What would you buy, looking for advice

[Adam95GT]

That's what u buy them for!

When you are looking to buy a car i always look for the 1 owner weekend car.

 

[Husky44]

What do you see to make you think it was run hard, just a little dirty underneath, you should see mine. $18700. Dont know about axle.

IMHO, that's a lot of money for a car that's very likely been beat on (as you essentially admitted to by your comment "that's what u buy them for").

While I will acknowledge that I occasionally drive my car hard, I do so with full knowledge of it's, and my capabilities. I also make sure I do proper maintenance on it so that I minimize the potential for damage when I do drive it hard.

The PO of that car put a lot of go-fast parts on it, and many of them were in the not-for-show category (ie, suspension parts, subframes, etc). Especially if he swapped a solid axle underneath it, he was running it hard, and if he did a solid axle, that leads me to believe he was building it for drag racing. All of which leads me to believe that the car has been run hard.

If you are happy paying premium dollar for a car that someone else has thrashed, then go for it. You asked for opinions; here's mine: pass on this, buy a low mileage, original Terminator that some guy my age bought new, drove only on sunny weekend days, and never at the track. You'll spend the same (or less) money, and get a car that hasn't been abused. Then you've got a better chance of not buying someone else's problems.

 

[COBRA90GT]

IMHO, that's a lot of money for a car that's very likely been beat on (as you essentially admitted to by your comment "that's what u buy them for").

While I will acknowledge that I occasionally drive my car hard, I do so with full knowledge of it's, and my capabilities. I also make sure I do proper maintenance on it so that I minimize the potential for damage when I do drive it hard.

The PO of that car put a lot of go-fast parts on it, and many of them were in the not-for-show category (ie, suspension parts, subframes, etc). Especially if he swapped a solid axle underneath it, he was running it hard, and if he did a solid axle, that leads me to believe he was building it for drag racing. All of which leads me to believe that the car has been run hard.

If you are happy paying premium dollar for a car that someone else has thrashed, then go for it. You asked for opinions; here's mine: pass on this, buy a low mileage, original Terminator that some guy my age bought new, drove only on sunny weekend days, and never at the track. You'll spend the same (or less) money, and get a car that hasn't been abused. Then you've got a better chance of not buying someone else's problems.

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That was well said, agreed on many of those points.

 

[Itkix]

Thanks for all your input I see your point, just man if I get one I'll have to pay 23-25k for, then I'll start modding and add everything this car has so then I'll have another 8-10k in stuff this car allready has so looking at 35k in a car I could have had for 18700 and saved probably 100 of hours of time, history report show 2 owners 1st had car for 45000 miles drove 10k a year and 2nd had for 15k. So I dont know.

 

[Itkix]

I'm gonna go and check it out and if it runs,drives good,and no noises no reason not to get. And if dont like just walk away.

 

[bayellowstang]

That's what I would do. Like you said buy this one and fix what might go wrong from being beat on. Or pay alot more for one that might break anyways. Just check over what was done to it previously.

My car was 1 owner 70k miles when I bought it in 2000. I knew nothing about SN95's so I thought it looked good. Now that I have been working on it for 10 years I would like to choke whoever did the work to it before me. Bolts stripped/cross-threaded, stereo wires everywhere, intake/cam/rockers changed but stock MAF and injectors with a 255lph FP. The worst part is it was all done by the same shop, I got all the receipts.

 

[Itkix]

Yea I'm thinking its cheaper to fix whatever goes wrong, if anything autocheck if this means anything shows a 89 out of a possible 89? These cars a still very expensive heck mps auto salvage wants 10500 for the engine/tranny kit with every part, so cant hurt to go check it out.

 

[Husky44]

if I get one I'll have to pay 23-25k for, then I'll start modding and add everything this car has so then I'll have another 8-10k in stuff this car allready

My quick check of C-list in Seattle shows that you should be able to get into one for a lot less than 23-25k. More like $18k, and that's their asking price. I can pick up a nice orange termy up here in AK for $18.5k. I also don't see $10k worth of add-ons, unless you count the body kit, repaint, etc.

Plus, I thought from your original post you were looking for a new "project". I assumed that meant you wanted to spend time building something. Interested to hear what you end up with.

 

[Itkix]

Passed on the cobra, got my car for sale just gonna stay away from cars for a while going to buy something more for family boat or something, tired of dumping 1000's of $ into this stuff and many many hours and if you sale u get nothing but I did enjoy working on it. Anyways got my bike to tinker with. But I know I'll get another in a few years maybe 2015 5.0 if its still around.

 

[90notch_5.0]

Just my .02

I will try and buy something clean.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/DIAM...4257786?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item4152563d7a

or:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2003...6504907?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item2c56e6754b