Cars you DID NOT BUY.

[VintageMusclecar]

2005: I'd just sold my Pro Street `67 Chevelle and was on the hunt for a restoration project. I highlighted the details of the full story elsewhere on here, but in a nutshell by sheer happenstance I happened to find the current owner of my first `67 SS396 Chevelle. It was on a car lot here in Ohio.

I called the owner and after a brief discussion he emailed me several pics of the car. He was up-front and told me the quarters had been poorly installed and would need to be re-done, and the pics showed a mediocre paint job at best anyways.

Unfortunately for me the seller was apparently suffering from a severe case of eBay-itis when I inquired about the price.

As much as it broke my heart, I had to let my first love slip through my fingers again. I just couldn't justify getting gouged like that to get my old car back, mainly since it still needed so much work to make it right.







Love that quarter panel emblem placement. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]















The car was an automatic originally and when I owned it. My friend who I sold the car to converted it to a 4 speed.









When I owned it (~1984-1985)



Wherever she is today, I hope she has a good home. Even though I couldn't get her back, I did wind up buying my current Chevelle shortly after finding this one...and most know what an epic journey that turned into.

[Tracker1]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">1964 Thunderbolt for $1000 in 1976. Thought it was too much for me at 16 and first time driver.
1961 Impala SS convertible in 1977, 348 3x2 4-speed, white with red guts for $500. Walked away because generator was missing rear mount and had a coat hanger to stabilize it. I did not want a jury-rigged car. Otherwise a mint car.
1969 White COPO 427/425 Chevelle in Richfield, MN around 1979. Didn't buy it because I did not believe Chevrolet built a 427 Chevelle in 1969 and thought it was fake. I don't remember the asking price. Well known car today.
1970 Orange 440 6-pack Super Bee in 1979 for $900. Did not think my buddies would approve of me buying a Mopar.
3 1970-71 Hemi Cuda convertibles used at my 1978 High School Homecoming parade for the dignitaries. All three owned by the same owner in Blaine, MN and had for sale signs on the side quarter windows during the parade. I approached the owner after the parade and asked how much and he said something like $1500 each. I laughed and walked away.....
1965 Maroon Impala SS 409/340 convertible around 1981. $3500. Thought it was too much money.
1970 Shadow Grey, white interior, black vinyl top M22 LS6 Chevelle in 1981, Owned by Scott Ellingson (owned International Metal Strippers). Asking $5000. Thought it was too much.
1965 Z16 complete 396 engine in a junk yard in MN around 1982. Front clip of car was still in yard but body had been crushed. Had two friends with to verify. $700, Too much.
1949 Mercedes convertible around 1988, $1500. What the hell would I want with a Mercedes....
1969 Kingswood Estate Wagon, 427/425 in Bloomington, MN around 1990. $3500, too much.
1968 GT500 I found while on my 10 year wedding anniversary weekend in 1991 and we were out driving around in Dodge Center, MN. Drove past a farm and saw it sitting in a farmers 900' driveway drainage ditch. I copied the VIN down as no one was home and had a State cop buddy run the VIN. The car had not been registered in several years and the owner had a arrest list like I had never seen. Finally got a hold of him. Wanted $13,000. I told him he was nuts and a Mustang friend of mine bought it. Known car today.

Numerous other cars and too many to list besides the fact that it hurts too much.




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Are there any pictures floating around of your 1978 High School Homecoming Parade? Was the town paper present perhaps?

[ds1]

I am a little young. 1991 graduated high school and one of my dad's Co workers had a 69 Pace Car all NOS sheetmetal,7k to much for a young guy. 2 69 Z28 s one rough in 1997 for 3500 and the other for 5k. Just did not think they would go so crazy

[markinnaples]

This is a great and (sometimes) painful thread to read.

I have some old Auto Traders with some really great prices on some old muscle cars that I'll have to dig up and post.

[SS427]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tracker1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Are there any pictures floating around of your 1978 High School Homecoming Parade? Was the town paper present perhaps? </div></div>

I would imagine there was as it was our homecoming. It was in the Yearbook but unfortunately no photos of the cars. There were several thousand people present and the owner of the cars was VERY well known in the Blaine, MN area as he had several Hemi cars and parts when I visited his garage somewhere in the mid 70's. Spring Lake Park (where the homecoming took place) had their own newspaper at the time and if I recall was called the Spring Lake Park Sun. Unfortunately it is no longer in business.

[Fast67VelleN2O]

I have a few.

Fall Carlisle 2003. Superbird project car on a trailer in North Field for $17,500. I thought he was crazy.
Spring Carlisle 2013. Rally Green SS 350 1969 Nova in the infield for $5500. Ran and drove. I must have forgot my brain at home.
I parted out a 1968 Z28 old street race car in 2004 because it was &quot;too rusty&quot;. Why did I do that again?
1996 a 1970 Chevelle SS 396 sitting in a chicken coop. Citrus Green white stripes. Price was right very nice car but car had 4 flats with wheel locks and no lock key. I couldn't get it home on the car dolly.
1970 Challenger R/T in 2000 guy wanted $2500 and I didn't know the Mopar market at all.
Tradin Times 199-2003 there was always a large contingent of SS 66-67 Novas and 1970 Chevelles priced around 5K that I never called about.

[day2killa]

When I was about 13, 1983, I saw my first altered wheelbased car it was up on a trailer , I climbeb up and remember reading to my dad alluminium on the fender. All I remember is it sat there all weekend and no one wanted it, but I thought it was so cool

[Day2_69Z]

1986
'69 Z/28
Citrus Green
Light Green int
9,000 miles
Original owner
POP Window Sticker
Shipper sheet.
Bill of Sale etc.
Flat Hood
No Spoilers
Firestone 200's
No Console or gauges
Center 8 track player with Blue light Radio.
$10,000 I thought he was goofy and yet , I hated the Colors and lack of equipment.
I walked to the other garage ......
His Dad had a Cortez Silver Z/28 with gauges ,tach &amp; spoiler.... same paper work as they bought them the same day at Kenny Ross
$7,000.
Drove it home.

[novadude]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Day2_69Z</div><div class="ubbcode-body">1986
'69 Z/28
Citrus Green
Light Green int
9,000 miles
Original owner
POP Window Sticker
Shipper sheet.
Bill of Sale etc.
Flat Hood
No Spoilers
Firestone 200's
No Console or gauges
Center 8 track player with Blue light Radio.
$10,000 I thought he was goofy and yet , I hated the Colors and lack of equipment.
I walked to the other garage ......
His Dad had a Cortez Silver Z/28 with gauges ,tach &amp; spoiler.... same paper work as they bought them the same day at Kenny Ross
$7,000.
Drove it home. </div></div>

Tom... your family used to have all kind of Chevy muscle cars on the car lot back in the 1980s I wish I could have bought. It just wasn't in the cards for a broke high school kid. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

Along those lines, how about cars you bought and parted / junked? In 1980, my Dad was building a '40 Chevy coupe street rod. He bought a fairly solid '66 Malibu convertible for the running 283. Ermine white, red interior, black roof. Bought the car for $60, drove it home, yanked the engine, and sent it to the junkyard!

The worst &quot;wish I woulda bought it&quot; was a '70 SS396 convertible. Astro blue, blue buckets, 4-spd. Original engine gone and replaced with a hopped up 327. $2500. This was around 1985 in the west end of Pittsburgh. My Dad has a '63 Impala 327 4-spd for sale at the time, and there was no room or money for another car until the impala sold. The Chevelle got sold to a kid who wrapped it around a pole coming home from the bar 3 weeks after he bought it.

[markinnaples]

Early 80's:
1970 Chevelle dark green/green, 307 auto for $300
1969 Camaro SS minus the engine &amp; trans, body all completed with candy brandywine paint for $2500
1973 Camaro SS built 350, mint, blue/white stripes for $3200
1969 Pace Car, 350 auto, not for sale