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

[Coleman, David]

Great post!  I'm LMAO cuz it's true.

8-D


> 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
> 
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