Whats the stupidest thing you let pass through your hands

[1] the original big al 34 sedan STEELbody was stolen from my back yard
[2]57 desoto adventuer 3452x4 ...sold it to cover cost of ticket ...

 

a 1936 pontiac 3 window.rumble. econoline front i beam. 389 gto ram air motor running 2 carter 4's, highly warmed up. muncie 4 speed. papy hough custom pontiac wide track early track rear end. and a few very nice fuelie 57 chevies. aka a 210. a nomad. a sport coupe. and a convert.

 

I love these type of threads... misery loves company.
In the past ten years..mid fifties all-aluminum Jensen Interceptor, 2500. Dino coupe, 2500, 1956 Desoto Pace Car edition convertible, 3000,
in the last year a five window 34 Ford for 5000, 1971 GTX restorer, 1500, 1963 Thunderbird convertible in a garage for 30 years, 2800...

 

larz bahrs==don't feel to bad about not buying the car for 800.00, i passed up a 26 coupe with a chevy engine built to run fast get away for a 100.00====miller 35

 

A 427 SOHC engine complete with fuel injection out of a boat for $3500 about 15 years ago.

 

hey in the early years we we were all stupid first one that got away 1965 mustange fast back hipo 289 $400.00 1962 chevy ss 409 $ 600.00 and many more to follow now we want to talk realy stupid how abought the ones we owned an sold cheap just because we made a little proffit 1. 440 six pack super bee 2. 66 chevell ss 396 3. 48 chevy fleetline 4. 58 corevete old race car 5. 60 t bird 6. impialla ss-63-64-65. so!dont look back just charge stright ahead

 

Was a rebuilt Ford 427 SOHC, I bought it for £1500 in 92 and shipped it back to the US sold for £8000, Thought i had done well

 

1974 ford f100 50$
1969 vw bus all origional 900$
Loaded 1977 pontiac fire bird 50$ (it needed the motor to be put back together)
3 15" ford wire rims kinda rusty free (a week later man had them on an f100 after they were stripped and powdercoated)
small sand blaster free

 

40 Ford Woodie for $2000. Ouch

 

Cindy Nelson..

 

I call bullshit.-Weeks

 

A 3 bedroom house in San Francisco that I was renting in 1979 went on the market for $60k and the owner was willing to carry the loan.

A complete running but a little rusty 1955 Chrysler C300 for $500. And a complete, running, no rust 1958 Chrysler 300D for $1000.

Blonde, voluptuous Lesley Watson. I was a fool! I still love you. Please, please, please call!

 

In early '73 a car-nut friend was hired to "rid out" a small storage building on the back of a LONG-time Ford dealer who had gotten ancient (hell, he sold his first Motel-T in 1913) and was FINALLY selling out his business. I lent a hand and kept a few things my friend didn't want. One was an UNUSED '58 Edsel driver-side fender, still in primer. I moved that fender around from garage to garage for over a decade and finally sold it at a flea market for $15.

But THAT is minor to a buddy's slip. When he returned from 2 tours in Vietnam, he had money in his pockets and a shot at a CHERRY '56 Thunderbird for $1,500 cash. When he told me the story years later ('75), he was STILL kicking himself !!! Instead of the "bird," he put his dough toward a new Impala.

Not BAD, but NOT a '56 'Bird !!!

 

I bought a 1961 Impala 2dr. SS Hi-Po 348 4 speed in highschool 1968. The Chevy dealer said the engine wasn't original because the original owner traded in after the engine blew up. So the dealer put a new 340 HP 409 crate motor in it to sell it on the used car lot (where I bought it for $950.00)!

So I drove it two years until my girlfriend HAD to have an engagement ring to prove my love. Traded the SS to buddy for $600 and a POS pickup. I don't have the wife, the ring, the pickup or the 409 anymore. Oh well, it's water over the dam. Saw one go at BJ for $55,000 a few years ago :-0

 

A complete original, correct carbs & linkage tri-power for a SBC

 

When I bought my virgin bore Ford 427, the fellow had another virgin bore 427 block for another $650. I was in high school and money wasn't exactly falling out of my pockets so I had to pass on the second one.

 

About 10 years ago, a good friend of mine offered to sell me a '33 five window that I had helped with for then way cheap price - even offered to let me make payments! It was an early sixties hot rod with a 283, four speed, ansen pedals, paint from about 1963 thay still was shiny, full fendered, arrrrrgggg! That noise you here is me banging my head against the wall just thinking about it. Just felt at the time I couldn't afford it, was trying to get my business off the ground and (get this) 10,000.00 was just too much...... Took a corporate job within 2 months of this deal and spent the next 5 years making too much money. should have struggled a bit! Sad post script - car got sold to someone else here in town and within weeks had an auto trans, tweed interior, spash graphics,etc. etc. BANG BANG BANG BANG!

 

1965 R code Galaxie 500 XL. this was a 427 2x4 bbl 425 hp with Pyrex headlite covers intact. Bought it for 50.00( YES 50.00) with title. Got in a money bind, sold it for 2500.00, nice profit, but damn it is RARE!

 

'58 Apache Panel Delivery 1/2 ton (short verison) that was original NAPCO 4X4 and sold it for $1,400 because of lack of space and time.

'69 Charger, all body work done, complete with extra parts. Sold it for $10,500 because of my ex wife.

'66 GT 350 Clone, Shelby 289, toploader, pony interior. Sold it for $1,600 in 1984 because my father said it was too fast for me to have as a first car.

'50 2 door Fleetline Deluxe...complete basketcase with a perfect body. Sold for $900 for lack of space.

 

Besides all the cars my dad had....which I had no control over, I let a Chevy II like this slip away. it was'nt cheap for me at the time-9g's in the early 90's,but I think that's the one that burns my ass the most. It was within reach,and if I only had it today........

 

Probably the roller that Groucho is selling in the Classifieds. Man, I want that thing bad.

dka

 

A couple of years ago, at the San Marcos recycling yard, somebody had taken in a 53 Studebaker coupe with an aborted, rough chop and filled quarter windows just for scrap..I offered the guy $175.00 and he scoffed, thinking he really had something..I know, I know I could have gotten that much just for the un-cut hood, Hell it had a nice set of doors and bumpers...should have upped it a bit...

 

Not mine, but my broothers. He got in a tight and had to get rid of it in about 1961. I put alot of miles on it sitting in the back yard...HA!

 

68 Torino with a 351, nice paint and interior my brother was selling to finish his nova. I was in high school at the time and didn't have the $500 bucks he wanted for it. Damn!

 

Pamela Sue

Way second was a 440 six pack Cuda.

Both happened when I was 19 and both look 10 times better and are worth 10 times more than they were then

 

250 GTO Ferrari. When I was 16 back in the mid 70's I was looking for my first car and a girl from high school told me about a Ferrari by her house a dentist had driven home from NY in and he didn't like it so it was sitting since it was basically new. She was right, it was there faded paint, rims covered in rust from cat piss and flat tires all around.
But I wanted a muscle car and was a Ford fanatic, so my parents gave me the choice of a '70 Mustang Mach 1, with 428cj, for $1250.00 or the Ferrari GTO the dentist said he would sell for $4000.
I remember asking the opinion of my friends at school and we were all American muscle car kids so of course I bought the Mustang thinking of course that there is no way a Ferrari could possibly kick ass on a big block Mustang in a street race, and we were probably right about that, but...
I always had a gut feeling I was buying the wrong car and one day the Ferrari might be worth a few more dollars then the Ford when I went to re-sell it.

 

My 54 Cusso, Y block 4 speed, 4 inch chop...if only...

 

I was partners with a guy in HS on a 41 Willys coupe we bought for 200. When I graduated from school, I left the area and the Willys. Been kickin myself ever since. That was in 1963.

 

440 6-Pak 'Cuda???? Ya know, guys, THIS thread is addictive. Every time I get a hit of this, I don't FEEL so damn bad about the GOOD shit that I had to let pass by OR actually let out of my OWN hands for practically nothing but friendship.

Well, hell, I guess FRIENDSHIP is better than getting taken by an opportunistic stranger. At least you know a buddy got to try & do something with what you sold him, eh?

 

If you asked my dad, it would probably be this:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=390051