I found this one today:

http://baltimore.craigslist.org/cto/5542244331.html

Would you consider that car "fair"?  Is $1500 a realistic price?  I'm just curious what your opinions are.  Seems to me to be just another craigslist dreamer, but maybe I'm wrong.

The value, depends on what your goal is and the amount of rust. $1500.00 seems realistic to me if the car is relatively complete. The radio and console with the ashtray is worth half that price. Body looks a bit ugly but if it's structurally sound &1500.00 is a bargain.

I saw that listing, and my first though was "Wow that's rusty. Give it another year and it'll melt completely back into the earth from whence it came".

What's a parts car worth these days?

20 minutes ago, Captain Obvious said:

What's a parts car worth these days?

I don't know.  That's part of the reason I was asking.  I'd say the body on that car is a complete loss and I'll bet everything else is too.  I looks like the rocker and dogleg on the drivers side are completely gone!

That one's really rough. How often do you see the hood and fender tops rust like that? I've bought a lot of rusty Zs and that one's bad. I try to save every Z but that one looks like a parts car.

Chuck

 

Chuck, I was thinking the same thing. If it's that rusty in UNusual places, then just imagine how rusty it is in the USUAL places.

That use to be a $200 car but that is a good point about the radio and the some other parts. What you can see of the dash isn't cracked either. The bumpers look straight but you know they probably need plating. $1,500 seems like a lot for a parts car. I would be amazed if that car were salvageable...if it were in the bottom 200 vin's maybe...

You might make a couple hundred parting that one out if you could get it for $1,000. [emoji104] [emoji15] [emoji90] [emoji126] [emoji133]

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5 hours ago, Captain Obvious said:

Chuck, I was thinking the same thing. If it's that rusty in UNusual places, then just imagine how rusty it is in the USUAL places.

It's not rusty in the usual places. Those places are no longer there!

You could make some money parting it out but for the time it would take to get the car, strip it, list the parts, ship parts, show parts, meet people, etc. you'd end up making $2/hr.

Chuck

 

Haha!! Chuck, you're right about that. That thing is so bad that the usual places no longer even exist!

I'm not so sure about parting it out and making money... There's a guy here on the forum who recently bought a rusty car with the intention of rebuilding it, but everyone here convinced him it was too far gone to rebuild so he decided to part it out. Everyone talked about how much money he could make if he parted it out, but I think he's still sitting on almost all of it. He's posted a couple times trying to rouse interest and sell stuff, but people just aren't buying?

i agree w/the skepticism re: parting a z car. i haven't been able to sell a single part, and i've got plenty, all in good shape. heck, it's been hard to give the stuff away - i posted on the "pay it forward" thread and still have 95% of the stuff in my garage. when i was building ducatis, every nut and bolt was quickly snapped up on the used market and i could confidently estimate what i would get parting out a donor bike after i harvested the parts i needed to offset the build. with the z, i'm really surprised how nobody seems to want the stuff.

maybe we all bought z cars because they are (or were) an inexpensive alternative to get into the sports car world and the z community is too cheap? i'm moving in a couple of months and may need to take a trailer load of parts to the dump. 

I think it's because everyone all wants the same small set of difficult to find parts. Everyone wants five speeds, wood(ish) steering wheels, straight early bumpers, and SU carbs. Nobody wants four speeds, another squishy steering wheel, another set of ripped up seats, or a space saver spare.

Sure there's always the little stuff that people are looking for, but it'll take a long time to make back $1500 with the little stuff.