Ah, the stupid things we've done.

[revjimk]

I wanted to take Auto Shop in HS but the guidance counselor told me NO, I was "college material"...and I didn't go upside his head.
Still regretting it....

[czuch]

I had alot of 50's/40's cars in high school. Mostly thrashed em a little and sold em in the paper. I mowed lawns all summer and got a 1928 Henderson 4 cyl inline bike.
It didnt run and needed alot but I could finance a reeeeall nice rod with it now.
My dad was really exited. Not happy, but exited. When the neighbor dropped it off the exitment started. I was informed, in NO uncertain terms, it was to be gone.
I sold it for $700.00 and a six pack of pepsi. 1972/3 I was 17.

[GregCon]

Passed on a 70 Superbird around 1988...440 Six Pack, 4 speed, Dana 60. Guy wanted $3500 and I had about $35. At least I knew it was a good deal so that wasn't so much stupid as poor.

[56don]

Originally Posted by HOTRODPRIMER

Yes you have,,you sold the coupe in your avatar,but corrected that by buying it back!

I'll probably posting in a year or so the stupidest thing I did was sell it back to you! HRP

Danny, that wasn't stupid. That was my investment strategy. I sold it for one cheap price and when I bought it back it was worth ten times what I sold it for! Now thats some smart investing.....

[TRIK3R]

My 2nd car was a 71 Challenger, paid $150.00 for it cause the points were toast, had the signed title in hand, had my coach ride over with a friend to drive it back to the house as I was only 14 and no licence, I swapped and set the points, fired it up, cleared out the cobwebs, and off we went, trans had no reverse, a month goes by my older brother asks what I'm doing with it, my reply is fix it, , he names off all the problems and says if you get rid of it I'll give you the Pinto. So there went a cool car for a 74 Pinto with a rod knock, the guy I bought the Challenger called and asked to buy it back, Dad said sorry it just left on a wrecker, he was pissed.
I did my first engine swap @ 14 in the Pinto mostly by my self and a big ficus tree.

[blackrd]

Ill play. Threw out 4 (2 pair) 40 ford front fenders because I got tired of moving them around (solid, just needed tears welded up). Tossed out front and rear 48 desoto bumpers (real ones) because they needed replating and I wasnt going to use them anyhow. Such a dumbass

[blackrd]

Originally Posted by czuch

I had alot of 50's/40's cars in high school. Mostly thrashed em a little and sold em in the paper. I mowed lawns all summer and got a 1928 Henderson 4 cyl inline bike.
It didnt run and needed alot but I could finance a reeeeall nice rod with it now.
My dad was really exited. Not happy, but exited. When the neighbor dropped it off the exitment started. I was informed, in NO uncertain terms, it was to be gone.
I sold it for $700.00 and a six pack of pepsi. 1972/3 I was 17.

Damn, bout 80k or so today, thats excitment.

[mixedupamx]

do you mean just today or in general?????

[49ratfink]

sold a Ram Air III 69 GTO Judge for $900.00 in 1981.

[studebaker eric]

I pulled a 57 chevy wagon out of a junkyard about 12 years ago, It was stripped but had a beautiful front clip, and ran it in a demo derby, just to piss off people. Did a 59 Pontiac the next year.

[RH2795]

Had a 1939 Indian sport scout. Got it for free just had to finish putting it together. Let a friend borrow it one night...3 hours later I get a call saying that it's parked at the bottom of snake hill....in a tree. That was '87/88.

[Sphynx]

I got married ...... Twice....probably going to do it again. I just love the smell of a new wife.

[Bluedot]

Geez, you guys are all making me feel better about myself.
First car, in 1966: '57 Chevy Bel Air 2 dr HT, 270HP 283. Blacked out grills were cool then, and I recall removing the gold anodized grill, wadding it up, and throwing it away.
2nd car: '66 Vette Coupe, 390HP 427. Got hooked on street rods & hot rods in 1972, struggled to sell that Vette for (gulp) $3000. I'd give my left nut to have that car back. My wife loved it too - I think she'd let 'em have my right nut too to close the deal.
This thread is terrific. Misery loves company!

[GregCon]

I've smelled a few wives myself....

[chopped51]

I'll play.........

I was a teenager and had a Sunbean Tiger as my daily. The starter went on it and I was tired of parking on hills to start it. I sold it for $50.
It was just a used car then................

[johnod]

Originally Posted by Oldmics

How bout knocking out the post in the rear window of the 63 Corvette split windows to put in the 64 one piece rear glass

What dumb fucks we were-like nothings changed

Oldmics

You had a lot of company on that one.

[Al Napier]

In 1982 I bought a Cutlass 442 convertible from a co-worker for 50 bucks that had a wiring problem, stripped it of the sway bars, steering box, etc. to build a street stock with and junked the rest.

Then I sold the street stock parts cheap and bought a used late model pro stock roundy rounder instead because I liked the bigger tires, headers, etc. that the class allowed.

THEN after wrecking the pro stock my second time out on the track I traded my 66 Chevy II Super Sport for a clapped out 72 Blazer and 500 Bucks so I had money to fix the roundy rounder and race the following week.

Dumb Dumb DUMB......

Al in TN

[Gumball]

Picked up a 66 nova hard top, small block auto, drove it home from Pomona swap meet. Needed motor mounts, trans mound, and few little things, paid $250. My wife bitched and bitched about the car in the drive way so I sold it for the @250. I will not be pressured into selling anything ever again...never never never....

[INVISIBLEKID]

Stupid shit? the days not over yet,and I have a ways to go!!

[Beat2Hell]

Sold my '61 Falcon wagon, basket case as it was. Sold a super clean '71 AMC Matador Wagon, the highest trim model with a 304 in it. The worst part, I bought that AMC for only 1 dollar, 3 years ago! That kills me to this day. Kills me...