Complete this sentence: I wish I would have bought...
 

Inspired by the other thread of a similar title.

....a 914, when they were really cheap, for a really nice one. Now there isn't a fun car in sight I can reasonably afford...

.........the 356B that was for sale at $1900 when I paid $1695 for the '70 Bettle I bought in 1974.

The Beetle was a very good car though.

That mail-order bride with the fetish for velvet ropes.

AMZN in 1995.

SBUX in 2000.

GOOG in 2005.

...the 1962 Corvette my buddy found for me for $4500 in about 1974.

We were all getting out of vans (yeah, eyes rolling here too!) and two of my buddies bought 'Vettes. One a '59 and the other a '65. Gas was like $0.55 and I couldn't see myself paying that much, what an idiot!

Microsoft stock.

A Swedish-made penis enlarger pump.

Oh wait...I thought this thread was things I wish I wouldn't have bought.

I swear its not mine!

What was her name?:D

Coca-cola stocks in the 50's...

A man named Ray Croc asked me personally in 1966 if I would like to buy some stock in his company. He was in the business of selling hamburgers, (McDonalds) He was a friend of my father's when he bought a franchise. I was 16 years old and did'nt know a thing about stock, and of course, did'nt have $2200.00. Oh well, it was still a nice gesture.

ISRG stock when it went public about 7 years ago. IPO was at $13. It fell to $9 and I decided it wasn't worth risking a few k. Trading today in the $300 range. Who would have thought that robotic surgery would become viable???

Definitely...

my first wife a cheaper ring.

A duplex that a family friend offered to sell me at the beach when I was 19 for $35K. A few years ago, that same piece of dirt sold for $1.6m:(

A couple MP5SDK's, couple M14's, M16's when they were much cheaper.
Charlie Swanson's 3.2 liter engine when he decided to sell it. At least another Pelican has it.
Some good mutual funds when I was in my early twenties.
I'll also add what targa911s said.......

The 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato for $3,000 instead of the 1961 regular DB4 which I bought for $1,750; that was back in 1971.

the 1955 D Jaguar that I was considering buying around 1961...but I thought that $5100 was way out of line and cancelled the deal!

WI

You and I were the putzes. The only consolation that I get is that when I bought the DB4, I considered a 427 AC cobra, but my Dad talked me out of it. At 17 y/o in the USMC, if I'd bought a 427 Cobra, I'd be dead now.

My grandparent's house on the Cape. Damn.

I wish I would have bought a Pelican's 350+ RWHP 951....

You sound like my soul mate per buying cars long ago!

My dad talked me out of the D Jag but it was a bit out of my price range at that time. I ended up buying an Austin-Healey 100-4. Had a three speed with an electric overdrive switch on the dash and a windshield with wing nuts that would go down into racing position. My dad also said that it was a really dumb way to spend my hard earned money but that it was not as bad as the Harley KHK that I brought home earlier. It was a 1956 55 cubic inch flathead that would fly. He was really pissed at me. Same story when I bought my first Corvette...a 1963 327 roller rocker engined coupe.

Man, if I had just kept those three cars..................along with the other 20 or 30 that I owned over the years!

I wish I would have bought vintage guitars in the 1980's when they coulnd't give them away.
Les Pauls especially. What you could buy for $10-20,000 a decade ago is now approaching half a million bucks.

Three years ago I could have bought a '56 LP for $9000. Now, it's priced well over $20k.

No worries. Sweden is not a market for those pumps. Most of us need penis diminishing pumps.

Pretty soon , you will all wish you had bought a gererator when it was possible
And you will depend on my gererator for electricity, and i will buy all those things y'all wish you had bought

A dozen of Shelby GT-350 in 1968.

Crude in 1998, Gold in 2002, a truck load more S and P puts last year.

BRK.A 25 years ago

Other than financail mistakes that I have made....

1. In 1985 a Ferrari 330 GTC for 20K
2. In 1989 a fully restored 65 Porsche 356C for 10.5K
3. In 1989 a nice 65 Porsche 356 Cab for 25K
4. In 1996 a really crisp 1877 Sharps #1 Target for 18K
5. In 1997 a 1/2 acre lot in the King Ranch area of Alta Loma, CA for 127K
6. In 1997 5 acre parcel in La Cresta, CA for 150K
7. In 1998 a 5 acre parcel just N of Pismo Beach, CA on a mountain top with a 180 degree view of the Pacific Ocean for 220K

The 1960 300SL Roadster in baby blue for $30K. This was in 1978 as I recall.

The house I rented in Jackson Hole Wy. 1989 Value $160K today $1.4 Mill.

Garmin Stock in the 20'S

Stock in starbucks ten years ago.
A high rise condo on Ocean blvd in Long Beach with a veiw of the LBGP circuit... for $80,000
Condos in Las Vegas when they were $75,000.

... a copyright for this thread format.

That winning Mega-Millions ticket.

and used, a condom that time back in '95.








JK :)

....one of my four boys the proper toys/tools so that they could have come up with Face Book instead of that damn Zuckerman kid!!!:(

P.S. What would my cut of $1.5 BILLION been?