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

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 :(

that sounds shit - get your parents to stump up and buy it back.