6LE Designs
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Hey everyone! So, after my last 1987 Grand National got stolen, I had a son and needed a 4 door so had a Silverado for awhile. The dust settled, found a 1987 Grand National with T-Tops in PA for like $5500. Had a friend on the board here check it out for me... it was a $5500 GN lol....
Transferred the money. Bought it. Had it shipped first to Dunn to go through it and do what needed to be done to make it a good daily driver (welded the manifold crack, new fuel pump and tank, etc... all the stuff the car needed after sitting).
Got her shipped here to CA where she spent the next 18 months getting taken down to bare metal. Any rust was repaired, hood replaced with VFN hood, front and rear bumpers and fillers all replaced with Spoolfool, GNX Fender Flares, etc...
I had some 18" GNX look alikes made for her. Brand new carpet, some panels, seats, etc... Interior is still waiting to go back in as I'm have all the cloth done in leather and the buckets are getting replaced with Recaros recovered in leather to match the Grand National interior (black and grey leather, vertical stitching, Turbo 6 logo, etc...).
This is the seat before the recovering...
I have the headlight upgrade, new window motors, anti-ratlle kit, etc... I had planned to keep these car so any thing I could find that needed to be done I was trying to do...
Then a car seat fell on my two year old son's head from a 12ft high shelf . Praise the Lord after ambulance ride, multiple cat scans, etc.... he had a BAD concussion but he's ok.
This happened about a month ago, he's 100% fine, I just am swimming in bills so GN has to go
I have no clue what the market on these cars is anymore. To get the car out here I was about $10k into it (purchase price, having Dunn work on it and shipping it out here). $7k into the paint. $3k into the interior. $2k into the rims, etc... You get the point, you've all been there I'm sure lol.
I'm easily $25k into the car so far and after the interior is back in (which won't be until Friday probably) the car will STILL need the following:
Powermaster Replaced or Converted (I assume, I have the dreaded BRAKE light on lol)
A/C Repaired (seems like it needs a blower motor and I assume a compressor... everyone says "probably just need a charge" and it never does. That MIGHT be all it needs but just assume the worst, $1300 to replace it all was what my last GN cost me through Firestone)
That's it. Runs well and drives well. Any mods look like normal bolt ons, injectors, CAI, mufflers and that looks like it.
I have NO CLUE what to price this thing at. I know there's NO WAY I'm getting even close what I have into it back as it's one of those "Unknown Mileage" via the title cars.
Title is clean. Paint is WAY better than what these (and most modern cars) come with. Paint is a 9 out of 10 if 10 is an award winning paint job.
Is this a $10k car, $15k car, $25k car... $5k car lol? What's a fair price to sell it quick? Thanks for any input, I had no intentions of selling so I haven't looked at the market in 3 years since I was looking for this one
Transferred the money. Bought it. Had it shipped first to Dunn to go through it and do what needed to be done to make it a good daily driver (welded the manifold crack, new fuel pump and tank, etc... all the stuff the car needed after sitting).
Got her shipped here to CA where she spent the next 18 months getting taken down to bare metal. Any rust was repaired, hood replaced with VFN hood, front and rear bumpers and fillers all replaced with Spoolfool, GNX Fender Flares, etc...
I had some 18" GNX look alikes made for her. Brand new carpet, some panels, seats, etc... Interior is still waiting to go back in as I'm have all the cloth done in leather and the buckets are getting replaced with Recaros recovered in leather to match the Grand National interior (black and grey leather, vertical stitching, Turbo 6 logo, etc...).
This is the seat before the recovering...
I have the headlight upgrade, new window motors, anti-ratlle kit, etc... I had planned to keep these car so any thing I could find that needed to be done I was trying to do...
Then a car seat fell on my two year old son's head from a 12ft high shelf . Praise the Lord after ambulance ride, multiple cat scans, etc.... he had a BAD concussion but he's ok.
This happened about a month ago, he's 100% fine, I just am swimming in bills so GN has to go
I have no clue what the market on these cars is anymore. To get the car out here I was about $10k into it (purchase price, having Dunn work on it and shipping it out here). $7k into the paint. $3k into the interior. $2k into the rims, etc... You get the point, you've all been there I'm sure lol.
I'm easily $25k into the car so far and after the interior is back in (which won't be until Friday probably) the car will STILL need the following:
Powermaster Replaced or Converted (I assume, I have the dreaded BRAKE light on lol)
A/C Repaired (seems like it needs a blower motor and I assume a compressor... everyone says "probably just need a charge" and it never does. That MIGHT be all it needs but just assume the worst, $1300 to replace it all was what my last GN cost me through Firestone)
That's it. Runs well and drives well. Any mods look like normal bolt ons, injectors, CAI, mufflers and that looks like it.
I have NO CLUE what to price this thing at. I know there's NO WAY I'm getting even close what I have into it back as it's one of those "Unknown Mileage" via the title cars.
Title is clean. Paint is WAY better than what these (and most modern cars) come with. Paint is a 9 out of 10 if 10 is an award winning paint job.
Is this a $10k car, $15k car, $25k car... $5k car lol? What's a fair price to sell it quick? Thanks for any input, I had no intentions of selling so I haven't looked at the market in 3 years since I was looking for this one
