I have been trying to sell my 82 pace car for the last couple months so far I have people say list it then I will make an offer on it. When I do list it for sale They rag me for it.

I dont have the money to Put in this car or the time.

So its coming down to the point of Either letting it sit out side & rot until a buyer comes around or to ship it down to a Crusher & have it crushed.

 

When you say they rag on you for it, I assume you mean they think the price is too high? I've never sent a car to a crusher, but I'd guess you'd get a lot LESS from the crusher, wouldn't you? So couldn't you sell it for something in between the two? So it would seem like you've got some room to deal, and I'd think you'd be happier knowing it's in the hands of someone who wants it rather than having it crushed.

I checked out the pix, and it doesn't look like a difficult restore. I wish I had the money, but I don't. Sorry for taking your time with my post. Good luck. I hope you find a buyer. I'd hate for that classic to get crushed.

 

No They dont rag because of the price since its only $2k OBO.
They rag me because 1 I will not ship it the buyer would have to come out here to pick it up. Due to the fact that I dont want someone coming back & trying to say stuff that didnt happen. Not only that I dont get screwed in the prossces. They would have to also sign a Contract stating the car is SOLD as is.

Then of course ya get the guys who Dont like the 3rd gen camaros & start ragging on it because it needs some work.


If I took it to the crushers I would get $0 for the car. But as I said I rather the car be crushed then it sitting out in front of my place rotting since I dont have the time nor the money to put in to it.

We did when we bought the car. But since then my husband has lost total intrest in restoring it & rather spend time on his 67 Chevy pick up. Then on anything I own or have intrest in. Heck its getting down to the wire on Dragracing season to start & my 87 camaro still needs to go to the Muffler shop to get the Headers & muffler put in.

 

I guess people just don't realize what a nice trip it would be going to Washington state, huh? Oh well...

But now that you've got the price on here, that might help get some reactions. And since we've put up a few replies to your topic here, maybe that'll help get people checking it out.

Have a nice night Krazzycowgirl.

 

I don't understand why you won't ship. I sold a 1987 IROC-Z convertible in 1997 in Tucson and it was shipped to northern California. The transaction was handled by the shipping company. I received the funds at the time the vehicle was picked up. You can state as part of the deal that you will ship but the buyer most incur the cost.

I also included a "Contract for Sale of Personal Property, which is an official notarized document that both parties must sign and have notarized. One condition listed within states that the sale is "as is". If you'd like a copy, e-mail me.

 

because we have been screwed over once before. My husband dosent want to be again.

 

How can you be screwed over if you receive certified funds at the same time the car is being loaded on the transport by a certified transportation company? How can you be screwed over if you and the buyer both sign an "as is" document that's notarized? I always use this document when buying or selling a car, whether it be long distance or local. It has legal ground.

If you take these precautionary steps, what is your level of risk? It's zero. The only risk that's involved in on the buyer's side for buying a car sight unseen.

Willie

 

This is the document that I always use when either buying or selling a vehicle, whether it is long distance or local. Once notarized, it becomes a legal document. I will not do business if the other party refuses to sign.

 

If it means going to the scrap for $0 hell sell it to me!

I can't offer much but about $500, but I will come to Washington to get it off yer hands. I live in Idaho Falls, ID and will gladly come with truck and trailer to get it off your hands.

I picked up my IROC in Tacoma so I am familiar with the travel to the WA area.

I am serious. I can't offer much, but I will get it out of your hair and no hassle to you and you can rest assured, it'll go to a good home!

 

Willie we had things in writing but that didnt stop the guy from having a friend that lived in this area come pick up the car while we were not home. Also the guy that bought the car was not who he said he was SO there was no tracking down the car. We did find it stripped & wrecked. So much for a $10k car right?


Right now I am only home a couple hours during the day. Between Little league, My work, My husband work, Car club events that require me to be there & other things I dont have time for the car nor the time to get a hold of a shipping company to find out shipping prices.

If someone really wants the car they will come get it. If not then it will either sit here rot until my husband & I have time to work on it or it will go to the crushers.

$1500 is the lowest I will go on this car Since thats what I paid for it. But that will not included the new brake pads , the car cover or anything else that I have in my garage for this car.

It may sound cold hearted but I am kinda tired of people trying to tell me how to do things.

 

I hope you didn't think I was trying to "tell you how to do things". You basically said in your original post you were considering scrapping it for $0. I mearly offered a solution.

 

No not ya Dante If it sells it will go for $1500-$2000 Unless I work on it again then the price goes up. I cant really even afford to scrap it. I am just frestraded (sp?)

 

I know how you feel. Selling a car is difficult when the local market doesn't have a buyer. Took me a while to sell my 92 RS back in 2000.

Anyway, if ya ever change yer mind, let me know. I have picked up about 5 cars from all over the country and have the truck and trailer to get it if you can't ship it.

 

You're not making any sense. If someone wants to buy thecar, you'll sell it for $1500. If not, then you get $0 when it goes to the crusher. If you're willing to take $0 from the crusher, why won't you take $500, or anything above $0 for that matter.

As for the shipping company, that's not your responsibility to find. It's the buyer. Basically, they get a certified check to you, the shipping company comes to you, they load the car and say goodbye. The buyer is responsible for getting the money, the shipping company and the car that is to be sold "as-is"

Just the sound of this post makes me understand why you're getting ragged on. You're not making much sense!

 

If you could wait til summer I could probably go that 500$ also. Just don't send it to the crusher.

 

Everyone That I have talked to that have wanted to make me an offer on the car ask me how much for SHIPPING. End of discusion I will NOT ship the car.

The car is worth more than $500. Hell I can get $500 off just parting it out. If someone offers me lower then $1500 I will NOT take it.

 

Worse comes to worse and it doesn't sell, and you do end up having to send it to the crusher, why not part it out first, cut your losses and help save a few other cars at the same time? Just my $0.02

It would be a shame to see a Pace Car become a 2x2 steel cube

 

Anybody that asks a seller of a car how much the shipping is has no clue themselves. Tell them to go ask FedEX. Again, they might be asking in case you checked on rough numbers for shipping. This will give them an idea of the total cost.

I had someone in Europe contact me regarding my 93 Pace Car. They were interested in getting it shipped overseas. They already knew the cost, but asked if I'd be willing to work with the shipping company in having the vehicle ready to go when they got there. They were also willing to send me a check for the amount of the car + shipping. All he needed was for me to take the shipping amount, get a cashier's check for it and give it to the driver. He was even willing to pay for the cashier's check!

It sounds to me that you are getting deadbeats.

 

Well then there must be deadbeats on this board because most of those that have been asking me to ship the car is from this board.

But again I AM NOT shipping the car. I DONT have the time.

 

The car certainly looks like it shouldn't go to the crusher! Hopefully everything will work out. NOT telling you how to do things, but if you decide to send it to the crusher, please take Dante93GTZ up on his offer to insure another thirdgen isn't lost before its time. No way that car (if it is the one on your site) should go to the crusher. Good luck.

 

i'd give u 1,500 for it, but there would b no way in hell i'd drive that far for it lol, btw if u take it to the crusher u'd get like 140 for it, steal is pretty high right now, that car looks to be in too good of shape to let go for anything under 1,500 or to go to a crusher, i dont see how its so hard to sell,

 

wow, that car could be really nice. I can't believe you are considering crushing it. I have a POS parts car, and I don't even want to see it go to a crusher after i part it all out.
Good luck, even though i don't understand your point of giving it away to someone who cares nothing for it, because you won't take what you think it's "worth".
I'm disgusted

 

How many miles are on it?
What is the dash pad, console lid, interior plastics like? All it needs in seats, headliners and carpet?
Was that a manual or auto?
What all is wrong with the ground effects?
That looks like it would be a nice car after those repairs. Don't send it off to the crusher!

Man, if I had some time to toss around, I'd come get it, although I would have to drive it back, so I'd have to fix the brakes when I get there.

Just please don't send it to the crusher! If that's going to happen, please consider Dante's offer. I'd also hate to see a ThirdGen crushed.

 

How many miles are on it? 106k It was used as a daily driver from the guy I bought it from down in Portland Oregon

What is the dash pad, console lid, interior plastics like? The Dash Pad is cracked & Currently has a 87 Dash pad in the car. Center console lid if I remember right is good. interior plastic should be replaced


All it needs in seats, headliners and carpet? Along with Door panels & the sunvisors But you can get the full kit of door panels+ seats for $300 & the Headliner/Sail panel/ Sunvisors For about $300 as well via Hawks 3rd gen.

Was that a manual or auto? Its an Auto I dont remember ever seeing a CFI 4 disc brake pace car with a Manual (Now I may be wrong)
What all is wrong with the ground effects? The front ones are busted because the owner before me allowed the Drivers door to hang with out fixing the pin right & busted up the drivers side GFX (the front GFX are off the car & sitting in my garage along with the drivers Door)

That looks like it would be a nice car after those repairs. It is a very nice car.

As for driving it I think that will be impossible since we think it also needs new rotors It was pulling very hard to the left when steping on the brakes. My husband had a hard time driving it from Portland to Olympia in rush hour traffic in Feb 2yrs ago because of it pulling every time he made a hard stop.

The car was priced out by an Insurance Collector just before we bought it for $5k in the shape it is in.

 

Hmmm...dang, that sounds like that'd be a pretty nice car. $1500-$2000 doesn't sound too bad for that, being a collector's car. Sorry I don't have the money to come get it!

 

Hi Cowgirl,

It's like this - If anyone is REALLY interested in your car
they will figure out a way come Hell or high water to buy it
and get it home.

If you are NOT willing to ship, and they are not willing to
buy it because of that fact, then they DO NOT want it that
bad.

Have you tried to sell it locally ? Or, tried selling it at a local
Auction ? There are many ways to properly market your
car. Explore your avenues and be creative with your
selling strategy.

DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT scrap the Pace Car, in ( 5 ) years
or less, you will regret it big time. These cars are going up
in value and it's only a matter of time before you find
yourself with a prize that many people/collectors will want.


Good Luck !

John B.

 

I do have someone intrested in it. He's got a LT1/t56 combo he wants to trade it for. That I am willing to do because it will end up in my husbands 67 Stepside shortbox chevy pick up.

 

I understand that its worth $1500. But why would you rather get nothing for it (crushed) than $500 (selling it to someone)?

Somthing is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If you are trying to sell a brand new Ferarri that you paid $200,000, and noone is willing to pay more than $5,000 for it, then its only worth $5,000. Also, hopeing to get what you paid for it is kind of futile if you didn't put anything into it, after all its just longer its been sitting, and one more owner on the tite.
My camaro now is supposedly worth about $4200, according to the bluebook, I plan on asking about $2800 when I go to sell it, and to tell you the truth would be very happy to get even that much for it. A Grand Cherokee I bought for $3800, put about $1500 into, and was valued around 6k, I sold for 4.3k.

 

occasionally i go tot our local crusher/recycling place to get rid of a totled parts car or just some scrap,, and i see some of the nicest projects come through to be crushed,,,just last week i saw a perfect 71 2 door chevelle body turned into a 3x3 cube.....made me sick...i asked myself what kind of narrow minded backwards idiot could do such a thing.......well i guess i dont have to say that my question has been answered.....would rather crush than sell for $500....when te absolute most the crusher would pay would be $140-150 on a good week...and if you dont have your own trucka nd trailer youd have to pay to have it hauled there .....makes no sense...and as for not wanting to ship.....if you part it out how would you get teh parts to the people,,,,by carrier pigeon??????i would think you would ship them,,wouldnt you???? and as for calling us guys here deadbeats,,,i think the dead beat would be the person who crushed a good pacecar becouse they are too obstinate to be a courteous seller....the reason the car hasnt sold is one and only one.....YOU!!!!!! CASE CLOSED

 

Forgot to mention about the deal you got ripped off on. There is a simple solution, they don't get the keys untill you get the cash.

 

I was given money but it turned out to be a Forged check & I lost everything on it.

 

If you would LOOK up You will see the reasons why I will not ship. 2 you would also see that I do now have someone intrested in the car for a trade of a LT1/T56 combo.

 

im the one whos thinking bout trading it for the lt1/t56. im tryign to find out as much as i possibly can about this car and figure out how to get it registered in canada. i must say tammy has been an excellent communicator. the only thing in the way of the deal would be red tape, a 79 TA project that requires a ton of more work then this car does to complete and the wife/fiance.

 

Well then honey, that's your fault. You should know better than to take a personal check from someone you don't know for something like that. If the guy came and hi-jacked the car that's one thing... but you GAVE him the keys.

I'm not saying that you deserved to be screwed because no one does, but you certainly should have forseen the possability of that coming a mile away.

 

Someone wants to buy a car from me with a check or money order they are going to wait for it to clear, or be deposited so I can be sure its real. Hell, you can probably bring it to your bank, and ask them to check its validity right there.

 

I Never gave him the keys. Plus it wasnt a Personal check it was a Forged Cashiers check. from my own bank.

 

Hell If I was having that much trouble selling a car I would rather take $500 than nothing and Crush a Classic. I have a 1987 Camaro Sport Coupe, I payed $2,500 three years ago and if I sold it now at the blue book value I would get $1,200. Dante93GTZ
was willing to buy the car and pick it up and get it out of your hair, but no you had to be an *** and say you will take no more than $1,500 for it. Just like everybody else said you make no sence if you realy want to get rid of it that bad you would take the first offer that came to you no mater what the price was.

 

So he came over your house, and stole the car without the keys. You really cannot blame that on shipping the thing. Why he went so far as to send you a forged check, and make a deal instead of comming right over doesn't make sense.

 

1) Well, you never stated that he stole the car. I'm sorry that I misunderstood.

2) Had he used a real check with a fake name on it... he would have had to pay for it and therefore you would have been able to get the money...

I'm kind of amused by the fact that you didn't notice that the check was fake. I don't mean to be a jerk, but hey.. you did call us here on TGO a bunch of deadbeats...

 

The guy Lived out of state. He had a local friend that lived here do all the shipping arangments. Then 1 week before shipping was going to take place the friend that lived here came over took the car off my place & drove away with it. By the way the friend OWNED a shipping company. So yes I can blame it on the shipping thing. The friend handed me the forged cashiers check, I took it to my bank told them to cash it & they did. That was why the waiting one more week on the car. The day the Car was taken off my place my bank called & said the check was forged.
a week after I cashed the check. The Cops were called because the bank thought it was us forging the check. When I found out the car was stolen I called the cops. they tried to arrest me forging the check. But since I had most everything in writing with the Shipping company. The cops went to check them out. The shipping company was no longer there.

It normally takes 2 weeks for checks to totally clear a bank.




As for Selling it for less then $1,500 thats what I paid for it ok. It was appraised for $5k less then a month before I bought it. I also have like another $1k worth of parts running around my house for the car.

But as I said someone IS interested in the car. for a trade of equal vaule of the asking price.

 

Well with them washing checks its hard to tell & I am not the only one to fall for a Forged Money order or Cashiers check. There are over 100,000 people a year that fall for that same thing.

 

Who apraised the car at $5,000, for that I would expect low milage, and an 8 out of 10 on condition.

You still won't answer why you would rather send it to the crusher and get nothing for it rather than get less than what you paid for it selling it. I would give the car away to someone who would take care of it before having it crushed.

 

personally i think/hope shes just venting frustration about the crushing thing. sometimes you just feel the hell with it and to send it off to the junk yard, and at the same time you dont want to get rid of it for next to nothing.

i understand selling a car like this can be frustrating, most car enthusiasts now its a valuable car and is worth more money, but the majority rip you apart cause they base is as just another 82.

i know of a few guys who had major troubles trying to sell there 25th TAs, its a 94 model so they base its worht on that. this one guys 25th had 35k miles, t56 and drop top, a rare combination, he said he was lucky to get only 9800 for it.

so when krazycowgirl posts this in a local section people rip into it because 1500-2000 USD is a lot for a 82 that needs a interior, has CFI, needs paint etc.

 

It's true about the people crushing nice cars thing. I have seen many cars get crushed or just sit and rot because the person rather do that than sell it to someone who offers less than the owner thinks it's worth.

Right now there is a 1981 Z28 in original condition with 21,000 miles on it (350, 4 speed stick, posi, etc. etc.) that is rotting in someone here in town's backyard because she doesn't want to sell it for what people have been offering... so she's letting it rot to spite them!

 

She is going to hell for that

 

If its a true '81 with 350 and 4speed manual, its a Canadian car. No US Camaros in '81 had that combo. Just an FYI!

 

It was a insurance apraisal (sp) The car was once stolen from the owners & recovered with no damange. He had it apraised for the reasons of selling it.


Ok when I said that I was pissed because everyone I talked wanted me to shipp the car & They would not take NO for an answer & was calling me all sorts of names for it. The answer about it being shipped is still NO. I will haul it someone if its local. I just found out today that I cant get my brother in law over the boarder So hes now not allowing us to use his truck/ trailer combo to haul it in to Canada. So someone will have to come pick it up.

 

I still dont know why you wouldnt take Dantes offer???? You dont have to ship it, you end up with $500 instead of nothing and a car that will be worth something soon wont be trashed. Unless you get the LT1/T56 combo why would no money and a ruined pace car be better than $500????? I dont get your reasoning and I have read this whole post, you dont make any sense.

~Deadbeat thirdgenner

 

I am not going to crush the car. It will be sold. I do have other offers on the table & one of them is for $2k.

 

well good luck with the deal, if you can tow it to the border i may figure out a way to tow it back across the border from a local board member.