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Enthusiast
Hey fellas, been a long time since I've been around these parts.
The last few years have been CRAZY busy - so busy in fact that I retired late last year from the game biz! I became a proud daddy in August of 2005 and I honestly got tired of not seeing my little girl, so I rearranged a few things in my life and left the business to my 3 other partners to take a few years off to be with my little girl and wife.
It's funny - with all I had going on running that company, I seemed to have more time for all the cars I own and have owned in the past few years when I was working crazy hours. Now I just don't have the energy or desire to maintain a stable of several cars I guess. I'm embarrassed to admit that the stable got up to 11 cars at one point last year (yikes!)
Well, I'm wanting to pare down to just 3 cars...a daily driver for me (already taken care of), my wifes car and one hot-rod. As some of you might remember my dad and I were building a crazy '69 Camaro that we just finished up...it's pretty nutso for the street but great fun, and more importantly it's a "living" breathing piece of my dad and I now...we have 8 years and tons of blood and sweat in the thing. In other words, the one hot-rod to remain should be this car...it should stay in the family. It's hard to think about only keeping one, but I think it's probably best for me in the coming years...I hate letting cars sit and that's been happening a lot in the past 6 months.
So, all that said, I'm thinking about putting my '02 GTS Final Edition up for sale but I have no idea where the market is now. I've even thought about maybe selling it and the '69 and getting an '08 Viper but I think I just want to get things sold first and see how I feel when it comes out.
My FE has 4,010 miles on it is all - babied, but rode hard once warmed up. She gets her regular exercise each week and spends the rest of the time toasty in the garage. Never tracked but she's seen some street racing.
Mods = Belenger headers, Random hi-flow cats, Corsa catback, VEC1, 3.45 Unitrax rear end, West Coast Viper PCM tuning, AB's plug wires and that's it. All the original stuff was boxed up and of course comes with the car. I do all fluids once a year just for the piece of mind, regardless of mileage.
Thing is, I don't want to put the car up for sale if the market is in the toilet...is she worth $55K? $45K? What's fair for her these days?
The car is perfect - flawless paint, not a scratch or nick on her anywhere in or out. That's the hardest part about thinking of selling her is just how NICE she has stayed over the years. Some of my other cars have come from the factory with poor paint or have had bad luck with a rock chip here or there but somehow the Viper has some sort of protective bubble over her.
If the market IS in the toilet for her right now I'll probably just hang on to her for a few more years, but she's a special car even in the Viper world so I thought I'd ping here and see what other folks are getting now or what you guys feel is fair if you have any opinions on the matter.
For what it's worth, last year I had a pretty broad choice of cars in the garage including an '04 Ferrari 360 Spider that I sold because I loved the Viper much more. Kinda crazy when you break it all out on paper - the 360 was a fine machine and better than the Viper in so many ways, but not in the one way that matters most.
The last few years have been CRAZY busy - so busy in fact that I retired late last year from the game biz! I became a proud daddy in August of 2005 and I honestly got tired of not seeing my little girl, so I rearranged a few things in my life and left the business to my 3 other partners to take a few years off to be with my little girl and wife.
It's funny - with all I had going on running that company, I seemed to have more time for all the cars I own and have owned in the past few years when I was working crazy hours. Now I just don't have the energy or desire to maintain a stable of several cars I guess. I'm embarrassed to admit that the stable got up to 11 cars at one point last year (yikes!)
Well, I'm wanting to pare down to just 3 cars...a daily driver for me (already taken care of), my wifes car and one hot-rod. As some of you might remember my dad and I were building a crazy '69 Camaro that we just finished up...it's pretty nutso for the street but great fun, and more importantly it's a "living" breathing piece of my dad and I now...we have 8 years and tons of blood and sweat in the thing. In other words, the one hot-rod to remain should be this car...it should stay in the family. It's hard to think about only keeping one, but I think it's probably best for me in the coming years...I hate letting cars sit and that's been happening a lot in the past 6 months.
So, all that said, I'm thinking about putting my '02 GTS Final Edition up for sale but I have no idea where the market is now. I've even thought about maybe selling it and the '69 and getting an '08 Viper but I think I just want to get things sold first and see how I feel when it comes out.
My FE has 4,010 miles on it is all - babied, but rode hard once warmed up. She gets her regular exercise each week and spends the rest of the time toasty in the garage. Never tracked but she's seen some street racing.
Mods = Belenger headers, Random hi-flow cats, Corsa catback, VEC1, 3.45 Unitrax rear end, West Coast Viper PCM tuning, AB's plug wires and that's it. All the original stuff was boxed up and of course comes with the car. I do all fluids once a year just for the piece of mind, regardless of mileage.
Thing is, I don't want to put the car up for sale if the market is in the toilet...is she worth $55K? $45K? What's fair for her these days?
The car is perfect - flawless paint, not a scratch or nick on her anywhere in or out. That's the hardest part about thinking of selling her is just how NICE she has stayed over the years. Some of my other cars have come from the factory with poor paint or have had bad luck with a rock chip here or there but somehow the Viper has some sort of protective bubble over her.
If the market IS in the toilet for her right now I'll probably just hang on to her for a few more years, but she's a special car even in the Viper world so I thought I'd ping here and see what other folks are getting now or what you guys feel is fair if you have any opinions on the matter.
For what it's worth, last year I had a pretty broad choice of cars in the garage including an '04 Ferrari 360 Spider that I sold because I loved the Viper much more. Kinda crazy when you break it all out on paper - the 360 was a fine machine and better than the Viper in so many ways, but not in the one way that matters most.
