Best deal you missed out on

[Chryco Psycho]

...mid 1980s...tried to buy a HEMI Challenger convertible, Plum /white...he wanted $25K...my Daytona was worth maybe $17-18K and I didn't have the extra for the difference

That was definatly not one to let get away !! but we have all been there !!

[Road_Runner]

I've had several opportunities that I just didn't have the money for at the time:

70 Hemi Cuda, Soft front bumper, shaker, orange with black/top & interior, 4 speed, ran well but was being run hard at the time in 1976-77, Mopar acquantience of mine had it, and two AAR Cudas.  He wanted either 3 or 4k for the Hemi, can't remember exactly.

Around the same time I found a petty blue 70 Superbird with no engine, but everything else there including perfect nose & wing, black vinyl top & white interior.  It was parked behind a gas station.  The first time I asked the attendant he knew it was for sale, but didn't know anything else.  Checked back a couple of weeks later it was sold, that day's attendant knew all about it, it had just sold for $1500.....

Oh well,

Later, Jim

[maxy426]

That is one and the same, the 71 sold to a guy from Alberta for $ 12,000. I saw it at the Nats in the mid 90's (?) but then lost track of it. I still see the AAR every couple years locally.

[redlinemuscle]

WOW!  That sounds exactly like the car that the guy who sold me his AAR in 1985.  He purchased a 1971 Cuda 440+6 Hemi Orange, front & rear rubber bumpers, billboards but had a black vinyl top with rear window louvers.  He sold it a few years later to purchase a 1987 Grand National.  It might have been a GNX.  His name was John Vanka.  At this time he lived near Delhi, ON.
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That '71 Hemi Orange 'Cuda was mine, I built the car, it was loaded with most options including Rear Louvers and Wing, Leather and Urethane Bumpers. Won Best E body at the Mopar Nats in '83. I sold it to John in 1985.

[Chryco Psycho]

Welcome 
 I still kick myself for missing out on that car , it was stunning 
Great to see a picture of it again 

[jordan]

In 1995 I just bought a matching # 73 challenger rust free car with owner history.  I paid just under $6K.  I fixed it up a little and drove it to the nationals.  There I saw a B5 blue 71 challenger, white top and white interior with a HEMI.  I watched the price come down that weekend to $19K.  You can't imagine the thoughts in my head on figuring out how to get my car in the car corral, sell it, and then go to a bank in Indy, take out a bigger loan, just to get the hemi.  There was just no way I could afford that much money right then.  I still regret that one. 

[bb71challenger]

#1 1987 I could have bought a 71 Barracuda convertible, B2 blue/blue/blue, column shift auto, 318, air for 450 dollars...running. The things that made me pass at the time was the floor pan rust through and the column shifted auto.

#2 1985-86 I was buggin this guy with a really nice 71 Challenger vert. FE5, white interior, white top, 318, air, rallye wheels, power top, slapstik. 1500 was his asking price and I got him down to 1250. I could not get financing for it, my dad would not cosign a loan(turns out it was the convertible that turned him off on it, he saw a couple girls die in a rollover) and the guy ended up selling it to a friend for 600 dollars lol.

#3  1994 and I had just bought my Challenger. 1973 Duster 340, 4 speed, air, sunroof, rootbeer. 1500 dollars but I just could not justify it after I had just got a cash advance on a credit card to buy my 71 Challenger. 

still kick myself for all of these

['Cuda Hunter]

Guess I'll add a my two cents.

 

When I was 14, I hung out with a bunch of bikers. Sons of Silence.  A member had a 1957 Indian.  Beautiful running bike.  500 bucks. 
My dad wouldn't loan me the money and I couldn't talk him into owning it.  (of which he does regret himself now).(he really didn't like the bikers either,can't blame him). 

Never have had a good shot at any cuda or challenger for a reasonable price.  Since I got into Mopars around 95-96, seems everyone wants top dollar for the cars.
I apparently jumped into mopars at the wrong time~!

[BIGSHCLUNK]

03 Cobra, rousch supercharger, viper spec 6 speed, bear brakes frt wilwoods read, rear end cooler, 5pt belts/seats, a ton of suspension mods, over a 100k invested, street drivable but been on RA a few times. Corners like its on rails........................ 5K! A buddy of mine got it...

[TorOrange]

03 Cobra, rousch supercharger, viper spec 6 speed, bear brakes frt wilwoods read, rear end cooler, 5pt belts/seats, a ton of suspension mods, over a 100k invested, street drivable but been on RA a few times. Corners like its on rails........................ 5K! A buddy of mine got it...

5k?? That's crazy. Was the owner on drugs? ha

[BIGSHCLUNK]

5k?? That's crazy. Was the owner on drugs? ha

I thought of that expression, more money than brains....  this guys got a ton of $hit. smokin deal tho...

[TorOrange]

ah you should become good friends with him 

[BIGSHCLUNK]

ah you should become good friends with him 

no question about that............ 

[scoutdrivinrebel]

1970 Challenger T/A, found it in '88, it was so original, blue, 4-speed.  I think they wanted $7000.  Wish I could've talked my dad into it. 

[AARuFAST]

We had our AAR one year when crusin at the Dairy Queen in Odenton Md a friend of my son shows up with a Lime Green Hemi Cuda.
He found it in Baltimore. Owner said motor was shot.  Friend paid $3000 for it,
One of the rocker arms came off the push rod.  Oil change new anti-freeze and it roared up.
I mentioned if he ever wanted to sell I like to be first dibs.
He sold it in the fall for $8ooo.  P%*@k.