SpeedDemon02SS

ya, it was crazy! i started looking in december...got it in may!

the worst part. i was 22, but looked 18. i really wanted the anniversary edition, and i found one, but they guy was such an a$$. i drove 3 and a half hours to go see it, and he wouldnt even let me drive it. alot of people were like..."um, im not gonna let this kid drive it, he just wants a joy ride!" his loss, i would have bought it...luckely i found mine that weekend...and the guy was awesome...let me race a mustang on the test drive! (up to 60mpg, nothing crazy) but he actually let me stomp on it... 0-60 in 5 sec... - in a little under 2 seconds!

DriverJ

I can relate, I'm 22 as well, i've been looking for the last year for the perfect one. drove a few liked one. oh well

tom2

The Firebird, bone stock with that mileage, garage kept, really nice, would be worth $7000 I'd guess. The mods would detract from that to under $6000 in my opinion. The option list spells out "beat on" to most buyers.

marzen

How so? Its not like I have a kit on the car or anything. Its simply a nice exhaust, with some other little stuff. If I have every single service reciept, with that kind of miles, I dont see how it would be worth under 6.

Deckstripes

Ha! The same thing happened to me when I was 20. "you kids just wanna hot rod these IROCs up and down the road". I was a little offended, but it was a nice car, and dad had bought 3 cars there so- I actually dragged my dad down there on his lunch hour so I could test drive it. Salesman got the keys, and 3-piece-suit dad says "get the manager, we wanna make an offer." I'm confused cause we haven't even driven it yet, but he's also got a weird grin, so I go along. Manager comes out, dad says "take a good look at my son, he works hard for his money, and wants to drive that IROC over there. He's got the full price saved, been driving 400hp since he was 14, and you're not gonna let him drive that wussy 305 car? Your salesmen treated him like sh*t." Then he turns to me and says "Life lesson time, spend your money somewhere that treats you with respect, these guys have none." We walked out of there with the salesmen & manager tripping over themselves trying to stop us. I had the biggest grin, and a new level of respect for the old man.

Rising Phoenix

This is a fact... if you have two people out looking for F-bodies, one who wants an auto and one who wants a 6-speed, the guy who wants the 6-speed will shell out a little more cash for it - because there just aren't as many of them out there as the autos, and he/she is going to have to look harder for one.

I had to look for 6 months or so before I found a six speed that was in my price range, despite passing up at least 15 other great deals on automatics.

It's supply and demand, just like DriverJ said above.

68z28

I dont know if this is true everywhere, but around here the low mileage, ttops, loaded m6 cars are impossible to find for under 7k. Several I looked at wouldnt go below 10 and they still sold to other people, proving that they werent overpricing their cars. I got extremely lucky and found my car 300 miles away and I got it for 8k. The car was posted on Autotrader for one full day before I bought it and the owner already had an offer called in. This is all after looking for a year and a half and almost giving up and settling for somthing else. Every last person that asks about my car's eyes light up when I tell them that its a 6sp and they say all they ever see are autos.

SpeedDemon02SS

hahaha...that made my day! your dad is the man!