Being a car nut, I always kept, and still do keep an eye on the local car dealerships to see if anything interesting shows up in someone's inventory. Working at a car dealership makes this much easier to do. Once in a while, something unusual will appear out of nowhere. Such was the case on this day in 2004.

This very nice 1967 Ford Galaxie Convertible was traded in at Joe Machens Ford on November 29, 2004.

While not a concours restoration, this car was quite nice ! the exterior paint and chrome were all in great shape.

The one exterior flaw I could find was with the convertible top. The duct tape holding a corner of the top together is visible in the photo above.

No worries though. A brand new top was in the trunk waiting to be installed.

The interior was about as nice as you could expect for something like this.

The interior was in great shape on this car.

The odometer showed 131k original miles.

Power was supplied by a 200 hp version of Ford's 289 CID V-8 coupled with an automatic transmission.

The best part of this story centers around the car's price. It's been too many years for me to recall the exact details. But my memory is that I was told that I could have had this car for something like $1,500 - $2,000 !

Regardless, as the old saying of, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" suggests, I never had a chance at this car. The finance manager who worked the deal bought it instantly and the car never made it to the used car inventory.