What did you miss out on?

It wasn't a car, but I still made a big mistake in 1977 when I phoned down to a wrecking yard in The Twin Cities, Minnesota for a 440. I was working that day, so I asked a couple of buddies to pick it up for me. The owner didn't quite have the right engine, so he offered a replacement to them - which they loaded up and hauled back to me, some 300 miles one way, polite fellows that they were. Well, I took one look at that engine and told them that they were just gonna leave it on the truck, take it back, and get me my $400.00 back. Oh yeah..... nobody was gonna stick me with some dumb looking engine with 4 holes in each one of the the huge, wide, dumb looking valve covers............ and that really dumb looking sideways kinda intake with the places for two carburators. Who'd they think I was Houdini - I only had one carb, was the other one supposed to pop out of mid-air........... ? Nooosireeee........... Not me............
I still wake up in a sweat............
Daryl