Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

mines nothing special, an 85 city e, a bare shell which i've restored and painted so i'm putting it back together.....slowly. But it's in my old mans garage and he's getting pissed off now....it's been there a couple of years and he tripped over the subframe the other day. And his car has to stay outside......I moved out 15 years ago and I'm still annoying my parents. It was/is my first car though so I don't want to get rid of it, i've had it 18 years......how come you sold yours? Did it need work? Obviously....it's a mini.

It's a moot point at the moment, I plugged a lot of cash into that car, and it was my 21st birthday present too. I basically ran out of money to keep it going while I was in my last year of uni, so I left it in my garage where it accumulated further faults standing there. My parents persuaded me to sell it since it was a bit of a waste. Now I've sold it (for a massive loss overall), my parents are trying to stop me buying another car with the money and get me to use my sister's car which is a New Mini (she is out of the country for another year doing a masters at NYU). Now I like that car despite it's major electrical problems, but they want me to use it and not do anything to it. I've been into modded cars since I was very young, I've been tinkering since I was about 12. I can't stand owning a car with a fucking great arch gap like that New Mini has. My point to them is, if they just wanted me to use that car, why the fuck did I sell the classic for such a massive loss? I could have trailered it home and fixed it up over time since I had the New Mini as a daily driver. They've now realised what a fucking great error they forced me into doing and are relenting but I'm quite bitter about the whole thing. I loved that classic no matter how much it pissed me off and the whole experience has kind of tarnished my love of classic Minis :(