whats the dumbest mopar deal you have ever made?

[253862656971]

The one bad deal I've made in my short mopar life was a set of pistons for my 383.  I bought them off ebay for about $200.  They were brand new but the problem that I didn't take into account was that the lowest compression ratio I could get out them was 14:1.  That's with big combustion chambers and extra head gaskets.  They got put on the shelf and I haven't looked at them since.

[694spdRT]

I got a few that I should have made.

Passed on an original blue with black top 1969 Charger 383 4 speed with 55,000 miles for $3,500 in 1992.  

Missed a complete #'s matching red, white top, white interior, white stripe 1970 Charger R/T 440 4 speed project car 10 miles from me for $1,000 two years ago. The same year passed on a package deal 1968 Charger R/T, 1968 Charger 383HP, and a 1968 Charger 383 2 bbl for an asking price of $4000. Worst case on those would have been Ebay or even parting them out for a killing. The cars were complete but needing restos.

[twilt]

For chits and grins i will include a bad deal that i did a few years ago that isnt looking so bad anymore because of increases in parts prices.
I used Buy it Now feature (EBAY)  on a 73 or 74 Charger  located  in Maryland, north of Baltimore. the price was $800 or thereabouts. The pics of the car
wer poor , so i didnt really know how good or bad it would be. It did have a power bulge hood, tuff wheel, am/fm and was a power window car, so i figured that i couldnt go wrong, even if i just parted it out.
I had recently bought my pick-up, a 93 F-150  6 cylinder with 5 speed manual. I had my doubts as to whether it would be a good choice to tow the Charger with. Based on bad advice from a guy i work with (the same person i bought the truck from)I installed a receiver on the truck andi rented a tow dolly and my wife and i set off for Baltimore. " It will pull it no problem"
It took us around 15-16 hours to get there as the traffic around Wash Dc and Baltimore was awful. I had only slept 2-3 hours before hitting the road and was exhausted. The car (it did run/drive) was stuck in mud in the guys backyard. it took about 2-3 hours to get it out of his backyard and on the dolly.
I decided to recheck the dolly lights before leaving and they were now completely inop. i decided to drive down the road to a shopping plaza i had seen and try to fix them there.  while driving there, i was completely terrified with how poorly my truck pulled the car and how much the dolly and car pushed my truck around when stopping. while i wouldnt  have minded pulling it  10-15 miles like this, there was no way in hell i was going to pull it 600-700 miles. i was able to get one light fixed, the other side was blown and the light was a sealed assy. At that point it was getting dark and cold. My wife had the bright idea to call a wrecker service and see if they would take it off of our hands. she called one and they agreed to pick it up the next morning. she went into the grocery store , talked to the owner, explained our situation, and they were agreeable that we could just leave the car in the parking lot. i unloaded it, pulled the power bulge hood off of it and put it in the bed of my truck, grabbed the am/fm off the floor and got the hell out of Dodge.  22 hours after leaving GA, we checked into a hotel in Virginia for a liitle much needed rest. all in all, i spent about $1000 for a hood and radio which was a pretty bad deal. However, it looks a litle better now since  prices on the bulge hoods has steadily increased. as far as the car, it turned out to be a very very rusty POS.
while i would have liked the opportuniy to get more parts off of it, i would have unquestionably stripped/crushed it.   

[73dodge]

Bought a 71 Road Runner 383 4spd with the elastometric bumpers and bench seats from the orginal owner for 2500 in 1990. She had all the paperwork including all the shop manuals made for the car. Even had every receipt from anytime she ever had any work done to it.

Sold it 2 years later for double what I paid for it.

Wish I had it back 

[chrisII]

in the summer of 91 i had my first charger, and had blown up the 318 i had in it. it was a nice lookin car  that drove nice, but a bondo bucket. while looking for a new engine i came across a guy in town who had a 73 with a 400, in much nicer shape and an "se broahm" with "leather" interior and a slap stick for the measley price of $300 cash..i messed around trying to wheel and deal so he took it up north an sold it on the indian reservation for $400      i learned alot from that one, im not thrilled by 400s but it still was a kool car

[ChargerSG]

Dumbest Mopardeal i ever made was my 71 Challenger, bought it throu a brokar(living in Sweden you dont have soo many choise, but i learn my lesson and now i do it myself), thought i buoght a car in showclass but that $17100 was just a regular driver in bad shape, had to put 4k just get it driveble and then allot of work with everything from electricalstuff and bodywork. Carbrokers is not poular in my point of veiw...

[Charger Aficionado]

Deal NOT made (but should have done different)...
  Been trying to get a Q5 '69 R/T SE trac pac car for 12 yrs.     Guy finally agrees to sell for only 3,400!!! (His recommendation on price).   I drove down with cash and a rented trailer, but guy was too tired to get up (sick dude)...     Someone happened to stroll by a few days later and offer him a TON (10k) for it a few days before I got to pick it up as promised.  

[ChargerHound69]

That sounds about right.  I don't even keep track of the number of people that say I will give you $10,000 right now if you want to sell it.  I tell them NO and they just keep comming.

The deal I let get away was not buying me a Hemi car of the lot, but who knew they would be worth so much today.
The other deal was Palm Springs Realestate, don't even get me started on what that was going for..

[blackcharger]

When I was in High School, I had a 'POS '74 Torino I was turning into a S&H car. The 351 blew up right after I bought it. A buddy's Uncle had a rusted out '69 Mustang I bought for the engine. A guy from school had a '67 six cyl mustang that he wanted my parts Mustang for the V8. He also just bought a local '69 Coronet R/T. Solid body, just needed some lower 1/4 work. Even had a nice interior. I was out working on the Torino, and here he comes walking up the road. Ask for my help. The Coronet broke down about a mile away. I ended up towing him home. The fuel pump quit. I asked him about the car a couple days later. He TOOK IT TO THE LOCAL JUNKYARD BECAUSE HE DIDN"T WANT TO CHANGE THE PUMP. I shoulda offered to sweap the parts Mustang for the R/T. Why didn't I? Because the Coronet had a column shift 727, and I HAD to have the four speed in the Ford. Oh, as soon as school got out, I went directly to the junk yard........crushed it the day before. This was in 1980.   
That one still pisses me off.

Dave

[RT DAVE]

Not buying 66Charger's 70 V-Code 4 speed car last fall...

[LeeBoy]

In 1988 I was seventeen and had a chance to buy a 1974 360 4 speed Cuda for $1,400. It need a motor so my dad said no. I found out a few years ago there were only a little over 250 made.
In 1990 my uncle traded a rust free 23,000 mile 1973 318 Duster for a POS rusted out Datsun pick up that died a week later

[calchargerRT]

sold a 1970 Coronet RT, 440- six pack (real V code), 4 speed, dana rear, console/buckets, nice shape, for $2,300 in 1985 for college funds. I almost cried watching it roll down the road behind the tow truck, was my first car.

Ian

[DonC]

Selling my 69 B5 blue rt/se sunroof daytona clone in the mid 90's to a fellow in northern BC, Canada,
who then painted it red and have since lost track of it...anybody know of it?

[Dodge Don]

Selling my 70 Charger R/T SE.....FY1 Top Banana hardtop, with tan leather SE interior, V21 hood option......If I'd known then how rare it was I'd have kept it until I had the $$ to restore it. It was restored by the buyer and I saw it at a few shows.....it was drop dead gorgeous. It "disappeared" several years ago. Possibly in the NY state area now.

[itchyballs]

i would have to say the  deal that i would consider the dumbest thing that i idin't do was buying a complete and the guy was driving it too 69 R/T charger. it needed a little quarter work and a trunk pan but the rest was pretty nice on it. i could have bought it for $2,500 and that was last year!!! i already have 2 69 chargers and 1 68 charger but that one i could have e-bayed and made a killing!! oh well...

[71charger_fan]

Selling a 70 Barracuda Gran Coupe with Go Wing for $250 after I had fixed the rust outs. I needed to make room in the garage for the Charger and got tired of hearing that "something has to go."