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I was thinking that it might be interesting to see what cars we now regret selling, trading-in, etc. Of course we can't list them all but maybe a limit of three would not cloud the forum too badly. Mine are:

a. 1966 Impala convertible. White with Red interior. Sweet car.
b. 1962 Olds convertible. Triple white. Was one of several used in Augusta, for the Masters parade of same year.
c. 1953 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. Dark green top with light green bottom. Sweet.

What are yours?

1940 Willys Sedan
1940 Chevrolet Coupe
1946 Chevrolet Pickup
1949 Chevrolet Sedan
1952 Chevrolet Sedan
1956 Oldsmobile Delta 88

That's more than three cars but it does cover them all!

My first chevy-68 Malibu Classic
My first second car-47 Pontiac Silver Streak



My second chevy-72 Malibu Classic
My next second car-58 Belair 2 door-

First: car 1949 F##d 4 door
Second: car 1954 chevy bel air 2 dr hardtop
Third: car 1959 chevy impala 2 dr hardtop
( Lots of memories )

My first car was a 1951 Chevrolet 2-door sedan. My dad gave me the car when I was 16 years old and I drove it to high school. I'm still driving the car 48 years later!

Another car I wish that was still in the family was my dad's 1932 Rockne.

My first car was a 52 Chevy sedan. I loved it but I was hard on it like most 16 year old kids.

The one I wish I still had is the 46 Plymouth Business coupe I bought in 1970 and still had when I went to iraq in 03. I paid someone to store it for me in my absence and neither he nor my car has been seen since.

The ones I wish I stll had:
1976 Vega with GT pakage bought it brand new for $3800 in Dec. 1975.
1968 4 door Licoln Continental
1970 Olds cutlass 2 door
1948 Fleetmaster that I sold so I could ge married 31 years ago.

Woodbutcher

1973 Chrysler Newport Custom with a 440 cu.inch engine.
1965 Oldsmobile 425 cu.inch 4 bbl.
1951 Austin Devon(still have one but not THIS one)
1930 Model A.
oops that's 4.
Neil

Hey! Some of you'll are a-cheating on the rules here. Get too many cars on here and somebody is bound to complain. Not me, of course. Just kidding.

Anyhow, I left out my 56 Chevrolet convertible. The only "keeper" I ever bought brand new. It was a beauty and came in a close third. Red and off white (I don't have a clue as to what shade/tent of red & white that was). I bought it at Marine Chevrolet in Jacksonville, NC. I put skirts on it but did not go for the power pack. There was a new 56 red and white (whatever) corvette sitting right next to it. I could have bought it instead. I know, I know.

Steve 6. I had a 47 Pontiac, also. It was slope back 2 door. It was a 6 so I don't think it was a silver streak. The gearshift lever came off. I drove it using the prong to shift. Borrowed my brother-in-law's 55 F**d with Hollywood skirts and very loud mufflers for my first (blind) date with my future wife of now almost 52 years. I was worried what impression I would make with the Pontiac's very short gearshift. I had brought her chocolates, took her to see "Tammy" at an indoor theater and bought her a Coca-Cola, popcorn and a pack of Mary Janes. Spent a ton of dough. Got her back home and at her door, I didn't even get a handshake. She said she had to go in and lie down. Somehow I don't think she was about to swoon, so go figure.

Memories. What were we thinking?
Best, Charlie

Willy Knight
1950 F**D Tudor
1956 Oldsmobile 88

Probably the worst experience with a car I bought for my wife on "Valentines Day" was a 1983 Cadillac Eldorado. It must have been built late on a Friday night when everyone was getting ready to go home. I loved the body style but everything else fell apart.

hoppy

The worst car I ever had was a 1949 Packard "Tugboat". The car originally belonged to my grandfather and he gave me the car back in the mid-1960's. It was a fantastic road car and it drove like a dream, but you couldn't drive the stupid thing more than six feet because it constantly overheated...even in 30 degree weather. Tried everything to keep that car from overheating....including pressure flushing the water jackets several times.....but nothing worked. Finally sold the car in 1970.

My first car, a '48 Chevrolet Convertible.
An all-original 1932 Pontiac with an Overland V8.
A 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 hdtp with a J-2 engine.
Of the more than 60 cars I have owned throughout my lifetime, I had a lot of other favorites but this list has to be limited to 3 so I picked these. Beamer

My first car was a 1940 Chevy business coupe. My dad bought it for when I graduated from high school. No engine, only one piece of wiring from the dome light to the dash, no running boards, a 57 Chevy rear end, no front seat, no paint, etc. Dad said No, but I said yes. I am still driving it today and its in VCCA Preservation Class. To see before and after pictures, go to my website.
www.1940chevrolet.com

My second car I wish I still had. It was a 1965 Impala convertible with 396 360 horsepower, dual point distributor, metal flake paint, 4 speed close ratio Muncie, 12 bolt 4:10 posi, chrome rims, cheater slicks, Sun tach, bucket seats, etc.

dtm

Okay, you-all. This here, right here, is not about the first or worst car you ever owned but those, on reflection, that you WISH you had managed to KEEP. You know, hold on to. Accordingly, please list something special to you. Something that makes you shake your head when you remember having let it go, for whatever reason.

While your stories of your first car are interesting, that's not what I intended this thread to be about. I'm not bringing up my first: A 39 Dodge with a F**d engine in it. My dad was a mechanic. Let's not go there.

Best wishes, Charlie

Bob Barker: See how easy it is to keep folk in line? You betchum, Red Ryder.

BTW: Offense to any of you is not intended. Really, I could listen to your stories all night long. I enjoy them. But for now let's try to keep to the three best you had. Maybe later we can get to the worst. That would be interesting, also.

1941 4-door sedan I paid $400.00 for.
1964 Impala Convertible (Totally loaded with accessories).
1968 MGB Bright red and chrome whire wheels.

Since I still have my first car, the 47 and first new one the 72 Monte I would like to have the 64 Corvair Convert. and the 65 Corvair Crown V8 maybe even the 67 Firebird and the 64 Impala 2 door hardtop.

Easy question for me. My 69 Vette roadster.

Had it in the seventies, and juiced it up a bit. 350 4spd, Aztec silver with leather tan interior and white top. Crager SS deep dish wheels, Holley 650 double pumper, Accel dual point ignition, and Headman headers.

The car cruised at 80-90 mph all day and got me a lot of girlfriends! Darn, I wish I kept that beauty. However I did sell it to buy my first house.

Oh well,
RayG

i bought a 67 435hp VETTE roadster with 17K miles in 1972 for 1700 bucks. sold it two days later for 2500 bucks and thought i'd hit a home run. probably worth 150K today. in retrospect, i struck out.mike

'70 Nova SS 396, '71 Chevy Cheyenne Super, '78 Olds Cutlass Supreme. Ahhhhhhhh the fun we had and the wisdom we didn't have.

72 Monte Carlo, leather interior, 402 big block, th400 trani, 12 rear end. It was a special order from California. and it had an 8-track, whoohoo. The car could pull stumps and lay down rubber for a city block. It was my grandfathers.

There's only one I wish I had back and that would be my second car ,a 1969 Camaro coupe.It was that awful frost green color with a dark green top and insides.Just a 307 P/G car,nuthin fancy,but,I can at least say I once owned one.Did my own body work and paint with the help of a friend and realised that unless I had another car to drive every day,it was going to be hard to keep it nice.It was pretty tired when I bought it,but,it still had that great styling.It became difficult to keep it running-I'd fix one thing,then another thing would break-I eventually sold it.I will never do bodywork or paint again!!

1969 Z10 Camaro
1969-1/2 Firebird Trans Am
1966 Nova SS L79

Those are the one's I should've kept although I'm happy with what I have today...mostly as I'll never be able to own my first love...a 70 Hemi 'Cuda.....Joe

Mr. Dog!! You cannot expect me to believe that you had a car with a problem that you could not cure!! Never hotchee!!

My 1947 Ford coupe that I got married in.
My 1949 Chevy Fleetline, my first "Good Car".
My Brothers 1932 Chevy 2 dr Coach. Love those free-wheelers.

Limited to 3, but must add - really - all of the old cars I have owned and have a special place in my heart for them all.

Jim.

Well, I've been fortunate to have a number of nice cars that I suppose I would take back. Altho I can't really say I would have done it any differently. The reason I sold them was I'd had my fun with them and felt it was time to move on.

Nonetheless, three really nice ones were:
1959 Corvette; 270 horse 4 speed car with both tops
1964 (1st year) Olds 442; black with red buckets and a 4-spd.
1941 Cad Coupe; bone stock appearing with a 427 Chev under the hood.

Then there's the 56 BA convertible, the 57 Nomad, the 64 1/2 Mustang convertible, the 68 Impala convertible, etc. etc.

Part of the whole selling 'em sitch is the fact I live in the middle of a large city with just a two car garage. Unfortuneately, that doesn't leave too many options.

Bill.

My favorite and "fastest" car was my 1968 Camaro Z 28. I bought it in 1968 from a wrecking yard in Cleveland, Ohio because it was a strip out and totalled by the insurance company.

I made a list of all I needed .... 302 Z28 engine, 4 spd.trans, hood, wheels and tires, complete interior, and radio. Took the list back to the SAME wrecking yard and bought everything I needed ....in the correct colors, for $800.00. I believe I bought back what was originally taken out, LOL.

In 1970, I sold the Camaro Z for $2200.00 so I could make a down payment on a house for my wife and 3 kids.

Now, 40 years later, I still wake up at night screaming.

Bob