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

The one that really bothers me is an all original 1929 Ford Roadster Pickup. I bought it for $1800.00 got it running, kept it one month and sold it for $2800.00, to put new windows in my house! Then there is the '36 Ford Rumble seat 5-window, i started tearing it apart, and the whole floor was nothing but roofing tar! Got discouraged and sold it for what i gave for it! What a DUMMY!

 

A 37,000 mile 39 Ford coupe that I never owned. I was 14 and the neighbor put a "for sale" sign in the window for $175. No rust and one dented fender, Offenhouser heads and 3 carbs. 13" wheels on the front and 15" on the rear, laminated dash knobs. All the hot stuff....Dad would not let me buy it and said that he didn't want that piece of junk in his driveway.........I always did think he was a sick man. 50 years later and I am sure of it now

 

thiers a few but the one,s i miss the most 57 chevy convt. made full custom showed 64- 69

 

My 59 El Camino! Had to sell it last year (thanks to my soon-to-be-ex wife's spending problems) I did make up some paperwork with the new owner stating that I would have have first dibs on it if he ever decides to sell. Either way it's time to move on and find something different. I have a chance at getting a 47 Ford tudor or possiby another driver project, but I need to wait till my house sells first.

 

Yeah, Denise. I have looked around at a couple; but they want an "arm and a leg" nowdays!!
(and THEN, HOW could I drive it??)

BTW - looked at the "Burn out." Is that the way you bake the cookies nowdays??

Gonna be at Bonney next summer??

 

374 ci Packard powered 51 Olds 88 club coupe. that car cost me more grief and problems at the time but it was the one I miss the most out of 125+ cars I've owned

 

It would have to be my high school 57 Chevy. Just a four door sedan but it was my first car i put Thrush mufflers on, my first 4 barrel , first car I bought mags for. I threw away the front bumper and grill and made a custom grill for it( expanded metal!)I bought it from an old greaser in Detroit, it had 64 galaxie buckets and a console with a swaztika carved in it, he had a real switchblade and a DA haircut. Lots of cool adventures in that car. I sold it in upstate New York a few years later, now unkown whereabouts(30 years later)

 

I'd have to say my first car. It was a 4 speed 67 Firebird someone had put a later pontiac 350 in it. I have alot of memories associated with that car. I also miss my old 67 GTO had a 428 with aluminum heads and all that good stuff. was a metalic brown with white vinyl top. White interior. (looked alot better then it sounds)

I miss my Dad's bright red 67 GTO too. 400HO 4 Speed. He also had a sweet beige 61 Catalina bubble top. I think I miss that one the most.

 

69 AMX, 2-68Javelins, a 69 javelin, 64 chevy ImpalaSS, 23 t, and 29 model A roadster.

 

I saw a very similar set-up at a local (S.E. Wisconsin) car show this past summer, do you know where yours ended up?


I miss my 71 Charger R/T, 440/727, rock stock, super low miles, bought it for $1500 in 1995, it sat in the driveway for a few months and some dude offered me $3000 for it, I couldn't turn that down. Today, in the same condition, it would bring $30K+....

 

Don't really miss a car when it goes down the road....Your hoping to get/build one better.....I did have a '69 Mach 1 in the 70's that i liked though

 

Ill probibly hear it for this one...

I miss my 1971 Ford Maverick. It was by far not a granny car. I yanked out the six and dropped a 302 in, changed all the drivetrain to 5 lug. Man that sucker was fast. Wish I could find another one...



Thank Goodness I still have my 55 Olds

 

66 fairlane GT 'vert i had in high school (many,many years ago)....

 

I had a 64 F250 that i used as a work truck. It had a few small dings, but no rust. It was just a decent looking work truck. Thing was great, 223 I-6 4 speed and 4.88 gears. It was a great truck, when it hit -20* youd just have to pull the choke give the gas two pumps and bam shes running no problems. I realy have no idea why the hell i sold that thing and i kick myself everyday for it...

 

I owned this one forty years ago from 62 to 67... Wish I still had it.. Sold it for 200 bucks so I could buy a 62 Ford Van ....

 

'67 Pontiac Beaumont SD 396/375
'69 Beaumont SC 396
'35 Ford 3w coupe 454
'37 Ford club cabriolet
'32 roadster
'32 Sedan
'68 Camaro 4spd, A/C original Cali. survivor

Hell, I miss all of them!

 

All you guys that miss your first car make me glad I still have mine, 65 Satellite in my avitar, 32 yrs so far

 

I miss my first two cars(no pics).....51 Chevy Fourdoor Deluxe I bought when I was 13 and my 64 Biscayne foordoor(emerald green/white top, supremes, full hydraulics) I drove in High School. Also my 49 Dodge I sold back in 03

 

Can you post a bigger pic? 65 B-Bodys give me wood...

My first car was a 67 Coronet 500 with a 1970 440/727, my dad gave it to me when I was 14, I goofed up in school and he sold it when I was 15.

 

I found out a couple yrs ago my first car, The 67 Firebird I mentioned above was totaled. The guy welded the rear gears trying to make a posi. I guess he put a pretty strong motor in it and the weld broke loose or something. (I heard the story second hand) It got sideways and went head on into a tree

 

My fav/missed most was 53 Belair-borrowed cash from bank to buy('cause I had none),against Dad's advice-dragged it home to his garage,against his advice-hammered,welded,bondo'd,painted,cleaned and general made disaster of Dads' garage,against his advice,finally finished and he and Mom took keys and buggered off for ice cream for its' maiden voyage!Against my advice!!!

 

Try this

 

1969 Pontiac LeMans
1965 Pontiac Bonneville
1967 Chevy Van

 

My problem is I keep everything.

 

Looks great, thanks!

 

68 Camaro RS convertible,69 Malibu convertible,69 GTO,66 Chevy II,70 Chevelle......

 

Here are a few, in the order I built them....











I'm down to the Model A ,which I will have forever, a 64 Ford truck and a 51 Merc...

I'd keep em all if I had the room.

-Abone.

 

I can't really decide if I miss all the cars I've had or I don't miss any of them.....

There have been a few that were a lot of fun to drive, but they were a big pita to keep up. Then there are a few I cut up to use as race cars (roundy-round) that would be worth some pretty good bucks these days, if they were in the shape they were in when I cut them up. which they would not be in today, probably. There were a few I sold before I was ready to sell them, but money was always a concern. When the oppertunity presented it self to double what I had in them, they were gone. From all the cars I've had, there are only a couple that I actually lost money on, and those have been mostly the more recent ones.

I guess maybe I miss most of them just a little, but none stand out as the one or two.
Gene

 

I sold my 70 1/2 Challenger ta 340 six pak 4 speed 391 rear for 6000, so I could build a t bucket . It would bring 30 to 50 k now in the same condition. Sold the t bucket with a 392 hemi for 6500.Took me a long time to sell it for that. Saw it on a e bay a year later ,sold for 23k

 

1966 435hp vette
1970 LS7 chevelle
factory swiss cheese Pontiac
Burt Reynolds 1972 Eldo 'vert
1967 Z-28 Camaro (5th one built)
1968 copo Chevelle post
1964 Falcon sedan delivery from Holman Moody