A question about 1977 value.
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A question about 1977 value.
What's a 77 worth with 13,000 miles? Original owner, L-48,auto orange,black interior. I'd say between $15,000-$20,000. I've only seen the car from pictures. I figure maybe $2000 to get the car road worthy.
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Lots of variables , without any pics or details ...you say it needs 2K worth of work.... Does it drive now & stop ??
Could be from 6K - 20k without details it's hard to tell .
Could be from 6K - 20k without details it's hard to tell .
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That seems high to me for a '77 with an L-48 and auto. The low mileage is great, but owning a '77, I can't see spending that for one even with very low mileage.
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I left out one very important detail, the original owner is asking $10,000 OBO. I know the miles are original because it's sitting on the original tires.
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Too much to guess at but if I guess with little to no info I bet it needs more than 2K to get it up to par.
I get it...you wanna steal a 15-20k jewel for 10K...
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If the car is listed public and didnt sell for 10K in the first 10 hours it's no jewel....
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You ain't got $hit. I ask out of curiousaty and I'm not steeling anything from anybody. I'm asking a simple question. If I wanted smart *** answer Id would have asked this over in OFF TOPIC. I've been an owner for almost 30 years, currently on car number 4 so I do know this Corvette thing a little bit. Anybody else want to get stupid, start your own thread. When I throw out the $2000 to get the car road worthy I'm talking new calipers, complete flush of fuel system possibly a new tank e.t.c.
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You ain't got $hit. I ask out of curiousaty and I'm not steeling anything from anybody. I'm asking a simple question. If I wanted smart *** answer Id would have asked this over in OFF TOPIC. I've been an owner for almost 30 years, currently on car number 4 so I do know this Corvette thing a little bit. Anybody else want to get stupid, start your own thread. When I throw out the $2000 to get the car road worthy I'm talking new calipers, complete flush of fuel system possibly a new tank e.t.c.
Lighten up...
YOU tossed the post out here for opinions and you very well might not like all of them...welcome to forums...and yeah off topic is no mans land for thin skinned folks.
You think a car you will buy for 10K obo is worth 15-20 that is "stealing it" a term used for getting an unheard of great deal...so get over it...the remark wasn't meant smart *** and isn't stupid it was an honest observation....
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okay so as I understand it we cannot be smart asses...Whoa....Not sure how to accomplish that...And let me see if I can get this straight. We have to go to another thread to be stupid??? Sheesh..Talk about weird rules.
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Oh, I LOVE my 77. I truly do. It's the bees knees of technology for that time perioud imo. That was a partial "tongue and cheek" comment but I'll explain as well. lol
77 has some "one off" hard to find components. Any 77 being sold "original" "survivor" etc... better damn near be mint if that is what you are buying it for. Even then, you will be over paying for something that will likely not be able to stay original.
No doubt someone will disagree. I'm just speaking from my experience.
77 has some "one off" hard to find components. Any 77 being sold "original" "survivor" etc... better damn near be mint if that is what you are buying it for. Even then, you will be over paying for something that will likely not be able to stay original.
No doubt someone will disagree. I'm just speaking from my experience.
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However... I would agree with you that if it has been sitting on original tires and not driven much for a long time it may cost $5k-$10k to make it worth $15k in today's market. I don't think you could reliably get $20k for a 1977 unless at least it was an L82 4-speed car.
FWIW, my 1980 C3 sat in my garage for about 10 years before I got it going again last year so I know from recent experience what kind of issues someone would be facing in a situation like this. I originally thought it was going to be a $2000-$3000 job just flushing and refilling and replacing a few dry-rotted bits... It ended up costing a bit more...
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That may be true... but if it has sat long enough that the fuel system needs to be completely flushed (and possibly needs new hoses, a carb rebuild and new fuel pump), some or all of the seals (callipers, master cylinder, main seal, gaskets, etc) are dried out and leaking and the rubber parts are dry-rotted then I wouldn't think it would "pass other criteria" either -- or at least a lot of that $4000 would be taken up by what all needed freshening...