What did you miss out on?

In the 80s before the whole old car thing took off I looked at a cherry '59 Caddy Coupe DeVille convertible. The guy wanted $1000 for it, I was young and didn't have the money, so I passed on it. I ran into him a year or so later after people started gobbling up the old cars and he said he sold it for $15k, just the way I saw it.

A guy I worked with had an early 60's convertible Wildcat that he pretty much wanted to give me, I thought it was too big. I was driving a '65 Skylark 4 door at the time that just barely fit in my garage, the Wildcat was bigger than that.

A friend of mine let me hang onto his '69 383 Roadrunner for a couple of months, I drove it but never got around to actually paying him for it. One day he showed up, took the keys and handed them over to the new owner. Who paid $500 for it.

Another friend of mine had an early 60s Super Duty Grand Prix, maybe a Catalina... Some big ol' Pontiac. Kept wanting to sell it to me, I wasn't too interested. He finally wrecked it.

I had a '74 442 that I couldn't ever find any parts for. Finally I traded it to a guy for a guitar... after I got rid of it there was an article about it in one of those muscle car rags, seems they only made like 20 of them in this particular body style and nobody was making any repro parts at the time.

Then there was the '69 Super Bee I paid got for a song, the wife (girlfriend at the time) made me get rid of it. The guy who showed up to guy it was a friend of the guy I bought it from, he knew what I paid for it so I couldn't get much more than that. :-(

A guy up the road from me was selling a '69 Dart GTS, I negotiated with him for a while, then he decided to keep it. He showed up here one day while I was at work, told my wife that he had to sell it pronto, by the time I got home from work it was sold.