[V8] The perennial question returns: How much is a V8 worth?

[cobram at juno.com]

The last 4 or 10 times this car came on the market, wasn't it established
(before Mr. Congeniality bought it) that the wipers were missing because
they weren't replaced after a front end collision?  I'm sorry, call me
Jaded, but if you don't like headlight wipers, you pull off the arms and
put a plastic or whatever cap over the shaft.  
What's it worth?  With such a small, small, small, buyers market, it's
buyers choice.  Most people will just look at it as a 14 year old little
known, highly complicated, very expen$ive money pit.  The rest of the
market...well, 90% of the potential market for the car has already posted
about it here on the list.  If it were mine, and I wanted to get rid of
it, after 3 or 4 years on the market, I'd dump it for anything bordering
5 bills, this guy turned down close to (?) 7 or 8 bills once.  

If these things had the cult following of some other Teutonic beasts,
we'd be turning down 7 grand for our 1990's.  

My next door neighbor has been trying to sell his 3.0BMW for "what it's
worth" now for about 8 years, if he had rented out the garage space it's
occupied in all this time, he could  have given the car away and still be
ahead of the game.

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got
here, or how I'm going to get out.

"Ed Kellock" <ekellock at gmail.com> writes:

> Still, I wouldn't put headlight wipers in the same category as 
> airbag
> fault light being on or the ABS system being inoperative.  Those 
> are
> fairly common and standard systems, whereas how many cars even have
> any system to clear the headlights.  Just my 2 cents worth.
> 
> I agree with Roger in terms of opinion of the two choices made by 
> the
> car's current owner.  I like the wipers.  They are one of the 
> unique
> elements of the car.  Removing then leaves much the same result as
> when Jennifer Gray (Ferris Bueler's Day Off, Dirty Dancing) got a 
> nose
> job... she just doesn't look like herself any more.  And I don't 
> like
> most aftermarket radios.  This is most likely more a function of me