Need advice on selling the RX-7 for my deployed husband
03-15-11, 11:52 AM
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There is a forum section here with 3rd generation RX7s for sale. You can browse there and get a good sense of (a) the value of your car and (b) how long you could expect to wait for the car to sell.
My personal opinion is that this car will probably sit for a very long time at or above $20k. 40k miles is very nice in my opinion but certainly not extraordinarily low (it is surprising how low some mileage is on some of these FDs for sale), many many people have treated these like weekend sports cars since brand new.
FWIW, I bought my 1993 RX7 with very similar mods, clean but not EXCELLENT condition with 63k miles for $11,500. It was not a hidden gem either, purchased it from a very knowledgable RX7 / Miata collector / salesman.
My advice: get a compression test completed so you can publish current and reliable numbers on just how strong the motor is (any new buyer even considering such a nice RX7 at a premium will demand this) and consider new floormats if you intend to put the car up for premium dollars (JasonS, I believe, on the forum sells a nice set that matches OEM).
Edit: Good luck! Really looks like a clean and well-modded car!
Stephen
My personal opinion is that this car will probably sit for a very long time at or above $20k. 40k miles is very nice in my opinion but certainly not extraordinarily low (it is surprising how low some mileage is on some of these FDs for sale), many many people have treated these like weekend sports cars since brand new.
FWIW, I bought my 1993 RX7 with very similar mods, clean but not EXCELLENT condition with 63k miles for $11,500. It was not a hidden gem either, purchased it from a very knowledgable RX7 / Miata collector / salesman.
My advice: get a compression test completed so you can publish current and reliable numbers on just how strong the motor is (any new buyer even considering such a nice RX7 at a premium will demand this) and consider new floormats if you intend to put the car up for premium dollars (JasonS, I believe, on the forum sells a nice set that matches OEM).
Edit: Good luck! Really looks like a clean and well-modded car!
Stephen
03-15-11, 01:28 PM
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Second would be the Bonez DP usually you can squeak by, but a picky tech can fail you. It happened to my friend and his only mod was a DP and the tech failed him. So it happens.
You mean lowballer central? Where every FD above 10k is over priced...
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03-15-11, 07:20 PM
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These cars run extremely hot under the hood. Anyone who bought them new can attest to this, After 45K+ miles all the vacuum hoses are brittle and either breaking or popping off. So some mods ARE necessary to maintain engine life. Now for power mods, everyone has an opinion. I bought my 93 in Aug of 92, had 6 miles on her. I ran it stock for 13 years. I have now rebuilt her from the ground up. I added some mods, porting etc. because speed is actually quite fun. Some even go as far as V8 swaps, To each their own, so I have had a blast driving mine for the last 19 years and plan on doing it for as long as I can. Good luck on your sale and I hope you get what the car is truly worth. Not what someone wants to give you for it.
03-15-11, 07:28 PM
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NOOOOOOO, lol
Do you remember me? My brother did the tuning. I'm the guy with the silver one, that wasn't in the Navy. I haven't read the thread just saw the user name and title. This is a chaste white and mad me mad as hell I didn't buy one every time we hung out. This car has been very well cared for.
I'm gonna go through and read this when I get a chance.
Do you remember me? My brother did the tuning. I'm the guy with the silver one, that wasn't in the Navy. I haven't read the thread just saw the user name and title. This is a chaste white and mad me mad as hell I didn't buy one every time we hung out. This car has been very well cared for.
I'm gonna go through and read this when I get a chance.
03-15-11, 07:43 PM
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OP the car looks great. Unless you need a quick sell I would stick to your guns. I don't think this is the most desirable configuration for a chaste white car but on the whole, it is definitely up there. I think if this were a black interior R2 you could have charged TONS but having said that, a moon roof touring FD is pretty awesome and I hope you get what the car is worth (alot)!
GLWS and please thank your husband for his service for us!
03-15-11, 08:52 PM
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It's hard to price.
Low mileage white cars fetch a premium, usually they sell in the $16-18k range with about that mileage.
There are differing views on mods. As someone who's owned around 30 RX-7s, I personally devalue a modified car, with the exception of very few mods, ie reliability mods.
I'm not saying this car is worth less than $16k because of the modifications, I think the car is very nice and probably tastefully done. But it's not a collector any more. It's also not an absolute beast.
So you're asking for collector money or crazy-fast car money; and it's really neither. You're in a very small niche in a very small market, not that that's bad, but it wont be easy to sell at anything close to what you want.
Your best bet is to list it everywhere you can, autotrader, craigslist and all the forums you can find. If you can, spend the cash and ebay list it. Whatever you do, have it detailed by someone who knows how, and have someone that really knows how take pictures of it.
Cash in hand before test drives, you're going to get a lot of calls from teenagers.
Low mileage white cars fetch a premium, usually they sell in the $16-18k range with about that mileage.
There are differing views on mods. As someone who's owned around 30 RX-7s, I personally devalue a modified car, with the exception of very few mods, ie reliability mods.
I'm not saying this car is worth less than $16k because of the modifications, I think the car is very nice and probably tastefully done. But it's not a collector any more. It's also not an absolute beast.
So you're asking for collector money or crazy-fast car money; and it's really neither. You're in a very small niche in a very small market, not that that's bad, but it wont be easy to sell at anything close to what you want.
Your best bet is to list it everywhere you can, autotrader, craigslist and all the forums you can find. If you can, spend the cash and ebay list it. Whatever you do, have it detailed by someone who knows how, and have someone that really knows how take pictures of it.
Cash in hand before test drives, you're going to get a lot of calls from teenagers.
03-16-11, 05:43 AM
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If this sells for less than Luis's car Kalen is gonna be pissed, lol. Luis was the other guy in the Navy with the silver RX7 that my brother did a lot of work to to get it back up and running. His sold for $20k when he wasn't even trying to sell it. This car is more desirable and immaculate so I'll tell you, you can get what you want but it more than likely will be by selling somewhere other than here. Let me tell anyone that may be looking at this thread with any interest, this car is worth the money that is being asked and it is has been very well taken care of.
03-16-11, 07:43 PM
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ne-rotary... Let me say that your husband has a very special car, assuming it was originally chaste white and that the mileage is accurate and no accidents (clean carfax). That mileage these days is extremely low and if the car is clean -- perhaps you could post a few pictures inside and outside -- it should be at the top end of pricing. The modifications the car has are all mainstream aftermarket parts from well-known suppliers, like pfs and bonez and pettit racing. Very period and correct. Many people on this forum have a sort of inbred sense that these (and their) cars are not really worth that much and inexpensive rx7's can be found for as little as $7500 running. This car you have should be priced initially north of $20,000. Maybe $25,000 is a good number to start? I'll let some others chime in, but a 44k mile chaste white 94 is a very desirable car. The people on here will definitely help you.
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03-16-11, 10:02 PM
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So I finally come back from my deployment and I see that Jones has decided to sell his car? This is Luis or introduced to you as Castro, and we've met before in person back in South Carolina. I'm surprised he has decided to sell his car, and I am curious as to why he changed his mind.
We both used to talk about keeping our cars for as long as possible. I sold mine last year in October for $20,000 and him and I had pretty much the same mods. The biggest difference is that my car had 68,000 miles on it.
Hopefully you'll be lucky and sell for your asking price. I never tried to sell mine, and even said NO to the buyer several times but the person wouldn't leave me alone until I finally sold it to him.
I would say one thing though. You could probably have better luck selling it to an outsider that doesn't belong to this forum like I did. People on this forum tend to take the car apart and not appreciate the full package. Selling my car to a rx7 stranger made it easier to sell it as a driving experience vs a list of parts to a forum member. When I took him for a ride it was obvious he had never driven in anything like a rx7 before, and I probably could have asked for a few thousand more from him, but I didn't want to do that to him.
In the end he fell in love with the driving experience, and not the sum of the parts. Therefore he didn't try to place a value on my car based on parts. Instead he said how much he loved driving it, and that to him that driving pleasure was worth $20,000 to him, and that was his first offer.
We both used to talk about keeping our cars for as long as possible. I sold mine last year in October for $20,000 and him and I had pretty much the same mods. The biggest difference is that my car had 68,000 miles on it.
Hopefully you'll be lucky and sell for your asking price. I never tried to sell mine, and even said NO to the buyer several times but the person wouldn't leave me alone until I finally sold it to him.
I would say one thing though. You could probably have better luck selling it to an outsider that doesn't belong to this forum like I did. People on this forum tend to take the car apart and not appreciate the full package. Selling my car to a rx7 stranger made it easier to sell it as a driving experience vs a list of parts to a forum member. When I took him for a ride it was obvious he had never driven in anything like a rx7 before, and I probably could have asked for a few thousand more from him, but I didn't want to do that to him.
In the end he fell in love with the driving experience, and not the sum of the parts. Therefore he didn't try to place a value on my car based on parts. Instead he said how much he loved driving it, and that to him that driving pleasure was worth $20,000 to him, and that was his first offer.
03-16-11, 10:36 PM
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So I finally come back from my deployment and I see that Jones has decided to sell his car? This is Luis or introduced to you as Castro, and we've met before in person back in South Carolina. I'm surprised he has decided to sell his car, and I am curious as to why he changed his mind.
We both used to talk about keeping our cars for as long as possible. I sold mine last year in October for $20,000 and him and I had pretty much the same mods. The biggest difference is that my car had 68,000 miles on it.
Hopefully you'll be lucky and sell for your asking price. I never tried to sell mine, and even said NO to the buyer several times but the person wouldn't leave me alone until I finally sold it to him.
I would say one thing though. You could probably have better luck selling it to an outsider that doesn't belong to this forum like I did. People on this forum tend to take the car apart and not appreciate the full package. Selling my car to a rx7 stranger made it easier to sell it as a driving experience vs a list of parts to a forum member. When I took him for a ride it was obvious he had never driven in anything like a rx7 before, and I probably could have asked for a few thousand more from him, but I didn't want to do that to him.
In the end he fell in love with the driving experience, and not the sum of the parts. Therefore he didn't try to place a value on my car based on parts. Instead he said how much he loved driving it, and that to him that driving pleasure was worth $20,000 to him, and that was his first offer.
We both used to talk about keeping our cars for as long as possible. I sold mine last year in October for $20,000 and him and I had pretty much the same mods. The biggest difference is that my car had 68,000 miles on it.
Hopefully you'll be lucky and sell for your asking price. I never tried to sell mine, and even said NO to the buyer several times but the person wouldn't leave me alone until I finally sold it to him.
I would say one thing though. You could probably have better luck selling it to an outsider that doesn't belong to this forum like I did. People on this forum tend to take the car apart and not appreciate the full package. Selling my car to a rx7 stranger made it easier to sell it as a driving experience vs a list of parts to a forum member. When I took him for a ride it was obvious he had never driven in anything like a rx7 before, and I probably could have asked for a few thousand more from him, but I didn't want to do that to him.
In the end he fell in love with the driving experience, and not the sum of the parts. Therefore he didn't try to place a value on my car based on parts. Instead he said how much he loved driving it, and that to him that driving pleasure was worth $20,000 to him, and that was his first offer.
wow dude, i remember your thread on here asking everyone's opinion on whether or not you should sell you car. you situation was a gracious fluke indeed. seems like you were happy you sold it!
03-17-11, 12:15 AM
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Someone above mentioned test drives. If I were selling my car, I would not let anyone test drive it unless I were absolutely sure they were serious, and could verify they had the funds for the purchase. Anyone interested in the car would first get a ride in the passenger seat, and that might be all.
