The Mopar that slipped away
Yeah about 3 of them every day from this site!!
Man, ain't that the truth.
Since I seem to be caught in a cycle of perpetually scraping the bottom of the bank account, there have been dozens- but the one that still pisses me off was summer '97, I was working for a friend of a friend (I thought he was a jerk, and I was right) dismantling barns. After work one day, I saw a '73 Satellite Custom sedan for sale. Dull, ugly beige paint, matching weasel-nest vinyl interior, but solid body- if you don't count the front floorpans and trunk as "body", anyway. Slant 6 auto (with pretty much no exhaust), ran, drove, & stopped, 450 bucks. Could've just barely swung it (though the wife woulda been annoyed, no doubt) but the guy I was working for flaked outta town still owing me two paychecks- about 500 dollars, as it happens.