Following. I'm also somewhat nostalgic about my old cars. Some were good, some not so good. Always wondered where they went.
Same. I know I can share a little.. one, when I had to part with it, instead of just letting it get auctioned off or crushed after the junker was done with it (when you need a car sold NOW you call the junk place so they can give you a small fraction of money on what nobody else otherwise will want to buy) I threw a Hail Mary pass on Facebook. Much to my surprise, I found an enthusiast that was willing to give it a second shot at life. Drove it to where it needed to go, running on 5 cylinders with a hole in the exhaust because, love and enthusiasm. This almost a decade ago now. Saw it on Craigslist a few years ago (yes I do go look, not quite the same as it was but ai do go look) and saw it with the back cut off (SUV turned into an Offroad Only Use vehicle in PA) and I suspect the loss of one cylinder finally made it be kind of a hassle. May or may not have ever been junked, I've no idea.
The one I really want to know, I never will. Had for a brief time 20 years ago. Then stolen. Saw on a closed up car lot a year or two later; this one, I memorized the VIN. It was probably repossessed, fixed, and may or may not still be around. Long enough now that it could be anywhere, sitting in either a garage or a boneyard, cannibalized.
Bitten by the nostalgia bug pretty heavy lately, I've done more than my share of giving back to the parts and salvage community and my Uncle has helped thin out our fleet on two vehicles that showed their age.
And this is why I will look to older vehicles for quite some time, possibly forever. Sometimes people have to part with cars that may not have been ready to go.
And, even with a VIN. I don't think anyone can get a car owners name and address, outside of maybe a police officer with a license plate.......................
RedSpider that one of the best cars I ever had. If I saw the front I could tell you if it's a 89-90 or a 91-94 (93?) That's an S13.
I would drive to Georgia to buy one mint, which is the last place I saw one being sold years ago, mint, $2500. An S13.