[V8] there is one....

[32vquattro]

Roger, Look at those pics again. There is a factory sticker showing the 
t-belt was done. Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net>
To: <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:51 AM
Subject: [V8] there is one....


> That looks like a good one.  V8 Quattro for sale, that is.  By now I am
> certain that everyone on this list has seen or heard about it.  It is dark
> green (Ragusa.  Oh, well, one can't have everything.) with Travertine
> interior (Oh, well, once can't have everything.).  It is reportedly 
> sitting
> at a used car place somewhere in Washington, with 62,000 miles on it.
>
> Pretty good looking and I spent all weekend thinking about whether or not 
> I
> want another V8 right now, whether or not I want a dark green one (maybe),
> and whether or not I want to have another V8 with a travertine interior (I
> don't.).
>
> Friday night I sent off an email asking for more pictures and the seller
> sent me some on Saturday.  Not very good ones, but the car looks like the
> real deal, although I wonder if this is the same car that was for sale a
> year and a half ago in somewhere in the northwest.  I didn't save the ad, 
> so
> I can't check, but this IS the second Ragusa/travertine that I have seen
> from that part of he country with low miles since my Burgundy/travertine 
> '93
> went off to become The Gentleman's Express.
>
> My wife said that if I bought it, it would cost more than it was listed 
> for.
> Exactly the price of a new Dyson vacuum cleaner.  I am opposed to another
> piece of overrated junk coming into the house, and that's what a Dyson is,
> in my opinion, with its hugely expensive filters that no one wants to talk
> about....but I digress.  It might be worth it to have another V8, I 
> suppose.
>
> So I went through all the checks, except I stopped short of popping for a
> Carfax report.  I stopped because the simple economics argue against 
> buying
> this car.
>
> Here are the reasons:
>
> 1.  The asking price is simply too high.  The Kelly Blue Book and
> Nada Guide prices are simply wrong.  They are based on sales figures and
> with probably fewer than 130 of these cars in existence on the road, I 
> doubt
> that any published price works.  My bank's "Banker's Black Book" puts high
> retail for this car in the $6500 range, and I think that is a REAL number.
>
> 2.  The seller claims that the car doesn't need a timing belt
> because of mileage.  But the seller can't tell me when the timing belt was
> done, and I must assume that the car has the original belt.  The car 
> cannot
> be driven until a major timing belt service is performed.
>
> 3.  Thus the car will have to be transported from Washington to
> Maine, and the cost of doing that will be around $1800 according to DAS.
> That puts the price of the car sight unseen well above ten grand.
>
> The bottom line for me is that I won't pay that for one of these cars,
> unless, and that is only a "maybe", the car had fewer than 50,000 miles 
> and
> the mileage was verifiable.  Doubtful, I think.  Not likely.
>
> So, I'll pass.  Reluctantly, because it is almost too good to be true. 
> Yes,
> I CAN live with travertine but I don't want to.
>
> Although I really want another V8, I have been watching the auctions and 
> the
> used car ads carefully.  It's pretty tough, but it is possible to buy an 
> '02
> S6 Avant with around 50k on the clock for the low twenties now.
>
> The Washington V8 will represent fourteen grand once it is here and in
> service.  I would rather borrow ten grand and buy an S6....at least today.
>
> Now, around the first of March, when the snow is gone, and it looks like 
> it
> might get warm again...knows?
>
> Roger
>
> P.S.  If anyone is going through Poulus, Washington, or whatever it is, 
> and
> you really, truly WANT to check out.....well,  you know!
>
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