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Originally Posted by KyleF

Not the LT1 cars that have been taken care of. $8-$10K bottom figure here unless it's a basket case. Again, We are not talking the earlier C4s. The LT1 cars bring more just like the LS cars bring more in the 4th Gen F-Bodies.

Your opinion doesn't reflect the general market when you go to sell a car. Ripping the injection system off and replacing it with anything is going to scare a lot of buyers away.

It pigeon holes the car to only attract a certain type of buyer.


As far as carb running for year and miles... the ability to run and drive is a low bench mark. You are not quantifying how it did on gas mileage, emissions, or if it really made full power as there was nothing there to monitor the performance.

On this forum in the past month or so, here are a couple of examples.

1. $6,000.00 for this one. https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...2k-6500-a.html
2. $6,500.00 for this one. https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...tte-coupe.html

These both, IMO look to be decent cars.... What I would consider to be in the average condition that one will find a 22-27 year old car to be...

In my area, Metro DC, there are bunches for sale in that price range.

I agree, you will not find a well optioned, (Vert, 6spd, ZR1, LT4, etc.) for that price,

But I stand by my statement, a decent 92-95 vette can be purchased in the 5-6 thousand range.

 

If I had an LT car I would probably keep the injection.

If I wanted to modify a 1991 or earlier I would probably install vortec or other comparable heads, a big cam, a carb and a do a 36-1 wasted spark crank trigger ignition like I did on my SBC S10 I had a while back.

 

I can understand if you had neither form of induction and went carburetor from the start.

If not, it is virtually impossible for that many components to fail at the same time. So your reason for switching to carburetor would obviously have been from lack of knowledge/understanding of EFI.

 

Oh for the Love of chrysler... who was talking about cars north of 125K miles

Mine has less than 60K.

Gawd... I bet if I look long enough I could find one that sold for under $4500 if you want to talk about cars north of 150K miles.

No Corvette, F-Body, or Mustang that in near stock is bringing solid money at >100K miles

I still stand by what I said, If you rip that injection system out and put a carb on it they wouldn't have sold for that much anyway.

Put an L98 with the same miles next to that LT car, it doesn't sell for that much.

 

[QUOTE=KyleF;1599441878]Oh for the Love of chrysler... who was talking about cars north of 125K miles

Mine has less than 60K.

Gawd... I bet if I look long enough I could find one that sold for under $4500 if you want to talk about cars north of 150K miles.

No Corvette, F-Body, or Mustang that in near stock is bringing solid money at >100K miles

I still stand by what I said, If you rip that injection system out and put a carb on it they wouldn't have sold for that much anyway





For the love of Chrysler? LOL

Who said we were talking about YOUR car?

In post 16, You said, "Not the LT1 cars that have been taken care of. $8-$10K bottom figure here unless it's a basket case." Clearly neither of these 2 examples are basket cases. and the asking price is well below 8 to 10 thousand.

 

If you say so, Car was put away wet for 10 years. You do the math..

And you don't understand the 1985 setup..

 

First, learn how to use quotes.

I am using my car for comparison sake about mileage. If you want to base the market around cars over 100K miles, so be it. I wouldn't. Plenty of Corvettes have been kept as fair weather and special occasion cars. Far to many have been babied to have to accept or discuss 100K mile cars as a market indicator. Look nationwide on cargurus, under 75K Miles, there are 2 92-96 Cars priced at $7,000. One has had 6 owners and a lemon report history. The other, I find no issues with it other than maybe people don't like the green anymore??? These are both listed as "Great Deals" priced below market average. Obviously a website that takes averages on a much wider range of data than 2 cars listed on this site agrees with me. The one with the Lemon history is the only one that stands under $7400 with less than 60K miles.. a White 92 with 52K Miles is listed for $7,419, a "Great Deal" listed $2,760 below a market average of $10,179.

I am sure there is a 200K+ mile LT car out there for under $5k too, but that doesn't set the market.

1. You can not refute that LT (1,5,4) cars bring better money than prior C4s.
2. You can not refute that an LT car with a carb swap is going to limit it's interested buyers
3. You can try to refute that it would hurt it's value, but it will because of #2.
4. Someone who knows enough to not be scared off by a carb swap will not be in the market for a top dollar car, and will know #2 and #3.

 

[QUOTE=KyleF;1599447306]First, learn how to use quotes.

I am using my car for comparison sake about mileage. If you want to base the market around cars over 100K miles, so be it. I wouldn't. Plenty of Corvettes have been kept as fair weather and special occasion cars. Far to many have been babied to have to accept or discuss 100K mile cars as a market indicator. Look nationwide on cargurus, under 75K Miles, there are 2 92-96 Cars priced at $7,000. One has had 6 owners and a lemon report history. The other, I find no issues with it other than maybe people don't like the green anymore??? These are both listed as "Great Deals" priced below market average. Obviously a website that takes averages on a much wider range of data than 2 cars listed on this site agrees with me. The one with the Lemon history is the only one that stands under $7400 with less than 60K miles.. a White 92 with 52K Miles is listed for $7,419, a "Great Deal" listed $2,760 below a market average of $10,179.




LOL, Butt hurt are ya!!

In case you didnt notice, the OP is MaineJim, not KyleF

MaineJim says his car has 135,000 miles on it...... As I said, if its in decent shape, its a 5-6 thousand dollar car. Whatever mods he does to it, will not hurt the value much if any.

 

[QUOTE=93 ragtop;1599447748]Then maybe you should only quote (Properly) who you are responding to My count is 3 times you quoted me, and now you are going to play you were responding to the OP

Or possibly re-read my statement on value and consider running up mileage as part of "taking care of it". I am all for driving my cars and I do. I never wanted one to just look at, but there is a difference for using it for fun occasions and using it all the time like a any other commuter car. Then when I want to go buy one, I look for ones with enough miles that they are drivers, a level that driving them doesn't hurt the value, but low enough everything feels pretty new.


Maybe this will be better... how do you turn a $6k LT1 car into a $4500 car? Spend $1k Ripping the fuel injection out and putting a carb in for a net $2500 out of pocket loss.

If you don't like fuel injection, I would highly suggest a C3. They are beautiful cars.