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steve from staten island

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My latest so ive been told would be my complete mostly original 69 sport sat conv. that i got for 3 grand. I could have parted it out and doubled my money
In 1971 i bought a 1969 GTO from a guy at work. He bought it new,it had 10,600 miles on it and never saw rain! No one ever sat in the back seat and it was like a brand new car.
How bout you
 
Bought a 75 Cordoba that wouldn't start for $100. Put a rotor in distributor & drove it home. 360-4v. Drove it for 4 years, only put brakes & tires on it. 27 gallon tank & 23mpg! Talk about an interstate hauler. Wife loved that car.
 
mine was a 69 road runner one owner with 50,000 miles for $400. 383 4 speed
 
69 Sport Satellite for $300 back in the early 70's . (Which subsequently whooped a local neighborhood SB Corvette)
 
mr. b said:
mine was a 69 road runner one owner with 50,000 miles for $400. 383 4 speed
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That is so from the day! I never could find a decent Roadrunner back then. I should clarify that I bought a 64 Plymouth wagon red with 318 for $40.00, put a radiator in in it, and sold it for a huge price of $200.00. Score!(1974)
 
my first car was a 63 Belve. 4 dr. I got for $15.00 44 yrs. ago slant 6 w/ torque flight trans. beat the stuffings out of it and the only thing that broke were the rear springs going from reverse to first at @ 25 mph. trying to do a burn out. 1 oil change I did there was no more than a cup of oil between the pan and filter and I still ran strong that's why I still love MOPAR
 
69 Roadrunner 383 auto a/c car, near perfect body without engine $250. It had 3" diamond tuck interior.....EVERYWHERE... I mean you couldn't put up the sun visors out of the way because the 3" diamond tuck on the visor interfered with the 3" diamond tuck inside the roof.... but it was attached over the original interior
 
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69 Roadrunner 383 auto a/c car, near perfect body without engine $250. It had 3" diamond tuck interior.....EVERYWHERE... I mean you couldn't put up the sun visors out of the way because the 3" diamond tuck on the visor interfered with the 3" diamond tuck inside the roof.... but it was attached over the original interior
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Sounds like a Phoenix car. HA HA
 
I bought my first car, my 73 Road Runner, for $400. I have never gotten rid of it and today my son drives it. I bought it in 1982 so maybe it wasn't an absolute steal, but still not a bad deal for a car I have had that much joy out of for all these years.

I have to say one of my better buys was a 1987 F-150 4x4 XLT Lariat. It was black and silver with a red interior - nice looking truck! I bought it used in 1989 for $7000 and sold it in 1998 for $5995 after I put almost 156,000 miles on it. And yes, it did sell for $5995! My father-in-law helped me sell it upstate and it still looked fantastic. It had been repainted by Ford for free in a "silent recall" due to paint failure, so the body was fantastic looking. My father-in-law felt it was worth every penny, so he held his ground and a guy paid the full asking price!
 
1967 GTO for $500 bucks, back in the later 90's. Had a good friend who's father tragically died when we were still teenagers. He always wanted a GTO. My best friend and I found a GTO, sitting in the front yard of a run down shack, in the middle of the woods, outside Mountain WI. Long story short, a pretty rough ragged woman took the car from her husband in a divorce, just to be a bitch. We scrounged up what little money we had at the time and she sold it to us for $500. Several of us got the car back to another friends house. We got the car running and gave it to the friend who's father had died, for an early graduation present. We all worked a lot of hours together getting that car back to it's former glory.

Wish I could say it was a happy jim dandy ending, but not too long later I left for the military and about a year after being gone, found out he met his so called soul mate. She didn't like the car and she talked him into getting rid of it, after he knocked her up. Never seen the car or hardly my friend since. Funny how things work out.
 
I have a few.

Back in the 80's I got a 74 Pinto wagon for free that was super clean. I put a tranny in it and sold it for $500.00 (after letting my buddy use it for a while).

My 68 RR, the one that I'm working on now, I bought for $450.00.

Not a car, but back in the 80's I traded my good running 383 straight across for a 426 Max Wedge.

78 Toyota pick up purchased for $25.00. Put a tranny in it and drove the crap out of it. Incidentally I bought the truck from Markie Post's brother, who has been my mom's neighbor for years. Remember Markie Post?
 
70 Challenger for $400 back in the late eighties.
 
My first 70 Satellite ragtop (318, 3 on the tree) for $400 in 1980. Drove it for 4 years through college, then put it in my brother's garage with the intent on restoring it. Life got in the way, he needed the space, it was rotted out, so sold it for parts in 1995-6 for $500.
 
1984 Thunderbird for the cost of towing down the block. First Car.

1970 Sport Satellite for $899 in 2012. Drove it home.

Also a 1994 Shorty Astro Van (AWD, HO Engine) for $300 in 2008? or so.
Drove it home and after swapping the cracked head, Continues to be a Bulletproof DD and Hauler with 251,000 Miles.

- JDB
 
Bought a 1960 Corvette, Big Brake, Fulie, 4spd car in 1977 for $2500. Restored it myself. Still have it. I did get a great deal on the Golden Rotisserie Chicken also. Paid $2600 in 2000 . Numbers 383 4spd car. The one in the build thread.
 
My stories are on a bit of the unethical side of the car biz in 2008. I never made less than grand and had a new DD every 3 months or when the titled showed up. It was 100% legal.

I was able to pay my mortgage those months, otherwise it would have been grim.
 
I should have kept this one. Bought it in '81, a 1 owner for $300.
An orange '71 Challenger RT 340, that was bought from T-K Dodge 1/30/71.
Traded it for my '69 Barracuda S and a '66 Satellite.
 
My first car at 12 y.o/1978.......66 Plymouth Belvedere, $50.00. Still have her! Drove her from 1982-1985.
Bought a 1971 Z28 and parked the Plymouth in 85....set in grandpop's cow pasture for 34 years. Sears Roadhandler's still holding air! [video=youtube;j4KIEfPCvMw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4KIEfPCvMw[/video]
 
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