Subject: Re: Wreck the Vette today by bogus on 2008/10/2 2:51:44
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patsfan05488 wrote: Well the insurance Co totaled it out. They said it was going to cost 11,000.00 before any unknown factors that almost always come up. They gave me a price of $10,355.00 for it. I have no option to buy it back though, some deal/contract they have with a salvage auction place. I know its going to be a sad day tomorrow when I go to the body shop to get my plates and personnel stuff out of the car. I think I'm going to bring the stock wheels and tires with me to put on and take my thin spokes and new tires off her. I'll be getting another much sooner then later and it will be either a LT4 or a C5 and the wheels will work on either.
Thanks for the emotional support guys,
PatsFan
I am not surprised; but the figure seems high. Was that all new parts?
The pay off seems fair. What was the vintage?
I would test a number of each... The LT4 is bad to the bone, no doubt... and the C5 is a newer more modern machine... but both are not without their compromises.
If I was doing C5, I would leap up to 2002 or 2003. Get the newer ones with the bugs worked out. The price difference these days is chump change...
One last thought... I hope you don't have to finance! Getting a loan right now is damned near impossible.
