Things you should have bought

[LesP]

1980 and I needed to get out of my pickup because driving distances was killing me.  I was looking for a GT350H.  So I test rode a 1965 original ($8,000) with Detroit lockers and the exhaust just behind the doors.  Talk about a brutal ride.

If I had been smart I would have kept the pickup and bought the '65 Shelby Mustang for weekends. 

Then again the first wife would have just taken it in the divorce.                                 

1980 NZ$5600 off a car yard. (US$3300) factory S code 390/4 speed.

As a 20 year old I drove it like I owned it and 20.......... Would I want it now (I still have bits of it) at 60, no thanks, to many laws, the cops would not just say ' knock that $hit on the head and send you on your way with a warning.

A mint one would be the best part of $90k car these days and babied like it was never meant to be, light it up, go to jail, 40 over the limit you are walking.



The rear wheel cut outs tell you where it spent a good deal of its life with a 427 or 428CJ with its rear cylinders under the dash.
Glad I got the ride as a young person.

[cliffrod]

1980 NZ$5600 off a car yard. (US$3300) factory S code 390/4 speed.

As a 20 year old I drove it like I owned it and 20.......... Would I want it now (I still have bits of it) at 60, no thanks, to many laws, the cops would not just say ' knock that $hit on the head and send you on your way with a warning.

A mint one would be the best part of $90k car these days and babied like it was never meant to be, light it up, go to jail, 40 over the limit you are walking.



The rear wheel cut outs tell you where it spent a good deal of its life with a 427 or 428CJ with its rear cylinders under the dash.
Glad I got the ride as a young person.

Very cool, Les. What a great looking Mustang. 

When I was younger, I built a 1967 Ford Galaxie, adding a full 428PI driveline before driving it like the kid I was.  It and all the parts eventually went away.  In 2012, I got a chance to spend $2500 and get another 67 Galaxie- this time with an original 428, unrestored & running great with 66K original miles.   It's the big red car often visible in the background near & behind my Guzzis.    I know it's not the desirable money car that a 67-68 FB Mustang is but I couldn't be happier.   Always liked my 67 Galaxie better than my 67 Mustang, but never had a FB Mustang...  Here it is in the driveway, soon after I got it home-



 

and parked beside a parts car that's the identical ghost of my old white 67-

[Gappy]

A couple of hundred dollars of Microsoft stock back in the 70’s

[Gappy]

I met mid 80’s man I getting old

[Bulldog9]

In high school, (80's) I had a chance to buy a 63 split window Vette in decent condition for $1000.  Parents said no, as I had a 442 (daily driver) a 68 Charger (rat car with egg crate for a seat ;-)) and a 62 Ford Pickup. Shoulda sold it all for that Vette... Shoulda also kept the Charger, but College and all that......

[pebra]

Well right now I'm thinking about things I should have sold in February - - - -

[john fish]

Staying at home so getting some reading done.  Peter Egan writes in Garage Ikebana in May 1988 about buying a:

"'67 Triumph TR6C 650cc, stock, classic, immaculate, 13,000 mi., $1,295obo"

man, I can't even remember the number of Brit bikes that I passed on.

All this begs the question of what will be valuable in the future.  The Japanese classics of the 70's and 80's will be next and are already appreciating.
 
Honda CBX
Original Suzuki Katana
All the turbo bikes
The original Suzuki GSX-R