What did you miss out on?

Early 1980's I knew a guy with an AAR Cuda sitting in his barn. Complete car in primer with the engine out & disassembled. He wanted $2300 because that's what he said he had in it in machine work & parts. I thought that was too much & I also didn't have a place to put it. He later sold it to a guy who walked up with $1000 cash. :banghead:

I had a friend who had a 1970 big block Dodge Charger that he bought in the early 1970's when he was in high school. He also had another Charger parts car parked on his parents farm. In the late 1970's he bought a wrecked '70 Charger 440, six pack, 4 speed that had been custom painted & then wrecked. He took the front suspension off of his parts car & fixed it & then drove it for a number of years. Sometime in the mid 1980's he decided to fix up the Charger he bought in High School so he traded the Six Pack car for a rebuilt big block (383 I think) to put in it. :banghead: :banghead: I tried to tell him it was a mistake. He later admitted that he shouldn't have done it. He also later sold his High school car. I think he's realized that was a mistake too. He's back into Mopars now. I think he said he has a couple of B bodies he & his son are working on.

I know it's not a Mopar, but around 1975 I had a friend whose step-dad (a cop) had a 1965 Mustang convertible that he had bought new. 2 year old top, incorrect front seats (him & his kids had shifted the car so hard so many times that the backs had broken off of the original seats), every body panel had been wrecked & repaired at one time or another. Original 289, four speed, four barrel, ralley pack (or whatever they called the little tach & one other gauge mounted on the collumn). My brother & I wanted to buy the drivetrain to put in an old Falcon Ranchero to use as a parts chaser. The guy said he wouldn't part out the car. He wanted the whole thing out of his yard. $50. We went over to fire it up & my dad came by to watch. When he saw all of the blue smoke coming out of the exhaust he just shook his head no. He didn't want that "piece of junk" parked in his back yard. :banghead: My dad later learned a bit more about cars & realized that not letting us buy it had been a mistake.