How much is this worth?
Melting Slicks
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From: Madison Alabama
Nice, has not been tagged since Aug of '85.
She's still wearing factory Eagle GTs, most likely unsafe due to dry-rot but actually help the resale from a survivor standpoint.
Nice cloth interior but the door panels are unusual to me - I don't recall the cloth/leather shown here...anyone else?
Fact is the car retailed for close to $20K in 1980...the current market is working against you as the car should pull in the $25K range based on condition, originality, documentation, etc. If you let a broker work the deal for you, you'll end up with about what your grandfather paid for the car in 1980...not a very good ROI for 25 years. An 80 L-82 was a nice package but don't kid yourself, it is decades (if ever) away from pulling the $50K of a BB or LT-1 car of the muscle car era.
Overall a wonderful car and unless Gramps need the proceeds from the sale to make a house payment - my advice is to keep it in the family, you won't regret it. You're obviously a Corvette Guy, your C5 is nice but get some seat time in the '80 and you'll go back in time...I love my Z06 but my '82 takes me back in time and I love it!
She's still wearing factory Eagle GTs, most likely unsafe due to dry-rot but actually help the resale from a survivor standpoint.
Nice cloth interior but the door panels are unusual to me - I don't recall the cloth/leather shown here...anyone else?
Fact is the car retailed for close to $20K in 1980...the current market is working against you as the car should pull in the $25K range based on condition, originality, documentation, etc. If you let a broker work the deal for you, you'll end up with about what your grandfather paid for the car in 1980...not a very good ROI for 25 years. An 80 L-82 was a nice package but don't kid yourself, it is decades (if ever) away from pulling the $50K of a BB or LT-1 car of the muscle car era.
Overall a wonderful car and unless Gramps need the proceeds from the sale to make a house payment - my advice is to keep it in the family, you won't regret it. You're obviously a Corvette Guy, your C5 is nice but get some seat time in the '80 and you'll go back in time...I love my Z06 but my '82 takes me back in time and I love it!
Last edited by 2TONE82; Apr 13, 2008 at 12:12 PM.
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From: Sacramento California
The car was actually the same as the 80' l82 poster car yellow with the gray/white interior so my grandpa had to have it! He has the original poster for the car to.
And no they don't need to worry about house payments since they already own the house and the 40 acres its on lol. I am super jealous of his 5,000 garage/warehouse with a lift .My granparents just want to put the money elsewhere.
They had to choose what to sell from their collection
57 bel air restored on custom fabbed chassis with vette suspension and brakes with a zz430-red
63 impala on custom fabbed chassis with vette suspension as well-red
56 tbird ALL original with white removable top-red
32 ford all original metal car- black
66 mustang gt 4speed, fully restored with on 314miles since fully resto-maroon with blk vinyl top
74 z28 4 speed car all original less than 5k miles- silver (RARE)
old sedan delivery dont remeber what year but the chassis also has vette suspension LOL
80 original l82 with 11k miles
original humback ford, couple el caminos, 3 jeeps.
And no they don't need to worry about house payments since they already own the house and the 40 acres its on lol. I am super jealous of his 5,000 garage/warehouse with a lift .My granparents just want to put the money elsewhere.
They had to choose what to sell from their collection
57 bel air restored on custom fabbed chassis with vette suspension and brakes with a zz430-red
63 impala on custom fabbed chassis with vette suspension as well-red
56 tbird ALL original with white removable top-red
32 ford all original metal car- black
66 mustang gt 4speed, fully restored with on 314miles since fully resto-maroon with blk vinyl top
74 z28 4 speed car all original less than 5k miles- silver (RARE)
old sedan delivery dont remeber what year but the chassis also has vette suspension LOL
80 original l82 with 11k miles
original humback ford, couple el caminos, 3 jeeps.
Last edited by SICVENM; Apr 13, 2008 at 04:16 PM.
