Price of your f-body
#33
94 Formula, black
$9,000 w/ ~49k miles
Borla
ram air hood
Inifinity speakers
Enkei Wins
Stock drivetrain
Garaged 2nd car
The car was owned by my cousin for a couple thousand miles, and resold to me for the same price basically. Slightly steep price maybe, but I knew the coathanger holding the transmission in place wasns't gonna bust on the way home, jk haha. He missed it and turned around a bought a modded 96 formula thinking he'd be satisfied and wouldn't need to mod it, boy was he wrong......
-brent
$9,000 w/ ~49k miles
Borla
ram air hood
Inifinity speakers
Enkei Wins
Stock drivetrain
Garaged 2nd car
The car was owned by my cousin for a couple thousand miles, and resold to me for the same price basically. Slightly steep price maybe, but I knew the coathanger holding the transmission in place wasns't gonna bust on the way home, jk haha. He missed it and turned around a bought a modded 96 formula thinking he'd be satisfied and wouldn't need to mod it, boy was he wrong......
-brent
#36
are you serious bill? how long was this ago? was it your fault? a mistake? or was it the previous owner's? my *** woulda been back to him/her and been wanting some money back or something! sorry man. that really sucks. how much did it cost ya to fix?
Here we go...I just found the orginal post I made a LONG time ago when the engine problem occured...makes me sad just thinking about it...
I got your kind of luck too, I just bought my 96 Z. When I test drove it, it seemed fine (I have been driving a saturn and havent driven a camaro in about 6 months, due to a small totalling accident) and it felt like it had good pickup. I bought it and about one week later I felt it running rough. I took it to my local mechanic who replaced the distributor cap, there went $450. I take it to my friends house (less than half a mile away) and it starts making a knocking noise. I take it right back to the mechanic and he says it sounds like a rod berring. The next day I find out that the guy who sold me the car, had gone to the SAME MECHANIC AS ME and he blew the head gasket. After he drove it around for awhile, they told him that his engine was going to die, apparently thats when he decided to sell it to me. So a week after getting the car, I am in the process of getting a new engine, $1450 for remanufactured engine through a friend, approx going to be 600 for installation. With new pumps and radiator, this is going to end up around 2600. Can't sue the guy because its "buyer beware" and "as is". What crappy luck...
Yea that was bad times....but the Z is runnin good now and in july ill be buying a kawasaki ninja ....let's just hope i never see the guy who sold me the car....oh yea,when i bought it there was a 10 disc cd changer in the trunk that didn't work. The guy had the ***** to tell me that if i ever got it working and opened he would like his 10 cds back...needless to say after i took a hammer to the changer his cd's popped right out and for some reason i cant remember giving them back to him.....
Bill
Here we go...I just found the orginal post I made a LONG time ago when the engine problem occured...makes me sad just thinking about it...
I got your kind of luck too, I just bought my 96 Z. When I test drove it, it seemed fine (I have been driving a saturn and havent driven a camaro in about 6 months, due to a small totalling accident) and it felt like it had good pickup. I bought it and about one week later I felt it running rough. I took it to my local mechanic who replaced the distributor cap, there went $450. I take it to my friends house (less than half a mile away) and it starts making a knocking noise. I take it right back to the mechanic and he says it sounds like a rod berring. The next day I find out that the guy who sold me the car, had gone to the SAME MECHANIC AS ME and he blew the head gasket. After he drove it around for awhile, they told him that his engine was going to die, apparently thats when he decided to sell it to me. So a week after getting the car, I am in the process of getting a new engine, $1450 for remanufactured engine through a friend, approx going to be 600 for installation. With new pumps and radiator, this is going to end up around 2600. Can't sue the guy because its "buyer beware" and "as is". What crappy luck...
Yea that was bad times....but the Z is runnin good now and in july ill be buying a kawasaki ninja ....let's just hope i never see the guy who sold me the car....oh yea,when i bought it there was a 10 disc cd changer in the trunk that didn't work. The guy had the ***** to tell me that if i ever got it working and opened he would like his 10 cds back...needless to say after i took a hammer to the changer his cd's popped right out and for some reason i cant remember giving them back to him.....
Bill
#38
Bought my 93 in July of 2001 with around 32,000 miles for $10,000. It was stock, except for some ugly *** chrome badges and wheels that were on it. I promptly replaced the chrome badges with stock ones and added my Flowmaster cat-back, SLP cai, and some SLP take off wheels/tires from the new (at the time) trans-am.
#40
I paid $8500 for mine in Japan from Japansee used car lot 3 months ago with 45,000 miles(reads 76,000 Km on my dash lol)on it a little high for the states but very cheap considering the rarity of them here, only Z-28 I have seen here on Okinawa so far(I know there are some out there), a few Camaros here and there but there all V-6 3.4l at that.
Last edited by mike96lt1; 04-06-2004 at 04:11 AM.
#43
I got all you guys beat. I paid 2000 dollars for mine from a chick who had no idea what she had. I almost felt bad for paying that much for it, notice I said almost. And oh yeah, 25,000 for the 94 z28 brand new 3.23 auto.