Cars you wish you still had

[nmanitou]

I know it's not technically a garage topic, but anyone who loves garages must also love cars. I have a couple cars that I wish I had never let slip away. This is certainly one... 1970 Buick Riviera, 455 ci quadrajet. Man I miss that car! Lot's of great memories. What has slipped through you hands over the years?

 

[rsanter]

I really dont regret the sale of any of my cars because when I sold them it was the rigt decision for the time.
on the other hand a few that I have had would be nice to have back (from a today money point of view)

68 shelby GT500KR fbk
70 boss 302
67 GT390 4spd fastback (posi, manual steerring, heater delete)
65 fastback ( so early of a car that it had the 64 hood and light buckets, original paint)
69 cougar XR7. all options including leather int and it had a 351C in it (numbers matching)

bob

 

[slice]

Jsut shoot me right now go ahead i deserve it

a 1969 Z/28 Camaro yea dumber than a door knob. freaking blond girlfirends.... and go figure that B#$#$ is long gone

and a 1970 chevy CST one fine truck.....

 

[quick60]

69 Nova SS.

Sold it in 1988 to a guy that turned it into a race car. Who da thunk 22 years later I'd start drag racing with my daughter and that guy still has that car and races at the same track every Saturday. So every round I see it drive by and zip on down the track.

Actually its all good because I really miss a little more the 72 Cutlass that I traded to get the 69 Nova SS. Sorry no photos.

 

[jethro29]

73 gran torino sport fastback,had a windsor in it when i got it,i installed a 460 out of a 76 t-bird.traded it for a p/u. dum dum dum.

 

[Gary S]

1970 Camaro SS.
Wait, I didn't sell it. It is still in my garage.
OK, then I'll feel sorry for you folks who sold yours.

 

[Denee007]

In highschool, I drove a '66 plymouth Valiant('70-73), no power anything with an 8 track deck under my front seat! Out of sentimental reasons, I'd like to drive it or have one!

OH Heck, after the Valiant, I got my grandmothers '63 Pontiac Lemans! that was nice until the rear drive ****** went out and I had to ride the school bus the rest of my senior year!

Other than that, I had a '65 GT0, actually was a Lemans with a GTO front end on it,but looked like a GTO, I guess I was about 22 then, it was a fun car!!
dne'

 

[Motown 454]

69 Z28
Ended up trading it in with 28000 mile on a 73 Z/28 RS LT. Which was a great car but. Big mistake.

 

[MacTexas]

1968 GTO purchased new sold in 1978 for $500.00 with 72,000 miles on it.

 

[Jack Olsen]

Every car I ever sold.

 

[99SVT]

My '66 Chevrolet C10 I drove in high school (in '86 & '87), and my '94 Ford Lightning. I still have all the other vehicles I've ever owned.

 

[badinf]

72 Chevy Super Cheyenne Camper Special with factory tilt and tach

 

[crewchief888]

it may sound funny, but i wish i stil had my '80 toyota shortbed 4x4

 

[nmanitou]

Every car I ever sold.

True dat.

PS. Just watched your "Black Beauty" slide show for the first time. I'm not worthy.

Porsche - There is no substitute!

 

[oldgoat]

The first two cars I bought were a 65 cuda with commando V8, 4 speed and a Ford rear end. The second was a 69 Cutlass Supreme with a 350 Quadrajet. Would love to have either one of them back and considering what I sold them for I should shoot myself.

 

[Printer Mike]

Guess I'm in the wrong company here, but I miss my '70 VW Baja Bug...

 

[kywildcat]

66 Nova SS and a 69 Chevelle SS with a 396 with factory Air

 

[Mike in Ohio]

77 trans am,
72 ford galaxie 500(first car)
87 ford ranger stx 4x4 (first new truck)
85 ford ****** (reliable as heck somebody is stll driving it somewhere unless it finally rusted in 1/2.)
73 gmc pickup (it was a rust bucket but it had been my grandpas)
That is the short list I'll have to think about the ones I forgot and add later.

 

[Mike in Ohio]

Guess I'm in the wrong company here, but I miss my '70 VW Baja Bug...

Dad had 2 of those damned bugs when we were kids, he would take us down to the bus stop in the morning to wait on the bus for school. We would tell him to just go on to work because it wasn't any warmer inside the car than it was outside. I still shiver when I see one.

 

[OneTon]

'67 VW Delivery van with original paint, original motor. Had double swing-out doors on both sides. I can only imagine it's worth a small fortune these days...

 

[PassnThru]

None. Never had anything all that great to begin with. Everything was a compromise to what I could afford at the time. Don't get me wrong - I had several cars I was very fond of - but they went when I was done with them and I didn't look back. Of course, if you are talking about pure nostalgia - I would love to drive them all again today. But none were worth keeping all these years just for that.

 

[dladcock]

1966 SS Chevelle w/LS-6 454. Would like to see that one again, but my very first car was a 57 Chevrolet convertible. That's still in the garage.

 

[Grumpy365]

I had a 68 Chevelle Malibu i would like back,
BUT the one i REALLY wish i had back was a VW fiberglass body dune buggy with a reinforced floor pan ( i really f****d up selling that one).

 

[c4e]

My first car, 86 Chevy Caprice. It was like a couple couches on wheels, comfortable as hell, hauled balls, sucked gas, and got me some... groceries. Good memories in that thing. I decided to let it go when the timing chain let loose one cold night. Having seen how much of a PITA it is to change timing belts/chains on the cars i've had since then I kick myself all the time knowing how easy it was to work on that old 350.

 

[Lotek]

65 Barracuda, factory 273 4bbl solid lifters, dual point distributor, 4speed Hurst shifter, 70 Cuda 383, 71 Challenger 340, 67 Bronco... at least my brother still has that one. Glad I held on to the 68 912.

 

[murph3204]

64 Ford Falcon
72 Dodge Dart with a crank operated sun roof
78 Monte Carlo with a 'special order' factory 4 speed
69 LeMans convertible. still have that one so no regrets there.

 

[TheGrooveking]

72' Chevelle SS454, yep got it from my uncle who bought it new, he lived in Encino, California, I got it for my 17th birthday 7 years later. It was Silver Mint Pewter, I won't even go into the stupidty behind selling it, but my next car was a ************* 81' Z-28 I bought new in January 81'. It was a screw up from the factory, it was a 350 with a 4 speed, Borg &Warner Super T-10, car was loaded except for T-tops, had 4 wheel disc brakes, I should of kept it, and put something that made horsepower into it.

TheGrooveking

TheGrooveking

 

[bobadame]

I still have one I bought in 1965. It's a '29 ford roadster pickup. Some I should have kept were '53 Merc convertible, '62 Olds Jetfire, '57 Plymouth Belvedere 2 door hard top, 54 Plymouth wagon, '39 Packard, '37 Chevy coupe, '48 Ford coupe, '38 chev coupe with Olds 303 engine, '58 MGA coupe, '64 Volkswagen bus with many, many windows, '39 Ford standard pick up, '67 Jeepster Comando, '54 Olds 88

the ones I have now that are keepers: '29 Ford roadster pick up, '74 BMW tii,
'58 Buick Century, a couple of early '80s Volvo wagons. and my bus, a 1948 Flxible Clipper. I still have most of the motorcycles I ever bought but didn't buy some that I should have.

 

[dougmac]

I wish I still had my old high school car..... A 1973 Dodge Charger.

 

[millertime]

My 66 chevy C-10 one of the best trucks I ever owned and the coolest truck style chevy ever produced.

 

[D.J.]

My list will be a little long, sorry! 1965 Pontiac Tempest 6 cyl powerglyde, 1968 Chevy Chevelle SS 396 four speed posi track rear, 1975 Chevy El Camino 350 auto, 1978 Chevy Big 10 , 1980 toyota cellica, 1979 Pontiac Fire bird.
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Best butane for iolite

 

[sgrammel]

2004 S2000

 

[ejm1961Tbird]

1969 Chevy Malibu

 

[spongerich]

77 Fiat X-1/9
70 Porsche 911E
95 BMW M3
97 Jaguar XJR

 

[yellowbox]

had a 1965 chevy impala 2 door
got married and sold it ........still married 23 yrs later
sure wish i had kept that car 283 2 speed auto power steering manual brakes

 

[Bear]

40 ford coupe
51 cheby
56 Chevy Cameo
54 Ford hardtop

 

[moopa]

1971 ROAD RUNNER, 1971 Dart ******* Special340(Canada only!), 1971 Barracuda,1969 Charger,1964 Polara,1970 Road Runner,1969 GTX Convertible,1970 Road Runner 440+6,1998 Dodge 4x4 1 Ton Dually Cummins, 2003 Dodge 4x4 1 Ton Dually Cummins
Plus a few others, I'm sure!
Mark

 

[blue dog]

73 k5 blazer
76 dodge power wagon
2004 dodge ram quad cab 3500 4x4 diesel with custom sierra nevada aluminum flatbed. cried when that one drove away.

 

[wfopete]

'65 Pontiac Catalina. Just a 389 2bbl but stone cold reliabile and soild!

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

Some where oddities / semi-rare. Some where just loveable beaters ---the ones I miss --
73 Olds Omega Hatchback
78 Dodge 3/4t PU
76 Chevy Luv PU
77 Ford Granada Coupe w/302