Worst buying or selling decision!!

[Lynn]

1971. In one month I passed on these three:

56 Corvette, bad paint was peeling, but body was perfect. 265 three speed. Original motor. $700. thought is was too much because I could detect a bit of whine in second gear.

56 Nomad owned by a little old lady. Very nice, no rust original car with slight oxidation on the red paint. $600

55 Nomad (this one really hurts). I followed the guy to a monstrous house out in the country. Turned out he was the maintenance man, and got out of the car with a gun. We ended up talking a couple hours (not at gunpoint) and when I left he told me to just "call on ole Roosevelt if you ever need anything". Light blue Nomad with blue and white interior was really nice. But... just couldn't see spending $750 on it.

[Dog427435]

Back in the late seventies I went to look at a turquoise ’68 Camaro SS350. I don’t remember the mileage exactly, but it was a very low, original owner car. He had taken it off the road in the early seventies to race at West Hampton and it had just been sitting in his garage for years. It was a 4-spd car with slicks and headers and no other modifications. The car was perfect; the only defect was a dime sized ding in the passenger door from his daughter knocking against it getting her bicycle out of the garage. It looked brand new inside and out.
It was listed for $2500, I offered him $2000, he dropped to $2400, I went to $2200 but he wouldn’t budge. I wanted a driver, and didn’t want to have to buy tires and an exhaust system and was crappy because I had gotten a radar ticket on the Meadowbrook Pkwy going to his house and walked away from the sale.
Every time I see a turquoise Camaro I get that sick feeling in my stomach, knowing I still would have had that car today!

[74NovaSS]

Mine kills me to this day.... back in 1990 when I was 18, there was a 70 GTO Judge that set on a local car lot for a couple weeks. Light brown/fawn interior. RA IV 4-spd car. Missing hood tach. Everything else was there and decent original shape. Test drove it and the car was a absolute beast. ...... $2000...... I begged and begged... but because I had just in the previous 6 mos rolled my 71 Chevelle 3 times and then bought and was paying on an 84 Trans Am.... my parents refused to let me get the GTO.. (even they regret that one to this day now knowing what that car would have been worth now).

[Rixls6]

I've got a couple different ones that I'll always remember.
1st one was a 65 Shelby Mustang with a Paxton supercharger, original tri-y headers and spare tire. Wife and I had just got married (1979) and the guy was asking $6500.
Had the money, but decided to use that for a house and pass on the car.
2nd (also in `79) was a complete original 66 Hemi out of a Belvidere for $1100. We test ran it hanging from a chain on the ceiling of an old rickety garage. Thought the garage was going to come down around us when I revved the engine. We couldn't get the engine into the truck because the hydraulic hoist kept sinking back down, so went home expecting to return the next day, then decided we didn't want to do the deal, so left it.

[68 Vert]

A couple come to mind...

Bought a '69 RAIII GTO 'Vert in '78 from the original owner. Raced it and beat the livin' daylights out of this car for 5 years.
Drove it from NY to FL and back 3 times, never had to rebuild the drive train. I had to sell the car in '83 due to economy (lost my job).

Sold it to, at the time, the president of the GTO club of Fl. I had someone call me in the early '90's that was trying to restore the car, I heard later the car might not have survived due to typically NY rust/rot.

Again, late '70's from a family friend, I was offered a Superbird for $2,500...car had some minor rust, I passed.

Mike

[TimG]

Letting my son drive my '70 Z28 (see "Ouch my Z28" post)

[Supergas990]

Taking a 1970 GTO and converting it into a full fledge bracket car. This while the musclecar market was affordable in the early 90's and missing out on growing my collection to go racing.

Talk about being upside down in a car. You want to make a small fortune in racing? Start with a big one.

10 years later I ate the loss on the car because of three kids. Now I'm slowly rebuilding my other toys and searching for deals.

Also passed on a 69 Judge in 1993 or so, because it was $2,500 and in pieces in the kid's parent's garage. All I had to do was go get it. the car ended up in Wausau, WI and got the restoration it deserved.

Go figure.

Blair

[Kim_Howie]

Winter of 1970 lived in Burlington,Ia. Stopped at Fred Gibb Chevy. On the back row was 69 camaro had 7 miles on it, open the hood, ZL-1. Went in the show room talked to I think Herb Fox, they wanted 4500.00 for the car. I walked away thinking it was too much money!!!DUH I win!!!

[SS427]

......not taking Chads advice and flying to upstate New York to personally hand an original owner some down payment money on a certain LS6 convertible. The owner said there was no need and he was a man of his words. Instead he sold it to someone who knocked on his door a week before I was to go get it. As Jeff Dunham would say........DUMB A$$!!!!!