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Do you like vintage cars?
  Like? No. Love? Yesh.
  Depends are we talking a Gremlin or a Tranzam?
  No way! I prefer the new shiznit not them ole gas guzzlers.
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Reno Casanova

PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:55 pm


Alright so my best friend's dad has a 69 Chevelle SS convertible( gonk my dream car) and a 71 Corvette Stingray. He's thinking about selling one of them. While the Chevelle is very rare the Corvette has it's original engine and original color (an ugly puke yellow XP guess it was the thing back in the 70s). So which do you think is more valuable and which one would you keep?
PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:10 pm


Dang kind of a hard choice there. I favor the Stingray but I'd have to repaint it. If it were me, I'd sell the SS convertible and repaint the Stingray.

a lovely rose


Super Panda454

PostPosted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:07 am


what_a_lovely_sin
Dang kind of a hard choice there. I favor the Stingray but I'd have to repaint it. If it were me, I'd sell the SS convertible and repaint the Stingray.

I'd go for the Sting Ray, if its still sitting in its origional paint I wouldn't touch it! Unless of course the paint is chipping and stuff.
The fewer miles its done and the...how do I put this, the more origional the car is will fetch you a higher price in terms of value. Collectors pay big big money for mint vintage cars. You'd hurt the value of the car by changing it from its origional color.

What you could do though, is if the paint work is fading and all that, re-spray the car in one of its origional color options. In otherwords stick to the colors the car came out with.
Otherwise I'm afraid I don't know enough about American cars to know which one of the two is more valuble. I've always wanted a corvette though.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:08 pm


Chevelle, hands down. Those cars are ******** MEAN as s**t, and could definitely shred the Stingray like paper, in a race or a head-on collision. I saw a Chevelle with a blower and probably 900+ hp at a local car show once, when the guy turned it on, EVERYONE whipped around, even people on the far end of the lot.

Ivan The Somekinda-Punk
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cyberspectre
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:30 am


My mom had a Gremlin when she was young, I've been told stories about it. It looked like this:

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It did 0-60 in 11.9 seconds, had a 4-speed automatic transmission and came with a handy setting on the air conditioning aptly called "Desert Only," which was strictly forbidden to use unless one was driving the car in the heat of the desert.
 
PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:39 am


It was surely the result of the air conditioning system being so incredibly powerful that AMC became seriously worried about being sued as a result of drivers getting frost bite, or becoming cryogenically frozen on their morning commute to work.

DESERT ONLY

The coldest air conditioning in the history of man. Get real.
 

cyberspectre
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Shotgun_Prayer

PostPosted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:58 am


if they are both matching numbers then the chevelle is worth more.
PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:35 pm


I'd go with the Chevelle, they look so classy and are fast too. The Stingray looks odd to me, but I'd still take one with anticipation, just not as much as a Chevelle.

Quakes21


Millefune
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:39 am


"Desert Only" air conditioning? I want that s**t! I love cold, and I run my AC in the winter sometimes.
PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:51 pm


Well since you don't tell what years, what engines, trans, etc. It is VERY hard to make a informed decision.

SublimeJew

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