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Model Ts, both open and closed, can be had for closed Model A money. Even brass examples are inexpensive.
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Volvo P1800 --- what a RAT! I wouldn't give you $750 for that rust-bucket
MGTF -- right hand drive is a deal-breaker on the TF, since you could get them LHD. Only the TC is RHD exclusively. So deduct 30% for RHD on the TF.
I'm not being too picky, am I? :shades:
Also, after coming back from the Mopar show, I'm also a bit revved up about the idea of a '78-79 Magnum or an '80-83 Cordoba. They've both always been guilty pleasures of mine. I think the Magnums were better built, and tended to be better performers, as a good deal of them came with 360s putting out 150-195 hp. In contrast, most Miradas were just 318's putting out 120-130 hp, and stuck with really tall gearing. I've talked to Mirada owners, and they actually claim 26-28 mpg on the highway. Is that conceivable, or would you have to really drive one like an old lady to achieve that? My old '79 Newport, with a 318-2bbl, 135 hp, and 2.45:1 gearing, would get up to around 22 on the highway. So I guess a Mirada with a 130 hp 318-2bbl and 2.26:1 gearing just might, although I imagine with that kind of gearing it would downshift under the slightest hint of strain.
Weren't we just talking about Audi V8s? This one just popped up practically in my back yard.
seems like alot of $$ for 13-year-old car with 166k miles. And one that is NOT notoriously trouble-free.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
Until I looked at the pics I hadn't realized they were still using the 5-cyl turbo in those. How many more years did they use it? They sure had lots of time to work the bugs out by then.
I bet that S6 is easier to live with than the V8. I think 90% of those things were that pearl white.
Resale value king
Shifty special
Fins as far as the eye can see
I'd buy it for $50 if I had my own junkyard
Battle cruisers like this are probably slow sellers now
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Man I wish I had a house right now with multiple garages.
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Anyway, the house itself has a 2-car garage, but what the ad doesn't say, for some odd reason, is that there's another building on the lot. It looks like a big 4-car garage with a side entry, sort of like my garage, but bigger. Plus, it has a full-length carport-type roof across the back. So in theory you could get at least 6 cars in the garages (more if you play with small cars) and two big ones, maybe 3 smaller ones, under the carport in back!
And with 3.5 acres, you could easily build another garage if you wanted to. I'm tempted to go check this house out. There's just one little problem. I don't have $525K laying around at this moment. Another killer would be property taxes. It's assessed at roughly double what my house is, so I'm guessing property taxes would be double. My bill just came, and it was $3100. The "true" bill would be about $4,000, but we get a tax credit every year that keeps the property taxes from shooting up too much year over year. If I sold my house, the new buyer would get ramped up to that $4,000. So I imagine the tax bill on this other place would be around $8,000. I'm not ready to fork over that kind of money!
It's also listed at 2955 square feet, but being a cape cod, in Maryland they only count half of your upstairs footage. Nevermind the fact this house has a big dormer off the back. Oh, and a full basement. So I imagine the utility bills would be a nightmare on a monster like this.
I guess if I ever want to fulfill my dream of a place where I can store a lot of cars, I'd really better start looking at more rural, less expensive areas. :sick:
**edit: If you paste 10325 good luck road, 20769 into http://local.live.com or a similar mapping utility, you can see aerial pics and birds-eye views of the place. Lots of room to stash stuff.
My wife and I have been looking at houses as we'd like to buy one within the next year.
She prefers a condo locally, I prefer commuting a bit but having some land so that I can hoard some cars on the property. :P
The places we looked at all had decent amounts of driveway space and at least a 2 car garage, so that I can pick a apart some "project cars"
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Malaisey bird
This should keep you busy
I am leery of this
When I see this
I smell iron oxide
Big hatch
As nice as it looks it's still an 81 with 187k miles.
If I'd be in the market and wanted that generation S Class I can probably find a mint 1989 or 1990 for the same money. Otherwise I'd offer him no more than $4-$5k.
I think he just wants the money back he put in it but it's going to be for sale for a loooong time like this one:here that's been on sale for for about 3 years now. Originally he was asking $24900. I remember when I was flipping through Auto Trader years ago and laughing.
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Once he gets that, then everything else becomes easy.
MGA Coupe -- I really like the bashed in grill. Good selling point.
Oh man, is that $1K T-Bird a candidate for demo derby or WHAT? That car could destroy anything.
The link doesn't work, but if that same W126 has been on Van Craigslist, I might know it...some dreamers show up there now and again. Today the only 126 that would bring 25K might be a 6 litre widebody AMG car or maybe some Sbarro gullwing SEC or something...normal ones are pretty much just old used cars.
Only if they use stuff like Citations and Celebrities and '84 Camries in demolition derbies these days. Maybe the pics make it look bigger, but the '80-82 T-bird's not really much of a car. Based on the compact Fairmont platform. 108.4" wheelbase, about 200" long, maybe 3200 lb tops.
Now the '77-79 T-bird was based on the old Torino/LTD-II platform, and weighed about 4,000 lb. And the '72-76 was was a clone of the Mark IV, a mastodon that got up to about 5,000 lb once they started putting those 5 mph bumpers on them.
I used to like those '80-82 T-birds when they were new. I've always liked cars with hidden headlights. And I vaguely recall commercials for them that showed a digital dash, which in my 9 year old mind was way cool.
I saw one out on the street about a year ago, with a blower sticking up through the hood! It had fat tires on the back, too. Kind of an unlikely candidate as the basis for a hotrod, but cool in an offbeat sort of way.
So, by stalling around debating with yourself, you allow it to be sold out from under you. That way, no chance you buy something you shouldn't!
hopefully something else intriguing comes along soon.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
You can get a Porsche fixed almost anywhere in a large city but even in big cities like San Francisco, I could count on one hand (and have fingers left over) the repair shops that really know what they are doing with an S6.
Two for the price of one! (Make the neighbors in the trailer park happy.)
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My Dad had one of these long ago. I don't think he misses it.
Too bad it's not a stick.
Irrational exuberance.
Look, Shifty. No Webers!
and another
Rare Benz Muscle
A real project
Ive always liked these
I kind of like Corvairs too, I can respect GM trying to innovate.
Ours was a '67, beige with beige vinyl, 4-speed, bought new (I think) and driven for 6 years until the engine failed on it. It took us (Mom and Dad, me (aged 7) and sister (aged 4)) from CA to NY and back in the summer of '71. Folded the rear seat down and made a cubbyhole for me in amongst the luggage. My sister, I was told, spent the trip on my mom's lap.
My wife says that theirs was beige as well. Don't know the year or the ultimate fate, though my wife has told me that her dad also drove a 911 for a time when she was a kid.
Actually, I remember there was a red one dumped in the woods near my Granddad's house when I was a kid. For some reason, those woods seemed to attract a lot of junk cars, and most of them were VW's. There were also two Bugs. One was blue and the other was kind of off white. There was also a Karman Ghia, partially buried in rubble. Part of that area had been filled in for a school, and the Karman Ghia was at the edge, sort of half in, half out of the embankment.
Now that I think of it, there was another VW back there, in beige. It was similar to that Squareback, but seemed a bit shorter, and more of a fastback. There was also an early 60's Falcon 2-door sedan in the creek, and an early 60's Corvair that looked like the fire dep't had practiced on its roof, cutting all the pillars on the driver's side and then peeling it over.
Sometime in the early 80's, a cleanup committee was organized and those old cars were hauled out of there. I think they just threw some more rubble down on the Karman Ghia to totally bury it, though. There was also a stripped down car frame that they missed. Not sure what it was, exactly, but it had that wasp-waisted X-frame look that GM used in the late 50's and early 60's. It's been ages since I've been out that way, but I think it's still there. And there's a spot where the creek cuts close to the edge of the school's property, with about a 30 foot embankment. I think every once in awhile, a car still ends up down in there!
'62 Corvair--- Death Trap. Beware.
'70 Midget -- cute cars, I like them and they are fun to drive. I can even squeeze into one! The price of $3,500 might be a tad optimistic considering but maybe not. Depends on how "light" this "light rust" is that he keeps mentioning here and there.
Does that have air shocks?
As for the loan talk, it has me confused too. I wonder if he's saying he'll take a $3000 down payment, and then let you pay him the rest in monthly installments? But the way he worded it, it almost sounds like he needs $3K and is looking to take a title loan out on it. But these are both just guesses, and could be way off.
Anyway, with 140K miles on it, I can't imagine it would be worth more than $3K anyway. The pics are too vague to really tell anything. If it's been well maintained, it could have plenty of life left in it, but if it hasn't it could be near the end of its useful life.
And what could I get a nice presentable one of these for? Less than his claimed reserve, no doubt.
Paying $300K for a barn find that has to be restored seems foolish.
Also this car does not have the desirable Rudge wheels, factory luggage or factory hardtop, three options with great value to collectors.
Last of all, these cars are not terribly rare by collector standards, with a high survival rate and an original roadster production of around 1,800 cars.
One would be much better off to buy a restored one, with disc brakes and all the goodies, even if it cost you $600,000 or more.
A local high end dealer had a 300SL roadster a couple years ago...I forget if he wanted 295 or 395 for it. It looked nice to me, and it did have a hardtop. I think it was a 61.
What does a presentable gullwing go for now? Although it is less practical, I think I would still rather go that way, just for the legend. Of course, if I was willing to spend 400K+ on a car, I would be able to afford them both.