Enquiring minds want to know!

BEST
Giving my life to Christ
Getting married
Having children
Deciding to play guitar

WORST
Not buying a 3-fender tag, 1-of-3 '70 Cuda convertible
Not buying a "barn find" '69 Shelby Cobra

I read somewhere that you regret the things you don't do far more than the things you do, and I think that's true for me.

RodeoSchro said:

BEST
Giving my life to Christ
Getting married
Having children
Deciding to play guitar

WORST
Not buying a 3-fender tag, 1-of-3 '70 Cuda convertible
Not buying a "barn find" '69 Shelby Cobra

I read somewhere that you regret the things you don't do far more than the things you do, and I think that's true for me.

What is a "3-fender tag"?

I´m really good at making bad dicisions, but my worst would be: start smoking.

nextedition said:

I´m really good at making bad dicisions, but my worst would be: start smoking.

I hear ya, brotha. The good news is, You can always stop.

Two way tie for worst:

Smoking for a good dozen years (and I started when I was twenty, so I can’t even use teenage goofiness as an excuse).

Going to university straight out of high school. I was definitely not ready, & would have been far better off spending a few years toiling in dead end jobs & maturing a little.

Best: pledging 20% of my income & all of my estate to charity.

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damosuzuki said:

Two way tie for worst:

Smoking for a good dozen years (and I started when I was twenty, so I can’t even use teenage goofiness as an excuse).

Going to university straight out of high school. I was definitely not ready, & would have been far better off spending a few years toiling in dead end jobs & maturing a little.

Best: pledging 20% of my income & all of my estate to charity.

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Just make sure you're secure financially, damo!

Funny, a REALLY bad thing just happened to me and I was thinking about the whole chain of events that led to this, as well as to some extreme financial difficulties I've been facing lately and that led me back to 2006, the worst decision of my life. That's when I agreed to give-up on a well balanced, happy life surrounded with many people I loved in Lyon to follow my girlfriend (at the time) and settle with her in another city. The whole experience was an entire dissaster that plunged me into depression for 2 years until I finally dumped the girl and got back to Lyon, but it was too late, I had done things and made decisions in the meantime that would alter everything up to that point. I am extremely happy with most aspects of my life today but there are lots of things that were disastrous along the way to the here and now, lots of regrets and some shit that's still pending and God knows for how long, and that all goes back to 2006. On the other hand I don't have the smallest clue of what my life would have been had I stayed in Lyon that year, and where I'd be now... Would I have better or worse memories of the last 8 years? Would I be happier today? I can't say. I'd probably have missed a few good things, too, that couldn't have happened without this.

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The best decision? Nothing really comes to mind that sounds like an absolute. Maybe going for a 2 months trip to India in 2001, this changed my life forever (to the point that I live there now).

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Why u wanna know anyway?

nextedition said:

I´m really good at making bad dicisions, but my worst would be: start smoking.

It's crazy it's 2 of u actually saying that. I SO wish starting smoking woulda been the worst decision of my life. It might kill me so then it would indeed be the worst decisionb, I hear ya of course, but maybe it won't and so far anyway I'm alive, so I could think of many worst decisions than that

Ace said:

RodeoSchro said:

BEST
Giving my life to Christ
Getting married
Having children
Deciding to play guitar

WORST
Not buying a 3-fender tag, 1-of-3 '70 Cuda convertible
Not buying a "barn find" '69 Shelby Cobra

I read somewhere that you regret the things you don't do far more than the things you do, and I think that's true for me.

What is a "3-fender tag"?

Mopars (Plymouth and Dodge muscle cars) have the options stamped on pieces of metal called "fender tags". A bare-bones car will have 1 fender tag. A highly-optioned car will fill up almost 2 fender tags.

This particular car had THREE tags. It had every option you could order in 1970 except for the Hemi engine. ANNNNNND, it was in the ultra-rare Moulin Rouge color (called "Panther Pink" sometimes). Only 3 1970 convertibles were made in that color. But this is the ONLY 3-tag 'Cuda (or Mopar of any kind) that anyone I have ever talked to has heard of. So this was likely the rarest 1970 'Cuda convertible in the world.

I could have bought it for $12,000. It was a survivor, meaning everything was original. It was in pretty good shape but needed paint, a couple things on the interior, and a new trunk floor. Truth be told, it was the hole in the trunk that scared me away. But I was new to muscle cars and little did I know that was an easy fix.

My guess is that today, that car is worth $250,000.

Ouch.

Here's a picture of a replica painted up like the one I missed:

[img:$uid]http://www.moparmax.com/features/featurecar/viii_8-cuda/Cuda_001.jpg[/img:$uid]

Worst:

Getting into the party lifestyle(excessive drinking,drugs, sex with trollops, etc).

Not developing(past a certain age) my creativity. Back at it though.

Not going to college.

Not spending more quality time with my mother.

Basically, not reaching for the stars.

Best:
Getting out of the party lifestyle.

Not allowing myself to become a validated gang member.

Not letting fear get in the way of my desire to travel and live in different cities(in the US).

Not allowing myself to become a statistic.

Oh yeah. Making the decision to stop smoking.

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