The one's that got away.

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I know all of us have had that special car that got away from us for one reason or another. Here is one that I wish had never gotten rid of. '68 GTS 340 4 speed, black ext, black int, red longitude stripe, buckets, no console, manual disc brakes, no power steering, 3.55 sure grip, 2nd owner. I panicked when Melanie told me she was pregnant with Marc. Sold it, and have regretted it ever since. MatGTS.jpg

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Yep that was a keeper. I had 5 I'd like to have back the main one was the 69 Hemi RR but it was F8 so it had to go. :lmao:
 
Here's two cars I wish I had never sold.

1- My 1969 Dart GTS 383 4 speed car am radio,buckets,black vinyl top on a R4 paint.

Nothing but a go fast car.1 of 784 with the 383.

It's in New Hampsere

2-My 1969 Barracuda Formual S 340 car and it was loaded.
Auto,consel,buckets,disc brakes,power steering,black vinyl top and of corse the r11 radio and it was W1 alpine white.

Miss both them cars and should had my head examined for even thinking about selling them!
 
Surprisingly the car that I wish I still had was...

My 1996 Ford Escort LX! Why? Because it was cheap and nimble (1.9 ltr). It got 40 MPG on the highway and was easy on insurance. Was a fun little car even though it was a rolling coffin.
 
Yep, I also have one I wished I still owned. My first runner, put a lot of time and effort into her (12 years). Had to sell to her so I could afford to move my family from Fresno back to Florida in 1997.
 
I guess for me it would have been either the 57 Plymouth Belvedere 4-door, or 58 Suburban I had. They were just everyday transportation cars but I still enjoyed driving them.
 
The two for me are cars my dad had, that he didn't give me the opportunity to buy. One was the 70 RR that is my avatar. The other is a 76 Ramcharger he traded to a buddy, that I wanted to so badly when I turned 16.
 
a guy i was in school with was a Ford guy. Bought a '65 Mustang 6 cyl car that he wanted to do a V8 swap. I was under the evil influence of '70s TV, had had a '74 Torino that was going to be made into a Starsky & Hutch car. I had bought a rusted out '69 Mustang for the running gear. The Ford guy had asked to buy my parts car a couple of times. One day he showed up in a '69 Coronet R/T. 440/727. all original. just needed a little lower quarter work. I was out working on the Torino ( a sign of the next four years) and he comes the Ford guy walking up the road. The R/T had quit, and I towed him home. I asked him at school a couple days later if he got the car going. "naw, the damn fuel pump went out so I took it to the junkyard" I cut a couple of classes and went to the yard, but the car had been crushed already. I know to this day I could have trded that rusted out Mustang for the Coronet, bu I didn't think about it because it had a column shifter....:brickwall:
 
I love the 67-69 Darts & especially the GTS 383ci versions, look kind of like a little RR
 
I've let a lot of cars get away from me... 68, 69 Hemi GTXs, 69 Hemi RR, 69 340 Dart, 69 383 Dart, 2 70 Sport Fury GTs, 69 383 RR, a couple Corvettes and the latest was my A12.

I used to pine about some of these cars.. I just don't anymore.
 
How about the ones we never got? I was 16, summer of 1984 (just before the insanity of the muscle car craze started up again. For years we drove past this house that had a Superbird parked next to it. It was now parked closer to the road, For Sale sign in the window. One headlight door open, chin spoiler bent up, some rust on the rear 1/4's, but overall pretty solid. A stripper of a car, 440-4bbl, Bench, auto on the column, manual brakes and steering, B5 Blue. Price: $4300.00 OBO. The car had rusted out brake lines and the engine didn't run (but wasn't siezed). Dad wouldn't let me get it because I didn't need that much car at 16 years old. He was probably right, but I never forgave that decision. Around 1987/1989 when these cars in the same unrestored and broken condition were selling like hotcakes for $100,000 I let him know every time I saw one for sale and what the price was. I can't say I'd still have it today, but I'll never know.
 
if we could have just given our dear old Dad's just a tad more wisdom, and they had let us buy these cars, but park them till we matured enough to handle them.
 
genff4.jpg I had a 383 auto gts dart burnt orange/tan top /black gut-car was fast wheel well headers-355 posi bought it for 500 hundred bucks from my buddy-put 1000 bucks in to it and had a lot of fun went like a cat with gas on his ass--------------------------------------drove it and sold it for 3500 bucks----score-----AL

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