Appreciate your opinions please...

[Doco]

Hi all,

sorry for double posting, but could you please check out my post in the "How much did you pay for your Zed" poll... this thread doesn't seem to get much traffic...

go here:

http://www.240z.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3506

Cheers.

[smg1404]

I participated in the poll. It's surprising how many people got their cars for less than $1000.00. Boy did I over pay. I cannot say why more have not used it. Perhaps they are looking at the results only?

I liked the poll, Thanks :Steve

[XYZ]

What's 18K australian in US dollars? The thing that comes to mind for me is do you want a car you (hopefully) don't have to do anything to and can just drive. It might be worth the asking price. If you look at what it cost to start from scratch ie.. a $800 dollar car (US) and put all of the upgrades on it, the time that it's on blocks, in shops, the hours you'll spend researching, calling, discussing, worrying, speculating blah, blah, blah it's probably cheaper just to buy the thing as is. I know I've considered the possiblility of dropping in a new engine (V8 or Turbo) in my car and I ask myself this vary question. I've decided it's not worth it. I'll buy one on ebay for 3K-4K and deal with the smaller issues rather than go through the brain damage and expenses. YOu have to ask yourself if it's worth it and do I want to spend the time it will take to do it? Only you can answer that.

I paid more for my car than a lot of people here have but I'm also not posting pictures of cronic rust syndrome, and all that goes with it. Some people like to go through this process, it's a hobby or obsession. I like to work on my car but not that much (at least yet). Again you will have to decide if this is your bag.

I can tell you that I'm glad I spent the extra money on my car. I've made mod's to it and done every project in a weekend and had my car back on the road to drive. That's why I bought my car, to drive! I didn't want something sitting in my garage for 2 yrs or whatever like my brother-in-law with his 50 something jag that's in a gazillian different pieces, unrecognizable.

Sorry to ramble, almost done. The car your looking at looks pretty nice and it's definately tricked out. With all of the engine work, interior upgrades, paint, wheels I bet you'd be hard pressed to do it from scratch for less. There are plenty of people here who have a lot in there cars and will never see that money back and that's because they do it for themselves and their personal enjoyment. You just need to put a value on convenience vs. time, sweat and money.

I'm done, thanks for your patients and sorry to go on & on &on &...

[Doco]

Hey,

Thanks for your feedback guys, I also thought the poll was a good idea, just didn't think my post would get the feeback I wanted...

XYZ,

Thanks for your post, one of my concerns is resale, in the unlikely (but possible) event of having to unload the vehicle, I would only be able to sell it to a Zed lover, it would seem that most Zed lovers, for that kind of cash, either want a complete original, or to my suprize, simply wouldn't spend that much on a 240?

Just thinking carefully before I rush in out the heat of the moment...

Thanks guys.

[Alfadog]

I'll buy it off you in 5 years time

[Doehring]

Hi all,

the poll asked - that's how I understood the question - for the price that we paid for the car to the seller. For my 2nd Z I paid about 3500 $, for my 1st 4500.

In general you have 2 basic

possibilities: You can buy a quite cheap car, dirty, some minor rust, pale colour, little dents, worn tyres,no neat interior .... If you want to have that car in a quite top condition you have to spent a lot of money in parts and work. on the other hand you can spent some more money buying a car in nearly top condition and you save alot of work. I restored three Z up to now and I will do the 4th soon and my experiance is in the end you always end at about

8000 $ when you had done a lot of work yourselves and with a little help from good friends. Otherwise you will end at about 10000 $ or more . What you miss in that case is the feeling of success that you have when you managed the task and you are pride of YOUR result. You will love that car and it will be hard to sell it, if necessary. In the other case the car might be even better when professionals that you can trust in prepared the car.

If they made a mistake you paid for it, if you have made the mistake you learnt for the next restauration.