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omnivore 11-18-2017 10:16 AM

Re. The OP’s lament, I was in the same boat in ‘15 when the 911 run up started. It all seemed overpriced so I said screw this and went over to Maranello to visit 3x8 land. These were startling to move up but we’re a little behind the air air cooled Stuttgart products. There was better value for money with the Italians. So I bought my second and third 308s at full retail and did fine on both.
I think it’s the same at present so look at 3x8s.

Re. BaT, Mr. Monson had a good insight about Millennial’s social media vanity puffing the numbers. Just like the old codgers at Barrett Jackson overpaying for some gaudy restomod so they can get their face on TV.

sugarwood 11-18-2017 07:49 PM

Millennial’s social media vanity? Every 3.2 I have ever seen is driven by a guy with white hair. Millennial kids drive Subarus and hot hatches.

SkunkWorks 11-18-2017 07:55 PM

Millennial here. Soaring rent and tuition means we do not have the cash to overbid for vanity.

But the vetting and information on each auction sure adds to buyers' confidence - which, again, wouldn't be us with the cash, but you old codgers ;)

NYNick 11-19-2017 04:40 AM

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Originally Posted by sugarwood (Post 9819765)
Millennial’s social media vanity? Every 3.2 I have ever seen is driven by a guy with white hair. Millennial kids drive Subarus and hot hatches.

Keep your eye out for a fast, lightened, black 88 with a ducktail passing you at speed on the Taconic. If you get a glimpse you will see it's my 30 year old son with no white hair.

sugarwood 11-19-2017 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by NYNick (Post 9819923)
Keep your eye out for a fast, lightened, black 88 with a ducktail passing you at speed on the Taconic. If you get a glimpse you will see it's my 30 year old son with no white hair.

At 30, I suspect he's not obsessively posting his car on Instagram.

NYNick 11-19-2017 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by sugarwood (Post 9819956)
At 30, I suspect he's not obsessively posting his car on Instagram.

Got that right. You'd be hard pressed to find him on any social media. He knows too much about the forces of evil that lurk behind the scenes.

Matt Monson 11-19-2017 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by sugarwood (Post 9819765)
Millennial’s social media vanity? Every 3.2 I have ever seen is driven by a guy with white hair. Millennial kids drive Subarus and hot hatches.

You should visit a CA cars n coffee event sometime.

teamgomez 11-20-2017 09:39 PM

I think my brain housing unit is about to blow a seal (zero ref to the chimpanzee getting work done on his car...) over the haze that has enveloped market values. Anybody can ask whatever they want and somehow, some way, somebody shows up cash in fist. I must have missed that meeting.

Temp hiatus on an air-cooled sled. I'm going to buy a '69 Camaro SS 396 and solve this terrible itch I have for an appropriate sled to grab some Cars & Coffee (I'll also have to wait a few years and get more white on the dome for an air-cooled...it currently only resembles sheetrock dust LOL).

Matt Monson 11-21-2017 04:49 AM

Don’t wait too long, it might start falling out.

Ralph3. 11-21-2017 07:19 AM

Have you followed Camaro prices?

teamgomez 11-21-2017 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Ralph3. (Post 9822490)
Have you followed Camaro prices?

Yes but only for about the past year. They seem to have crept up a bit as well. A buddy picked up a Z/28 (clone) w/ a 502 with near perfect paint for $30.5k. He's looking to flip it for $40k after he tweaks it and gets his fix.

Macroni 11-22-2017 04:27 AM

Purchased a 77,000 mile 86 Carrera sunroof delete, sport seats and spoilers..... Car itself is strong w/ minor maintenance items in need of service (Windshield washer, Cruise control, Cigarette lighter), all important as I drive my car regardless of weather...... excellent value @ $34,000.

Of course weak A/C which I will not fix..........


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1511358675.jpg

Matt Monson 11-22-2017 07:48 AM

Dude, It's Guards Red. Put that thing on BaT and some millennial will give you $42k for it...

Macroni 11-22-2017 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Matt Monson (Post 9823647)
Dude, It's Guards Red. Put that thing on BaT and some millennial will give you $42k for it...

Haha.... Getting my head around the GRed.. thought I would never own another.

Problem with selling is replacement cost...... took me almost three years to buy what I thought was a good value.

NYNick 11-22-2017 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Macroni (Post 9823398)
Purchased a 77,000 mile 86 Carrera sunroof delete, sport seats and spoilers..... Car itself is strong w/ minor maintenance items in need of service (Windshield washer, Cruise control, Cigarette lighter), all important as I drive my car regardless of weather...... excellent value @ $34,000.

Of course weak A/C which I will not fix..........


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1511358675.jpg

Point being that they're out there for the OP, instead of a Camaro.

teamgomez 11-22-2017 08:35 PM

I saw that ad when it popped up and I hadn't yet zeroed in on how good a deal that was. My first thought was, "Holy ****, somebody put a decent car up for sale for a decent price." I wanted to buy the guy a beer.

The Camaro is for marketing purposes (I trademarked 'making america shine' for our deionized water systems...kinda bogus to be washing a Roundel badged sled or a Volt for that matter) as well as putting me on the frequent buyer program for rear slicks at Discount Tire. Hope I don't get banned for a bowtie showing up 'round here.

My '05 E46 ZCP M3 SMG Interlagos Blue w/ 55k miles is always up for trade if anybody has an interesting sled to offer...Bueller?....Bueller?....

BTW- can anybody tell me why uploaded photos like to get rotated? :mad:

teamgomez 11-22-2017 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt Monson (Post 9823647)
Dude, It's Guards Red. Put that thing on BaT and some millennial will give you $42k for it...

Yup. I'll bet you the 56k mile RED '85 now on BaT fetches 40-42k. Somewhere there's a Benjamin Franklin tree that I'm overlooking...

ted 11-23-2017 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by teamgomez (Post 9824435)
Hope I don't get banned for a bowtie showing up 'round here.

BTW- can anybody tell me why uploaded photos like to get rotated? :mad:

I had the same issue.
On your PC the image in indexed correctly but when posted its not.
So on your PC just rotate the image around and re-index it correctly then save the image again.
That seems to help it remain correctly indexed when posted.

Bow ties are patriotic (and loud ;) ), you'll get more thumbs up in the Camaro than the 911.
Happy landings Captian. :)

My wife and I race a couple Camaros.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1511445599.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1511445664.jpg

SalParadise 11-23-2017 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ted (Post 9824586)

Wow, you never know where these forums are gonna lead. Not much for American, but those Camaros are cool.

ted 11-23-2017 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by SalParadise (Post 9824602)
Wow, you never know where these forums are gonna lead.

Happy Thanksgiving, you said a mouth full, Thanks. :):)


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