Worst buying or selling decision!!

[Kim_Howie]

We will never know that answer. But passing on a brand new ZL-1 for 4500.00 is not too smart.

[DarrenX33]

Also just thought of this one. At one point my oldest brother had 3 Austin Healys in the early 70's. One sprite and the other two of them were 3000s that needed work. He made one nice car out of both of them then sold them shortly after. How much those worth now?

[jeff-san]

Jan '99 I was the 4th owner of 67 GT 500 #977...sold it to put down a deposit on a Kirkham Cobra. WTF was I thinking? it went back to Glen Elyn,Il. I think I got the huge sum of $29.5k....how did I do? dont answer that.

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Selling the original M20 Muncie out of our 1969 Corvette to pick up an M22 for it.... doh!

Sold a 1968 triple black Ram Air GTO convertible 4 speed with hood tach and A/C in 2002 for $2,500, needed total resto but ran and drove.

Sold a 1967 Chevelle SS 396 marina blue with black interior. Very loaded, A/c, console, buckets, gauges, am fm, multiplex, tach, 3.73 posi, disc brakes, power steering, etc for $5,500 in 1996.

[67L78conv]

Passing on an absolutely perfect survivor original everything 64 Thunderbolt for $2,500 in 1990 because I wanted the 68 GTO ragtop with the rust hole in the floor that they stuck a 25 pound weight over to keep your feet from going through. Wound up not buying that either because the trans was worse than the floor and to late for the Bolt, who would think that at that price it would sell in half a day.

Youth and a love for ragtops, what can I say.

[TORONADOXS]

Not buying or or selling, just pure stupidity. Had a 68 GTO,red/black, 4 speed with hideaways that got TOWED for expired tags while I was on my (first) honeymoon. Had no money when I got back to get it out of impound...

[bigchevydaddy]

Sold the strat and amp too not too long after.

Then in 1986 I sold a matching-numbers L-78 69 Nova 4-speed(needing resto) for $2800 because I was being transferred to Iceland and didn't think paying storage for it while I was gone for two years would be worth it. DUH!

[SUSQ]

Passed on an absolutely mint '69 Shelby GT500 convertible, 428, 4 speed, gulfstream aqua, white interior, white top. $4,500 was all the money in the world in 1974.

Passed on a '62 Corvette, 327/340, 4 speed, Honduras Maroon with black interior and hardtop. Looked like the day it rolled off the assembly line. $5,500 around 1977 or so. Single guy with uncashed paychecks in my wallet. Didn't want to borrow the money to buy the car.

Traded my '70 GTO 4 speed convertible for $1,800 towards the purchase of a brand new '75 Pontica Astre.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda . . . excuse me while I go hurl.

[RichSchmidt]

It would be a tie for me.I went with a friend to look at a 72 Motion phase 3 Camaro(done in 1976) back in about 1991 for $5,500 and it was really solid with the the original Motion installed drivetrain just freshened up and every little piece there{very low miles}.We both passed on it,later found out that somebody bought the car and ripped the drivetrain out of it.

The real tear jerker for me is the day I took a cut off wheel to the rear frame rails of my Motion breathed on 73 Camaro{Not a phase 3 car or anything like that}.I bought it in high school back in 1989 and had big plans on making a killer race car out of it.I never finished it,built my Firebird instead,and the frameless hulk got bent badly in transport.I am currently in the process of fixing it after almost 20 years of being off the road.All it needed was a center trunk floor back then,now it needs almost everything.What a dumb kid I was.

The second

[Verne_Frantz]

To coin a paraphrase from a movie I like, "it was both the worst day and the best day of my life"

When I bought this car, I knew I would never sell it. But then one day I got Soooo mad at it for something (I don't remember what) that went wrong that I drove it out to the curb on the lawn and put a For Sale sign on it. I was prepared to sell it to someone for $700. obo. I was that mad at it.
It was out there for about 5min when someone pulled over and looked it. I was standing in the open garage doorway and he yelled something like, "You want to sell this car?" I think I said something like, "yeah, well, I don't know" as I walked down the driveway. Before I got there I knew I didn't what to let it go, so I said something like, "No, I'm sorry, it's not for sale. I changed my mind"
I still have the car. That was the best and worst day.

Verne