Craigslist find

[Kuri]

o.O oh damn.

[FirestormFRS]

Yeah his car looked horrible. That he found someone to buy it with those pictures just proves the age old saying "there's a sucker born everyday".

[Perihelion]

Originally Posted by FirestormFRS

Yeah his car looked horrible. That he found someone to buy it with those pictures just proves the age old saying "there's a sucker born everyday".

I'd call bullshit on his claim that he sold it at the price he wanted ($22222), but who knows? like you said, a sucker is born everyday

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Perihelion

I'd call bullshit on his claim that he sold it at the price he wanted ($22222), but who knows? like you said, a sucker is born everyday

What he wanted and what he listed are two different things. I believe the initial posting on these forums was $25.5k with all the mods.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51384

Edit: Just looked up used car pricing on Edmunds, with my area, bone stock black FRS MT in 'clean condition' (not perfect) with 15k miles came out between $19k trade in, $21k dealer retail, his listing of $22k isn't unreasonable considering the 'enthusiast owned' angle and 'added value' of any mods the buyer would be interested in.

[Perihelion]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

What he wanted and what he listed are two different things. I believe the initial posting on these forums was $25.5k with all the mods.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51384

and what he got is probably far lower than both those numbers. notice the complete lack of interest on his sell thread?

[serith]

If the craigslist poster really wants to sell that car the easiest way would be to swap all of the mods back for OEM parts. Even if the modifications were done correctly and tastefully, it puts the "what if" question in the heads of potential buyers, which leads to lost sales. Not worth it! Strip it back to stock and sell the mods separately to recoup some of the money.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Perihelion

and what he got is probably far lower than both those numbers. notice the complete lack of interest on his sell thread?

So your point is that despite his claims to the contrary he got what the dealership offered him? Probably in the neighborhood of $17-$19k? What does lack of interest on the sell thread really mean? Whole cars don't get much interest at this point, buying new definitely wins out.

The dude seems happy with his 86 ownership experience (present thread excluded) and is satisfied with his dealings that got him a more practical four door. Not sure what your goal is.

And doing a quick browse through the engine bay seems to have come together nicely, despite the spray paint debacle.



http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52257

[Batman]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

So your point is that despite his claims to the contrary he got what the dealership offered him? Probably in the neighborhood of $17-$19k? What does lack of interest on the sell thread really mean? Whole cars don't get much interest at this point, buying new definitely wins out.

The dude seems happy with his 86 ownership experience (present thread excluded) and is satisfied with his dealings that got him a more practical four door. Not sure what your goal is.

And doing a quick browse through the engine bay seems to have come together nicely, despite the spray paint debacle.



http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52257

Thanks.

Orange paint was plasti dip, we had a can left over and wanted to test it in the engine bay. Only was on the engine bay covers a couple days.

Traded the car in toward's my wife's new SUV, they gave me $21k for it (which I thought was extremely fair from a dealer) and I took 95% of the parts off first.

I much enjoyed the car, and will probably buy another similar platform in a few years time, but currently need a larger car for carrying people as well as AWD for my new house and work location.

I don't understand why my personal preference of car styling has somehow genuinely offended some of you, but I really could care less. Simple and sleeper is more my style, but I had a fun run making my 86 flashy and rally and out of my comfort zone. The Perrin show car parts were definitely my trophy, and ended up looking real nice spicing up the engine bay. I had a lot of locals that almost cut off their left nut for that car, whether ricy or not, it was a blast, flowed well (in person, anyway) especially after removing the rally lights and putting the grill back in, and was a well-spent year of my time. Maybe not the best spent money, but what the hell, I don't get it from Daddy, I work hard for that money.

The new owner just bought it from the dealer yesterday, with the custom exhaust, Perrin Tune, shifter, and a few other things still on it, and my friend (his salesman) says he hasn't seen a happier person buy a car.

Everything worked out great (except, like you said, this beautiful kind-hearted thread) and overall it was a fun run.

So stop spreading the hate around, and go buy the last few pieces from what I parted out, lol.

Air Oil Separator
Oil Cooler
Coolant Catch Can
Oil Filter Cover
Custom MAF Intake tube
Eibach Sway bars -Front and Back

[Frstorm]

Dude it was ugly and riced out

[Batman]

Originally Posted by Frstorm

Dude it was ugly and rices out

riced*

[Frstorm]

Batman- thanks accidentally hit the s on my iPad and not the d. Guess that's what I get for not proof reading

[Batman]

Originally Posted by userjack6880

Honest opinion?

If in an area where it would be practical or in off-road/rally setting, those lights would actually be not bad. Same with the flaps. But this car has a sense of... confusion to it.

It looks a bit rally like, but also wants to be street. It has stupid badges, and I'm not sure what's going on with that hood. The quad tips are also iffy, but it may just be the fitment.

Toss out the stupid badges, throw on some proper rally tires and a good off-road suspension, and we have a decent looking rally car.

Honestly, it's not the worst I've seen. It's definitely unique. At least I now know what it would look like with rally lights.

Just for the record.. the quad tips ended up at a weird angle, they looked much better straight.. i was planning on having that fixed and the TRD bumper put on, but ended up deciding to sell before the next slew of projects to take it from road Rally style confusion to sleek simple sleeper. Supercharged. Just so theres more 's' words in there. But yeah, for anyone doing quad exhaust out there, straight tips win, angled out looks dumb. Still sounded mean as hell, though.

I would love to turn an FR-S into a full rally style, but there's not too much besides my little canyon up the road to warrant it, so there wasn't enough motivation to put the right suspension on it, different rims, etc.. I was planning on taking it to the cleaners.. or at least clean look.. next summer. I tried flashy crazyness with this.. its just not my style.

[Perihelion]

"Professionally modded" that's my gripe.

[Batman]

Originally Posted by Frstorm

Batman- thanks accidentally hit the s on my iPad and not the d. Guess that's what I get for not proof reading

No worries, I got your back.