# what is this car worth? **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 14, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-is-this-car-worth/105551 "2007-04-14T09:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Cal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cal/32/5505_2.png) [@Cal](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cal)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-is-this-car-worth/105551/7 "2007-04-15T07:30:46Z")
> [@memory tester](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/memory-tester/12121/8): > > wth, why only 5000$. It seems if any car is an s13 automatically no matter how much is invested in it, its not worth the money. That’s such bullshit. S14s even are starting to lose their $$$ worth… Just because it’s an old car doesn’t mean it’s not worth more. I mean if one even thinks about it, the cost of the car itself, the maintenance, the upgrades, the man hours… Unless the chassis itself is rotten, then AT LEAST the components invested would be still worth buying and selling after scrapping the ruined chassis. > > For instance, I spent 800$ on my car first, it had ALOT to be done to it to be even safe on the road… BUT… the one thing that I got was a rust-free frame, mint. Ten thousand+ dollars later, I have a new upgraded suspension, all new polyurethane bushings, upgraded brakes, all over regular maintenance, new rims and tires, a shit load of parts that are two pages worth, all fresh… and… a what? A rust free frame. Yes no SR swap, still the crappy ol’ ka waiting until it dies or until I decide to swap, but what I have that many others don’t is a rust free frame. > > A mint S13 is hard to come by… but they should not be underpriced assholerilly. > > I don’t plan to sell the car, and have plans for it instead. I considered parting it out and selling it for an S2000 or more likely actually an FD RX7… but nope, I’m sticking to it it and will build up the chassis, etc… why bother even trying to sell the car if some assholes are going to ask a penny for the big bux spent on it. > > Show some s13 love people, I mean these are our cars. Can you believe these cars are almost 20 years old now? A car of such age, that is restored and/or kept that well should be worth something more than a miserly 5000$. > > For a 5000$ you can buy a shitty Honda too and it’ll be ROTTEN… yet even if it has a gigantic rust hole, it’ll still somehow remain at that 5000$ price… totally ridiculous and unfair, appreciation value my ass. Our cars should be kept up high in price and maintained as such as they are cars worth more than the money people offer or ask for them. > > People thought the prices of our cars would go up after the lame release of Tokyo drift, to my surprise the prices went down drastically… which even means more tokyo dorifto experts wanting to buy our cars. > > That guy asking 9.5k is a steal, if one considers the amount of man hours spent + parts. The SR alone can go for 2000~. You, my friend, need to wake up and smell the roses. Just have a look on the trader, and you will see that for the 10k this guy is asking you can get cars that are/have: - better performance - better aesthetics - better gas mileage - better mileage - no rust, 0 - etc. You need to realize that the 240 is NOT a fucking Ferrari, and they will not hold their value because they are un-reliable rust-buckets. Cars are cheap these days, and in order to compete with that guy selling his 2002 Saab 95Aero for the same price as your 89 240, you will have to lower your price significantly. Understand? For example, I will soon be selling my 97 Subaru Legacy LSI for $4-5000, the same price that sorry 240 should be. And even though the Subaru is auto, I am sure I can out-handle that 240 on a twisty road with my stock car. But what do I know, I couldn’t sell my car for 10k… [IBendrant/] --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-is-this-car-worth/105551)._