I was thinking this morning about a car I let pass through my hands a few years ago.
Was a original black 56-57 for sale in Castlecrag around 1988. Rust free - also came with the 3 guage cluster in place of the speaker vent. Interior was pretty good - it just needed a wash really, and perhaps an engine cleanup. I passed on it, and wish I'd picked it up. Did anyone on here every pick up a black oval from that way?
Anything else that people wished they'd bought but let it go??
Turbo54 ·
My Mums Grandma style Madza RX-3 Savannah Coupe. They are rare as and it would be worth a fortune. She wouldn't sell it to me when I was 16, scared I would kill myself before I was 17. Also had a VG Mexicana coupe (long rear pillars) when I was really young to tow the boat with. Sold it for 400 bucks. It was a 770. It would also be worth huge dollars now. They only made a limited run. Dont know where either f them are now.
T54
VWCOOL ·
squizy wrote:I was thinking this morning about a car I let pass through my hands a few years ago.
Was a original black 56-57 for sale in Castlecrag around 1988. Rust free - also came with the 3 guage cluster in place of the speaker vent. Interior was pretty good - it just needed a wash really, and perhaps an engine cleanup. I passed on it, and wish I'd picked it up. Did anyone on here every pick up a black oval from that way?
Anything else that people wished they'd bought but let it go??
The list is long....Toranas, GTs, VWs etc etc but I now have at least one car I've aspired to owning for 15 years!
ruckus ·
My uncle's Morgan +8 after he died.
Think I'll regret not picking that up for ever!
Doug Sweetman ·
When I was 22, after a year working I found a 1985 Audi Quattro Turbo coupe (production version of the group B rally car) in QLD for $19,000. Would have to be one of less than 10 in Australia, and just coincidentally one of my favourite ever cars.
Didnt get serious with it though as I never had the balls to buy it ..... ended up with a Liberty RS tubro wagon instead.
bus914 ·
type 4 turbo notchy
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baybuscamperkid ·
pair of Austin A90 Atlantic convertibles on ebay, guy only showed pics of one decrepid one, when i emailed him he said he had a second oen which was a shell with minimal rust to go with it. sold for under $200 :cry:
shaihulud ·
In the early 1980s, in Canberra, I tried to buy a 51,000 mile FJ Holden, two tone green, smelled like a new car, the doors went klunk, full service history etc. It was part of the estate of a old lady down the road, who willed it to her granddaughter, who didn't want it. When it did hit the market I had already bought a 1962 Fiat 2300S, from down the same road, but that is another story.
The one I really regret not buying is a 1930s Jaguar SS saloon (not the SS100 sports car) in need of restoration, but a goer, for $200 in the 1960s.
A mate's story is he was offered a 1920s Cord for $50 (25 pounds) in the 1950s and refused it because he didn't know what it was.
barls ·
last weeks winning lotto numbers 😀
empi ·
bus914 wrote:type 4 turbo notchy
That notch was down ere in Vic for ages wondered why i haddnt seen it in a while.
Hmmm things i missed out on... A Stoll coupe replica and 2 hebmuller replicas and all the equiptment to replicate them. no shit!
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Notch Nut ·
Before I got my notch on the road I nearly brought a 1959 Chevy w/ 460cui big block for $4500. I didn't know anything about cars in my teens (had the cash too!) when a mate told me the fuel consumption vs. my salary at the time. My response "yeah, but petrol is only 55cents per litre!".
Still, wish I brought it. Just to show the grand-kids.....way back when I was a youngster (in the days when a bananna only cost an arm and a leg!), we drove these things on petrol sucking down 8mpg!
- Adam
Desert Bug ·
G'day,
In 1969 I was offered a 356 Convertable without motor for $400 which at the time was 8 weeks pay, I couldn't afford it and a friend bought it, put a 1300 Beetle motor in it, registered it, drove it for a couple of months and sold it for $700, he kicks himself a lot harder than I do.
Empi, I was offered those as well but didn't have the $3000 at the time, ah well never mind.
Cheers, Ian.
bajachris88 ·
PHATRATPATS 1958... complete, running... was a resto project, but for $800!! :o! had everything..., cept semaphors. had elephant ears instead...
I wouldn't have bajaed it..., but i dreamed about a classic, and it was that one!
jnr356 ·
the 21 window at the 83 DOVW for $1500
Craig Paton ·
When I was 16 I was looking at a 356b convertable which just had a rebuilt engine and was is good nick. Just needed a little TLC. My mum wouldn't go G/tor for me, the car was bought for $3,500 and a short time later the guy sold it for $10g.
So now I have a '68 Beetle!
phatratpat ·
🙅 you need more practice ! gibbo has it ,dont know what
he was doing with it & it was a 57 first of the big windows !😉
squizy ·
I've just remembered I could have bought a 356B for $5000 in 1986.
wacked1 ·
i'l hold my fist up guys and you can run into it as hard and fast as you want head first.
byronbus ·
Andrew Dodds old offsider Rocky had an early semaphore singlecab he sold for around 3k...was a sweet original old girl, factory safaris...
crewcabconnection ·
Lambo Miura in the UK, bought a new Pug 205 and turbo'd it for the same money - cause it was faster....der....hope Im wiser now.
squizy ·
byronbus wrote:Andrew Dodds old offsider Rocky had an early semaphore singlecab he sold for around 3k...was a sweet original old girl, factory safaris...
Yeah I remember that. An original workhorse rat that truck.
byronbus ·
I know, and his lil blue oval with the red flash...what happened to these rides?
Fireball xl5 ·
porsche 911 targa that was offered as a swap for my mini.
frank2112 ·
My folks had a Golden Anniversary 76 Ford LTD. Gold paint, Leather seats,351, power everything, Only 2 of them in Canberra at the time (and we knew the owner of the other one). They only made 500 of them originally. Offered them $3500 in 1984 and they wouldn't sell it to me. They traded it not long after for $2000 on a Honda.
Saw it a few years later with the front end rearranged and stripped of the running gear. Very sad.
Bizarre ·
this Ascort!
Dave has posted pics of it
I could have had it for............dunno, price of a unrestored 70's beetle.
I passed it up only 2 years ago
It was complete - in pieces.
Just needed putting back together. I didnt have the space
I have only seen one other and to call it a basket case would be kind.
I had been cut up to fit on a trailer to be glassed back together later. It was THAT bad.
But this..........:bounce
Oh well....... can onkly hope i get to see it one day
squizy ·
Where's Ron and that fist for you to run into Barry?
TCB_GHIA ·
you know what they say if my aunty had balls she would have been my uncle😁
Bizarre ·
yeah, but all the others were way in the past
That Ascort was only 2 years ago.
I didnt need to see such a lovely pic so soon
BTW
Well done to the owner
lohoon ·
I guy had an ad in the paper about a year ago saying 68 Holden for sale.I'm not really into Holens but a mate rang me a told me to grabsome cash an he would take me around to this old guy to put a deposit on this car,It turned out to be a original gts Monaro.Buy the time we got there his son in law had turned up an the old fella had given it him.The ad stated he wanted $2500 for it!
malcolm ·
alfa remeo montreal 30k
fiat 2400 coupe 12k
Oasis ·
Fiat 130, $2000
The 70 beetle I just sold to David777, I almost bought in 1993 just after it had been restored. It came up again 8 yrs later. Thought about it all that time...
ColumBUS ·
the yellow type three square on here a while back. yellow, lowered on widened wheels with an 1835 running dual webers... went to buy it but had been sold the day before... i was a very unhappy chappy.
i love my columbus though... but i'll always love the squares
shaihulud ·
Oh! Yes!
Then there is the all original one owner (my dad) HT Holden Brougham with a 253 V8 in it. Dad also had VL Commodore. Whenever I visited Perth when I was living in Canberra back in the 1990s, I had a choice between the two and I always drove the Brougham.
I offered to buy it from him for about $3000 and he refused. About a week later he had a head on collision with a Mark 2 Jaguar and it was written off by the insurance company. A young man who works at the local service station bought it for $700 and has lovingly restored it. That's cool as he has done a very good job of it.
From dad's estate I inherited the Commodore. I was double de-chuffed at that.
amazeer ·
I wish I'd bought every block of land and every house that I've stopped to look at in my lifetime. The one I DID buy in 1997 for 110K is now valued at 260K. If wife had let me buy the others..... *sigh*
Starbug ·
the early model squareback that was down the road when i was living in west end... looked a bit worn inside, outside seemed pretty straight though a bit ratty (which is a good thing)...
and it had rivieras...
$1500...
im such an idiot.
stephenianjames ·
I remember about 12 or 13 yeards ago there was a guy in country Victoria (might have been Romsey or Kilmore..somewhere like that) who was producing replica's of genuine beetle convertable's, which included as per factory reinforcements, hood bows and soft top etc etc for about 5 grand. These bodyshells had any rust removed and repaired properly and were mint, and sold for about 5 grand or so.
I don't know what happened to this guy or his shells but damn I wish I bought one!
Someone else may remember these also?
Joel ·
yea resurrection panels they did hebs as well they were bloody close to the real thing but can still be picked
i have seen a few around
i think someone on here was offered the moulds a little while back