I am new to this board, and although this is my 1st post Ive been lurking this board for a couple of months, I will be buying, in the next 2-3 weeks, I've been searching everywhere, I am looking for a gts or acr, with miliage no more than 20000 must be in great shape, the blue book on these things arent that high, some of the owners and dealers are asking up to 10k and over on some of these cars, I know with used cars dealers can get a car whole sale for 30k and charge 45k, so should I go private or dealear? with most dealers I can get a warranty, which is nice in the situation I am in, I can afford the car, the insurance and the general maitenence,but I cant be buying a car that needs a new clutch or tranny head gasket etc, I wont be able to fix it at this point. I know people might be saying well if you cant fix the car maybe you shouldnt buy it, but a little quick back story of why this car is so important to me, I had a C5 Z06 3 years ago(it was my 4th vett, it was a low 11 second car off the bottle, so I had some major mods to it, long story short, I got sick, had to have 2 surgerys, I have health insurance, but it still wasnt enough to cover all the bills, I had to sell my car, Ive been saving every penny since Ive got better. A new Viper or Z06 is way out of my budget, regardless ever since I had to sell the vette, my mind was on a gen 2 viper, although I love the vett, when you see one go down the street most people will not be able to tell if is a Z06 or not, when a Viper goes down the street everybody knows what it is, regardless to me Viper and Vett are Americas muscle cars, forget the Lambos etc just give me a Vett or Viper.. I ususally buy new, but its always been vetts, particularly the Z06, but its way to expensive for me ,and even though it kicks some butt, the thing that really bothers me is you really cant tell the difference between the standard, and Z06, Ive been a Vette man all my life, but its time to change, I dont care anymore about who is faster bal bla bla, we all can control who is faster, by whipping out our wallets as I will do when I save more money, besides most of the Vipers have work already done to them, and I still have a nx express wet kit I took off the vette, that will make a nice addition to my Viper.. For me the Gen 2 Viper has always been the ****, I love its lines, and the muscularity of it, I still like the Genn 3, but there is something about a racing striped gts gen 2 that just does it for me. I have a little more than 40k in cash to spend and I'm tapped out(I do not want to finance again). I need some help from you guys, on what to look for etc(please feel free to pm me), like I said, I'm just about ready to pull the trigger I know now is the time to buy, but I dont know what to look for in these cars. I'd appreciate any help, I dont want to buy a bad car, also the anticipation is killing me, I want my Viper!!!
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