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We have a really good repair shop locally that custom matches the paint to whatever color it currently matches. The results are very, very good. Now, as to how well THAT paint would fade along with the rest of the vehicle is a different story.
I'll second that. When my '03 Saturn L300 was involved in an accident (front end damage), I took it to our local auto body shop and they did an amazing job of matching the Pewter color. I'm sure professionals could notice the difference, but to my untrained eye, it was a perfect match.
This picture was taken in December 2009. Way back in July 2000, someone tried to break into the car at Six Flags America near DC, and they messed up the door enough that it had to be repainted. The whole door wasn't repainted; I think they did it down to that crease under the plastic strip. I remember the body shop replaced the "I-N-T-R-E-P-I-D" lettering on the door, as it was cheaper to peel the old letters off, repaint, and stick new letters on, as opposed to trying to paint around the letters.
You really can't tell from the picture, but I think the spot that the body shop had to fix actually faded better than the original paint! I was very impressed at the job they did on the car. I remember testing one of my friends, who said he was good at spotting body work, asking him to find where it had been repainted. This was around 2003, when the work was still somewhat new. Well, he ended up finding a few factory flaws, including some I hadn't noticed, but never could spot where it had been repainted.
The body shop did tell me though, that silver is one of the hardest colors to match.
I'm not sure what's in those boxes...never really paid much attention. I might look through the stuff tonite and see what all is there. I finally got ahold of the owner of the car this morning, and he's going to look into getting it out of my yard next week. At this point he has no idea where he's going to store it. I looked at some storage places online, and for outdoor parking, most places want $100-120 per month. I found one indoor storage place that was $300/mo! Hmm, maybe I should rent out a space in my garage to him!
I haven't really considered TT's due to Audi's reliability reputation. But this one looks nice for the money. He just dropped the price $1500.
Just like the New Beetle Cabrio, eh?
:P
Did you notice his website? rustytubs.com! Sort of says it all...
Maybe it's out of a Volvo?
Me neither. :P
the Audi TT --- VW cabriolet performance at Audi repair prices.
I'd already kind of talked myself out of it. It has room like a Miata and acceleration like a Miata, but a Miata is about 100 times more fun to drive.
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
I think the first time I heard mention of a Tucker was in 1985, in a Chevrolet history book. The book mentioned that, if GM hadn't aligned all their platforms to get them on the same design cycle in 1959, that Chevrolet was planning on using a facelift of the 1958 body, but with a "central" theme, along the lines of the Edsel, or the Tucker's 3rd headlight. The book went on to state the considering the fate of the Edsel and the Tucker, it's a good thing they went all-new for 1959, although the author didn't think too highly of the 1959 Chevy, as it stood!
I don't think I actually saw a picture of a Tucker until maybe a year later, when I got an auto encyclopedia. Those pre-internet days were dark and gloomy, indeed! Nowadays, all you have to do is google "Tucker" and you get mostly pics of the Tucker. Although you also get a picture of Chris Tucker. And a picture of a chick's scantilly pantied behind. Oh, and a dude with his shirt off.
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
That makes two of us that were thrilled, actually... I was just glad to have it out of the driveway!
We had a Town and Country at work similar to the picture posted. That van was put through hell and back. Stuffed to the gills, driven hard and barely maintained. We got with about 35K on it and ran it to well past 100K. Amazing enough it was on its original transmission, the air worked and aside from some sensor that caused it stall it was pretty much just normal wearable items that went.
To your point, I always thought it was pretty decent looking and I didn't feel too ashamed driving it...
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Icon I6L Golf Cart
Actually in the 90s there wasn't many Chrysler products that didn't have gold trim somewhere. That hunter green color was everywhere too.
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Icon I6L Golf Cart
When I bought my 2000 Intrepid, that hunter green or whatever they call it wa the color I wanted. The dealer searched, and the closest they could find was a light sage/grayish-green that, if you let it get dirty, would just look gray. So, they ended up asking me what it would take to get me in the silver one, today. They were already offering invoice and 0.9% financing, so I said, throw in the 12-disc cd changer, and I'll take the damn thing!
Sometimes, I wish I'd held out for a green one, but then I'd probably be griping about it all the more, now that it's gone!
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All in all, although the slver wasn't your first choice I would bet it held up better over the years than the dark green would of.
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Icon I6L Golf Cart
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Icon I6L Golf Cart
It did its job, though. It was easy to stand on, absorbed impacts well and without showing damage(I found this out first-hand when we were rear-ended at low speed by a Toyota Tacoma a couple winters ago), and was admirably scuff-resistant.
At 215,000 miles, I think my van looked great both inside and out, as well as being in sound mechanical condition. Hah; you should have seen they buyer's face light up when he started it. If it were not for that darned electrical gremlin, we would not have replaced it with the Forester last fall and would likely be driving it still. You have to pick your battles, though, and if my wife says she doesn't trust a vehicle and won't drive it (even if it is fixed), I can bet she is going to hold to that and will make my life exceptionally difficult until I cave to her will. :sick:
Considering we purchased it three years ago for $4,000 and got 45,000 trouble-free miles out of it, I felt fine selling it in its current state at $1,000. That residual return pretty much covers all the money I put into it after the purchase (new tires and a bunch of new parts before and after our cross-country trip last Spring), plus the van will hopefully get more use before it is put out to pasture for good.
anyway, the wife in my case has not much interest in cars. as long as it works and does what she needs, fine by her, and no reason to ever change.
Unless, it strands her. then it is personal.
many years ago, our 323 snapped a crankshaft nose piece off while she was on the highway heading to work. Thankfully, I was behind her a few minutes, and saw her in the median with the hood up, and a tow truck. needless to say, I stopped, and she took my car while I stayed with the tow!
anyway, put a used negine in, but she refused to ever drive it again, so it went.
and I am pretty sure that if her current van did something similar to her, it would be time for new wheels!
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and I am pretty sure that if her current van did something similar to her, it would be time for new wheels!
+1 on that statement, stick.
Has happened to me twice in the past 3 years. Back in the summer of '07, our '05 VUE simply quit running on the way home from running errands. Fortunately, we were less than a mile from home, so we walked home, called AAA and had it towed to the Saturn dealer. They couldn't figure out what happened, so we immediately traded it in on the '08 VUE we currently have.
And, I'm sure most of you know, my daughter's '06 ION has quit twice on her for no apparent reason - the second time while driving home from college on I-25 in downtown Denver during Thursday rush hour.
The daughter is now driving a new '10 MINI, while I'm living with the ION. 2 1/2 months, and not one problem with the ION.
:sick:
But, who of us here wouldn't want to do everything in our power to keep the women in our lives safe?
True enough! That's why I maintain my vehicles well and fix them if something goes wrong! The problem really comes in when, as stickguy stated, one quits on her, "then it's personal." (and expensive!)
But, who of us here wouldn't want to do everything in our power to keep the women in our lives safe?
Henry VIII th?
oh, he's not here....okay..... :P
At the rate of interest, I really thought it was going to sell on Thursday, so I was 1 day off.
Gee... think of it... I'm down to just 4 cars for 2 drivers. I feel... vulnerable.
'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
I never owned one because I can't fit in them. An MGB or Alfa is a limo compared to a Miata's driver's seat.
In recent years, several low mileage (94/95 MY) 5-speeds have sold for more than $100,000. Others have sold for numbers very close to six figures (I have personal experience with one of them - my 1995 928 GTS 5M; I sold it and bought it back.....). Within the past couple days, the dealer selling the car in question here sold the 94 model and the silver 95 model for right at $79k.
His website classifieds seems to be the place to go if you want to blow that much on a 928.
Interesting faux French houses in the background too...an ostentatious design that is less common here.
That being said, the actual market for a GTS would struggle over $50K. I have no idea where this fellow gets his humbers from, but even if they are real and confirmed sales and not the typical car club chest-beating (I call these the "Tarzan Moment" of car appraising), they don't constitute the "market".
For example, if we had a number...say.... 98.... GTSs selling for $40K-$50K, but 1 selling for $1500 and one selling for $150,000, the market is $40K-$50K, not either extreme from the minority results.
So one could be correct is saying A single GTS sold for $XXXXXXXX, but incorrect to say that's what "GTSs are now worth".