Car Mistakes ? Buying a 1971 Porsche 911T off eBay sight unseen ( I know, I know..) c. 2003.
In my (limited) defence, I had asked my brother who was living over in the UK at the time to check it out for me. "Grand car, not much wrong with it I can see ". Indeed. Flew over to Cheshire to pick it up (with 7 year old no1 son in tow - for reasons I can never remember why). The Pig broke down 5 miles up the road from the 'restorer' who I bought it off, when the live feed to a fuel relay came off and shorted against the boot with an almighty bang. Got going again, then had to push it off the ferry in Dublin as the damn thing refused to start and flattened the battery. Got it home, where between work and family commitments it sat oxidising quietly for a further 6 years (pre galvanised chassis days remember) before I finally sold the f***er of a thing for a pittance to get it out of the garage. Between being reminded of my failures on the fleet-management / petrolhead front, if not my broader responsibilities and obligations as a husband/father/human-being in general every time I even so much as thought about going into the garage and seeing the orange pig sitting there - plus - its presence being cited every time I ever questioned
any of the better half's more whimsical purchasing decisions for at least the following decade..I have never been so absofknlootly relieved to see a car head being taken off down the road and out of my life