From personal experience the only way you are going to get even a portion of your money back from those modifications are:

A) trade for a higher blue book car.

B) take it back to stock and sell the parts on here/evil bay and then sell the car unmodified.

If you are not up for the work/hassle of B) and can't afford don't have room for both cars- I would do A in a heartbeat provided you have it checked out by carfax, autocheck, dodge mechanic/viper specialist, etc... life is short if you think you want to try a viper and after driving it and researching it you still want one go for it- you can get a vette again- they are only depreciating unless you wait 15-20 years.

You will have a very hard time selling your car as it sits for 45K. I would say 30-35K if you find the right buyer. You can probably sell it for sadly 23-26 stock and recover 75% of your mods expense depending on what they are.

Even stock you may have a hard time selling the vette as the few buyers out there of luxury items are driving hard bargains as they know its a buyers market-

I finally sold my extensively modified 5.0 foxbody coupe for considerably less than half of what I had in it after 8 months of pleading and begging and it even "looked" bone stock. I should have parted the whole car or at least taken it back to stock but I couldn't bear to tear apart a perfectly good package. The non-essential parts I did take off of it however before I sold it I made money on some of them and almost got what I paid on everything else. The good news is as I didn't wait for the market to recover I also got a great deal on my z06 and I have already sunk most of part proceeds in mods to my z. heheh I guess I didn't learn ;-)

Oh yeah my car made it in 5.0 and Super Fords magazine (May 08) while I had it for sale-not the cover but it didn't really make that much difference as far as I could tell before/after it was printed- its a tough market now. I am aware the majority of the corvette demographic is different than the mustang so it may make a bigger difference.

 

take all those damn stickers off and you might get a few more bucks for it

 

Ok it's for sale in the For Sale Section for $38,500

 

I thought you were trading it in? That price seems extremely high to me.

 

 

I don't think the dealership is going to do it anymore. The havn't gotten back to me and the last time I talked to the guy, he seemed to kinda blow me off. I would rather just get cash for my car, add a little more towards it and buy a different one. Well than, in your opinion what is a good price for this car?

 

Generally I don't think extensive mods add much or anything to the value of a car. All of the modded cars I've had (3 Subarus, in various states of modification) have been parted out and sold as stock because no one cares about the mods and wants to pay bluebook or less for it.

 

i just wanna know where u got those headlights.... plus it is a very bitchin car!!!!

 

Thanks, they were the chrome depo projectors. I painted them insdie and out.

 

sooo have you driven a viper? guess you missed that question before...

 

Sorry man! No.

 

The vette is way better in comfort and performance all the way around. Especially yours being modded up. If you just want something different then if it's not too late go ahead and get the viper but if you're looking for more than an "awe factor" steer clear of it. Hell, go tell them you want to drive the thing. I'm sure they'll let you. But, with that being said, you'll probably be sick of it shortly down the road. All it is is more rare than the vette, so that awe factor is kind of nice but having driven one, I wouldn't trade my Z for it.

 

Hey man Honestly,

If this is what you want to do I say go for it you only live once! I like to experience as many awesome machines as possible.

If it were my car, and I will be in the same boat as you as mine is being featured in 3 magazines currently, I would.

Put it out there first at the higher price and see how it does.

If it doesn't Then start putting it back to stock and get a lot of that money back.

Those parts are worth a TON of money as parts don't throw it all away because you get lazy and just don't want to go through the hassle of pulling the parts off.

I got bit twice like that and I will never do it again.

I traded a car in once that was modded to a dealer and got nothing for the parts.

Next week I went to my local speed shop to buy parts for my new car, and there was my old car having the aftermarket parts taken off by the dealer and sold for pennies to the speed shop to sell used.

Just my opinion.

Your a smart dude for asking about something like this!

Best of Luck to You!

Andy Wheeler

 

Ill take the hood!

 

Sounds like the dealer came to his senses. To each his own but if you want more money out of the car I'd probably paint the hood, remove the red from the wheels and pull the advertising graphics and it would appeal to a broader crowd.

 

you're car is badass. i say keep it and save up for the viper in the next year or two. you can always get a viper, but you may regret selling the vette. that's just my opinion though

 

At a minimum, find one to sit in to see if you can get comfortable. You REALLY should drive one first. They can be a tight fit if you're too tall or too fat. My Viper is good for an hour or two, whereas I would have driven my Z06 anywhere. Viper guys will argue that one with you, I'm just giving you my $0.02. As a toy/fun car, not much is better, though. It is a raw beast.

 

Parting the car out is the only way to come even close to what you want for the car. 38k isnt unreasonable for the mods but the way the market is going now, you'd be lucky to get 32k for it IMO.

 

There might be an entirely new Vette when GM and Chrysler merge. I'd hold out for the new 2010 Hemi Corvette!