Rare Cars that you didn't buy

The one I will always remember is in the late 80's, I was working at a gas station in high school and a kid who was 2 years older than me had a 69 Camaro RS/SS convertible, hugger orange with white stripes, a REAL 396/375 car, 4 speed, 4.10 12 bolt. It was his only car being 18 and he was a delivery driver for Domino's pizza. The gas was killing him. Too bad I didn't inquire further about it. One day he came in bragging about how he traded it straight up for an '84 mustang convertible.

My father-in-law, who was the original owner of our GTS, often talks about how he almost traded the dart in on a new 69 camaro. It was a white, factory 427, automatic, 4.10 12 bolt, plain wrapper car. He used to look at it on the lot every weekend for about 3 weeks until it sold. He said the only reason he didn't buy it was because it was an automatic. This thing, a COPO car, is worth a few bucks now.