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Old Mar 19, 2008 | 11:55 PM
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I need help on deciding on what to do. I love my Camaro but it has a little too many miles for my liking but i can get over that or I can sell it and get around 8k to around 9k. The car has 79,xxx miles and is in perfect shape no rips or tears in or out of the car.
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Old Mar 19, 2008 | 11:57 PM
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find another car you want and sell it i guess. must be nice though because the least miles i've ever had on a body is like....102K? Although all three of my cars have had rebuilt motors with less than 1K on them before selling.


my .02 is RUN IT INTO THE GROUND! Then rebuild it modded!
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Old Mar 20, 2008 | 12:10 AM
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Well its really preference. If you do get 8-9k,you will have to add 5-8k anyway if you want really low miles..possibly more. No point in buying something with more than 40k miles. You will be back where you started in no time. I'd keep it till it breaks 100k atleast. Although you could just take the same money and dump it into this one. I think you would be happier.
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Old Mar 20, 2008 | 02:49 AM
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keep it and mod it up, it's worth a lot more than what you are going to sell it for...that way youre just having to pay money on mods instead of paying for a lower mileage car plus mods
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Old Mar 20, 2008 | 12:27 PM
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I've got over 90k miles on mine. My wife had over 170k miles on her Grand Am. People would sear that her car had much fewer. It isn't like there is a magical point where a car falls apart.
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Old Mar 20, 2008 | 12:52 PM
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I had a '98 Z28 with 9x,xxx miles on it when I sold it for $6500. It was modded with intake, exhaust, cam, stall, etc. After I sold it, I ended up getting the car in my signature to replace it which has about 27,7xx on it now. It cost me an extra ~$10k up front to do it, that includes registering the vehicle (a little over $1k there) and the cost of getting the vehicle down here. Then there's the cost of modding this one further (already dropped ~$2k there.)

Sometimes I think I made the wrong decision and should have either kept the Z28 or went a completely different route (Corvette, truck, etc.) It's too late to turn back though and I'm not losing any sleep over it.

My point is, make damn sure you take everything into consideration when making a move to another F-Body. The money you spend on getting another one could easily go into making your current one even better.
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Old Mar 20, 2008 | 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Morbid

My point is, make damn sure you take everything into consideration when making a move to another F-Body. The money you spend on getting another one could easily go into making your current one even better.
yea i think im going to keep it. I do want to make it look like a true ss in the near future,but that will probly be the last thing i do to my car after im done with performance parts.
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Old Mar 20, 2008 | 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by mycamaroSS
keep it and mod it up, it's worth a lot more than what you are going to sell it for...that way youre just having to pay money on mods instead of paying for a lower mileage car plus mods
this guy hit the nail on the head.
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id keep it my 98 has 150xxx on it runs great
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I have 94k on my 01. I figure I'll just mod and blow it up or go ahead and build a new engine.
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