heres my "one that got away"

396/425blr · #1 02-20-2007, 02:45 AM

back in 1974 i lived in the north end of columbus ohio, me and a couple buddies shared a 3 bedroom apartment. it was close to christmas time and on morse road there was an old house that set up near the road. one day there was a black with white yenko stripe 69 chevelle setting right next to the house with a small for sale sign in the window. i stopped and checked it out, it looked mostly original and clean. asking $3000, looking futher i seen it was a automatic, bummer. at the time i had a 69 Z/28 and a 66 SS chevy II L/79. i wanted a 4 speed so i thought i would wait and someday i would find one. "somedays never come" the car was gone in a few short days and i have never seen it locally again. snooze ya loose. dennis

Postsedan · #2 02-20-2007, 03:39 AM

Dennis,

Great story....I`m sure we all have similar stories such as yours. Woulda, coulda....shoulda

If we only had a time machine.

Hey...I sent you a pm.

Dan.

396/425blr · #3 02-20-2007, 03:45 AM

no pm

Postsedan · #4 02-20-2007, 03:51 AM

Sorry....here it comes.

Dan.

agtw31 · #5 02-20-2007, 03:56 AM

BACK IN SUMMER OF 78 AT THE SOHIO AT THE CORNER OF MORSE AND KARL SAT A 69 HURST OLDS FOR SALE,ASKING PRICE WAS $1500.
IT WAS GONE IN A DAY.

IN 1981,THERE WAS A TRIPLE BLACK 69 W-31 CUTLASS SITTING AT THE FAS LUBE AT HIGH AND MORSE WITH A FOR SALE SIGN IN IT

MY COUSIN GOT THAT ONE,AND STILL HAS IT

**Charley Lillard** · #6 02-20-2007, 05:08 AM

Did they make any black Yenko Chevelles ?

**Mr70** · #7 02-20-2007, 05:36 AM

Didn't Duane Allman hit one with his cycle...in Traffic.

Edited by Charley Lillard (2/19/07 at 09:00 PM)

GRB · #8 02-20-2007, 05:44 PM

I've got a couple that could make you lay down on the ground and sob like spoiled brat!!

**olredalert** · #9 02-20-2007, 06:01 PM

-----If we are talking about "ones that got away, I got one for you.
-----1969 I was going thru the Boston paper classifieds and a 1964 Cobra popped up. Called the guy and left for the hour and a half trip to see it. Got there and the car had a very bad red paint job. Along with that every electrical wire in the car was the same color,,,red. Well,,,that put me offf and I left without buying it for,,,,,,,,The princely sum of,,,,,,Are you ready,,,$1200.00. Oh...body was pretty nice under the spray-bomb paint..........Bill S

**PeteLeathersac** · #10 02-20-2007, 07:22 PM

It was the winter of '76 and I had a sweet little 1959 model green-eyed blonde on my hands...

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Seriously though and aside from my own cars I wish I still had, I always think back to when I worked at the boneyard in the late 70's/early 80's when all the best stuff was rolling through.. Aside from the daily routine of stripping parts and fixing cars, every six months or so the press would come in and you'd have to make decisions on what could stay and what got flattened.

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I shoved fork-loads of Camaros, Chevelles, Novas', Road-Runners...you name it into the squeezer and with the ones I really knew I'd regret someday, I'd back away from the press and often watch as they'd crumple with their glass breaking and chrome popping off...all somehow beautifully glistening in the sunlight.

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Included in the ones I just can't forget was a '69 Judge Coupe...blue w/ a slight front corner hit, a sweet little white '63 Nova SS ragtop (one year only)...lots more.

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~ Pete

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