Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting rid of a car.
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01/23/20 02:32 PM
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February of 1980,traded a 64 Dart 4 dr sedan with a T/A motor and a Government 45 auto for this.Car had 42K original miles,sold new from a dealer 40 mi from me,at that time all it needed was some trim replaced and a good going over .I got a little carried away,pulled the motor ,took off the front end and quit for a while.In early May a UPS driver started pestering me for it about once a week.Finally sold it to him for 5K on a Friday ,he picked it up next day with a tow dolly.About a month later I found it sitting beside an old garage 50 mi east of me with a bunch of junk car's and trucks.It sat there for about a month and disappeared,never saw it again. About ten yrs ago I found his phone number and called him.He told me he sold to someone in Fl as bought from me,never touched it, about three yrs prior to me calling. Car was bucket seat 4 spd,no console and yes,it 14" wheels with hub caps.Look at the hood and you can see what it was.
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting lid of a car.
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01/23/20 03:07 PM
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Hey Bill, Can't keep em all , but you got a great stable of Mopars still My old RTSE had those same wheel covers on them.
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting lid of a car.
[Re: HemiStan]
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I sold a 68 Satellite Vert factory big block, 4 speed car to a member of this board. Not knowing the low production numbers on these cars at the time. Wish I could buy it back.
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting lid of a car.
[Re: IcorkSOAK]
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01/23/20 09:08 PM
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Oh, several come to mind: 73.5 911T 73 Z-28 68 Charger 383/4-speed, red with white interior 71 Duster, orange inside & out 68 Hemi 4-speed Road Runner Gotta stop now, getting irritated But yeah, can't keep 'em all, and at each time I was moving on to something else...
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting lid of a car.
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01/23/20 09:47 PM
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In college I saw a '71 Roadrunner for sale and knew I needed to get that car. When I went back, it was already sold. Fast forward 1 year, and I was delivering bakery products and saw it in a parking lot for sale. I did not have enough money for the asking price, but offered all I had, which was close, and got my dream car. Soon I made the mistake of getting married at such a young age, and ended up "having" to sell the car and my motorcycle. Fast forward a year and a half and I got divorced and spent the next 15 years trying to get my car back. I was one of the lucky ones, he took better care of the car than I would.
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting lid of a car.
[Re: 1fastrunner]
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01/23/20 10:16 PM
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chargervert
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The top four cars that I wish I never sold were, 1) 69 A12 Superbee 2)70 Road Runner V code 3)70 GTX 440 4 speed 4)71 Barracuda convertible
Honorable mention 68 Charger R / T 70 Charger R / T 69 Charger 500
70 Charger R/T SE 472 Hemi
70 Charger R/T convertible
70 Charger R/T V Code Sixpack
69 Charger R/T SE Sunroofcar
68 Charger 383
68 Charger 318
71 Charger R/T
70 Challenger convertible
71 Challenger convertible
71 Cuda 340
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting lid of a car.
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01/23/20 11:07 PM
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Sold and delivered to a guy out in the country around Allentown in about '87. Never seen or heard from again, despite asking around. I'd still like to know where it is.
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting rid of a car.
[Re: 62maxwgn]
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01/24/20 12:47 AM
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This was in 1984 - a '69 Roadrunner 4-speed with factory air. We bought it out of a guy's garage in Mesa, AZ. - it was covered in blankets. This car was 100% original paint - the trunk floor was shiny - not even any surface rust. The car had 80,000 miles, but could have passed for 5,000 miles. It even drove like it was new. My business partner bought it - it was his "turn" (we alternated buying cars). Anyway, the car was so nice I wanted to buy it from him - he would not sell it to me because I fell in love with the cars - to him they were just money & profit. God this was a nice one!
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting rid of a car.
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01/24/20 01:39 AM
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Been many years but probably the '70 340 Duster hemi-orange/black interior/auto/buckets/air cond/150 mph speedo. Bought it for the motor and let the rest go because I had no where to store it.
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting rid of a car.
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01/24/20 08:43 AM
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In around 1977 I found a copper tone, 383, slapstick auto, bucket seat, black hockey stripe 70 model 'Cuda sitting in the back of a used car lot in Jacksonville Florida, he wanted 1500 for it, I talked him down to 1250, it had around 80,000 miles on it and smoked like a freight train out of both exhaust but I bought it anyway. Drove it regularly until it sat while I went on a Med Cruise, came time to get out of the Navy in 79 and I had 3 cars and 2 drivers for the trip home to Texas, because the Cuda was now smoking even worse I put it up for sale on the cork board in our hangar for 1250, guy offered me 1000 about 2 weeks before I was scheduled to get out and I took it, never saw it again and don't know what the guy ever did with it....sure wish I had sold the wife's 6 cyl Camaro and kept the Cuda....
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Re: Biggest mistake/regret you ever made getting lid of a car.
[Re: chargervert]
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01/24/20 08:58 AM
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oh wait.but hey.lets see.oh yeah.
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Scraped m,y 60 Dart vert running and rust free for 35 bucks.Was a D500 car.Only thing I did right was keep the long rams.One I didnt buy was red Cuda vert new.Everything said hemi including vin.Was a 440 car.One other was my 69 Bee was perfect anr ran great.Got a whole 800 for it and laughed that the guy paid me so much.Still have the window sticker . Rocky
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