silver78
Member
Hello all,
I’m a newbie to this forum and I own a corvette, but the time has come to sell it. I’m looking for your advice/input before I head to the C3 For Sale forum or to my local auto classifieds.
I really am at a loss as how to price the vehicle. It’s not in pristine condition by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s certainly not a heap of junk that should be sold off as parts either. What should my asking price range be?
It’s a 1978 Silver Anniversary Edition. It’s an automatic transmission, it has roughly 85,000 miles on it. I believe I am the third owner. I purchased the car in 1990 and drove it until 1998. That year I moved cross country and had to leave the car behind with relatives…. so the car has remained garaged (but not maintained) since then. The front end was replaced and the car was repainted after an accident, so all the parts/paint are not original. There is currently some minor damage to the body/paint from an unfortunate run in with a relative who put their car into reverse instead of drive and hit the corvette – ouch! The interior is in fair to good condition. The engine runs fine, but I imagine that everything from the filters to the sparkplugs to the gaskets to fluids all need to be replaced at this point. I would love to keep the corvette but I just don’t have the money to restore it , so the only viable option is to sell… before the car becomes worthless. Honestly I think it would make a excellent project car for someone. Now I guess I need to figure out how much I can get for it.
Over the years I’ve received ridiculously low offers from friends and family for the car and for what it’s worth I’ve also had a corvette specialist tell me not to sell the car for less than $10,000.
With that said - I placed an ad in a local paper last year with an asking price of $10K… there was no interest generated from the ad, but then again the economy was bottoming out at that time.
So now – here I am asking for your input. I’ll answer any other question you might have regarding the car (to the best of my knowledge) and I look forward to your comments on pricing.
Thanks,
Ryan
P.S - I posted exterior images of the car to the album in profile silver78 if you want to have a look.
I’m a newbie to this forum and I own a corvette, but the time has come to sell it. I’m looking for your advice/input before I head to the C3 For Sale forum or to my local auto classifieds.
I really am at a loss as how to price the vehicle. It’s not in pristine condition by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s certainly not a heap of junk that should be sold off as parts either. What should my asking price range be?
It’s a 1978 Silver Anniversary Edition. It’s an automatic transmission, it has roughly 85,000 miles on it. I believe I am the third owner. I purchased the car in 1990 and drove it until 1998. That year I moved cross country and had to leave the car behind with relatives…. so the car has remained garaged (but not maintained) since then. The front end was replaced and the car was repainted after an accident, so all the parts/paint are not original. There is currently some minor damage to the body/paint from an unfortunate run in with a relative who put their car into reverse instead of drive and hit the corvette – ouch! The interior is in fair to good condition. The engine runs fine, but I imagine that everything from the filters to the sparkplugs to the gaskets to fluids all need to be replaced at this point. I would love to keep the corvette but I just don’t have the money to restore it , so the only viable option is to sell… before the car becomes worthless. Honestly I think it would make a excellent project car for someone. Now I guess I need to figure out how much I can get for it.
Over the years I’ve received ridiculously low offers from friends and family for the car and for what it’s worth I’ve also had a corvette specialist tell me not to sell the car for less than $10,000.
With that said - I placed an ad in a local paper last year with an asking price of $10K… there was no interest generated from the ad, but then again the economy was bottoming out at that time.
So now – here I am asking for your input. I’ll answer any other question you might have regarding the car (to the best of my knowledge) and I look forward to your comments on pricing.
Thanks,
Ryan
P.S - I posted exterior images of the car to the album in profile silver78 if you want to have a look.