Nevada is Zero…Pa is 6% on the selling price or "current market value"
Nevada is Zero…Pa is 6% on the selling price or "current market value"
That would make a nice addition to your collectionI could make that look like this in less than a year....
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...next to Divorce lawyers and Parking Wardens.Car dealers & saleman are the lowest form of life.
Car dealers & saleman are the lowest form of life.
...next to Divorce lawyers and Parking Wardens.
An exception to the rule. Years ago, I had a business which interacted with auto dealerships. I've never encountered another industry with low-lifes as these connivers. Their prime focus : screw the customer to fill your pocket......not all of us!! 15 years selling cars (new and used) and 19 selling RVs (with one selling motorcycles in between). Id like to think I'm an honest and genuine kinda guy when it comes to sales.....hopefully proven by my record on repeat business. I try to be the kind of salesman that Id like to buy from......I don't get it right every time but after selling for about 35 years I think I've just about got the hang of it!! But yes their are salesman who only care about increasing their pay at the end of the month by any means possible.
That's not what the winning client thinks !...next to Divorce lawyers .
If you think they are expensive there you would have kittens with the prices they go for here. A rusty, holed engineless, glassless 68 to 70 Charger could easily be about $ 20,000 US ......and then theres parts costs and availability.....plus import tax on those parts. And then when its built you have run it on ten doller per gallon gas! On the plus side, on classics we have no road tax, no annual safety check, no emissions requirements and cheap classic car insurance.
Or this for about $60k
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203447865801?hash=item2f5e7011c9:g:lIsAAOSwqfJgZiFy
Yeah it’s always when you aren’t lookingI rarely watch TV but the other day I was watching a rerun of the recent Barret-Jackson auction.....holy cow! It was rare to see any car go for under 100k. Who has 150k cash to drop on a tricked out 70 Bronco or a 72 Chevelle? I am not talking something special pretty much every car/truck that rolled across the stage.
I have had pretty good luck on CL finding cars you just need to be patient in fact I was just looking yesterday and saw some well priced cars listed (and many not priced to sell), several nice Mopars which is unusual to see. If you don't mind looking outside your area use Search Tempest it will search CL in a defined radius.
Interesting info. And nice deal, get liquored up while considering buying a dream car.My recent experience selling my GTX, and buying another, my sixth since 1977, underscored many points made on this thread. All six of my cars were purchased from private parties. I looked at one at a dealership in 2015, only because it had colors and options I was after, but the condition didn't stand up to close inspection. I made what l considered a fair offer, and a few months later they sold it for what I'd offered, 15K under what they were originally asking. All of my six cars were inspected personally prior to purchase. I spent $350 on an airline ticket in 2015 when I checked out the one I just sold. No regrets.
I have a personal problem that has kept me from making a profit on any of my cars. I think I love GTXs more than any collector on the country, and have always been willing to pay a premium for good ones. I've never had a buyer who I felt would love the car as much as I had. Not one was ever looking for a GTX specifically, just a nice B body. My selling prices have tended to reflect what a seller would get at Mecum, after fees and commission. I'm not a professional car salesman (though as a lawyer, I understand the process), and I'd rather leave money on the table, then spend six months dealing with dreamers and picture collectors. I sold car #3 at auction in 1998, after getting burned out with tire kickers, and actually got more money.
Dealers and auctions make money by selling to buyers who are often making a spur of the moment, emotional purchase. I consigned my car to Mecum last year, after attending the Harrisburg auction in 2019, and watching qualified bidders consuming complementary alcoholic beverages. I figured it was worth 10% of hammer price to get access to that market. Covid cancelled 2020 (and Mecum refunded my entry fee in 24 hours, were extremely professional), but I used my Mecum reserve price as a benchmark when I sold my car, and I got the same as if I'd gone to auction. Seems like I always end up buying at hammer price (10% under retail), and selling for wholesale.
All my buyers have come to inspect the car personally before purchase, and the only pictures they've been really concerned about are shots of numbers stampings and the fender tag to verify authenticity. For every serious buyer, I've always had at least half a dozen guys who want 30 pictures before they look at the car. My experience, for what it's worth, as buyer and seller both, is try to determine that you're dealing with a serious, honest, fellow enthusiast. This can be more instrumental in a good deal for both parties than all the pictures on the internet.