which car should I sell

[LIRacer]

I have a 1972 LT-1 with factory A/C. Very improved (headers, suspension, MSD, Comp +, etc etc.). I paid 24k for it and have invested another 24k in restoring it. Litterally just got it out of the paint shop last month. Painted dark gray metallic.

Then I also have a 1970 totally original Oldsmobile 442. A true survivor with only a 12 year old paint job. Like the LT-1 all numbers match. The 442 gets way more attention then the Vette (except when my wife drives the Vette ...see picture on profile and you'll see what I mean).

I need to sell one of them. They are worth about the same.

Which one should go...which one should stay.

 

[78SilvAnniv]

I'd usually say "Keep the vette"...

...but you have a 442 OLDS! I love Oldsmobiles.

What a choice to have to make.
Which one would you miss the most if it was gone? Sell the other one.
Heidi

 

[Corvette-Pilot]

(except when my wife drives the Vette ...see picture on profile and you'll see what I mean).

Didn't seem to be there ??

Would you be able to get back that kind of $$$ you spent on the Vette ?

I might say keep the Olds too but you have to go with what works best for you.

 

[matchframe]

Keep Both!

Find something else to sell!

But if one HAD to go, I would keep the Vette.

Bill

 

[jim coulter]

As much as I love vettes, I see more of them than I do olds 442's. I would probably keep the olds. Didn't see a picture, but it said somethind about wife and child(daughter or something), Its easier to get three in the olds than the vette. Probably wont be a popular decision, but would seem to me most logical.

 

[corvettecrazy]

i 2nd that keep both. as much as I am vette crazy i would keep the olds

 

[MoeJr]

Sell the wife. Cheaper in the long run LOL. Just kidding. I say keep the Vette just for the sheer fact that very few LT1's got A/C. To me the Vette is the more fun car but that is me.

Moe

 

[Greekman]

Keep the 442!

I'm just glad I don't have to make that decision. I couldn't sell either one!

I am a long time Corvette lover and these two cars are the two I would want in my garage.

If you have to I would sell the Corvette. There are just more Corvettes out there that you could replace later when finances improve. Keep the 442.

I have one Corvette in the garage now and next year I wanted to start looking for an 442. Maybe if you still have it and want to sell it I could be interested.

Good luck.


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[chevyaddict]

What a terrible decision. We are faced with the same dilemma right now - too many projects; not enough time or space. I agree with everyone else though - keep the olds. Those older unique chevies will be worth more in the long run - especially a 442 in that condition.

Sorry to hear a fellow vettian in this situation.

 

[Tom Bryant]

This is a really tough one. If there is one thing I like as much as Corvettes it's Oldsmobiles. Several years ago I lost the storage on my '67 442 that I bought new. It ended up sitting in the drive and there was only one place it could go; where my '59 Corvette that I bought in '69 was sitting.

Not only did I have the car but I had disassembled a second '67 442 and had bought a bunch of NOS parts. Also used to pick up '67 442 parts wherever I found them. After much anguish I placed an ad in Hemmings for the whole Olds mess, car and parts as a package deal only, at a price I thought nobody would pay. A collector from Warren Ohio came with a big truck and cash. No haggling.

I hated to see it leave but at least I didn't have to sell it cheap, it went to a good home and I had money for other projects. I know that someday there will be another Olds in the garage, especially now that I have the shop built.

Tom

 

[Grizzly]

Sounds like the LT-1 although restored is "improved" (your words) and is no longer the collector rare bird it would have been "unimproved." You will get the most out of it now in it's pristine condition, sell it ASAP.

Protect your investment in the 442 and buy a Vette you can park outside..........

 

[iron cross]

Sell the Vette, keep the 70 Olds because it was the last year for horsepower at GM. After 1970 GM went backward on every model they produced, it really wasn`t their fault, the government demanded high temperature low horsepower engines for so called "CLEAN AIR". Now if the Vette was a "1970" 370HP LT1, I would go the other way.:cool Keep the Olds

 

[cntrhub]

This was too easy for me. Always hold onto a stock original car over a modified/altered vehicle. Which would you want 20 years down the road? A Vette with period style (today's) custom mags, or one with the original wheels that came stock? Which would be worth more?

 

[iron cross]

This was too easy for me. Always hold onto a stock original car over a modified/altered vehicle. Which would you want 20 years down the road? A Vette with period style (today's) custom mags, or one with the original wheels that came stock? Which would be worth more?

Your really not too hard to predict, once I saw who wrote the reply.

 

[cntrhub]

"OH SNAP" Walt,
Speaking about giving up my left....(hangs below the waist) for that AA in the upper left corner....... http://www.nitroalley.net/puffers.htm. (Note: On home page, click at the top, "Walt's Puffer.) Aren't those "period" wheels the most beautiful things you ever did see?
You are absolutely right. I am consistant......consistancy wins races. Hey wait! What did I just say about wheels?

 

[KANE]

I have a similar situation-

1998 Mustang GT
1993 Camaro Z28
1978 TPI Vette

No sale on the Vette, but one of the other two will go.

The Mustang. Its OBD II and the Camaro isn't. I love 4th gen Fbodies. Its a cheaper 4 seater Vette in my opinion.

 

[Piet]

Keep the 442... Tough choice...

I had to make the choice between buy a vette, or buy a muscle car with a rear seat... well, you can see what I chose.. it was a hard choice. Maybe I will buy a convertible vette next time.

Howver I have a number of kids... (6 to be exact) and the wife an I wanted to be able to take one or two of them out at a time.

(I also drive a 12 pass van.... it handles nothing like a vette)

Tough choice... best of luck

(PS.. No can see profile picture!)

 

[stu]

If the Olds is a big block with the w30 option (and the numbers say it should be one) sell the Vette.

If it isn't, you have to look at which one you really want to keep. I have to say this is a presonal decision that you will have to live with in the end.

Personally, I sold my 70 442 vert that I had made into a w30. I did it to pay for school over a decade ago (George Sr. was president at the time). In the long run, the education was worth the cost, but I still miss the car, and have found that even with the budget I can get away with now, the things are next to impossible to find in good shape.

Relatively speaking, a Vette is a lot easier to find. I was able to find plenty of 87 Vettes out there when I started looking for one. Even though most of them were crap, there were still there and some patience will find you one. I can't say the same thing about my search for a Rocket.