Worst buying or selling decision!!

[LO23]

SUSQ, Are you kidding me!..Traded a Goat Vert for a Pontiac Vega? Owe well, i heard that if you do some head work, you can get about 37 horsepower out of those babys!! And think of the fuel savings!(i had a 76 model for about a year..POS car!)

[427TJ]

I traded-in my 1990 LX 5.0 Mustang fastback and got 4500 for it in 1997. I had just been hired to fly for Airborne Express and I needed a reliable snow car QUICK. My Mustang had been lowered by Advanced Autosport in Oakland and they installed a Kenne Bell lower chassis brace, subframe connectors, strut tower brace, adjustable upper strut mounts (to cure Ford's annoying toe-out issues in those days), Eibach 1.5" lowering springs, and Koni shocks. With the mods I had already performed--stainless SSC headers, Hurst shifter, K&N filter, three-chamber Flowmasters, Comp T/As--it was better than a 911 and went around freeway cloverleafs like a raped ape and stayed flat as a pancake and the body had NO twist. I had bought the car new in 1990 and babied it and it only had 45,000 miles on it by the time I traded it in in 1997. Black/black too--a full black interior. It was a real looker. SO, in my haste to get hold of a good snow car for December in Ohio (at Airborne's training center) I had to trade it in on a new '98 Accord V6. They gave me 4500 and I took it with sadness in my heart. The Honda was great in the snow--still is--and it now has 180,000 miles and going strong. It is the perfect airport car. That Honda dealer probably flipped my car to a broker and someone, hopefully, wound up with it and is enjoying it today.

[ZAPPER68]

I had first refusal to buy my buddy's 69 GTX convertible. It was a gorgeous car, silver with black guts, automatic Hemi car. Roger had bought a new ski boat and needed the room in the garage. I was out of the country working but he said he would hold it for me. I told him to go ahead and sell it, he did....to a broker! He then bought a new Dodge 4 wheel drive to tow his boat. What the heck was I thinking?

[ohhawk]

Worst decision from a emotional standpoint anyway would be an all stock '57 2 dr. HT we purchased from the original owner in Monterey Park, CA back in the early 80s. All stock car that we eventually totally restored. The only Coronado Yellow / White top '57 2 dr HT I've ever seen. Sold it for $15,000 back in the early 90s to some collector from a Detroit suburb (Dryden?).

Wish I had it back along with many others along the trail.

[SuperNovaSS]

Rich,

That's a dicked move. You sound proud of it. Way to play fair. Maybe someone will pour something down our carb when you get it finished.


Jason

[Stitch]

Back in 82 I could've bought a buddy's '70 Hemi Challenger for the then equivalent of $7500 , what did I want with an old Dodge I was a Chevy man ...




Couple of years later I coulda bought a L72/4spd 66 SS from the same guy for around $10000 but didn't have the moolah at the time ...



Both cars are back in the US now .

[71-LS6]

Winter of 76-77, passed on a beat up 67' fastback 427 corvette for $4,500. The seller said it had some special engine in it, what's so special about an L88? I was leery of that new-fangled transistor ignition too, so I bought a 70' LS5 corvette instead, 454 vs. 427, bigger is better, right?