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

A very nice 70 GTX in 1980. 440, 4 speed, console, buckets, 4:10 Dana Super Trac-Pac car. Original owner. He even had the original window sticker & kept the original parts he removed to "hop it up some more". Gold with gold interior. To this day I have NEVER seen another one in that gold color. Oh yeah, car had less than 61,000 miles on it. Asking price was a firm $1500! I keep telling myself I probably would have killed myself in it. (My excuse for letting it get away) WAY too muck car for a 19-year-old to handle. From what I was told back in the day, I was a very fast car. A friend of mine ended up buying it, left for college in New Mexico & drove THAT car there, from S.E. Pennsylvania. Never saw it or my friend again. Wonder what happened to both of them.