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Old Oct 5, 2001 | 11:24 AM
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hmm... how many miles? For an auto, I wouldn't pay much more than $14-15K, unless it has really low miles. I wouldn't buy it at all with too much more than 80K miles unless it's been rebuilt... 80K+ is where you begin to expect to have to rebuild.
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Old Oct 5, 2001 | 12:04 PM
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According to the Kelley Blue Book, a car as you describe with 65,000 miles on it would sell for $12,195 in a private party sale in my area (MA).

Go to www.kbb.com and enter the data you have to get a more specific price.
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Old Oct 5, 2001 | 04:53 PM
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They are selling it for $2000?

Hmmm, even stripped down stolen recovery RX-7's go for around $4-6000.
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Old Oct 5, 2001 | 04:59 PM
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if you're getting it for $2K, get it. I would suspect that there is something wrong with the motor, so you can expect to have to do a rebuild, but even then, it's only an extra $3K, so you've got youself a perfectly good $5K car. You could turn around and sell it for $12K.
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Old Oct 5, 2001 | 06:49 PM
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$2000!!!! WTF

That seems pretty crazy to me.
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Old Oct 5, 2001 | 07:00 PM
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Buy it and convert it to manual.
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Old Oct 6, 2001 | 11:21 AM
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Maybe you made a typo and meant $12,000 instead of $2,000?

If it's really $2,000, I'd be suspicious that it's stolen, or something else is seriously wrong. Be sure you see a valid title before you hand over any money.

As others have said, $2,000 is even well below salvage value.
On the other hand, it may be some idiot who has blown his engine and doesn't realize how much he can still get for it.

Just be sure the paperwork is legit.
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