87 supra

Wickeddoll® wrote:


Thanks for the link but, unless I missed something, Edmunds seems to
be for USA locations.  This car is in Canada. Anyone know of a
service like edmunds.com for Canada?

Dale

Oh - sorry - I didn't notice that you're in BC (Duh, me!).  The only other
resource I know of is Consumer Reports, but you have to be a subscriber.

There are lots of Canucks on this NG, so I'm sure someone will be able to
help you - I've tagged this post for MDT (He's a Toyota mechanic) and I'll
also forward your question to his personal email (Which I can't reveal
without his permission)  Bergman can probably help as well.

Good luck!

Natalie

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:50:40 -0500, "Wickeddoll®"


  What'chu talkin' about, Nats?  ;-P

  Canuckistan?  Isn't that the huge blank spot on the map north of
Utah?  With the cryptic notation "Here There Be Dragons"?  ;-)

  Seriously - no ideas here, other than if you are a member of a
national auto club (up there, I believe it's the CAA) they usually
have the Blue Books available for reference.

  Google is your friend, it's all about figuring out the right search
words to dredge up the results you need.

      --<< Bruce >>--

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Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop
Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
Spamtrapped address:  Remove the python and the invalid, and use a net.

So I was wrong -you're worthless! *ducking*

:-)

They have books in Canada? *ducking again*

Wow, that was a perfectly and absolutely ineffectual reply to the question,
Bruce, spank...I mean thank you very much!

Natalie

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:13:52 -0500, "Wickeddoll®"

  Not totally - but one can't know everything about everything.

  Oh, BTW - Gary Coleman has been reduced to doing commercials for
Check N Go loans.  "Payday Loans" y'know, legal loan sharking.  For a
while he was working as a security guard, but people would recognize
him and do the whole fawning thing...  Big fall from TV Star.


You're Whelpcome.  ;-P

  --<< Bruce >>--
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Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop
Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
Spamtrapped address:  Remove the python and the invalid, and use a net.

But you're supposed to, dammit! :-)

Oh, he's fallen lower than that - he was a security guard about 10 years ago!
Yet another child star whose parents cleaned out his trust fund.

*curtsey*

Natalie

The most reliable source is www.autotrader.com
www.autotrader.ca in Canada

Real prices of real cars in real locations.

Any other price lists are theoretical, based on a hypothetical car with a
hypothetical level of fitness, in a hypothetical physical location.


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TeGGeR®

I see the supra's all the time on the road here "californiaistan" they are
available cheap here.  anyware from $200 to $3000 depending on milage /
kilos "in your case" and how well its been maintained.  They are good cars
ive had one in the past.

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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:09:00 GMT, "Myrone Bagalay"


  Just remember one huge difference - in California, body rot is a
VERY rare thing to find - usually found only on cars that are imported
from those far off snowy places that use road salt half the year.
Here you still see people using classics from the 60's, 50's, 40's
(and even the occasional Ford Model T) as daily drivers.

  (Exceptions being people that like to go to Pismo Beach with their
4X4 Macho Truck and drive around in the surf like a fool...)

  In Canada, any car more than two or three years old (and especially
one over 15 years old) needs to be inspected very thoroughly for signs
of rust damage.  And the amount and severity of damage has a huge
effect on value.

  I don't know about you, but I do NOT want to be driving down the
road, hit a bump, and have the car body split down the middle...

    --<< Bruce >>--
--
Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop
Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
Spamtrapped address:  Remove the python and the invalid, and use a net.

No no no. You're stuck in the '50s, Bruce.

Structurally damaging rust on a post-'70s car hits after about 17 or 20
years up here. They've made major strides in rustproofing in the last
couple of decades or so.




Not that dramatic.

Usually you get lots and lots of rattles and squeaks because the body is
flexing so much. You might suffer lots of cracked windshields due to the
frame flexing a lot, but that only affects vehicles with bonded
windshields. Eventually the body starts sagging and the doors won't close
properly. But to experience these effects, your rust has to be so severe
you'd be embarrassed to be seen driving the heap.

My province has no annual safety check. It's up to the cops to decide that
the car they see is beyond hope and to pull it off the road then and there.
Most people take a terminally cancerous car off the road themselves because
they don't feel safe driving it any more. Most cars are off the road by
about 16 years of age.

You'd be shocked how strong modern car bodies really are. You can literally
lose the entire outer rocker panels on both sides and not even notice.
There is a mid-'80s Camaro near my house which has the bottom two inches of
its passenger-side A-pillar completely gone. This car is in daily use. I
don't understand why the windshield isn't cracked.

Cars built in the early '70s and before are a totally different story. Many
water traps, poor rustproofing, and in some cases, not even any primer on
the inner surfaces. Bare metal. When the floor was gone (which used to be a
regular occurrence), you'd just put a piece of plywood on top of it under
the floor mat.

It used to be common for old Japanese cars to poke their struts through the
hood. It still happens that the strut spring seat breaks off and the spring
falls down. But you won't even get the possibility of that until the
vehicle is nearly 20 years old.

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TeGGeR®

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:09:00 +0000, Myrone Bagalay wrote:


And the Congenital Head Gasket problem. Right off the bat, at least torque
the heads, or just replace with a metal head gasket and be done with it!

$10k Canada money?  Maybe okay, providing the car was super clean, not
exposed to salt, etc.  After all, it's almost 20 years old...

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:17:50 +0000, My Name wrote:


Max price for this car (USD) in primo shape is around $4700. Take into
account CDN, and I would estimate about $7-7500 TOPS!!! And I mean PRIMO
shape!

BTW check out http://www.craigslist.org/


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