I find it hard to part with vintage camera stuff, particulary large-format lenses - these have a beauty and mystique in themselves.

[JohnfromUK]

5 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

what do you wish had kept PW members ??

There really could be a long list, but these stand out;

1. 1952 series 1 LandRover - all original, 89,000 documented miles, MoT and roadworthy (though needed work on the bulkhead and steering really)
2. 1979 Daimler Double Six V12 LWB saloon.  Very sound with perfect mechanicals, a near perfect full leather and burr walnut interior.  One of the nicest to drive and most comfortable cars ever built.

Things I have kept and so glad I did;

1. Two pairs of Quad Electrostatic loudspeakers, the older pair owned by my father from new, the newer pair bought by me in 1975.
2. My 1993 Defender (200 tdi) 90, still takes me to Scotland and back every year and been with me since 1996.

Things I have not regretted selling;

1. My 1983 280GEL Mercedes G wagen.  Cumbersome, incredibly thirsty.

[Walker570]

and another car.......................  Honda S800. Smart little sports car which I traded in for a Ford Escort 1300GT..........I hate to think what that superb little motor would be worth today.   It used to amaze me as it happily reved away at around 7000 and I remember going down to the Earls Court Motor Show in it and a Austin Healy Sprite sort a competition... the little motor left it standing. I even pulled a police car out of a snow drift in the Cotswolds .........  I did some stupid things back then.

[Scully]

3 hours ago, islandgun said:

A 1962 mkII  Jag, a 1954 Austin A30, and a fertiliser sack full of very old ST my sister threw away , pic for illustration..🥺

 

I know how you feel! My sister, taking umbrage at my Mother for telling her to tidy her room and get rid of the comics and magazines she no longer wanted, decided to do the same to mine ( which didn’t need it as I always kept my books and mag’s well sorted ) and threw out my entire collection of 1960’s DC and Marvel comics, as well as all my collection of Weird Tales, Conan the Barbarian, Eerie, Sgt. Rock etc etc. 

Also wish I’d kept the registration book and plates off my dear old Dads Hillman Minx….PRM 1, which he let go for about 40 quid to a man with the reg’ PRM 1F or something similar. To be fair it was about a weeks wage to my Dad, but an Uncle got in touch ( too late as we had no phone back then ) to tell him a bloke in Sale had offered much more. 😭

A Winchester Model 12 takedown 12 bore, complete with its own wood, leather and red felt lined motor case. The smell was intoxicatingly wonderful! The instruction manual was also in that case. 
Wish I’d kept my resolve to go to art college. 

 

[adzyvilla]

I had a 1986 Toyota corolla ae86 GT, which I scrapped around 6 months before the first fast and furious came out in cinemas and rear drive Japanese cars became hot property. It needed quite a bit of welding and I didn't have the time or the money to sort it out myself, so the local yard took it off my hands. Unmodified examples are fetching £20k now. As I was still at home on the farm at the time it could have gone into a barn and who knows what it would have fetched a few years later, but it was get rid and on to the next one...

...a 1993 Nissan 200sx which i did keep when I finished with it and sold a few years later for ten times what I paid for it.

[Westward]

My 1968 Lotus Cortina SE. Today's value somewhere north of 50K... 🤔

[Minky]

5 hours ago, millrace said:

Wish id kept the girlfriend before i found the wife........😂😂

The wife is totally  brilliant.   BUT, , there was one .  I was young and not ready to look after her to the fullest extent . if I could teleport back with what I've got now and with the life knowledge that I have now I would still like to see, and know what happened to her. from - a distance.  I Can't go back and I  wouldn't.  A mate knew but he wouldn't tell me anything. All of that hardware stuff will do you no good whatsoever.  If you've got  It in your hand it has no value.  If you sell it, it is only bits of paper.  All of it had its day and was superseded to newer better stuff..  like the bsa bantam.  All of this stuff went to the dumps in droves.  The only real things are health, love and family and time.  I'd love to buy a bag of time.  OR buy a TELEPORTER.!  If I were allowed to. 

Edited November 14, 2022 by Minky

[steve1066]

5 hours ago, millrace said:

Wish id kept the girlfriend before i found the wife........😂😂

Brilliant 😂😂

[Dougy]

Not quite up to the expense of the above, but i regret selling my 205 1.9 GTI, Gun metal grey really nice condition. 

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, good posts everyone, thanks for sharing, as a side note just got ready to an evenings ratting and it peed down 🤔🙄

[nobbyathome]

Two things both motorcycles my first a 1974 Kawasaki h2 triple I bought this off of a mate for £400 in 1976 they now fetch 15000 and my favourite was I started sidecar racing and in 1984 I went past verrills motorcycles in tooting and saw an outfit in the window and enquired about it he said it was George Odells seymaz that he used with a windle to win the world championship in 1976 after George topped himself it was sold to a rock star (in named ) and put into the donnington museum the tax man came after said rock star and it went to the auction where venhill bought it he told me he didn’t know what it was exactly worth as they felt with vintage bikes and also it wasn’t running I spoke to my racing partner and the next day gave him 3500 for it rebuilt it and raced it for two years then mothballed it in our garage when I retired in 1990 we sold it without an engine for 9 k Dave molineux put an engine in and restored it to original two years ago it went on eBay and he pulled it off as it only got to 50 k I don’t know if Dave still has it or sold it 

[discobob]

I had a white MX5 Mark 1 out in Cyprus - bought it brand new - Met my wife - Sold it to save up for the wedding - I bought an old BMW that was in mint condition and had been sat for years in the garage of the car dealers - both of them would have been worth something now - especially the BMW

Like the post above - every copy of 2000AD and Starlord - promptly thrown away by my mother when I joined up 😞

I wouldn't swap my wife for anything though - I would however give her away for free  

[Old Boggy]

I wish that I still had my 1950`s Isetta bubble car bought for £22.10s not necessarily for the fact that they now command prices between £15000 to £25000 but purely for the fun it gave me. It was my first car which I could drive on my motorbike licence (in the 60s you could anyway) and I seem to recall that it had to have the reverse blanked off in order to do this.

The front bench seat was just big enough for what teenagers liked to do in those days and no doubt still do but in more luxurious surroundings.

However, there was one occasion when I drove it to the local youth club and before I got out, my `friends` picked the car up with me in it and put it against a wall such that I couldn`t open the front opening door and get out !! They left me there for what seemed like ages. It didn`t occur to me at the time that I could easily have got out via the sunroof which we called a sunshine roof in those days.

To keep those memories, I have a tiny model with the exact colour of my car in front of me as I type.

OB

 

[tonker]

My list is not worth much but regret getting rid, but just had to back then. Bikes !st was a James 150  2nd Enfield crusader , then triumph tiger cub, then Bonneville which I wrapped arond a telegraph pole. Parents wouldn't let me have another bike so bought me an A35 van,upgraded to an A40 lol, then Triumph Vitesse, Mini Cooper and ended up at 19 with a nearly new triumph 2000 (posh or what). It all went downhill fom there but I do use an 1989 LR 90 now when I'm not in my truck and love it to bits.