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if the car is extremely rare, say one of 100 or one of 500, you may have no choice but to pay the asking price, if you are really hot for that car.
Last of all, you have to look at the car's options/color/engine in order to decide what to pay. Is AC on a vintage car worth an extra 10%? Yep, probably is. Is the color red worth more than baby poop brown? Yes again. Is a 6 cylinder Mustang worth the same as a V8? No way.
I watched it the first time it was listed, and now its back to tempt me a 2nd time. What do you folks think its really worth?
I keep telling myself I don't want a convertible. Don't want the extra weight, nor do I care to drive with the top down very often. And if it will be my track car ... well, obvious reasons for no 'vert.
However, its a 325 manual tranny that maybe could be had cheap. SOOOOO... ??
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The sellers says he has new leather seats (mine had cloth) and he's replaced the rack and pinion (something I had to do in 2005?), new sound system, and struts all 'round, so he has some money put into it. I wonder when the timing belt was changed out - do '94's still use the rubber one, like my '87?
One thing I would worry a bit about is how it's been driven. The seller says he's replaced the clutch, pressure plate, etc. I still have the original clutch in my '87, with around 188,000 miles on it, and they are pretty much bullet proof. So makes me wonder why the clutch replacement?
The new leather is definitely a plus for me. Our current one could use it, but I don't want to spend the money. Its big bucks. Like you said, he's done alot of work, which is the only reason I'm considering. Ours also could use new bushings all around. But, again, just not willing to do that yet. I'm afraid my wife will tire of it any day now and I'd have spent the time and money for nothing.
188k miles on one clutch is rare. Very rare. Not only is it how its driven, but where its driven. If you are in bumper-to-bumper every day (for example), that's going to kill it, no matter how gentle you try to be.
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You'll just end up like the previous owner. Sinking money into a salvage title car is a one-way street. Even if you "improve" it, you don't get a dime more for it. Given what he's replaced, the car obviously didn't have a dime in maintenance spent on it in its prior life, AND it was totalled besides.
Now for the other end of the spectrum:
Possibly the nicest '86 911 I've seen in quite some time.
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I'd much rather see a car like this with 20 photos, a VIN #, a service history and the real owner to contact.
I had never seen the car in person, but for some reason I thought it was more of a bluish green, whereas I guess this is more of a sage green?
And thanks for info on the price. I was wondering (as I am clueless on Porsches, as I believe we all know by now).
We CAN have rust-free cars here. Ya just can't drive them in any inclement weather, always keep it in the garage, and never live or drive near the ocean.
Of course, as the owner's town's name indicates, he lives ... ummm... ahhh... welll... right by the water.
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80s Porsches are still "used cars"---by that I mean that the OLDER they are, the LESS they are worth--so they are acting like used cars, not collectibles, which, of course, generally do the reverse--as they age they become more valuable.
Given that, you want to be careful not to pay over retail for one because you could suffer further depreciation.
For Carreras of that type, I like 1987 on up, then skip the C2s all together
Although not many on there wouldn't kill you on upkeep, thereby negating the bargain it was to begin with.
I was just looking at vettes last night on the web, as a matter of fact. Lots of performance for the $$. And, of course, parts are plentiful and not terribly expensive. But then it occurred to me that it could eat through alot of tire money if autoX'ing.
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I think most people that own them ask over book value for them anyway so it would be difficult finding one for the listed prices.
I think for looks I'd go witht he 850i or the 600SEC, and for reliability I'd go with the Lexus GS400.
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there are boats in each driveway/yard.
this guy's boat doesn't look so good. :confuse:
The Lexus would never be on any list I'd compile. Their car just proves that 300hp can still be boring.
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You're right about those skirts...first thing I'd do if I had that car would be to pull them off. They came with the car though...my friend didn't put them on. I think he has better taste than that.
I guess that differential does have a slow leak in it. A little of that stuff really does go a long way, and can make a leak look more intense than it really is. Or some could have just spilled the last time it was filled, and it never got wiped off. I wonder how expensive it would be to fix something like that?
The car just has a 292-2bbl mated to a 2-speed automatic, so I'm sure it's not a screamer. I guess it's adequate for a nice cruiser, though.
With smaller, weaker engines like this, I've heard that a dual exhaust can actually hamper performance, rather than improve it. Something about back pressure? Is that true? Could someone 'splain it to me?
For some reason, this pic makes me think faintly of Hitchcock's "The Birds". Maybe it's the Cape Cod house with the evergreens around it and the bay off in the distance. And come to think of it, Rod Taylor had a '62 Galaxie in that movie.
I kinda like it mainly because it IS a bit of an oddball, and something you don't see everyday. '62 Impalas are all over the place, relatively speaking, while '62 Furys and Dart/Polaras are just too "out there" style-wise, so I think this Galaxie is a neat change of pace. I like the color too, although I'd lose the fender skirts, stat.
I think I looked it up once, and the 292-2bbl only has something like 170 hp?! IIRC, the 283-2bbl was up to around 195 hp by this time, while the Mopar 318-2bbl had 230 hp...plus the advantage of being hooked up to a 3-speed automatic! So I guess the Galaxie was a bit of a dog compared to its peers?
A limited number of them will be purchased by foreign buyers, but not very many.
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donate it to charity!
FYI. I first went to check it out at maybe 3:00. It was $250. Now at 4:30, its over $4k.
Amazing that the seller could spend all of that money and do nothing more to the engine than change the oil.
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Looks good for the money. The price is fair, perhaps a tad under value but close enough given the interior issues.
The cold air intake and "chip" are probably Mickey Mouse stuff ("Hi. I own a garage in Cleveland and I know a LOT more than the Porsche engineers").
But the dreaded water pump and timing belt have been done (one hopes there is a repair order to prove this), so barring the chip going crazy and the cold air intake sucking in a piston-full of water someday, what's not to like?
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She did alot of work to it, hopefully the $10k bill is not what did her in.
The Porsche 944 seems like a good deal. The work it needs is is you could live with until you find the cash to fix like a/c and the sunroof.
It'll be interesting to see how high it goes.
But...the 944 is just plain darn good looking. It doesn't have a line wrong anywhere. No, it isn't a 911, but nothing is a 911.
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OK, it's a completed project. But can you imagine the amount of time, money, and probably alcohol it must have taken? And now someone has the fastest '82 QP on the planet. Awesome.
-Jason
'82 Maserati 4Porto -- that would be a sweet car to have if the conversions were done well and the thing doesn't sound like a Hell's Bells hotrod. The 4Porto has the loveliest leather seats you'll ever experience, and if enough sound-deadening and balancing has been installed to block out the over-built Ford V8 (the Maser V-8 was very quiet and very smooth), this car would be a winner to cruise around the country in.
This car is a monster, and you aren't going to fling it around like it was a BMW M5, so best keep it as a stately GT car that goes fast.
The choice of gauges, wheels and steering wheel are unfortunate, but this is Las Vegas. I'm also not a big fan of 200 lbs of airtex piping all over the place. Also not sure if the double-shocks are going to jar your fillings loose in your teeth.
It's a car that needs to be driven before it is bought, or you might end up with a freak here. Jay Leno might like it.
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I always loved these... make me think of the Jetsons!
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This looks a more of a mugging set-up than a serious ad
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Memories of the dark ages of the Thunderbirds
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These just never excited me.... they had so much promise....but
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Can someone please explain this picture for me?
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That Roadrunner pic looks kinda like an aborted Dukes of Hazzard stunt. Maybe for the pilot they tried using a '71 Roadrunner but discovered it sucked at jumping, so they went with the '69 Charger (and a few '68's and an occasional '70
Let's see---we got yer Classic Birds or "Little Birds", then yer Square Birds ("lets give the market away to Corvette") , then yer Bullet Birds, then yer Jet Birds (why that name?) and then the Dark Ages aka the "Big Birds" (appropriate as they weighed 4,300 lbs)......
2002 T-Bird: "Let's make them all 6 cylinder automatics. No one will notice!"
I think the only time I've ever heard the word "pig" used as an adjective was in describing the handling of a mid-60's T-bird, but how bad, really, would a '66 be? I mean, if I'm comfortable driving a '67 Catalina and a '57 DeSoto, could a '66 T-bird be any more of a challenge? I know it would be a joke by today's standards, but would it be bad, even by the standards of the time?
Oh, as for that early 70's Bird, it was a lot more than 4300 lb. Try more like 5,000+! The thing was basically an uglied-up Mark IV. When they went to the intermediate Torino/LTD-II platform, THAT got them down to about 4000-4300 lb!
Some people like the new Birds---ladies love 'em.
66 T-Bird -- you would not believe how badly they handle. You wouldn't believe me if I told you how bad. You'd think me unkind, you'd accuse me of exaggeration, bias, distortion.
But I'll try--- think of driving your Mom's old sofa on the freeway.
In a perverse sort of way, you have me curious to experience one! What did Ford do to those cars to make them handle so badly? If I can handle a '67 Catalina, would I be okay with a '66 T-bird? Or does the Bird take it to a whole new level?
NADA prices are for ignorants.
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This one looks almost exactly like my Dad's car except it's a 1982 model instead of a 1981 model like his car. The only real difference is the 'Bird logos on the headlamp doors. The 1981 model had silver backgrounds instead of black.