What Car Decision Did You Immediately Regret?

1966 Ford Thunderbird in redImage: Ford Motor Company

If you’ve done everything perfect in life, well, congratulations, you freak. The rest of of us live lives of quiet desperation, always wondering what could have been if we had just been more bold, less reckless and everywhere in between

My (Mom’s) First Car: W. Kamau Bell and the Giant Thunderbird

We all have regrets. Mine was something I didn’t do; I turned down the chance to buy a beautiful 1965 Ford Thunderbird with a cherry blue-teal interior for almost no money. Now, to most of you, it probably sounds like I dodged a hulking, slow moving rusty bullet, but I still think about that car to this day. Cruising around Belle Isle on a warm summer night in a big boat of classic Detroit steel is a dream of mine, but, like a wuss, I chickened out of what would have been a fun, time-consuming rebuild of a beautiful piece of automotive history.

While I dream of blue leather bucket seats and chrome, you likely have very different regrets — a bolt that you snapped after thinking “just one more turn” or a wrong turn that put you and your vehicle directly into harm’s way. There are plenty of moments to look back on with bitterness. So let’s hear them in the comments! What car decision did you immediately regret?