Finding One Of Your Dream Cars When You Are Flat Broke...

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

Have you ever had this happen? You are looking for a certain car for years and years but can never find one in your price range. You finally find one for a really good price, and you are absolutely broke. Well, this happened to me today. I have been looking for an original British Mini for about 11 years now, and found a 1967 Mini Cooper for $300. Yes, $300. And I don't have it.

So, what is your story about the one that got away?

 

[85GPLef41]

A 1996 Impala SS that i had seen for 5K. I had $3500 and went and tried to borrow the rest but with no luck. So i talked to the guy and told him to hold it for a week and he agreed. I ended up selling my 2000 S-10 to make up the difference and when i went back he sold it to another guy.. :evil: So i bought my Jeep. Oh well....The SS was really clean and had low mileage and i even tried to give him the $3500 as a down payment but he said no worries and that he would hold it for me. I know it doesn't refer to being flat broke but either way its one of countless "dream" rides that got away. :lol:

 

[Munkey B]

too many times to count.

that's how i know it wasn't meant too be.

 

[86CutlassUCF]

i always have the problem of finding something way better after i just bought a car. i finally had the opposite happen when i sold my rust bucket 72 cutlass for more than i bought it for and found my 86

 

[pokertramp]

I am going through that right now. I sold my regal and had some money but had to pay bills.

I now am looking for a low mile 86-88 Pontiac Fiero. I see plenty, but a few I really like and I have no money. I miss my old fiero and now want another one so I guess it is gonna have to wait.

 

[axisg]

In 1994 a freind ( call him Dave ) had a beautiful low-mileage 1983 El Camino with a 454 under the hood ( to replace the Diesel we pulled out ). Dave ; well to say he knew nothing about cars is an understatement and he didn't really like the Elco because it was so hard on gas. 2 years later I had a crappy job, a new baby, and a really POS apartment in a crummy neighborhood.

Dave had enough of the Elco and wanted a brand-new Cavalier. The dealership offered him $ 500.00 for the car as a trade-in. The elco is hardly a family car so I had to let it go and I have kicked my *ss ever since.

I found out a couple years years later that Dave had sold the car to a co-worker who pulled and sold the 454 then stored the car in a garage and had been using it as a workbench. Still being short of funds another freind has since bought the car back and gave it a full restoration and put a healthy SB and 6 speed trans. So I still get to see the car that slipped away on a regular basis. The new owner has offered to sell it to me for what he has in it for parts alone ( appx $ 18000.00 CDN ) + a case of beer !

 

[custom442]

I found a Jensen healey with a 350 swap just after I was out of high school. I had been saving for a new car but that one was 1500$. It was so clean, everything new, top worked, nice paint, good upholstery, I even took it for a test drive.

But I decided not to buy it, save money, and got my new chevy truck about 6 months later, in retrospect I should've got it. It was just too underpriced for the car's condition. I think that's what made me get the jag with a sbc swap, cuz I never got the old jensen 😳

 

[fodoimp]

A 1996 Impala SS that i had seen for 5K. I had $3500 and went and tried to borrow the rest but with no luck. So i talked to the guy and told him to hold it for a week and he agreed. I ended up selling my 2000 S-10 to make up the difference and when i went back he sold it to another guy.. :evil: So i bought my Jeep. Oh well....The SS was really clean and had low mileage and i even tried to give him the $3500 as a down payment but he said no worries and that he would hold it for me. I know it doesn't refer to being flat broke but either way its one of countless "dream" rides that got away. :lol:

i want a 96 ss soooooo bad

I bought my 63 impala sport sedan 283 powerglide for 3500 bucks in 1999 with 37,000 original miles on it.....excellent deal right? then 2 days later a 63 impala ss 327 4 speed showed up down the street from me for 4500.....for sale by the original owner with 69,000 original miles with factory power everything......and a service record for every mile that was put on the car since new......I still have bruises on my *ss from kicking myself.....

 

[3XBrownCutty]

My dad and I were looking for a project car about 3-4 years ago....I watched sooooo many go by... lost oppertunities, my dad wasn't the go getter type. 72 merc cougar, 66 chevelle, 69 nova, 68 duster (mint sheet metal, just needed an engine), 80's camaros, fiero's, 2 66 chargers(two to make into one), 82 monte, countless others, and a 71 skylark...theres a story for this one.

It was on ebay (I know bad start already :lol: ) all origional skylark with a 4barrel 350, runs and drives, hardly any rust, pictures looked good. I was like 14 or 15 at the time. We decided to bid on this skylark, so we sat down at the computer that night and we bidded up to around 3500, but ended up losing the bid. I was so pissed off, that car looked so mean, and I wanted it really bad. The next day we got an email from the seller... the guy who won the bid dropped out of the sale!!!! I was jumping for joy, I finally had a muscle car that was all mine!! My dad got home from work and we sat down at the computer, the email he sent wasn't through ebay and he wanted all the money wire transfered to some bank who knows where, without us even seeing the car. A scammer. That was the one I wish I had the most.

Then not too much later, 3 houses up the road the neighbors are having a garage sale and theres this brown 83 cutlass for sale for $500. I said "Brown?!?!?" My mom and dad pretty much said we're buying this car for you. I wasn't too excited... But now look where I am!!!

I can remember watching the neighbor kid going up the road in the cutlass with the (at that time) rusted out rear bumper while I was out playing basketball in the driveway. I remember thinking, wow that things a piece of s***. I love the car now though :lol:

Sorry for the book, nothing better to do on a rainy day.

 

[Phoenyx]

This thread makes me depressed.

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