QUOTE (85c-rex @ Aug 9 2005, 12:48 AM)
well...yeah...we are cranky...because it would be like the louvre selling the mona lisa to get a fancy hamburger....
That's it exactly.
QUOTE (Airgazm86 @ Aug 9 2005, 01:28 AM)
Or if you want 4 doors and some crazy power, check into buying an EVO.
The Civic is still more power than an EVO With some tweaks.
The thing I'm trying to push here is that he can give the car to anyone - But not for anywhere NEAR the money he wants. It's not that it's not worth it, but people who are shopping for CRXs don't have this kind of scratch. IF this were a Porsche board, then it would be different. I would say the best way to go about getting rid of the car is to part out the goodies one at a time, and then the "shell" (Which will be a pretty stock looking CRX with a B18) to someone with the ability to move forward in their own direction.
You won't get more than $6000 for it simply because someone looking for a CRX doesn't HAVE $6000 just kicking around !
Hell, they don't have more than $1500, on average. I know I don't.
QUOTE (westcoaststyle)
I've put 4-5 long, painstaking, bloody, emotional, expensive years into it (only to be looked down upon by some obviously very technically apt and rarely impressed users of RPR, I might add - but that is beside the point).
Welcome to the club man. Sucks doesn't it. I know you're getting upset just reading out my name, but you gotta understand I'm not knocking your car as it sits at all. You've got the numbers to prove the result. What I am saying is that your car isn't worth $15,000. Again, not trying to insult you, but its simply not worth it.
My Celica was valued by Christies Auction House, using production figures and condition alone, was valued at $23,000. Yeah, #13 of 400 made, numbered series. In the end I got NOTHING for it because a car is only really worth what someone will pay for it. And yes, the other Celica guys were impressed by the car, agree to it's value - and then couldn't offer 1/23rd of that cost. Because people who are into old Toyotas don't buy cars like that. Sorry, it's the truth.
And all the while I argue against you selling a car for so much, you're sitting there laughing because you, unlike me, FOUND his buyer for the top dollar. And the buyer WANTS it for your price. We believe (I do, at least) that at that price he's making a big mistake - And would like to see something better come from this.
And thus, the whole deal stinks to us.
-> Steve