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[blue&orange]

Sometime in the mid '80s my local slot shop found a bunch of NOS '60s kits. I bought a few Monogram and AMT kits for around $20 each, but I passed on the goofy Revell Rat Fink Lotus and Mr. Gasser BRM kits.

 

Last night on eBay a pair of Rat Fink Lotuses, built and mint kit, sold for $680; a pair of BRMs, built and mint kit, sold for $907.  

 

Sigh!

[slotcarone]

We all have a lot of should of could of would of stuff like that. LOL 

[Pappy]

Those deals are out there right now......all you have to do is live another 60 years to cash in. 

[Larry Labounty]

In the 70's Richie Hobbies where I race as a kid ask me if I would like to buy some of the old kits that he had left from the hay day of slot racing. Lots of Cox, Revell kits @ Champion. Thought what I am going to do with that stuff. How many times I regretted that decision!

[Paul Menkens]

70s Les Paul Goldtop with P90 pickups for $375, didn't buy it cause the finish was worn a little, this was in the mid 90s and the guitar was already worth at least a grand, worth many grands now.

[Mark Onofri]

Ford stock @ $1.09
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[Jay Guard]

In the mid 80's I had a chance to buy a very used 246GT Dino Ferrari and a bit later a BMW M1 when I lived in Germany. The Mark-to-Dollar rate was four-to-one so I really blew those opportunities,  However I did at least pick-up a like new 1979 Porsche 911SC from my German Dentist. 

[Dave Crevie]

My behind is covered with bruises from me kicking myself. I never bought anything because I thought it would turn a windfall profit when I sold it. I bought it because I wanted it. The one that hurts most is the Ferrari 206 Dino, which last sold for $1,770,000. I sold it in 1973 for $8500. I passed on a Ferrari 250GTO/64 for under $5000, because I thought it was too much work. Just missed a Jaguar D-type, out bid in a private sale by $3500. And there's more. If I had my head screwed on straight back then, I could be a multi-millionaire.  

[Paul Menkens]

If I had every old Fender, Ampeg and Supro tube amp, every old Gibson SG, Les Paul, every Fender Strat, P Bass and Jazz Bass (sold them all for what seemed like good prices, but nowhere near what they're going for now, I'd have about $100,000 more then I do now. Not a huge amount, but nothing to sneeze at either.

[Paul Menkens]

Can't forget the Fender Rhodes piano I gave away either.

[Dave Crevie]

  Had one of these since about 1967 or 68. I think I payed about $2000 then. My first financed purchase, ever. Leonard Vilano underwrote it. He outfitted pretty much every big rock band from the Chicago area back then.  Sold it 12 years ago to a guitar dealer. But not for anything like this price. (about 20% of that) Paul got me thinking if that was a reasonable price, so I did a little looking around. Another bruise.

 

 

 

Others off the net;

 

  

 

Anyway, I can feel OK because it ended up in the hands of a well known guitar player not too far from me. And with my arthritis, I can't really play it anymore.

[Pappy]

I missed out on a fortune just last week. The price of pork was up and I didn't own a single pig.

[Mark Onofri]

👍 I wound up paying $4.89? I won't tell you how much I made. If ANYONE would have bought four(4) of my houses @ $125,000.00 total..

[Paul Menkens]

Anyway, I can feel OK because it ended up in the hands of a well-known guitar player not too far from me. But with my arthritis, I can't really play it anymore.

 

That is some guitar!

[leadfoot4]

Back in the late 50s, my father, who worked for an industrial equipment supplier, changed employers, and the change brought us to the Rochester, NY area. He made several sales calls to a new "startup" company, and wound up selling them some equipment. During the time that he was at this company's location, assessing their needs, the employees he was dealing with were encouraging him to buy there stock, for two reasons.

 

Reason #1 was that they were trying to raise cash, to fund the company. Reason #2 was that these folks truly believed that they were "on to something" that would become a big deal. My father was never a big believer in the stock market, so he passed on their suggestion. I'm sure that my dad kicked himself a number of times, for not listening to those employees. The company they were employed by was a little known entity by the name of 'Haloid'......which later morphed into the corporate giant known now, as 'Xerox'.

 

My dad had the opportunity to become wealthy....very wealthy. However, when opportunity knocked on his door, he didn't answer it.

[Bill from NH]

I never saw a hearse driving down the road, followed by a Brinks truck. 

[leadfoot4]

I never saw a hearse driving down the road, followed by a Brinks truck. 

 

VERY true!

[Dave Crevie]

I never saw a hearse driving down the road, followed by a Brinks truck. 

 

But I went to a funeral where the coffin was lined with dollar bills. Old time blues musician.