Another of my old cars goes for big $ without me!

[njsteve]

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Cool Daytona. I feel for the new owner cause the car needs to be redone...

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Rich do you have any photos from the auction? I guess ten years and a bunch of owners probably took their toll on the car.

[KevinW]

Steve, just make sure your next hemi car has better highway gears than the Charger! You have to be able to drive it more!

Any news on the TA? You haven't posted about it since March!

[njsteve]

No update on the T/A as there has been no progress at the body shop since I dropped the sheetmetal off and I am getting somewhat frustrated at the moment.

I also have been getting the wife's 87 IROC tuned up and cleaned up and ready for her to drive. Now that it's done, she doesn't want to drive it and defers to me whenever we go somewhere. I guess that's good for me as it's really a fun (and suprisingly fast) car. It will spin the tires well into second gear (for an automatic that's pretty impressive).

It turned out the car is a lot rarer than I initially thought. Chevy only made 12,105 L98 engined IROC Z's in 1987, the first year for that engine. In addition they only made 3,052 yellow Camaros in total, out of the entire production run of 137,760. Chevy doesn't have a breakdown for yellow L98 IROCs but I'd imagine it's probably in the low hundreds.

Anyway, I just want to make sure that if I ever sell it that I sell it early enough before it's worth anything so I won't jeodardize my perfect losing streak.

[KevinW]

Well, good luck on the T/As body. My 69 327 is in the shop too and the unexpected rust issues have lengthened the stay Oh well, it will be great when it is finished! Bruce agrees with you about the irocs, but he has to sell the 88 IROC convert and 93 Pace to lighten the load Wish I could buy the 88 and use as my daily driver.

[ANDY M]

Steve, it's sad to watch the values go up after you sell, but it beats watching the value of your car decrease AFTER you buy it.
I know of several Corvette owners who held out back in '89 and '90 for more $$, only to watch the bubble burst.
At least you can say that you owned these cars.

[ChevyThunder]

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I just want to make sure that if I ever sell it that I sell it early enough before it's worth anything so I won't jeodardize my perfect losing streak.



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Now that is funny !

[indyjps]

steve, if youmade any money on them at the time and it alowed you to buy other cool cars along the way your good to go, would be frustrating to see the values go so high on you though. like the iroc, ive owned a few third gen cars and they make great drivers, same with the 5.0 mustangs, pick up a nice notchback cant believe the beating those things will take and come back for more.

[njsteve]

For the most part I sold them for very little profit just to buy and build the next car in line. I sold the hemicuda ragtop because I got tired of looking at shaker hoods and wanted to go buy a Ferrari (Oh, the folly of my youth in the 1980's Miami Vice era) I then sold the Ferrari 6 months later and bought the '70 Charger R/T-SE hemi I still have today.