Emotions when selling a car

[427TJ]

I can close my eyes right now and see my first car, a '67 Camaro, driving away from my house on the evening I sold it in October, 1985. Had a ton of cash in it, sold it for 2500, replacing it with a mint '64 Nova hardtop. I was in college and needed eco-wheels and the Camaro was a gas hog. The kid I sold it to trashed it within a year or two and it's now a rotted hulk in a storage yard, far beyond my $$-ability to save it. So yeah, it'd be nice to be the guy who buys and sells cars without care but I'm one of those sensitive types who has a hard time seeing things go. Someone once said of Jack Parr, the host of the Tonight Show back before Carson, that Parr was so sentimental that he couldn't bring himself to take the empty pop bottles back to the store. I'm not that bad but selling/trading-in my cars has always been tough.