What did you miss out on?

Winter of '82, a FLAWLESS SS/A '68 Hurst Hemi Dart, a 9.50 ride way back then, $20,000 and it included a complete carbs to pan spare engine. At that time that amount represented just about every penny I would have had to my name after liquidating all of my assets. Still know where the car is, it is still flawless and the price would be about the same today, all of my present worldly possesions except for the clothes on my back.

Same time frame, winter '82 at a swap meet, 3 complete running 426 Hemi engines with many misc. rods/pistons/heads/cranks/carbs/valve covers, etc. $5,000 and would not separate, had to buy it all.

Late summer '74, passed up several new musclecars (yes, there still were such things in '74) mostly because they were automatics. 360/auto Dusters/Darts/Roadrunners, a 440 Charger, I was so goofy at that time I thought only homosexuals would drive an automatic transmission. Passed on a 360/4spd. Duster (the very last and only new 360/4spd in the world) cause it would have cost $400 more to ship it to my local dealer from several states away. Passed on a 400/4spd Charger cause it was an SE with those 3 little windows in the roof. Passed on a 360/4 spd Challenger cause it had 2,200 miles on it, I wanted a NEW car. Passed on a beautiful '74 Javelin/AMX 360/4spd cause the dealer wanted full sticker price (something like $4,626) and I being young and smart knew you never paid full sticker price on a new car. After a month or so of passing up all the others mentioned above, I went back to buy the AMX and it was gone, somebody else paid full sticker. Ended up buying a new '75 Duster 318/4spd and running 17.4 at the track. All those above mentioned '74's with automatics were running 14.4-14.9.