I just purchased the lowest mileage 95' 300 5 speed I have ever seen. 68K
08-02-14, 02:14 PM
#31
At the extreme opposite end of the spectrum, there's a '95 SC400 with 190,000 miles for $13,000 in Tigard! Search the Portland, OR craigslist. Doesn't even have any interior pics, although Italian leather interior front seats are claimed. Basically a bone stock car with a fresh paint job.
08-03-14, 08:21 AM
#36
I really love the look of a Platinum, Stock bodied Sc with an OEM lip, lowered with nice wheels. Pete Soarer's car (below) got me addicted ages ago. I am going to just paint the OEM nose, put on my OEM lip and keep it like that. I will put my wise lip and Shine sides and rear on the red car after I get another set of BC Racing coils and wheels for it. The 97' is now officially the snow, winter beater. I will put Blizzaks on it and call it a day. I am paranoid to get hit in the 5 speed or mint 400 and be offered 4-5K by the insurance companies.
I now need to figure out how to get my wife to prefer to drive the 97'
08-03-14, 08:58 AM
#37
I really love the look of a Platinum...
I was driving behind one last week, and just as I caught up, it turned off at the split in the road. As I'm alongside it, I see a For Sale sign in the window... Who sells a car these days without putting it on craigslist??? Even stranger, as the Platinum one veers off, it reveals a red SC that was directly in front of it! That's seriously like a month's worth of SCs in the area. I was like a cat trying to choose between two mice.
08-07-14, 04:31 AM
#41
I paid $9,000 for my 1992 SC300/5 speed back in 2012, it had 60k on it, timing belt just done, always dealer serviced, I'd say it was a solid "#2" no + or - in terms of condition.
The day I picked it up:
It looks the same, except some new wheels/tires and no more gold trim, and maybe one rock chip since it now has 80k on it.
08-07-14, 10:23 PM
#44
Looks like it's got a bit of hail damage, was it blue before? From your paint post I see blue under the red. Never have I seen blue primer unless it's been tinted for blue over coat. do you think that country gal gonna be able to survive the Tri-boro area? LOL Corn fed beauty she is.
08-08-14, 04:27 AM
#45
Looks like it's got a bit of hail damage, was it blue before? From your paint post I see blue under the red. Never have I seen blue primer unless it's been tinted for blue over coat. do you think that country gal gonna be able to survive the Tri-boro area? LOL Corn fed beauty she is.
Too bad it's RR. 
Nice low mileage but maintenance upkeep also speaks for a lot. If the vehicle was hardly driven but never washed or never had the oil changed etc then that's a strike, IMHO at least.
You could always paint it garnet pearl. Throw some Leatherique on those seats before it's too late.
Nice low mileage but maintenance upkeep also speaks for a lot. If the vehicle was hardly driven but never washed or never had the oil changed etc then that's a strike, IMHO at least.You could always paint it garnet pearl.
Throw some Leatherique on those seats before it's too late.