In the good ole days you sold a car and it drove off into the sunset and that was the end. Now with social media, sometimes you see things you wish you didn't see. I sold a terrific E46 last fall to a young man - auto tech, so excited to get his first BMW. Today I saw the part-out post from where it got clobbered on the passenger dogleg/quarter panel. I feel bad for my car - it didn't deserve that.
In reply to glueguy (Forum Supporter) :
Another negative about social media is you get to see your ex-girlfriends get "clobbered" too.
Reason # 3,649 why I'm not on social media.
Back on about 2008, I sold of my black 1997 Nissan 240sx to a young kid of about 19 yrs old.
I never heard more of the car again but I was sure that the car would be wrapped around a tree the first time it snowed. It seemed like an unfair fate for the car.
The worst is when they find you and ask all kinds of dumb questions.
One of my old E30s ended up on Jalopnik after a 100+ mph track crash. I really regret having sold this one.
https://jalopnik.com/bmw-driver-survives-nightmare-crash-when-his-e30-loses-1795500447
I sold my second car (the first I really liked) to the kid down the street- it was a B13 Sentra SE-R, really clean, charcoal grey, and in what was, at the time, competitive GS autocross trim. He managed to dent it several times and eventually break it, and it then sat for a while. I tried to buy it back a few times, but "not for sale, gonna fix it." Until one day it was gone... they scrapped it. 
Indy "Nub" Guy said:In reply to glueguy (Forum Supporter) :
Another negative about social media is you get to see your ex-girlfriends get "clobbered" too.
Reason # 3,649 why I'm not on social media.
Better the next guy than me with either
Sometimes these stories get back to you even without social media. That's what happened with a GS500F I sold - the kid who bought it didn't register it, and a month later I got a call from the police at about 10 PM saying they'd found "my" motorcycle on the side of the road with no sign of its owner. Didn't say if it was rubber side down or not, but I'm guessing from the context that it wasn't. I hope the kid's all right.
Patrick (Forum Supporter) said:Indy "Nub" Guy said:In reply to glueguy (Forum Supporter) :
Another negative about social media is you get to see your ex-girlfriends get "clobbered" too.
Reason # 3,649 why I'm not on social media.
Better the next guy than me with either
Who in the hell stays friends with their ex's on social media? I've had to block my ex-wife from social media, to phone numbers and email, all the way down to my damn LinkedIn account.
went for job.. (this is pre covid and things were different)
I told the VP, I'd move for a promo.. She said no.. I said no.
Yesterday gave a promo to a peer who didn't move for the role.. I found out via linked in..
I also found out via linked in about a great role at a former employer.. so theres that. already have two recommendations putting my resume in the hiring managers hand.
The double edged sword of social media.
Aren't message boards just OG social media?
If its sold, it aint mine.
z31maniac said:Who in the hell stays friends with their ex's on social media? I've had to block my ex-wife from social media, to phone numbers and email, all the way down to my damn LinkedIn account.
Usually it isn't the couple staying connected, but their friends.
I had one friend that had to block a family member (sister? Cousin? can't remember now) that obsessively shared his ex's doings on FB with him. Don't think it was deliberately malicious, she was just a gossip queen
Sold my corrado to a kid, when I went looking for it some years later I found out he'd totalled it.
I still get calls about the G60 swapped GTi I built. Somehow the new owner finds me and ask me about it. They always think it's a 1.9 liter built motor but it's a 1.8. That 1.9 rumor somehow got started over 20 years ago by some unknown person and it's been attached to the car ever since. Despite me telling multiple new owners it's a 1.8
Professor_Brap (Forum Supporter) said:The worst is when they find you and ask all kinds of dumb questions.
I sold a set of FM/VMAXX coilovers off my Miata back in March and the guy I sold to them pesters me with questions at least once a month via social media. The most recent was "Do you have the original invoice? Because I think some of these are now blown and FM does free rebuilds for the original owner, so I thought I could remove them and have you send them back and get them rebuilt for me for free." Dude, I bought them 6 years ago, no freaking way in hell do I still have the original purchase receipt.
In reply to glueguy (Forum Supporter) :
In late 2017 I sold my E46 manual to a late high school / early college kid. His dad was helping him do the refresh it needed.
They were fairly local and it was Mystik Blau, a somewhat non-typical color. I kept figuring I would see it some day, but I never did.
To date, I've only seen one of my 25+ previous cars on social media. I mean, I see the lifted liberty every so often in town(which is nice because a cop bought it).
I sold my then 8 year old first gen R32 to help put a down payment on the house I currently own. The owner, my age or younger, already had a impressively well built Mk4 GTI with widebody flares, a full haldex AWD system and a big turbo TDI swap. Mine was to become the daily beater.
In the past almost-decade It's had maybe half dozen sets of very nice wheels on it, as well as a variety of very high dollar suspension and forced induction mods.
Sometimes things work out the inverse—I think that car found the right owner for sure. I was still in my "coilovers all the way down" phase.
NickD said:Professor_Brap (Forum Supporter) said:The worst is when they find you and ask all kinds of dumb questions.
I sold a set of FM/VMAXX coilovers off my Miata back in March and the guy I sold to them pesters me with questions at least once a month via social media. The most recent was "Do you have the original invoice? Because I think some of these are now blown and FM does free rebuilds for the original owner, so I thought I could remove them and have you send them back and get them rebuilt for me for free." Dude, I bought them 6 years ago, no freaking way in hell do I still have the original purchase receipt.
I got a kid messaging me as we speak about a car he bought 3 years ago asking about what motor mounts are in the car.
I assume most of my vehicles I sell end up in a junkyard not long after I sell them. Not counting the ones I sold directly to scrap yards.
At least one of them ended up in a police impound lot after the guy who bought it from me got picked up for murder.
Patrick (Forum Supporter) said:Aren't telephones just OG social media?
get off your own lawn!
Grizz said:I assume most of my vehicles I sell end up in a junkyard not long after I sell them. Not counting the ones I sold directly to scrap yards.
At least one of them ended up in a police impound lot after the guy who bought it from me got picked up for murder.
That's me and the wife's favorite game. I have owned a few cars 2-3 times buying them back from impound lot auctions. The best one is selling a 1g 1.8L eclipse to a guy and next weekend it's at local junkyard.
Professor_Brap (Forum Supporter) said:The worst is when they find you and ask all kinds of dumb questions.
Ha! I tracked down the builder of the DSM, but fortunately he's been both very helpful, and happy to see it coming back to life.
In the mid-90's I bought a 71 Roadrunner clone, 440, bright(limelight?) green, it looked & sounded mean. Of course I didn't really know anything about cars, and it was a total pile of crap - rusted out frame, bodged together u-joints that kept failing, etc.
I sold it after about a year, and I'd heard through friends that it burnt down shortly afterwards. I ended up becoming FB friends with that guy a few years ago & had no idea I'd sold it to him until he posted a pic of the car. Turns out he rebuilt it, fixed all the crap, and kept it a while before selling it. That was a little awkward at first, but seemed to turn out well for him in the end.
When I traded my Thunderbird in, the guy at the dealer mentioned how such an old car would probably go to auction, where the hot rod guys would scoop it up for its IRS and other parts. I had a pang of regret immediately for letting the car go to such a potential fate.
My first X1/9 showed up @ PnP less than a year and a half after I bought it. The car was megasquirted and ran great. The person I sold it to destoyed the clutch, let it sit under a tree for a year, and then scrapped it.
I ended up going and buying the wheels/tires and getting the megasquirt off of it for X1/9 2.0
Back in the early 2000's, I sold my long term DD MR2 Turbo to a nice middle age man. It had been recently rebuilt and had around 300hp. He never mentioned that he bought it for his just turned 16 year old son. Long story short, the car never made it through the evening, it was totalled only a few hours after the guy drove off. Went backwards off the side of a moutain. Fortunately kid was ok. A buddy did end up buying the engine and putting it in his car, so part of it lived on.
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