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You’re looking into the 30’s for anything sub 50k miles for the most part. I’m just waiting on my credit Union to confirm this seller’s credit union can sign over the title and I’ll be booking a 1 way flight to drive her home.
I guess the prices have these really started to climb in the last year, see lots of people mentioning getting their 50k-ish mile Cobras for 20k-ish over the last couple years until Covid hit, then prices took a flight to the moon.
You’re looking into the 30’s for anything sub 50k miles for the most part. I’m just waiting on my credit Union to confirm this seller’s credit union can sign over the title and I’ll be booking a 1 way flight to drive her home.
I guess the prices have these really started to climb in the last year, see lots of people mentioning getting their 50k-ish mile Cobras for 20k-ish over the last couple years until Covid hit, then prices took a flight to the moon.
A bank loaned out on a 03-04 cobra? Dang. We are with the wrong banks I gave up trying to find anything fast and went R/T Charger this time. I think next it will be a Hellcat Challenger. It was supposed to be my daily and then Covid hit and it became a toy. Picked back up my 12 hemi ram and it’s now the 13.1 mpg daily. I love that thing. I need to bang gears so bad tho. My wife is an ex stick shift driver so she gets my pains.
A bank loaned out on a 03-04 cobra? Dang. We are with the wrong banks I gave up trying to find anything fast and went R/T Charger this time. I think next it will be a Hellcat Challenger. It was supposed to be my daily and then Covid hit and it became a toy. Picked back up my 12 hemi ram and it’s now the 13.1 mpg daily. I love that thing. I need to bang gears so bad tho. My wife is an ex stick shift driver so she gets my pains.
i am actually only doing the loan to have the title sent straight to my credit union, and no they don’t loan for the value of a Cobra lol. I’m taking a loan of $8k just for the title transfer from his credit union. Loan will be paid off the day after I drive her back lol.
I enjoyed the Charger R/T AWD I had for a bit. The new chargers are pretty nice. What kinda fun stuff you doing to that?
I know it’s almost a year later lol, but yeah. Actually in the market for a car again and wanted to see how these old forums were doing. Seems pretty much every car forum is dead or dying unfortunately.
Everything has pretty much "moved" to Facebook groups...which are absolutely awful to deal with. Can't search, highly toxic...man, it's a mess.
Somewhat relevant to all this - got the summer tires put on the Cobalt today since it was so damn nice out. Hopefully I'll actually get out on Woodward months before I did last year...still plugged into the wall and on storage insurance in the meantime, though.
i am actually only doing the loan to have the title sent straight to my credit union, and no they don’t loan for the value of a Cobra lol. I’m taking a loan of $8k just for the title transfer from his credit union. Loan will be paid off the day after I drive her back lol.
I enjoyed the Charger R/T AWD I had for a bit. The new chargers are pretty nice. What kinda fun stuff you doing to that?
Not a lot with the Charger as of yet. Mostly appearance stuff. Really the 345 cars are at their max from the factory and Dodge locked down the PCM's in 17 I believe. HP tuners just now got them unlocked last year. It has muffler deletes, a hell cat airbox, and is blacked out. I have debated getting a 6.4 Scat Pack engine and then building that. They make decent power built. Some Nitrous or a Supercharger would really wake it up.They cost about as much as any car really to build. It only gets driven may 2-3 times a month. It does a lot of this.
Everything has pretty much "moved" to Facebook groups...which are absolutely awful to deal with. Can't search, highly toxic...man, it's a mess.
Somewhat relevant to all this - got the summer tires put on the Cobalt today since it was so damn nice out. Hopefully I'll actually get out on Woodward months before I did last year...still plugged into the wall and on storage insurance in the meantime, though.
I'm officially going to look at a Cobra in 2 weeks so I'll be down for some cruising this summer!
I'm officially going to look at a Cobra in 2 weeks so I'll be down for some cruising this summer!
Fantastic!
I look forward to this hopefully much earlier than last year - sometimes it's literally just my brother (in his Mustang) and I (either in the Cobalt, my '81 Z28...or my Volt...or my wife's all black Cruze Diesel) out there, but it's still always a good time.
Will do a proper photoshoot of her in the next week or 2. I can't explain how CLEAN this car is, there's not a spot of rust to be found, and the engine bay looks like a new car.
The comparison of working on my brother's '01 GT which spent years as a Michigan DD, including in the winter, to my much older '81 Z28 which spent it's entire life (up until 2016) in LA is without comparison. Even the nuts came off the exhaust U-clamps on the Camaro.
Meanwhile on the Mustang, the two rear LCA rear bolts had become one with the bushing sleeve, and requiring me to cut them and squeeze/twist the LCAs out of the axle, and one of the fronts took an air hammer to remove (the other one came out without issue).
In 2018, I bought a 23k mile 2013 Jetta TDI that had spent all those miles in Auburn Hills. It was an absolute nightmare to work on the suspension the first time. Almost every nut and bolt required replacement.
I was really surprised my '98 Cavalier didn't have that problem - I think I only had to replace one bolt.
That bolt needed to be replaced when the subframe developed a 360 degree crack between the two connection points of the RF LCA, shoving the tire backwards into the wheel liner, because, you know, rust. . The car had probably...230k miles on it at that point in time (we bought it with 214k the year before for $800)? Many a Michigan (and supposedly Ohio) winter on that, so it's really a surprise I didn't really have any issues with fasteners on that car, aside from that one.
I was surprised my '86 GTI was as rust-free underneath as it was. I bought it in Clawson, MI. But I think it helped that the owner had moved from Washington state and then lost his license, so the car sat for 4 years. Also probably helped that the car had a completely stripped out interior, so there was no heat.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't recommend that for winter. I mean, I basically never used heat in my Volt when driving to work was a thing - but I also have a heated steering wheel and heated seats, and I would precondition the cabin for 3-4 minutes in the morning. But after that, just the wheel and seats. Windshield starts fogging up? Window gets cracked. I didn't mind it so much, but my wife is not a fan of my cold-ass vehicles.
I gave up trying to find anything fast and went R/T Charger this time. I think next it will be a Hellcat Challenger. It was supposed to be my daily and then Covid hit and it became a toy. Picked back up my 12 hemi ram and it’s now the 13.1 mpg daily. I love that thing. I need to bang gears so bad tho. My wife is an ex stick shift driver so she gets my pains.
