Back in late 80s on concession st in hamilton , 69 chevy kingswood wagon , light green , woodgrain , 427 car,, full of old paint cans in the back , couldnt find owner ....slime hemi challenger hemi rag , i couldnt come up with 20 000 .. 66 sattelite hemi 4sd hrtp ,passed shudda bought.. 71 cuda hemi orange billboard car , shudda boutght . 69 idy car white orange stripes ragtop . to late had cash.. 69 6 pk lift off hood car, owner changed mind ,still has to this day....a whole whack of others .. back when you could buy cars , before barrett jackson.. those were the days
Yup me to poncho in 75-76 we had a car lot across for the a/w that sold only hi-po cars everything you can imagine,I bought several bb camaro's,chevelles,cuda's all at different times but nothing over 2500 but the one that got away was a '70 boss 302 that my buddy had just thru a rod in and another motor was expensive but he wanted either 6 or 800 bucks! nice car to
69 Camaro with a 427 in it. Owner had just completed a rotisseri restoration on it and was going through a divorce. All that was missing was the headliner .... he had it listed for $6500. Two years later, saw the car again with a new owner , spoke to the guy and he had bought it off whoever bought it from the original seller ... this guy paid $40 000 for it.
69 Ford Fairlane Fastback with an original 428 cobrajet. The car was all apart but only needed assembly , everything was there. Owner was asking $3500 . I said I'd take a day to think about it , it sold that afternoon. Haven't found another one since , that isn't $20 000 or more.
1969 Boss 429 Mustang - one of one - was a Nascar special custom ordered with tilt swing away steering and a clock and A/C - $2300 woulda bought it from my step dad - worth some $700,000 today I am told - I did get to drive this one a couple times though, at age 14
70 AAR Cuda 340 4speed - missed it by that much lol - while out test drivin a chevelle
god knows how many others over the years - time and place
In 66/67 had a 65 Chevelle 300hp 4 speed car, and sold it to get my new 68 Camaro Z28 for $3700. out the door. In reality, the Chevelle was a better street car, but the Camaro was ssooooooo much more fun after the tach topped 6000rpm.
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Sister-in laws younger brother had the body and paint done on his "Dirty Mary and Carzy Larry", Lime Green '69 Charger, R/T 4 speed and it sat on blocks for 6 months and I kept asking her if he wanted to sell it. Finally saw a "for sale" sign on it so I called her again THAT DAY...she didn't tell him for 3 more weeks, 2 weeks late of course for $1800. I've grown up alot since then...I drive Chevy's now!
north side of town seen a sign for garage sale . with sign said , wheels tires , tools , etc etc . was bored so I went up the street an there it was a 2 dr post 4 spd small block black on black with hedders an rotted off eggshaust syatem 57 bel air , 26 or 2800 bucks . thought , ummm , cool but I,m not really a chebby guy . went back later that day maybe after dinner , or the next morning early , sold .
an absolutely freakin mint early vega , with full frame , four link , and a really , really blowed up small block in it . I think it was 2 k
early pinto , at a local scrap yard , old drag car small block ford auto . really very well set up car , wouldn,t sell it cause they didn't have an ownership .
tried for yrs to buy a rigid pan chopper , girder frt sissy bar an seat , with slash cut upswept pipes . wouldn,t start , wouldn,t sell . offered for yrs to buy , went by right after snow was gone , then back again before it dried up . guy sold it , I said , hey I been by how many times an you wouldn't sell . He says , the other guy seemed really interested in it ????? yeah W T F ????..77.
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Waited a day too late and missed a 1970 Mustang Boss 302. Rebuilt and looked good (needed minor work) Repo Depot was selling it in Toronto for what was owing on the car... $1800
This was in the early 2000's and I could just scrape the money together to buy it.
I ended up buying a 68 Chevelle instead...my first real car.
In 1989, I missed out on a 67 chevy 11 on a used car lot in Naples, Fl
It was a 327 350 horse 4 speed car that looked perfect for $1500.00
I got thinking about what a good deal it was and went back a few days later and
it was gone.
Used to buy cars from a salvage yard years ago. Was getting a 65 Parklane 4 dr & a 64 Marauder 2 dr ht, went to get them and they had mistakenly crushed the Marauder.
little different kind of got away...1973...17 years old..dad bought me a 1962 chev with a 409. was not happy because car never came with a radio. 2weeks after I got it showing off for my buddys and it got away from me and wrapped around a tree. ..damn. shouldn't have bought
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Around 1965 I didn't have my own car yet .....old guy has a 1951 Ford Prefect , black , excellent shape ...had the turn signals in the B-pillar and a little arrow would flip out when you used the turn signal ...........guy wanted $225 . My step father said no , you can borrow the family Impala if you need to drive . I shoulda bought the thing anyhow as I had visions of installing a sbc or straight 6 ....NO money , but visions
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