Bless you! Nothing like selling the car you loved only to have it haunt you for years after. I have that with a car I let go too once. Wife's fault. Ploughed it into the mortgage, which was like throwing a grain of sand into the Sahara. Made bugger all difference. Not happening again. Keeping my pulsar.
It's out there somewhere. A nice one with your name on it. Just depends what you're willing to do and how far you're willing to go. I must've seen 6 or 7 before driving up the back bone of the country to buy the one I have now. Waited months and drove nearly a 1000 miles to get it and I don't regret it for a second. I'd do it again if I had to.