Whats the stupidest thing you let pass through your hands

1990 Dodge Dynasty. Yeah, it's a P.O.S. now, but in 20 years, I'll be feeling just like you guys!

Actually, I've got some old Whippet wheels laying out in the weeds somewhere that I can't find, and I've thrown a few aftermarket parts away during a restoration that I didn't realize till too late.

 

Being 61 years old and a consumate gear head since I was 14, there are just too many to list....one that stick in my mind was my 57 Pontiac 2 door. Had a later 389, 4 speed in it and kept the car for 4 years...a record. I overwound it one night [racing a 55 chevy and I won] and loosened up a wristpin or cracked a piston...engine had a slight knock. I removed the muncie and the chrome wheels and gave the rest away...totally rust/dent free car with good title.
I'd love to have it back again. Not a similar car...this very car.

 

Sold a running 65 Econoline pickup for $400. Dude got in it and drove away and as soon as he left the driveway I thought damn.

 

.....and I see a lotta corvette posts too...I bought my 64 coupe with later 350 HP 327/4 speed in red for $1400....had it painted black [beautiful job!] and let it go for $950 because I wanted to persue a life of drugs/drink and couldn't hold a job to pay the $85 a month payments..Jesus!

 

In 1976 I could of had a 2-tone 1956 Bel-air convertible 265 V8 Auto for $1000. It needed a starter and a top. I bought a 1967 mustang instead. Idiot.

Later that year my older brother passed on a 60's corvette for $1500 because the owner had glassed the lights shut and flared the fenders.

 

NOS in the box Judson super charger for a 36hp VW motor. My auto shop teacher wanted to give it to me free!!!!! But like the foolish high school kid I was I let him take it a swap and sell it for $40.00. Holly shit I am a fool!!!

 

In the early eighties- 1967 Chevelle SS396 convertible-396/350, 4-speed. 18000 miles. $4500. Owner wouldn't negotiate. I showed him!
or- 1968 Shelby GT500 Mustang-$3800.
In 1966- 1958 Corvette-283/230, $1200- no-way is an 8 year old car worth that much!

 

When I was in high school (early 80's) there was a '68 Shelby GT 500KR, red with black interior, right down the street from me for sale for $2500 bucks. I vividly remember the roll bar and Cobra monikers on the seat belts and console lid.

The car belonged to the son who'd moved away - the father was trying to sell it for him. The only problem was they'd neglected to put anti-freeze in it and the original block had cracked. The busted motor was still in the car.

My old man said "no car with a busted motor is worth $2500" and wouldn't loan me the money to buy it.

The car sold before I could scrape the money together myself, but I tried like hell.

 

Alimony.and the gun i had aimed at my exwife.

 

Does Christie Canyons boobs count?

 

Right-a-way I can think of a 55 Corvette for $1000 and a 31 coupe, Ford of course, that I pulled outa the woods and let it slip away to another fella.

 

In 1974 I found my 34 Tudor and did not like the incorrect rear bumper as it had a 'stupid' indent in the middle. I traded for a freshly plated correct sedan rear bumper. You guessed it, I gave away a gennie 34 Sedan Delivery bumper and did not know better. Like that story John Stimac?

 

her name was heather

 

All the '60's muscle cars myself and my buddies beat to death and scrapped in High School. Late '70's. Barrett-Jackson buyers would cringe at the list. They probably have been recycled 3 times by now. A lotta fun tho.

 

I passed on 2 1954 Chevy convertibles for $1000 about 5 years ago. Both complete cars with minor rust. I didn't have anyway to get them home... they were in Virginia.

 

For me it was Patty. 5'1",Blonde,Blue Eyes,100lbs and was crazy(in a good way) about me.
WTF was I thinking........

Oh yeah....the '56 Chevy 210 Red and White with a 283 that smoked "a little" for $1500(1983).
AND,the '70 Super Bee Red/Black with a new 383 for $1500(1981).

 

Well really I'd say for sure that mine was a 66 427 Fairlane lightweight. I found the old drag car in the 80s but just didn't have the funds. It still had the original hood and rear end set up....just sitting beside a gas station in TN. It was gone when I went back.

 

Five years ago I sold a '54 Chevy convertible that had sat in the woods since the '60s, no motor, no trans, frame rotted so bad only the X-member and torque tube held it together, for $750. I did okay, I don't think I even paid $100 for it. I think if I'd known about that deal I would have been on my way down to flat tow them home...


I did pass up a couple years ago a rough '46 Ford woodie. Rough as in the wood shot, I would have had to tarp it up on the trailer to keep shit from blowing off. But I think I could have got it for like $500. Guys were selling bare frames for them for more than that.

 

Mercury

 

A one owner Black 396 65 impala with a factory 3 speed on the floor, Very afordable.
And more recently...
A 1948 Mack jr. open cab firetruck. It was saftey yellow, with all of the books and papers, and it was power'd by a very rare allis chalmers turbo diesel tractor motor.

I had to pay the mortgage, Boy I hope this truck comes my way again.

 

A 63 split window basket case for $2500

 

In 93 I passed up a 2door Pontiac wagon for 1500. It was a solid runner. Damn I still think about that.

 

A wife

 

Original Thickston PM-7 with carbs. and original air cleaner for $250 at Hershey in '99. Still kicking myself. The guy selling it was the original owner.

 

Dad had a older friend who had a 28 or 29 Ford Pickup that had been driven behind his barn several years before. The truck was complete, very little if any rust, but because the engine wouldn't turn over (& I had no garage, house of my own etc.) I let myself get talked out of buying it.
The real kicker, he only wanted $800.00

A few months later, I got Mom & Dad talked into it anyway, we call the guy & he'd already sold it.

Then there was the 56 Imperial for $1,200 . . .

 

Howzabout the super clean 64 Imperial I sold to a friend I worked with. He said he needed a car. I thought he NEEDED a car so I sold him this at a smokin "friend price".
Derbied. I hit him so hard he almost wore out from bouncin.

 

That GD wedding ring.Lol

 

This was really dumb. A 54 Ford Skyliner, running, driving and stopping, little Y block, 3 speed overdrive for $800 circa 1987. I couldn't figure out where I would find a better plastic roof for it to replace the crazing one in it. I think we could have talked him down to $650. He also had a decent 57 Fairlane 2 door for cheap too, but I was a Chevy guy as a teenager and a fool to boot. We had the cash. Sigh.

 

1939 knucklehead for 3 grand back in 1990

 

I let a clean old 57 Chevy Drag Car with a tilt glass front end slip away once, the guy had it in his front yard for sale for $500.00 less motor & trans and rear tires.
I saw it on a Wednesday and talked to him about it...I went back on a Friday to buy it, he had sold it the day before.... sure wish I would of gave him a deposit.

The new owner made a stock car out of it, he was running it at our local circle track a couple of weeks later still with the fiberglass front end, the last time I saw it, it was totally wiped out.