Sure are a lot of Turbo Buicks for sale

[dgreen1069]

I was browsing Ebay today and I noticed there are 32 GN's listed. That number doesn't even include all the other Turbo Regals listed. Why are so many people selling there cars? Any of you guys ever sell a GN you wish you'd kept? I had a 5300 mile GN in 1999 that I bought for $15,300. If I'd have kept it it would paid for by now Instead, I purchased my current car with 4,700 miles on it last year for almost $20,000. Boy am I glad I have another car payment!

 

[SFITurbo]

Prices are good (up) for low mileage cars, but the ones that have mods and look good don't seem to bring as much as they should be. Seems like 8-10k will get you a nice modded one but 10k and up for the low mile cars. Must be a collector thing going on, maybe to store them for the next collector craze I'd buy one modded before a low miled garage queen any day

 

[chrisgarrett]

Prices are good (up) for low mileage cars, but the ones that have mods and look good don't seem to bring as much as they should be. Seems like 8-10k will get you a nice modded one but 10k and up for the low mile cars. Must be a collector thing going on, maybe to store them for the next collector craze I'd buy one modded before a low miled garage queen any day

I don't disagree with you. I would rather own a modded one too, but I always wonder how hard it was driven. In theory, garage queens have not been hotrodded to death. Of course the problem with the garage queen is that you have to spend a lot of cash to make it fast by today's standards.

 

[dgreen1069]

In facing that delema right now. I'd love to have a real rocket, but my car only has 6,000 miles and it is a bone stock Astroroof car. On the one hand I fell I should do what I want with the car since it is mine. On the other hand I would be decreasing the cars value by changing anything. I wish I had a second one as a daily driver. The white Turbo T in the for sale section has been calling my name. If only I didn't have so many toys already.

 

[David65]

I wish I had a second one as a daily driver. The white Turbo T in the for sale section has been calling my name. If only I didn't have so many toys already.

Why not do it? If you can swing it, go for it. You only live once and ya can't take the money with you...

David

 

[Gary Wells]

FWIW & IMHO:
I held out keeping my '87 turbo-t bone stock for as long as possible, which was about 15K miles or so. I have done Walbro, Racetronics hot wire kit, Sylvania Silver Stars, SS THDP & TH 2 way cat, Hooker cat-back, Hooker Aerochamber muffs, Accufab, Bilsteins, Neal Steward street chip, 200 amp alternator, mini-starter, Scanmaster. So far. Current mileage is 16.6K or so. Some of these were wise moves, and a few so-so. I don't think that modding a car hurts the value as much as it appears at first glance. If you stick with wise moves, you might be suprised. One of the things that hurts the value of a modded car the most is that they are generally not sold till they are beat. Of the 33 cars for sale on E-bay currently, the first 4 are repeated twice. And the adds that you see under the GN classification probably are including most of the Turbo Buicks for sale on E-bay. As time goes on, expect to see fewer and fewer ultra low mileage, well equipped, '86-'87 Turbo Buicks for sale. No flaming intended. having to work at keeping the mileage down to keep he value up is pretty self defeating, so to speak. There is nothing wrong with a garage queen, but the money in a bank in a simple interest saving account will bring more profit without the worry of whether your car will get stolen of it is increasing in value. The ideal situation is to have enough money to buy a garage queen and then use it. Spend it, cuase nobody else is going to appreciate it like you do.

 

[GNeric]

I'm only selling my 3 hotairs because I picked up a SWEET 87 GN from a friend. Gotta pay for it somehow.