What cars did you pass on buying in the 60s/70s because they cost too much

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My personal best was a 1970 Charger R/T in 1976. Older single woman selling in "ritchie" Potomac Md. 40k miles, triple green F4 with F8 int and vinyl top. P/S, PDB, A/C, PW. Body and interior were excellent. Car drove decent, but was tune up worthy. Seemed to have over heated at some point as there was rust residue on the radiator and shroud. She was asking $600 for the car & i passed..... Now my first favorite car was a 69 Charger R/T as a 9 yr old kid. Still shaking my head today that i passed on it.
 
I was 16 in 1987. So badly wanted a '71 cuda. Found a grand coupe in nice shape for 3,500. Thought that was insane money for a 318 car.
 
An Orange AAR in BEAUTIFUL condition, 4 speed at Sears Point for $7,500 in '86.
 
In about 1974 during the gas crisis, one of my pals & I were at a little corner car lot. There was a white 70 hemi cuda convertible with a black interior there for $2200. Everybody was dumping muscle cars. We looked at it and both wanted to buy it. However, neither one of us had the $2200, and what we do with a car that got 6 mpg if we couldn’t get gas. So we passed. You can find the car on the internet. I think it sold for a few million awhile back.
 
Oh my! If only!!

1968 Charger R/T 4-Speed, Turbine Bronze, black interior $2500.00 in 1978

. 1969 Dodge Daytona White/Black interior , 426 Hemi (engine blown but there) 4-speed power window car. 7500.00 in 1980.
Still here , now restored and valued somewhere north of $550,000.00 .

1969 Dodge Charger, Hemi, 4-speed White, red interior, power window car. 7500.00 in 1999. (same person who bought Daytona now owns it). Valued at $150,000.00 .

1971 Cuda Convertible, 383 auto, White with Burnt Orange interior, power windows , rallye dash, luggage rack, power top. sold very rusty in 2009 for $10,000,00 ,1 of 2 built !! Now fully restored in Switzerland, valued approx, $120,000.

I think about what could have been with these cars all the time. At least they are all still around!!

Cheers!!
 
I passed on a '69 383 Charger with a Burnt Valve. It was Brown with a Green Fender and Dry Rotted Tires...
Said No to the $1500 they wanted in 1987... if only I knew.
I was a Dumb 17 yr old and I bought a '72 240z that ran instead.
 
Mike69cuda said:
In about 1974 during the gas crisis, one of my pals & I were at a little corner car lot. There was a white 70 hemi cuda convertible with a black interior there for $2200. Everybody was dumping muscle cars. We looked at it and both wanted to buy it. However, neither one of us had the $2200, and what we do with a car that got 6 mpg if we couldn’t get gas. So we passed. You can find the car on the internet. I think it sold for a few million awhile back.
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Wow. 1975 a Hot Rod car dealer in Fairfax Va listed a 70 Hemi Cuda for $1800. I flew down there (driving. lol) From suburban Md. to find a really clean car that was White w/black int. Was a auto and had a 8 3/4 rear. Oddity was a standard Cuda hood w/ the Hemicuda emblem and a Hemi quarter stripe. I popped the hood and a wedge BB was staring me in the face so totally discusted, i walked away. Sadly at that time i knew nothing about vin codes & matching numbers. Could have been a 440 car with fake emblems or a real Hemi car w/ a replacement RB engine. Sadly i'll never know
 
Not in the 70's, but in 1996 I was 20 and went to look at a 1967 Satellite with a 440/727 auto, bucket seats, nicely restored. Needed nothing.

I laughed out loud when the owner said $7500. I offered $3500, but no deal.
 
1969. i was in college at univ of ill. i passed on a 1968 hemi superbee. price was 1800 and payments were 100.00/month but at 18, insurance was 225.00/month. passed on a 69 red/white/blue rambler scrambler for 2200.00. passed on 2 69 ss novas, 1 was 350 for 2200.00 and the other was 396/375hp for 2600.00. bought a 66 fairlane gt 390 for 1200.00.
 
AAndrews said:
Oh my! If only!!

1968 Charger R/T 4-Speed, Turbine Bronze, black interior $2500.00 in 1978

. 1969 Dodge Daytona White/Black interior , 426 Hemi (engine blown but there) 4-speed power window car. 7500.00 in 1980.
Still here , now restored and valued somewhere north of $550,000.00 .

1969 Dodge Charger, Hemi, 4-speed White, red interior, power window car. 7500.00 in 1999. (same person who bought Daytona now owns it). Valued at $150,000.00 .

1971 Cuda Convertible, 383 auto, White with Burnt Orange interior, power windows , rallye dash, luggage rack, power top. sold very rusty in 2009 for $10,000,00 ,1 of 2 built !! Now fully restored in Switzerland, valued approx, $120,000.

I think about what could have been with these cars all the time. At least they are all still around!!

Cheers!!
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I Feel your pain. :)
 
I passed on a 69 Dodge Charger Daytona around 77 or 78, probably not because it was too much money, but i was in the Air Force at the time, and i wouldn't be able to do anything with it.
Don't remember the price, but back then i was an E-4 Sergeant, pay grade.
But sometime after that, a 71 Hemi GTX, 4 speed car, showed up on the base, that a Captain was finished up with navigator training, and sold that car to me for $2950.00, that i kept for 28 years.
So i guess everything worked out in the wash, Ok.

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1984: 70 Hemi Roadrunner. Air Grabber hood. $5500. Had to work on Saturday and gave my buddy a deposit and told him to go buy it for me until I could get to it on Sunday. He went to see it and passed on it "cause it was missing some of the air grabber parts under the hood." :BangHead:

1989 or 1990 Mopar Nats: came oh so close to buying a 70 440-6, 4 speed, Dana rear-end, Cuda. $12,500. Just wasn't sure where I would put it as I only had a 2-car garage and I had my 71 Demon 340 and my 69 Charger in there. Once again....:BangHead:
 
AAndrews said:
Oh my! If only!!

1968 Charger R/T 4-Speed, Turbine Bronze, black interior $2500.00 in 1978

. 1969 Dodge Daytona White/Black interior , 426 Hemi (engine blown but there) 4-speed power window car. 7500.00 in 1980.
Still here , now restored and valued somewhere north of $550,000.00 .

1969 Dodge Charger, Hemi, 4-speed White, red interior, power window car. 7500.00 in 1999. (same person who bought Daytona now owns it). Valued at $150,000.00 .

1971 Cuda Convertible, 383 auto, White with Burnt Orange interior, power windows , rallye dash, luggage rack, power top. sold very rusty in 2009 for $10,000,00 ,1 of 2 built !! Now fully restored in Switzerland, valued approx, $120,000.

I think about what could have been with these cars all the time. At least they are all still around!!

Cheers!!
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Here's the Hemi Daytona car!

Anybody know this Hemi Daytona in Newfoundland?
 
Back when us cool dudes hung out at the gas stations :) in the mid 70's, one of my associates had inherited a 69 Torino GT fastback 428 ram air, auto, 3.50 traction loc from his dad. Low mileage car that dad had put a low rise 2x4 intake on. Think it was a factory Ford thing. Otherwise all stock. Raced it a few times with some old 7" slicks and went 14.00 @ 100. Very cool car. Some guy offered him 3k for it, said he just had to have it. Thought it was a crazy price back then, but he had to let it go for that $$. Hope the guy still has it lol...
 
Spring 1977 (I was a junior in high school)
1970 Challenger R/T, triple black with gator grain top, 383/slap stick, rallye dash. Car was near perfect and ran great. $1,500. Dad nixed the deal because I already had a car.
1969 Charger 383/4sp. This car was ROUGH. It had dents in all four corners, bald tires, bad interior, BUT it had a big block and a four speed. Took it for a test drive. I couldn't get it into 3 and 4, speedometer didn't work, guy had wired in a funky momentary switch for NSS, AND the brakes hardly worked. At $400 it was at least $800 overpriced...
The only one I regret:
1962 300 Sport, but this one was UNIQUE. Not sure if it had a 383 or 413 (single four barrel), BUT it had the 300H interior (150 speedo, four buckets with a full console). The car also needed NOTHING. The downside for me was the salmon colored body. Just couldn't do it, BUT the asking price was $600...
 
I passed on a four speed v-code 70 RT Coronet in the late 70s not because it was too expensive, just didn’t care for the nose. Who knew they only made 13 or so of them. Before the internet.
 
First thing i absorbed as a crazy little kid was that Dana 60's were the ultimate "acc" in a Mopar. Before i could drive, and going to car shows, the first thing i did on every B body i saw was look under the rear end. No Dana, no good....lmao....to myself :)
 
A 1957 Ford Thunderbird in 1969 or early 1970. I saw an ad in the newspaper in Oklahoma City advertising one for $1100. After struggling with my inner budget for a couple of days I finally called the number in the ad. A woman answered and told me she had just sold it for $900. It was her husband’s and he had died. She just wanted it out of her garage. I still want one.
 
One Summer’s evening in 1978 I get a phone call from a friend who drives and races a 1969 Hemi Road Runner. He tells me that his dad is tired of seeing his 1968 383 Road Runner sitting in the driveway and he has to get rid of it. He offers it to me for $100 since the motor is a basket case. I decide to pass because I already have 5 cars scattered around my dad’s house and I just can’t drag a non-running car home.
 
1970 Hemi Charger 4sp Super Track Pack with 30k in 1999. I never pursued it because I assumed it would cost 70k +....Guy that told me about it ended up buying it for 16,700 a year later!
I almost puked when I saw it !

1969 Charger R/T SE Triple black . 90k miles PW,A/C,6-Way Seat,Tictoc tach ...loaded California car ... $800 in 1986ish. Friends brother traded an old Suzuki for it before I could get back to buy it .

1969 Charger 500 440 A/T around 1979.... under $1000 in Minneapolis . Brown I think ... someone installed a pop up S/R... Jeff Holmbeck bought it .. my sister is still friends with his sister.

1969 Chevelle SS 396 4sp in Silver with black interior. $800 .. it had a dent in drivers quarter so I passed . 1980 ish in St Paul.
 
1978 I saw 2 different adds in local paper for 70 Hemi Cudas. one was $2,800 the other was $2,500. I couldn't afford either and ended up buying a 69 Roadrunner for $550. Drove roadrunner my senior year and blew engine on my 18th birthday. Two weeks later was in the Army and 43 years later I still remember the adds for the Cudas.
 
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