What did you miss out on?

1977, I was 19, newly married ,working full time, and going to community college nightly. 2 blocks away was a 67 Belvedere GTX, black on black, 426 Hemi, 4spd., Dana 60, totally unadulterated for $1600.00. I asked the guy if he would sell it to me on time but he wanted cash on the spot. It sat unsold for about a month when the owner moved it to his service station. It was stolen one evening about a week later!