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Originally Posted by Crowbob
From the sound of it, the longer you take to decide, the less likely it is you’ll need to.
Time is not on his side.
You could go to the grandkid and make a deal that he sell the car back to you after gramps passes, which sounds imminent. Gramps is happy, you’re happy and the kid might learn something.
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That deal would have about a snowball's chance in hell of being enforced. Horrible idea.
Do not sell your car. As someone else stated, you are going to feel at least partially bad about any outcome of this dilemma, (though you shouldn't), so keep your car. You will feel far worse if you sell it under duress. I'm bothered by the fact that you continually dropped the price below what you think it's worth due to someone pestering or guilting you. That is a classic manipulation tactic and is used in many types of financial transactions.
Lastly, I took my drivers test in my mom's 1974 Super Beetle in 1975, when I was 16. I also drove it and other VW bugs for years afterwards, in between other cars. Others are correct in pointing out the safety delta between it and even cars from 25 or 30 years ago. Horrible choice for a new driver in 2022.