For me a long list!! Quite a few tractors, antique engines, vehicles, antiques, real estate and so on. You know that running moving tractor for $400 that you did not buy for one reason or an other. That fast forward 20 years is very hard to find!!! A life time of regret and wishing for a "second chance". A couple memorable ones was a 47 Indian motorcycle running moving for a few hundred!! A john Deere 24t baler for $100 (working) I would like to hear your stories.
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rusty6
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- East central Sask.
Looking around my yard you wouldn't think i"d passed up much. But I could come up with a long list too. For starters the 52 Pontiac coupe that a neighbour parked after buying a new Ford pickup. Someone eventually bought the Pontiac, unfortunately not me. It was a good runner with the flathead six and powerglide. Not bad for rust.
rustyfarmall
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'51 Chevy pickup when you could buy them for under $100. Except I didn't have an extra $100 back then. Used to be a guy could buy a Farmall M for around $500 at an auction, drive it 20 miles to get home, hook onto a disc and head to the field. Except I didn't have an extra $500 back then.
Bruce from Can.
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- Location
- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Only regrets about not buying anything was that I didn?t have to nickels to rub together, and could only buy the barest necessities. Wanted bad to buy a bright orange step side short box Ford pickup back in 1980. Had the money $3,999.00 , but was saving to start farming, and couldn?t do both. Well I got the farm started, and the truck would have been long gone.
Ellis Kinney
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Vietnam corvette!!! Ellis
James Howell
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Microsoft.
Ted in NE-OH
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Amazon stock day one.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
I have some tractors I should have sold about 20 years ago,that said I can buy tractors I've wanted now at the lowest price in my lifetime taking inflation into account.And like Rusty from the looks of things at my 3 places I didn't miss out on too much.
Ken Macfarlane
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Guy that did my septic had a midi excavator, 8 ton with a blade. His son had mucked around with the pattern on the pilot controls so it was screwed up trying to do anything. At end of install he offered to sell it to me for 7000$ including my bill if he didn't have to take it home but I didn't have the money. 4000 hours on it, everything tight but needed a set of tracks. 2 owner machine with all history of the repairs.
Had money for the bill but not the whole machine, kick myself every time I hire an excavator to do some work. Machine sold that week for 6k, last I heard its still working away regularly. Found manual on internet with the hose coding for the various patterns it could run.
Had money for the bill but not the whole machine, kick myself every time I hire an excavator to do some work. Machine sold that week for 6k, last I heard its still working away regularly. Found manual on internet with the hose coding for the various patterns it could run.
Ivan in Mich
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Down where I grew up there was a farmer that showed me his collection of toys once. He had a 60 by 100 building full of old tractors and they all ran. He said they all came from the area farms when they went to bigger tractors. In this collection he had 2 plymuth tractors that ran and another one that was in pieces. He had a combine that as the grain came up it was bagged and stacked on a platform. He had a skinny tire JD B row crop tractor. It had narrow tires and sit high in the air. I see he passed away several years ago and I wonder if his son sold these or kept them. This was the first time I saw the red hed gauges on a JD tractor
1962 red/white Impala SS convertible 409/409, 4 speed, 4.11 posi with 1,800 miles in 1983 (or 84).
Could have bought it for $10,000.
Also my Dad's 1958 Oldsmobile 98 with 312 HP J2 Tri-Power engine, 4 speed Hydramatic and all options including AC. After offering to give it to me (I had no place to keep it at the time.), he sold it 1974 for $150.
Dean
Could have bought it for $10,000.
Also my Dad's 1958 Oldsmobile 98 with 312 HP J2 Tri-Power engine, 4 speed Hydramatic and all options including AC. After offering to give it to me (I had no place to keep it at the time.), he sold it 1974 for $150.
Dean
old
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- Camdenton Missouri
Off the top of my head I cannot think of any I should have brought but I can think of a few I should not have sold. Had a pair of 1995 Tiger 200 motorcycles I sold and a good number of things I should never have sold but the list would be long
Mike(NEOhio)
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- Newbury, Ohio
A '53 Indian Chief in pieces for $900.
Steve@Advance
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My dad's '72 C10 Cheyenne.
Super H Mike
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80 acre hunting property in northern Minnesota,some lowland , some wooded, with a pond, old but useable house for a hunting shack and some outbuildings , price at the time was 6k...
If you're gonna dream, dream big. Warren Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway, was trading at $19 per share in 1965. Its right at $300,000 a share now (he never split it). So $1,900 worth in 1965 is worth $30 million today. But doesn't really count as having "missed out", because I didn't know it existed at the time.
I did miss out on 2 Bristol Bay (Alaska) gillnet permits at $7,000 apiece in the mid-70's- And I actually had the money- but wife and I wanted to buy more land. Within 5 years, the fishing permits were selling for $250,000 each. 500 grand would have bought a lot of land in 1980.
I did miss out on 2 Bristol Bay (Alaska) gillnet permits at $7,000 apiece in the mid-70's- And I actually had the money- but wife and I wanted to buy more land. Within 5 years, the fishing permits were selling for $250,000 each. 500 grand would have bought a lot of land in 1980.
Crazy Horse
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My mother-in-law used to say ..... If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.
SodBuster87
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. Could of bought a 71(?) C10 with 25k original one owner miles at an estate auction about ten years ago for $2k. SKS rifles for $100/each.[/img]
Bob N.Y.
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- Norway, N.Y.
I will second that one, and I had the money!
jimg.allentown
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I had the chance to buy an old International Cub at an auction. This tractor was pristine. Still in its work clothes, but no rust or damage. Just normal paint fade, a few dark spots from spilled fluids that had been wiped up long ago. Along with it was every piece of paper that ever had anything to do with that tractor. Original build sheet, bill of sale, and every nut and bolt that was ever touched on it since day one.
The bid went to $750 and stopped. I had the cash in my pocket to buy it! I could have possibly had it for the next bid - depending on how bad the high bidder wanted it. I was thinking of irrelevant things like how to get it home, where to keep it, and all that sort of thing. To this day, I still think I should have bought it.
The bid went to $750 and stopped. I had the cash in my pocket to buy it! I could have possibly had it for the next bid - depending on how bad the high bidder wanted it. I was thinking of irrelevant things like how to get it home, where to keep it, and all that sort of thing. To this day, I still think I should have bought it.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
Like my first marriage license.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
I have a feeling a beggar these days would be more inclined toward a BMW
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