87 supra

I have seen an 87 Supra turbo with under 70,000 kilometers on it with all service records. It is in mint shape and runs like a top. It is located in BC and the guy is asking $10k. What is a car like that worth?

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

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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!

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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.

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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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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...

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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!

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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

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Bruce L. Bergman snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.invalid wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

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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