I have had my fair share but I wish I had back the 69 442 W32 and 72 GS Stage1. I know where both of them are so.......c'mon lottery!
Made me cry I can't remember if it was a '68 or '70. But when I was 15 my elderly neighbor offered me his garage kept(!) 442 ( I remember seeing "HURST" on it) for about $2,000! Mom asks my uncle (who use to build and race funny cars) if that was a good deal. He said "hell yeah!!", but he'll kill himself with it. :blast: The day it was sold, we wathched it go down the street , and when it turned onto Franklin Ave, it slid right off onto the roof!! :ball: My uncle went down to take a look ,came back and said it was gone, just crunched. Every panel was trashed bad. :spank:
66 Ford Fairlane 500 Factory 427, 4 speed, 4.11 posi car.... ULTRA rare. I cant remember the exact number, but about 150 built. All [except 2] were red w/ red interior. Mine was silver with black interior... Yep, a one of a kind car. [the other was white w/ black interior] Bought it for $600 with the motor dis-assembled. Drove it for 7 years, sold it to a private collector in New York in 1986 for $7500. GREAT money at the time, but today it's worth in the $100k range, or more. My biggest regret about selling it is that I used the money to buy a brand new Renault Alliance convert. ou: Fortunately, insurance paid me off when some jerk rear-ended me and totaled my little convert. That's when I got into buicks. The one that got away: 1971 Mustang Grande notch-back. Ordered by the owner of the dealership with a FACTORY INSTALLED boss 351 engine.... Yep, another 1 of a kind car. Pumpkin orange paint with a brown interior. Every conceivable option. Yes it was a NOTCH-BACK, and yes it had the boss 351 emblem on the fender. Full documentation of it's one of a kind status, asking price of $5000 in 1990 seemed a little high to me, so I passed ou:
70' Buick GSX. I didn't own it, but my best friend did. He loves Mopars and really never wanted the GSX so he wanted me to have it. He even offered it to me for less than he had in it. This was 1999. The car was super solid with several NOS parts. Sweet running 455 and auto. Saturn yellow with black buckets. I never thought it was the real thing, but at $3800, I really didn't care. I just couldnt swing the money at that time with a new baby. He sold it to another guy in North Carolina who weeks later called my friend back to tell that he had verified it was a real GSX! The car got a partial resto. and sold for over $20,000. I still get hot thinking about that one.
cars have now ; 65 skylark gs 68 riv. Have had; 1949 ford club cpe. 64 skylark cpe 68 riv GS :TU: 69 Talladega torino cpe. :Brow: 70 GS 455 stage 1
RAIV 69 Judge Had a 69RAIV Judge, White with blue vinyl top, blue interior, The Judge stripes were blue and red. Had red white and blue trim in the headlight doors? The wheels had some kind of funky red white and blue accent... It sure looked factory, if not someone did a heck of a job. Never saw another Judge painted up like that.
I wish he still had his 500hp 70 Chevelle SS 396 bored out to a 402!!!!!! :beer And his 70 Cutlass even tough it was a 4-door. His 61 or 62(i think) Buick Special- 401 baby, nailhead :beer :beer :beer . His 87 Mitsubishi Monerto, that was a cool car. :3gears: :beer And all of the other cars he had. Thank God he kept the best, the 73 GS455!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :beer :beer :beer :beer :beer :beer Anthony
Well where do I start. My first car was a 69 chrysler imperial LeBaron with every option . purchased new by a dealer for his wife. even had foot control for the radio scan. 70 GS Stage 1 with a 77 odd fire V6 in it. 75 Buick century indy pace car. sold it to a friend who lunched the moter. 70 pontiac GTO std 400 M21 CR 4speed. I could have gotten a 74 Stage 1 buckets console for $800 bucks in '82. I should have asked grandpa as he only drove Buicks Tim
Been through quite a few and always ready to move to the next but I regret these few: 1971 Stage1 4 speed. Numbers, one owner you name it. $4k in '91. Sold for $8k in '93. Money I reallllly wish I hadn't made. Car was a perfect match for my Red/Pearl white interior '70 Stage1 Auto. I swear I saw the car in an online mag for $39,900 recently. Description and history on the car were same as mine. I wish I had a spare $39k to correct my mistake. 1969 Camaro RS/SS 396. Got it in trade for a '72 Plymouth Cuda 340 4 speed. Reason I don't have it is because the kids dad begged me to take the 'Cuda back and he'd even give me some money. He was afraid his kid would kill himself in a 340 14 to 1 roller cammed W2 headed, pro shifted(crash box)Hemi 4 speed with 4.56 gears Cuda. Maybe but damn I wish I had that Camaro back. 1967 Camaro RS/SS 4 speed and '70 Stage1 Gold/brown interior. Long sad story here. Got the GS for $400 in 1982. Fixed it up and loooved it. Got run off the road by a drunk driver and bent the frame. Mike G.(racebuicks) comes over and looks and says he can replace the frame and fix it back up. But, it'll take a few months, oooorrrrrrr....he'd trade me a 67 Camaro in boxes that he should have never really bought. Well being the impatient high school senior I just couldn't wait on my Buick to be fixed and a 4 gear Camaro sounded cool. Deal was done. My first mistake. Shoulda fixed the GS. Got the Camaro going with a warmed up smallblock, close ratio Muncie and a set of 15x8 Corvette Ralleys. Fun car. While assembling it I found out it was the dual option SS/RS and not just the RS appearance package Mike told me it was. Bonus for me. Drove the car a year and got an offer to be able to buy a bada** '74 Bird delete T/A that I had seen around town. Remember I'm a young dude, had to have this T/A. Sold the Camaro which still was in primer for $2k. Bought the T/A and all would be good except the T/A was: A: In retrospect not as valuable as the Camaro in the long run and maybe not as cool(subjectively of course) B:Modded for handling and top speed not drag racing so my stop light entertainment wasn't as good. Caint was too nice. 12 Coats of bright red rubbed to perfection. I worried every second about chips and dings. D: And finally the T/A was BAD LUCK. It got run into twice. The trans blew in high gear o No: at well over 130mph on the highway almost causing a nasty spin. The front A-arm mount broke most likely due to the 700lb!!! roadrace front springs beating it up. Sold the T/A to some kid after the last time somebody caved in my driver's door for $1k cash. Shoulda just painted the Camaro and kept it. Would be worth a mint now anyway. Other than that I don't regret much in the car arena. Now the woulda shouldas are a whole new ball of wax. Let me tell you 'bout the Yenko Camaro or GS Stage1 ragtop or 427 435hp Vette or....... Bah, it would take too long.
