Technical What parts could you kick yourself for not keeping?

It’s not so much the parts but the entire cars I can kick myself for ever selling them.

 

I started to think...then I started sulk and this is all I could make myself write!

 

Story of my life!!

 

Complete 440 6 pack set up including air cleaner , 2-4 barrel 361-383 intake , new Edelbrock STR intake with 3-2barrel top and Dominator top , 3.900 stroke crank for 400 Mopar , 5 400 Mopar standard bore blocks , Complete '63 426 Max Wedge fresh , Complete 496 Mopar wedge , new with trick flow heads .

 

In the early 1960s,I had nice working 2x4 Ford Y-block set up with twin Cady carbs,run super, but at the time I was offered what seemed like a lot $.I sold the set up . Put my 4bbl on{ did run well},then 4x2 home made log set up. But dose not run as well as 2x4,but 4x2 has it's own cool factor.

 

66 Nova L79 327 350HP , I owned one at 18 years old

 

I have owned just about every HiPo Ford engine ever produced at one time or another . I regret OT . 1970 Cobra 429SCJ , DragPac , 4.30 Detroit Locker , oil cooler , big spline top loader 2.32 low gear , 31K on the clock . I purchase it from original owner 1900.00 sold it a year later 4500.00 . Man did I clean up on that one !

 

A complete 296 flatty that I just was not able to carry to FL from WI in 1972.

 

I'm in the company of didn't need it then don't need it now. No regrets. Sold for a profit then and still sell for profit now. Life is to short to worry about petty things.

 

Car wise I built a really nice Dearborn Deuce which I got offered so dam much money I sent it to Japan. It would be nice for cruising in my old age. Parts wise I have been fortunate to have owned 2 32 Ford Pines Winterfront Grilles and again my greed got in the way. I have so many leftover parts from my chassis business that someone will do well when they sell out my shop and storage unit.

 

1960 Rochester FI.. used it on 4 cars and would have continued if I had not sold it. Paid $125 in 1969 . . . . Sold $750 in 1985

 

Your list looks a little like mine...except for a few things. '63 Polara 500 383 4spd, '63 Polara Max Wedge Alum. front end car (a real car but really rough, even the dash was rotted!), '41 Willys 4dr X-drag car, '55 Chevy 210 2dr, '68 Nova SS 327 not 350 4spd and so many cool parts I can't, no don't, want to think about. Including a Doug Nash 2x4 intake on a 428 Pontiac, a Stahl cable tach and a Edelbrock STR-14 2x4! But I have been blessed to be able to turn a few bucks. Except for the Max Wedge car, when I sold that, we got windows, siding and a roof over our front for our house. Gene

 

I can't mention the cars here , but they really make me depressed to think about !

 

Yeah -

The brand new Man-a-Fre assembly that I bought back in the early 70's . Velocity stacks and all.
Was still clean and complete (though it had been used a coupla years) when I sold it...for what would now be considered, cents on the dollar !

Mike

 

A double-Dip mid 30s era Mopar front axle

 

The complete Corvette 3x2, w/triangle air cleaner, linkage and fuel lines off of the BBC in my 32 5w - $350. I bought it from Service Center for $125, ran it for two years and sold it when my BBC spun some rod bearings. I thought I'd made a killing on it.
Car wise, I mostly regret selling my '57 Ranchero, maybe my '32 5w.

 

A complete Ford 289 Hillborne fuel injection set up.

 

Nothin'. If I didn't need it, I let it go. If someone needs something I have....it'll leave. Hell, just today I gave a guy a stainless muffler for his truck. Young kid, no $$, muffler rusted apart. He was happy and I don't have to kick it around the shop anymore.

 

52 Merc engine with o/d trans. I was moving and didn't have a way to take it with me. $100. That was cheap even back then.

 

Grancor intake. Riley 2 and 4 ports. Winfield carbs. 32 grilles. Cut apart 32 roadster body.. Honestly I wish if never sold a damn thing some days. But you can't keep it all!

 

I cannot think of a single part I regret selling; complete cars is a different story.

But the cars were sold because I could not afford to keep them all.

Maybe what I regret is that I have never been rich, at least with money!

Jon

 

a 1959 389 Pontiac 389 engine. In a fit of garage/storage area cleaning, I scrapped it [with a buncha SBC's] and now I need one! Doh!

 

I have never sold a Hemi part. I hord them. But I did trade off a windowed 426 Hemi Megablock that I wish I would have kept. I brought it to a machinist for repairs, and he mislead me about the extent and cost of the repairs, saying it wasn't worth fixing. So I traded it to him for machine work on another block. I regret losing that block, for sure. And I traded a stock 426 Hemi rocker arm set for a Dick Landy roller rocker set. It seemed like a good deal at the time. But now I wish I would have just bought Landys (or Stage V) and kept the stock set. And I traded a complete 1967 426 Hemi for another to get a date coded block that I wanted. Again, I wish I wouldn't have traded, and just bought outright. A Hemi gone is a tragedy.

 

Only my 377, with an Edelbrock cross-ram. It took a long time to get that running right, but when I finally did, it was insane.

I could build a better one now. Maybe I should.

 

A set of '58 Lincoln headlight doors. Had no use for them then, still have no use for them now, but I really like the look of them.

 

Aw jeez... Something similar happened to me a while back. I bought a Studebaker pickup with a '59 389 that hasn't run in 40-45 years. One of my NorCal buddies had a '59 389 that he offered to me for free a year or so ago. When I bought the truck, I immediately called Jerry and said I may be needing that 389. "Too late, it went to the scrap guy months ago". Damn, I know better than to turn down old engines. Luckily, the 389 in the truck seems to run ok.
And speaking of Pontiacs and regrets.... Years ago, I sold the old wooden ski boat that my Dad built for our family because dry rot was beginning to appear - again. It had a fresh '60 Pontiac 389 with 4 bolt mains, a Dempsey Wison cam and the factory 3x2 setup. Man, I wish I would have kept that engine.

 

For everything I have gotten rid of, something has replaced it. I do regret getting rid of my original Henry J fenders and hood. Had to buy another one (2,3,4,5) to replace them

 

yeah, here's how mine looked after I "donated it"...

 

Had a buddy trade his left nut for a 1964 Vauxhaul ... bet that's a trade he wishes he hadn't made