I use to own a 1969 Olds 442 W32; black/black with white pinstripes. Owned it for 15+ years, had a weak moment and sold it. Dumb!
Marina blue `66 Chevelle SS396, 4 speed with a matching blue bucket seat interior. It only had around 16,000 miles on it when I sold it. Of all the cars I've had over the years, that's the one I really wish I would have hung onto.
Definitely this one - that was parted and scrapped by a once prominent member of the So. Cal Buick movement. This color/interior/drivetrain combo had to be in the very low double (possibly even single) digit production numbers. My friend still says this is one we should have kept. I should also add that this was a numbers car with the original distributor and Q-Jet. https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/mus/2015/11/Dream-Weaver/3749138.htm
Too many to list guys but we sell them at that point for a reason I guess. 63 impala wagon 49 Chevy truck Trans am 80
It showed up on ebay back around 2010 (20 years after I sold it) but I decided to forgo a second mortgage.
IT would be a toss up. My 1st car: 1969 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron. with every single option available on it. original owner was the dealership owner wife, he checked all the boxes. Of course my 1970 GS Stage 1. would have turned her back to original color and dropped a Stage 1 back in her. 1975 Century Indy pace car, 350 2bbl. fun car, sold it to a friend who sold it to another friend who lunched the motor. Last I heard of it, someone put a SBC in it. My 1970 GTO 400 Std. m-21 3:90 posi. manual everything. getting married so traded in on an 84 Mercury Lynx. Sorry. Last I seen of it was at one of those rinky dink dealers in Sioux Falls, SD. IIRC they where passing it off as a Judge. Stopped by on my way home on leave. Was told that it sold to someone in AZ. Lastly, Not sure why but my 1968 VW Beetle. One of the best cars I have ever owned. Damn thing ran with the crank broken in half. Finicky for the wife though. rebuilt the motor to a 1641 put in a 63 soft to sunroof. Sold it and got an 80 Rabbit. the worst car I ever had. for the $$ I should have kept the bug and put a new motor and trans in her. Tim
For me, it is the first car I ever purchased new (ordered to my spec) - 1970 Chevelle Malibu, forest green, white bucket seat interior, console, L48, th350, posi,,,, Loved this & it was fast! In 1989, I was one year late of purchasing this car from the last owner. She sold it a year before I was able to locate her. I had kept all the paperwork & and would have spent the money yo restore the car.
There were two; - one I did get back. That would be my Wildcat convertible. I think I'm going to hang on to it for a while. The other one that got away was the first one that I built, a 69 Wildcat. Sold it the week I got married, saw it once after that, and then never again.
My original 65 GS thin pillar coupe (avatar) and my 87 GN..........the GN I bought off the showroom floor with 1.1 miles on it
Gar, I remember the 65 well, we went at it in "non supervised contests of acceleration"many times with my '66 GS and then '69 GS. I also wish you still had it. But duty called, and I thank you.
I am going to add another one - my Flame Orange Centurion convertible. To have redone everything that needed redone after the fire it would have cost about $15 grand over what I had insured it for, and it was well insured. The gentleman that ended up doing it did a lousy job on it and the car deserved so much more and that has always bothered me. I probably should have put the dollars from the other burned convertible toward the Centurion and done the restoration. I should have put the car in storage and made the decision later when I wasn't dealing with the mess of it all.
Everybody may think I'm nuts but my 1987 Plymouth Turismo Duster would be the car I wish I had back. 2.2 with a 5 speed. It is the one car that when I sat in it and everything "fit". Could drive for miles and miles with no back ache, decent gas mileage, OK performance with the 5 speed. Smaller car so great maneuverability and a hatchback that I could haul stuff. Some mis-information from my FORMER mechanic that said the timing belt (I think he thought it was the 2.6 with a timing chain) never needed to be replaced, in reality it should have been checked every 60,000 miles and at 125,000 miles it broke. $12.00 part but $150.000 in labor to replace. Sold it to a co-worker for $200.00 and has sat for the last 20 years. He never fixed it and I can get it back for $50.00 but it has sunk into the ground and I am sure the floor pans are shot, and when I looked at it the interior was "baked".
I bought back a car back I sold in ‘88. Just got it back 2 years ago with only a few hundred more miles and a fresh retoration!
Yep our younger days for sure Gar ? And my dad sold that sucker out from under me while I was still in Boot camp And thanx for your service as well "doggie" P.S. that pic was taken on Burrows rd. right around the corner from TDR in 66 or so
1962 Corvette factory fuel injected car w/original engine, maroon with black interior, both tops. The year was 1969 and I was 20 years old. I traded my 1966 SS Chevelle 396/360 hp car, red w/white bucket seat interior for it which I had for a couple years. I have been blessed, or cursed, not sure which. I have owned so many good cars but just sold them to get another (and maybe make a buck). I say "I want to own them all, one at a time."
