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03-07-13, 05:41 PM
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Just bought mine a week ago paid $1,800 92 sc300 5 speed 144k miles. check my garage to see it.
Oh and any sc owners in the southern New Hampshire area? Hit me up.
Oh and any sc owners in the southern New Hampshire area? Hit me up.
03-07-13, 05:55 PM
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03-07-13, 07:52 PM
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I bought my 99 SC4 with 106k for ~9300 but it cost me 10k because I flew to MD from AZ to get it. I knew I paid above market after owning a GS4 but the care of the care, maintenance, and a decently extensive stereo setup sold me on it.
03-11-13, 08:23 PM
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May be selling my 1992 SC300 with 142K on it since I have another 2000 sc400 and am downsizing to just one car. Timing belt was done by around 100K or so. All maintenance is up to date, and car is ready to drive anywhere. Has HIR headlights (google it), Ingen CAI, New leather seats less than 3 years old, both window regulators replaced in 2011, all O2 sensors in 2011, new front arm bushing @ 100K, LS400 brake upgrade, 18 inch IS350 wheels, Pioneer AVIC-Z1 with 2012 map updates (60 HD) along with Eclise sound processor (I might keep this navigation system), MB Quarts Components speakers, focal tweeters, pineer premium slim air subwoofer, two amps with battery, new battery installed in 2011, newer PS pump, new starter installed less than year, Pretige alarm with trunk release button. Pretty much everything works except dash lights.
I am second owner since 2003, clean title, VIN tags in place on all panels. Great shape for the year, but some minor dings and marks here and there. BTW, I looked at a lot of cares before buying this one less than 60K, so I was picky about the condition.
These are getting harder to find in good shape these days. What do you all think I should ask for it?
I am second owner since 2003, clean title, VIN tags in place on all panels. Great shape for the year, but some minor dings and marks here and there. BTW, I looked at a lot of cares before buying this one less than 60K, so I was picky about the condition.
These are getting harder to find in good shape these days. What do you all think I should ask for it?
03-12-13, 09:32 AM
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SW's boost logic SC?
SSmith...is that the SW's Boost Logic SC that he was selling last year. I almost bought that but couldnt come to an agreement with him. I would have come up to what he was asking but prefered a supercharged SC400 to a turbo SC300 so I tried and failed miserably to talk him down. Landed mine two months later: '92 Black SC400 w/ 61,548 miles on it & similar mods to his ($28k worth of receipts& perfect paint) for $9k.
The answer to your question is...You can not put a price on love. Sell it for what you feel its worth and if someone doesnt agree, then the car wasnt meant for them. All that being said, i still think of that car...and if we're talking about the same car, and ur ever going to sell it...u have a buyer here.
The answer to your question is...You can not put a price on love. Sell it for what you feel its worth and if someone doesnt agree, then the car wasnt meant for them. All that being said, i still think of that car...and if we're talking about the same car, and ur ever going to sell it...u have a buyer here.
05-26-13, 08:20 PM
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After dumping a few dollars into 5 different scs I always kick myself for selling them. Do yourself a favor n keep what you have bc like others have said..its a waste of $ modding then selling your sc.
05-27-13, 04:39 PM
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Regardless how much work was put into it I would not pay 20k for an sc also because later on when you plan on letting it go how would you go about getting your money back
05-28-13, 09:47 AM
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Unless we're talking a classic Ferrari, Mercedes 300SL, 1969-73 Trans Am, 60's Shelby Mustang or Cobra, old Chrysler/Plymouth or Chevrolet Camaro SS (or a Yenko while I'm at it), etc... you can't recoup all the money spent restoring a classic car. You just can't. I sold a classic Mustang at a loss because it just wasn't an exclusive enough model to the market to justify a very high price commensurate with what I invested.
Most of the time cars like ours fall into this category of general market value, although I have argued in other threads that the price for a well maintained 300+hp GTE swapped manual SC should be commensurate with the asking prices for other reliable older used 300+hp manual RWD performance coupes in the marketplace.
Still, after a certain point I also wouldn't sell. I had to do some work to my car when I first bought it that didn't include performance modifications but once I take it to the next level soon I won't let it go. It becomes something that A) Will never return on what I've spent, but that goes with the territory... and B) Is unique enough and rare enough and tailored to my tastes to the point that any other additional car or new performance car would just share garage space with my SC.
The father of a very good friend of mine whom I've known since we were kids still has a 1973 Porsche 911 SC that he bought when it was new. He had just landed his first high paying job at the time and he was a young man then. About the age most of us are now. It's been in running and non-running condition over the years and has been garaged in favor of an S2k but he's now restoring the old Porsche. He'll never sell it or get the money back that he's put into it. And I'm certain he doesn't care because he likes that specific car and it has sentimental value.
Most of the time cars like ours fall into this category of general market value, although I have argued in other threads that the price for a well maintained 300+hp GTE swapped manual SC should be commensurate with the asking prices for other reliable older used 300+hp manual RWD performance coupes in the marketplace.
Still, after a certain point I also wouldn't sell. I had to do some work to my car when I first bought it that didn't include performance modifications but once I take it to the next level soon I won't let it go. It becomes something that A) Will never return on what I've spent, but that goes with the territory... and B) Is unique enough and rare enough and tailored to my tastes to the point that any other additional car or new performance car would just share garage space with my SC.
The father of a very good friend of mine whom I've known since we were kids still has a 1973 Porsche 911 SC that he bought when it was new. He had just landed his first high paying job at the time and he was a young man then. About the age most of us are now. It's been in running and non-running condition over the years and has been garaged in favor of an S2k but he's now restoring the old Porsche. He'll never sell it or get the money back that he's put into it. And I'm certain he doesn't care because he likes that specific car and it has sentimental value.
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