Plus there were no Nassau Blue Z06s'.
Think C5 values are down? LOOK!
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Think C5 values are down? LOOK!
This is a nice low mileage 2000 FRC in a low production color. Sold for over 25K at auction. Are the Hardtops holding their value more than coupes? Are the FRC's going to be the collectors of the C5 era?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=4603316498
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Originally Posted by DJN
Somebody overpaid. 
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it sold for a tad more than the book retail price. Fact is that the car's True Market Value is worth about $20K even if someone paid $30K for it. The guy buying it overpaid. There is a sucker born every minute.
If the C5's were truly holding great value, then a 27K mile car's true market value would be more than $20K.
If the C5's were truly holding great value, then a 27K mile car's true market value would be more than $20K.
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Originally Posted by Ron C!
Maybe not. If a Nassau Blue FRC is what you lust after, that one is as nicer than most you will find.
I guess but you must really want that cause you could get an 02 or 03 for that price.
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Originally Posted by Ron C!
Maybe not. If a Nassau Blue FRC is what you lust after, that one is as nicer than most you will find. It is worth paying a bit more and getting exactly what you want. Why settle?
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For those of you who don't know, the Hardtop, or FRC (fixed roof coupe) was only made in 1999 and 2000. It then became the famed "Z06" model in 2001.
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Nice looking car, but I agree, a bit too high in price compared to what they normally would go for. Must have really wanted that car.
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My point is this. You need to shop car not price. The price guides may or may not be on the money. They deal in assumptions and generalities. Let's take this Nassau FRC for example. Let's assume that for what ever reason that you have made up your mind that this is the car you want. You search the country for one, maybe you find 3 or 4 for sale at any given time due to how few have been made. You find that this car is in far superior condition to the others. It has the wheels that you want, it has low miles, has not been raced and beat on. What do you do? Do you pass because some internet site says that it should only cost $21K? Do you settle for a red car with 45K miles that is only acceptable because it is $3K less? Not me. I will make the best deal I can on the car I WANT. And to be honest, I have been dissapointed in the long run every time I have "settled" for something that is not exactly what I wanted. Never pass on "the" car if it is within your means, you never know when you will find it again.