This hurts ! Cars you had but gone , cry tell show

I had a 69 Road Runner, Sold it because it had Power steering.
I had a homebuilt 69 Dart with a warmed over street Hemi (from a 69 Charger wreck) I wish I hadnt sold that. The car I regret selling most was my Gettin Vicious Race car, 74 Dodge Charger with its Old Reliable 440 engine. Car ran 11.49 in street trim with only the heater box removed. We even had wipers and a back seat still. why I ever sold it and that engine is beyond my understanding. I must have been nuts. car appeared in several magazines and graces the front cover of my book "Old Reliable"
Don

 

****, where do I start???​

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57 Bel Air. with '68 Corvette 427 and a 4 speed. ​

1970 Monte Carlo. Super straight, with strong running 350. Loaded!​

Black Lacquer 57 Stepside. ​

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Green on green on green 1970 Camaro RS became red on black​

1973 SS Wagon. One year only model. How often do you see one of these? 350 auto, ltd slip rear, dual exhaust, tach, all the SS treatments. ​

1968 Buick Skylark Convertible. Bought with 68,000 miles. No rattles in this one.​

1968 Riviera 430/auto​

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1965 Impala SS Convertible 327, auto. PS, PB, PW, tilt, rosewood steering wheel. ​

59 Cadillac Coupe Deville. ​

1966 Impala SS-396 convertible.​

1967 Chevelle Convertible​

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1971 Buick Centurion ​

1970 Cougar 351 Cleveland, C6 trans and 9 inch posi...​

1968 Olds 4-4-2​

1966 Chevrolet Caprice 4door Hardtop Big Block 396, Turbo 400, Posi.​

bla, bla, bla.....​

 

That made me think of this van that was at a local show this summer...

 

I can't believe how much this is like my story. 1961; my next dor neighbour was giving up driving. Would I like to buy his car? I was 16 but wasn't going to get my licence til I was 18, dad said. However he said I could have the car. It had about 50K on it and was a mint 40 Ford Deluxe. I paid $50 for it and drove it back and forth in the driveway for 2 years. A couple of yoears later I was able to get a full race 48 Merc flathead with 3 carbs, Offy heads, etc. for $250. Blew the 40 ****** and after several 2nd gear clusters, settled on a 48 Merc truck trans with a tower shifter. Sold it in 66 to get money to go to Europe for $400. Sure miss it!!

 

50 merc 2 door,stock very solid,traded to a guy to cut tub a 50 chevy pickup.
50 chevy pickup,camaro subframe, tubbed.traded it for something?
49 chevy pu all stock very good truck sold it to a guy and he drove it to new york,from tulsa okla.no probs!!!
65 chevy2 3 owner. 2 door .sold it to a friend!
i was too young to save the 37 chevy coupe ,40 ford sedan.53 ford pu,56 ford wagon when grandpas shop closed.
55 new yorker,parts car ,but could have been fixed..
84 cj-7 last feb,it hurt!!! was featured in 4wheeler&offroad..

 

I've had about 450-500 cars, and the one i'd like to have back is my first Vette. It was a 365 HP 64 Roadster i bought in 74 for $775. It had flared wheelwells, a little spoiler, and 67-68 Firebird tailites (no bumpers). Cragars, and Indy profile tires. Just all the cool **** for that era. Stock Vettes were a no-no. Come to think of it, they still are. But a stock Vette's like a stock 50's Caddy. Pretty cool, right out of the box.

 

32 ford 5 window-----Chrysler Hemi-----Nuf said?

 

I owned this one for about a year and a half. I finally sold it because I felt like a real douche bag driving around in a car I didn't build myself. (picture this at a gas station: "Hey Man, you really did a nice job on that car!". "Uh, I didn't do it myself, I just bought it from some other guy.") Aside from being one of the most pitch perfect cars of all time, It'll probably be worth a SH*TLOAD of dough in about twenty years. What a dummy!!

 

Wow! Some of you guys have owned enough cars for three lifetimes. I have only had about 45-50 cars. Miss my first car, 63 Tempest with a 326, bought for 50 bucks when I was thirteen and helping deliver feed from my parents feed store. But without a doubt the one I miss the absolute most is my 49 Merc (third owner car from Pasadena!). I WILL own another one of these days.

 

This is the one I miss the most....

 

Was the hood ornament on that Chebbie factory or aftermarket?????

 

Like to know what happend to this one I had.

 

A 55 Chev. 2dr. post, 56 Pontiac Safari wagon, 29 A 2dr. sedan

 

1969 Mach I with a 428 SCJ, 4-speed big toploader, 4:30 locker, nodular rear, drag pack, shaker hood & a bevy of dealer-installed go-fast options like sidewinder intake, dual point, top & bottom windage trays, deep pan, & hi-volume oil pump. Back in the day when a fistfull of dollars & the motorsports catalog would find the dealer putting near anything on to close the deal. Someone wanted to go quickly - no power steering, no a/c, just an alternator. Pretty bare bones for a top of the line Mach I.

Man, it was quick & powerful - from a standing start, on dry pavement, I could smoke the tires - in 4th! At 60, I could let off the gas & stomp it & it would go sideways. It was stupid fast.

That power came with a price - namely mileage. 7mpg in town, 9 mpg on the road. As a poor college student, I couldn't afford to keep gas in it, so I parked it at my dad's. After a year or so, I hadn't been paying attention to what was happening in the Mustang market - Shelby had his first heart attack & big block cars went through the roof - what had been a $8-9K car, suddently was a $20-25K car. I sold it for $1500 more than I paid ($4200) & only later realized I could have gotten a lot more...but it went to a good home where it was nut & bolt, paint daub & chalk mark restored to its showroom glory (it was a very nice driver when I had it).

Wish I had it back...they've doubled in price again....

 

The one I miss was the car I had in high school - the '70 Pontiac Gran Prix my dad bought new, ordered special with a 4-speed - they only made like 325 manual trans cars that year. The only car I've ever done more than 100 in - then again, I was nuts when I was 17. It was kind of a stripper for a 'Prix, crank windows, no vinyl top, 400 motor, 3.55 posi rearend, was supposed to come with a factory tach and showed up with a clock. Originally gold with black interior, but for some reason he had it painted a light yellow that was a factory color on Corvairs. He finally sold it for $400 around 1993 after I had an accident in it - some ***hole decided to turn left at the last minute and the guy between him and me had a taillight out and I didn't see they were stopping fast enough and slid into him.

You never see those anymore, either, I think there are two locally I see at shows now and then, and I saw one in a junkyard that may still be sitting there. I'd trade off three or four of my cars for another one if it was a manual trans car.

It may still be around, someone told me they saw it going down the highway near Rochester NY a couple years later, with cragar mags on in place of the stock wheels and '63-ish Skylark spinner caps I'd been running.

 

After seeing what goes for what on Barrett Jackson I wish I still had my numbers matching 68 Camaro RS convertible or my 69 GTO.....I,d be selling them and paying off my mortgage and my sons college education!

 

I nominate myself for the ***le of stupidest poster in this thread:

50 Merc 2 Dr - my first car, DROVE it to the junk yard!!
57 Chrysler 300C - sold too soon and to cheap.
56 Chrysler 300B - factory stick shift with A/C built for Gary Bettenhausen. Sold too soon and too cheap.
66 Corvette 427 ci - Sold too soon and too cheap.

 

I feel like i've already posted on this same damn subject...but i didn't see a post of my own. But anywho...i wanted one of these for years and finally got a good deal on one about 7 years ago and back on valentines day this year it got wrecked. I was sitting in traffic when some lady that wasn't watching where she was going just slammed the hell out of me. Which slammed me into the next guy. Took me 3 months to get any type of satisfaction from her insurance company, but they ended up giving me $5k more than i had in it. That was if i let go of it and they kept it for salvage. If i wanted to keep it, i only got $6k. My estimate was $10k. So i took the money and got an old truck, new computer, and paid off a loan. Damn but i miss her though.

 

29 Model A Sedan - bought it out of my neighbor's back yard when I was 15 for $75. Got it running, drove it up and down the driveway then sold it for what I had in it. Saw it a few months later all hotrod'd up...wish I had kept it then and really wish I had it now...

Same with a 56 Chevy 2dr hardtop with the 265 (power pack) that I bought for $350 and ended up selling for $300 so I could buy an MGA. Ended up driving that from California to North Carolina and left it with my sister when I went to Vietnam. She wrecked it, had it fixed and sold it for $500. I'd have rather had the car.

 

I hate me.....for selling this. I bought it in Kansas from the original owner....Zero options on a 57 150 series wagon.......original paint, chrome....everything. Drove it back to the airbase for 225.00 Of course this pic is from the day I bought it....and later I did the typical 283 with a fourspeed, vette rallye wheels, etc.

 

Good idea. If you find a time machine, let me know. I'd like to stop off in 1979 and NOT sell my '57 Bel Air convertible for $1000; then, a stopoff in 1981 so I can NOT sell my red '67 Firebird convertible for $900. At least I was bright enough to hang on to the '64 GTO I bought in '81 with the money I got from selling a very solid '55 Bel Air two door sedan.

 

Hey Johnny...I still have the 59 Safari wagon, I'd trade it for an example of my first car, 55 Chevy two-door sedan Handyman, cheapest model they made. the rear quarter windows were sealed in, no cranks or regulators.....Rick...Austin...rixrex1@earthlink.net

 

The 60s and 70s are kinda fuzzy, but recently, the early 90s, to finish buying a piece of property from my father, at his insistance, I traded him my 57 Nomad, 62 Galaxie 390 convertable, 54 Chevy Bel-Air sedan, 64 Chevy short-wide truck and my beloved 74 BMW R90S... He took most to Pate Auction/swap meet and sold them for peanuts..(my Nomad went for 4500)...Now, I am selling the property for a ****load of money and can start getting them back!!....rixrex

 

Well this takes a lot of thought.
1. My 68 GTO Conv 4sp Hood tach Verdoro Grn & White guts.
(Sold it to pay off the loan on a vette)
2.69 Camaro SS 350. (Car was my neighbors HS Car, then Mine too!)=Sold it for ch***is work on my 34 3W's Ch***is & whls/skins w/rings & caps-was so sick abut this one, that I kept track of it and the Cop that bought it turned it into a fake Black w/white stipes blown Z/28. Luckilly I had kept the steel cowl hood that I bought for it and that made me look for another-How often does one find another 69 S/S 350 Lemans Blue w/black guts rallys & disc brakes for $300 large in Oct of 89? I still khave that ****er & will die with that one!
3.1934 3W basket case that I built into a very nice car that I drove on the 1st Americruise (Swapped the aforementioned Vette to get it)-Sold it to a guy on terms,he screwed me out of $5k as I was getting married & she wanted a house, well replaced that one with 2 of her sisters. Still wondering where this car actually is?????
4. 1930 Chopped Closed Cab p/u. My cousin has it now,so all is not lost. sold it in Oct 1989 and bought another 34 3W body.(Sold the 1st one in May 88, was sick about that too-replaced with a gl*** one).
1964 Buick Riv 425/400/ THAT

 

67 SS/RS 350, 4 speed, deluxe interior, power top, 12bolt. Thought I made out selling it for 12K in 1994. Probably couldnt get it back for triple that now.

 

In the late 70s, on the westside of San Antonio, I tagged a 57 Chevy Nomad wagon..Mario called me back and I hustled over there. This was a complete vato loco cruiser, swivel captains chairs on black asto-turf, all lights in the dash had been changed to red, and it had a rough rainbow metal-flake pearl white paint job..I'm sitting in the backseat with Mario looking through his shoebox of car ***les, look over my shoulder into the back and see a pile consisting of a girls parochial school uniform, tamale shucks and some beer cans, I knew I had to have this car. My first note said I would give him 2000.00 for the car, I started making this deal where I would give him back all his stuff, CB radio, red-hot mag wheels, even the four-speed shifter. I remember him talking about the funky Fenton shifter "Man, when we can get that thing into fourth, we head for Houston" I made this deal and drove the car off for 1100.00..Later found out it had the original 283 and all the guts for factory AC...I really miss that car....rixrex

 

55 f-100, first truck at 14, sold after storing it for 17 yrs., then my 55 merc montclair, all orig, paid 450.00 in 1982, sold for 850.00 in 84, then my 56 f-100, Oh, and the 64 Lemans convert I paid 25.00 for just to get the muncie and parted out the rest. Go easy on me, I was 15.

 

Mine was a 38 Ford Deluxe sedan. Bought it 90% restored in 1980 for $3000NZ. Which equates to about $2000 US. Stored it while I went to live in Aussie for a couple of years, kindly let my brother borrow the flathead out of her as he blew his 42 merc flattie up in his 36 Coupe. Sold the old girl to someone when I got home so I had cash for a modern vehicle and the rodding scene became a distant memory. The dude I sold it to, painted it purple, dumped a SBC in it blah blah blah. **** I wish I still had it. Let it go man,let it go!

 

34 Ford fordor - paid $125.00 in 1962, sold it in 63 and got it back in 75 - an even trade for my Free 56 Chev, sold it in 76 for $750.00 and two Model Ts which I sold for $1200.00 (my wife said I'd be sorry..... I am, I am.)

56 Chev fordor hardtop

56 Chev fordor - free, just had to haul it away

56 "El Camino" - built out of a fordor station wagon

57 Pontiac

62 Pontiac - had three of them over the years

 

My 57 Chevy Bel Air (283/Turboglide and later TH350). I got that car when I was 16, peeling paint, shot interior, 4 doors...but that was the hottest **** in my high school parking lot. LOUD set of duals, flat black, red rims (this was before rat rods got popular). First car I ever worked on and was a turning point in my life, first car I scored in, first car I did 100+ mph in...those were some real good times.

Cruising to the beach on a warm summer night, windows down, oldies coming in on the Wonderbar AM radio, pipes humming and my beautiful, blonde girlfriend riding next to me with her head on my shoulder...I could have died then because I'm pretty sure it's all downhill from there

Some ***hat I went to school with rear-ended that car and before going off the college it wasn't worth fixing. i sold it to a local guy who swore he would restore it, but he turned it on eBay and last I heard it was in Indiana..what a ****in shame.