What did you not buy but wish you had, what did you sell,wish you hadn't.

It was up near Chicago. A 69 Roadrunner light blue with a white vinyl top. All original and well taken care of. Interior was white. Asking price was 26K.
I think this was in 2010. I bought a 70 corvette instead for 23K. The corvette has since been replaced with a 67 GTX.

Trans Am I would like to have is a
69 1/2. No vinyl stik-its.

I'll reply on behalf of my parents who went to the Chrysler/Plymouth dealer to special order a new '71 air grabber equipped (383 auto) Bahama yellow Road Runner. Before they processed their sales order, the salesman took them out back to ask if they would be interested in a left over 1970 model, a lemon twist colored Plymouth Superbird. Not interested. After a couple of years, they sold the '71 Road Runner. Two poorly thought-out decisions? Forty years later, I have replaced the '71 Road Runner with a '72 Satellite Sebring Plus (last foto).

I did not buy apple stock at $3 in 1997

Talked about it for a couple months watching it go between $3 and $6 several times.
Enough to entertain buying at $3 and selling at $6 over and over.

If I'd have done that once a month for six months and then kept the shares, I'd have about $832,000 today.

YY1 said:

I did not buy apple stock at $3 in 1997

Talked about it for a couple months watching it go between $3 and $6 several times.
Enough to entertain buying at $3 and selling at $6 over and over.

If I'd have done that once a month for six months and then kept the shares, I'd have about $832,000 today.

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Same with you in 86 told my dad to put 1000 on apple stock for me, he said the market was going to crash and not waist my money.. I still give him $h!t....

In the early eighties I sold a 68 Charger RT 383 auto for $300 I think. Now I could sell one or two parts off it for that.

In 1975 I had a chance to buy a 68 Hemi RR (with a bad rod knocking) for $1500. Another buyer showed up with cash -but all I had was a promise for a few days to pay.
Two years later I found the exact same car for sale for $2500 with a rebuilt engine. I snagged it and drove it as a daily driver for 15 years and 75,000 miles. Sold it for $17,000 in the late eighties as it was from my just driving it.

I still wish I hadn't sold it and it's not about the money. Looking at it today--? If I still had that car it would be for sale.--Life moves on.

Never heard of anyone before driving a hemi-powered classic Mopar as a daily driver, let alone for 15 years!

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Never heard of anyone before driving a hemi-powered classic Mopar as a daily driver, let alone for 15 years!

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Hmm? how old are you?---I drove that car with chains in the snow many times. Had to block the radiator with cardboard to get heat inside the car.
I had a 70 charger 440 RT at the time for a backup car to get to work but had better luck with the RR for long hauls to work (360 miles per week all year around no matter the weather).

I'll be 63 this September, don't have a sweet tooth, but I'll eat any chocolates sent my way.

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I'll be 63 this September, don't have a sweet tooth, but I'll eat any chocolates sent my way.

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I'm 66 for a few more months. Drove these old cars for transport and pleasure until my 68 sport fury 440 got a trans. leak in 1990.
Since then these old cars are only for fun. Just like the memories.

Wish I had bought:
(1) 1962 Pontiac 421 SD, 4 speed. $750 asking. One elderly owner.
(2) 1972 Buick GSX. $2,500 which I thought was a high price at the time.
(3) 1972 Plymouth Fury I, 440 Virginia State Police black unmarked car. Sold at state police auction for $750.
(4) 1969 Roadrunner, repainted BRIGHT RED. Immaculate condition. $1,800.
Parental intervention (i.e., interference) blocked all of the above car purchases around 1974/1975...which is probably why I am still alive and kicking today.

(4) 1970 Plymouth Superbird; 440, not running, Petty blue. Otherwise, nice overall condition. $4,250. I didn't have a place to safely store it in 1980.

The ones that I wish I hadn't sold because they were all very good solid and trouble-free vehicles:
(1) 1971 Plymouth Satellite (Regent?, no options) 318-2V. Changed to a 1970 340 intake, 550(?) cfm spread bore Holley, B&M Shift Kit after a professional trans rebuild, and 2-1/4 inch dual exhaust using turbo flow mufflers for a 440 Fury; 2-1/4 in and out. The exhaust drone is still rattling around in my noggin. Also, a purple shaft from the local Chrysler/Plymouth dealer. I showed the old grizzled car parts counter guy the car and let him pick the cam. I think he was stunned that a teenager would ask for his advice AND actually take it!!! It ran fantastic. Note: Dual exhaust was done first followed by the induction and cam. Did the trans last. If I remember correctly...the rear end ratio was 2.71:1.
(2) 1972 Fury III 4 door, 360-2V
(3) 1984 Shelby Charger, 2.2 liter with progressive 2 barrel carb.
(4) 1989 Dodge Ramcharger with 360 cid and 3.55:1 sure grip (or whatever they called it in 1989).
(5) 1988 Audi90 Quattro sedan.
(6) 2004 BMW 325i coupe with factory sport package and factory aero package.

I'm with you on the Apple stock. I vasilated between Apple and Wang when they were both going bankrupt. The prices were around the same a little over $1-2. Guess which one I bought - I'll answer for you - I bought Wang which did go bankrupt but at least I got May $$ back out of it. If I'd bought the Apple stock I wouldn't be spending my time on this site - I'd be at my chateaux in the South of France.

I also wanted to buy lakeshore property in minnesota when I was in college in the mid 70's. My dad - a banker berated the idea and told me to put my money in a savings account. I did - guess which one is worth more these days....

Don't regret never selling my GTX - purchased in 1971-2 for a $1000. Still have it and restored it over the last 5 years. Getting to the point where I may sell it though - wonder if I'll regret it...

Digging this one out of the archives....

There was a 70 B5 Blue challenger for sale along the side of the road not more then a couple miles from my house...mid/late 90's. Stopped to look at it and found it was a R/T SE with a 440/auto and matching blue interior (I think). Guy was asking $1500 for the car but I passed on it because in my infinite wisdom of youth...and I quote "this thing has too much mud in the rear quarters..."

Late 77 or early 78, there was a 70 RR 440-6bbl with air grabber, and super trac pac in limelight with a spun rod bearing in my town that I could had for 400 bucks. Still kick myself over that one.

Wish I hadn't bought Most of my guns. It's not like you can shoot more than one at a time anyway.

Out of college, I was just as tired as my charger that I drove daily for four years, so I went new car shopping. Coulda bought a 98 Mustang Cobra but went for the GT instead because it was $50 less a month. Stupid, stupid, STUPID...

When I was a lad, and buddy and I got a job at a horse farm, and up under a tree by the house was a 69 1/2 A12 Superbee 4 speed car. I asked about it and yes, it could be bought...$400. Better yet they said I could work it off. We worked the first week, they were planning a horse show that Saturday. We busted our butts digging fence holes, portaJohn holes, shoveling tons of manure, they worked us like dogs. On Friday they gave us our pay...$20! We met uptown, and both of us decided that no way we were going back. Never did get the Bee, and it must’ve been sold because it ended up disappearing!

resurrecting an oldie

I'm pretty sure most here have heard these already
but fitting to this tread...

Man that list is so long on both sides of
I sold & should've bought

my 1st truck was, I wish I still had today
I used it for 350k miles, it had something like 40k when I got it
off an older neighbor that lived by me in Garden Valley Ca., 1976-ish
a very late model 1966 short-bed Sweptline W-100 Power-Wagon
Dana-60's front & rear
org. 383cid (that came out as an option in 1967, was strange)
it had a later 70 440 4bbl from a new Yorker in it
PTO winch upfront, a truck 4 speed with a granny low
big ol' Q-78's 35" (military tires originally, noisy as ****)

I loved that ol' truck, didn't know it was as rare as it was...
it had towed racecars all over the western US for a decade...

My 1st 77 Plymouth Trail Duster, I bought in 1984-ish in Alaska
400 B-block 4 speed, lil' lift & 35" tires, snow plow on the front
sold it when I moved back to California, I wish I still had it...
I let my sister drive it for a while when she wrecked her brand new
Chrysler Laser on the C-street bridge on black ice,
I couldn't hardly get her out of it, when her car was fixed/done...
I had so many memories of Alaska in it, from Anchorage
to Fairbanks to the tip of the Kenai peninsula, to Mt. McKinley (Denali park)

my 1st Charger a 68 R/T GG1 & Black, I bought in the summer of 1974
15 y/o, from a divorced lady down the street from my moms place
I was visiting on summer vacation, the lady needed the cash
I always liked her car...
She knew me from when she was married to a Sheriff dept.
I was the car/troublesome kid in the streets in the neighborhood...
I got that car for $350, it needed a little trans work, filter & fluid
bands adjustment & it drove just fine...
I later sold it to my cousin Joe, after having it & several different engine &
trans combos in it, from mild 440 to a fully blown 513cid & 20+ years...
He totaled it a couple weeks later....
Broke my heart

or I traded a 69 RR Daily Driver, 440 with a STR-14-6bbl 4 speed
I had for a 81 Omni F/C,
turned it into
My last 23 T Altered, former 125" w/b F/C chassis, fast as all hell
all kinds of different engine trans combos, was a great toy
I had since I was a teenager, eventually it would run
in the high 6's @ 190 all day long,
I raced for well over a decade, 1 of my 3 racecars at the time
sold the rolling chassis for $6k, I don't know why...
or
Traded a 427cid BBC 4 bolt short-block with aluminum rods etc.
out of one of my Altereds, for a
49 Ford Business Coupe, out of a rice field in Sonoma Ca.
I made into a Pro-Gas 8.50 racecar, home built
full Alston Tube Chassis & full cage etc., that'd run high 7's & 180+
with the best & final combo it had 526cid Blown Alky Inj. Hemi Mastodon Milodon
I raced for about a decade, as a 2nd or 3rd racecar option
sold the whole operation for $15k, spare parts & all
a dime on the dollar, I'm not even sure why I sold it either
for some reason I got bored easily & always wanted something else

I passed on a LO23 Hemi Dart for $5500 from a guy I knew in Concord
in the early 80's, he needed $$$, for some reason I don't remember why,
I didn't buy it...
I kick myself for that one a lot

lots. lots more, those are some of the more memorable
sorry for the short book