I met the previous owner at a networking event on a Friday and bought it the following Tuesday. He wanted 25k at first but said he didnt want to deal with tire kickers. Over the weekend i spoke with some car people here in SoCal, they said if i could get it between 17-22 depending on condition (I had not seen it at that point). I'd be doing well. I told the seller exactly that range. When i got there he could not produce the recipt for the belt service that was supposedly done when he bought it and a few other things. I had taken the train from Orange County to San Diego. I told him I would do $16.5k all in (Taxes, reg , etc) That ended up being $15.8 exclusive of that. I said i'd buy it without a PPI and pay on the spot or i was leaving and selling a salvage car is not much fun (as i am sure i'll find out if and when i ever sell it). He agreed to the price.
Super nice guy too though, we talk regularly still. I'm picking the car up from my mechanics shop in 2 hours where it just had a full inspection plus full belts and water pump service. That will put me around another 2k into it plus 200 i spent on original badging and an alignmenti'm in it now for $18k. But i have a new major service and tires, brakes, clutch and cluch master, ac and ac controller, bilsteins and exhaust that are all only 3k miles old so i think its still all good. I'd like to think i'll keep it very long term but with 3 litter kids and my 360 already as a weekend toy, IDK. If someone offered my high 20's i'd probably flip it.
What do you think its worth. Here a post detail pic from 2 weeks ago
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