Just curious what peoples thoughts are on this. Being that the economy is what it is these days. If someone was interested in your car (not a stroke that's just kicking tires, but someone with the cash.) Offered you what you wanted for your car, would you bite??? I know my bottom line would be much better off, and with winter heating bills going through the roof (no pun intended). Times just are getting scary anymore. If things get better you could always get another car...any thoughts????

Getting another good car gets tougher every day. I got an offer way back in 1983 that I thought was too good to refuse. I thought I would just go out and find another one, no problem. After a week of looking at junk I realized I might have made a mistake. Lucky for me that when I sold the car I told the buyer that if they were to sell it please call me first. Her father called a week later, she had gotten 3 tickets and he sold it back to me for $100 less.

Been thinking about this a lot lately.
Didn't intend to have 2 Chevelles, but I'm not complaining.

If the money was enough, yeah, I'd sell either one, and even have an idea in my head what that number would be in each case as well.

The price of the auction cars has a lot of people thinking
"hey I could get a lot of money out of this crate right now".
But the really big bucks are only for the top shelf and really rare cars,
and it will only get harder to get a clean solid reasonably reliable fun car.

Very interesting to think about. :rolleyes:

No matter what anyone tells you, everything is for sale!



Now the price is another matter.

Dan72 is right, offer me enough and I'll bite. Thought about selling it already due to tough times when an employee ripped me off, then had emergency appendix surgery. Managed to get thru that but the winter heat bills are still
looming. Set the dual setback thermostat to maximum of 67, already daughter is complaining it's cold, told her she could pay the bill and I'll
set it to whatever she wants.

everything's for sale....

if the price was right, I would. My wife would kill me, though. I've always wanted a bucket T too.

I have dealt with a few guys who always had a nice Chevelle, Camaro or Truck. They always had an unreasonable price ready when the "waddaya take for it" comes up.

Seems like there is always a guy with $ out there who wants what some one else has and is willing to pay for it.

The last guy I seen this happen to had a 35 Chevy for so long (everything from drag raced to Goodfellas Pro Street Show car) he really didn't remember what he had in it.

You know how it goes, he had horse-traded for so many parts over the years, swapping paint for parts, engines, suspension, etc... (He did resto work on Pre 40's cars and 60/70- GM A-bodies - he worked on my fenders when I first got my car). Another interesting fact. He changed the engine in my dad's Impala when he was 14, dad was 20.

Anyway Carl was asked by a guy he knew "whaddya take for it" and he replied, "I'd take $ plus your 23 T-Bucket and your 70 SS Chevelle (Carl restored it 10 years prior)". I almost choked on my Dew, when the guy said he would think about it. Yeah, right! :cool:

The guy showed up at the shop the next day driving the T, and his wife driving the Chevelle. This guy could have probably afforded a over-priced "Coddington" ride, but he really wanted the fat-fendered (all steel) 35 Chevy custom. :)

So be careful what price you throw out there. Carl died a year later, and I know he and his wife wished they had kept the 35, as they had it when they were married. It was probably the only car he had ever kept more than 10 years.

DG

Everything is for sale... I'm lookin for an excuse to start another project anyway.

If someone showed up at my house the 10,000 in cash, and a trailer, they'd leave with my SS and my Malibu, and dump truck load of parts.

Just curious what peoples thoughts are on this. Being that the economy is what it is these days. If someone was interested in your car (not a stroke that's just kicking tires, but someone with the cash.) Offered you what you wanted for your car, would you bite??? I know my bottom line would be much better off, and with winter heating bills going through the roof (no pun intended). Times just are getting scary anymore. If things get better you could always get another car...any thoughts????

I know I wouldn't sell my Chevelle.
Everything else in the stable has its price
I'll admit high gas prices and the coming winter months of higher home heating bills suck,but for me personally I have a cheap mortgage and no credit card bills or anything else for that matter,not even a car payment.
I'm not going to let all these greedy mo-fo's change my lifestyle.You just have to be smart with your money and just not get sucked into spending all of your income on crap you don't need.Too many people think they have to compete with the Jones' or just live beyond their means to make themselves feel good.
I think of that commercial with that guy on the riding mower that says "I'm in debt up to my ears" :D
IMHO the secret of being smart with your money is to live below your means within reason,so when things get tough,you have the extra cash to carry through and not worry.
Nothing wrong with being frugal,just don't be cheap to the point of embarassing yourself.

Getting another good car gets tougher every day. I got an offer way back in 1983 that I thought was too good to refuse. I thought I would just go out and find another one, no problem. After a week of looking at junk I realized I might have made a mistake. Lucky for me that when I sold the car I told the buyer that if they were to sell it please call me first. Her father called a week later, she had gotten 3 tickets and he sold it back to me for $100 less.

This post hits the nail right on the head. Yeah, the price of Chevelles has skyrocketed over the last few years, and I could probably sell for a bundle, but if I sell, what's it gonna cost to buy another equally nice car? That's what all the strokes who walk up to me bragging about their money don't seem to understand...I don't want your money, I want my Chevelle. Keep walking.

One thing I have considered though, there are a few old Chevy's whose prices maybe haven't gone quite as ridiculously high as Chevelles. For example I love 65-66 Impalas. If I could sell my Chevelle and buy an equally nice Impala for $5,000 less, I'd seriously consider it.

Everything is for sale. But mine isn't for sale :D

I could care less if some dude offered me $30k for my Chevelle. I'd tell him to pound sand! Took me that much money just to get it where it's at today. Even $40k or $50k, I'd still say pound dirt. I'm financially sound and have plenty of other assets (trucks, a boat) to sell before the Chevelle...wait the Chevelle ain't getting sold. Period. I'd live out of the Chevelle before I sold it. I could drop the original 307 back in, get some 2.73 gears out back and get close to the mpg my new Sierra 1500 gets.

The increase in gas prices sucks, but what hasn't increased in price lately? I hedge where I can, but I'm not letting $3/gal keep me from enjoying my Chevelle. Consider what you pay for a beer at a bar (around here it's $4 for a microbrew, $3.5 domestic) or what you pay for a sitdown dinner for two ($30-$50 usually)?? Skip going out for dinner or to a bar for beers and you have cruising money right there.

Some interesting responses....some say everything is for sale. Others won't sell it. ..I don't want get rid of mine. But if the right offer came, I would sell. I could get out from all of my debt and still be able to pick up a cheaper hot rod. Biggest thing for me, is the Mrs. isn't working now (raising the little one) so things are tight. I have other "extra's" that I could off if I needed to.
Just wanted to get a census of what people are thinking with the way the economy is these days...

No, I wouldnt sell. The wife would kill me. Its a sellers market right now. Sure I could sell and then what, I know what I have gone through to get where Iam at. Yes I know, everythings for sale. Ive got a guy that has been trying to buy mine for the past several months. I just dont want to start over. Now I wouldnt mind buying another Chevelle to play with, but my 67 is special to me. I had a 66 when the wife and I were dating, a 69 when we married, and a 67 I let go several years later. I wish I had kept all three!

If I sold my SS I'd want another one like it to replace it, only with L34, automatic, and AC. It would take too long, too much BST (blood, sweat, and tears), and $$ to get one to the point I'd be satisfied. It would have to go for more than I think it's worth to get back what I have in it. So every time I get an offer I just tell 'em it's not for sale. I guess bottom line is I'm too afraid I'd regret it if I let it go.

I'll say it again:

EVERYTHING is for sale.


It may take a million bucks and a night with the buyer's wife, but everything is for sale.

If you are Bill Gates or something and don't need the money, there's probably something else that will do it for you.





Those of us who say it's not for sale just mean the price is well above what is reasonable to pay for such a car, we attach more value to it than it's dollar amount. But there is always some price we would roll over for.

After we put my brother's car together we happened to drive it over to a guy's place who was selling an ATC. The guy wanted to buy the car. He wanted to know how much.

Well we had just got in on the road the prev week. It's a nice 350 powered 68, black on black, super straight, with a 12-bolt 3.55 axle. Nice car for a high-school kid, no doubt. At that point we had less than $4000 invested (Cdn, this is a while ago, and we built that car out of many great pkg deals).

We said "not for sale". Well the guy kept after us until my brother said $12000. The guy flips out about how it's not worth that. "It's a nice car, but it's not $12000 nice". Ok, question answered, right?

No. He still wants it. $5000 is the offer. "No thanks, not interested."

"Ok, $7000."

"No, the price is $12000!"

"Not worth it, not even worth $7000. Will you take $8000?"

What part of "not for sale" does this clown not understand?

It means not for sale until the proverbial "offer I can't refuse". Which was $12k. :clonk:



The only thing not for sale is my male-on-male virginity. At ANY price! :D

The only thing not for sale is my male-on-male virginity. At ANY price! :D

That, plus my kids and wife. Well, that plus the kids at least...

Car is always for sale, house is always for sale, dogs are for sale, everything.

The only way I would sell my chevelle is if I was forced into it.If I lost my job,and the bills were not getting paid (hopefully it won't come to that) it would be as a last resort.As far as the price of gas,the chevelle is not my daily driver,and I know alot of guys would love to have the cars back that they sold in the early seventies,when the gas prices went up.

Id sell mine if the price was right, A friend has a chevelle project in his garage, that can be seen when the door is opened, and hes had offers on it. fortunately mine is in a detached garage in the back yard so hardly anyone even knows its back there. kinda fell into the chevelle, built it parts I had laying around, did a lot of trading, lucked into a lot of parts, to get it together.
on the other hand the camaro is for sale if the buyer has what i call "stupid" money to spend. Jim

I'll have to agree most stuff will have a price. I will say though for some one to pry Old Blue away from me, it would have to be Bill gates type money. I have enough assets to cover any debt I owe so she isn't at risk that way either. Heck I had a chance to get my original "Old Blue" and I decided the current Old Blue is the keeper.

If everybody sold their Chevelles, eventually we'd end up owning each other's cars. You know it's true.

If everybody sold their Chevelles, eventually we'd end up owning each other's cars. You know it's true.

Maybe we should start a "Trading Chevelles" show......ABC could host and we could drive each other's cars for a week, then when we get our cars back, we'll see how good they are. or whatever the moral of "Trading Spouses" was..


Anyway, I will not ever sell my Chevelle. My dad had a 1950 Cadillac and he sold it in 1998 and regrets it still to this day.

Depends on the car.

I'll never sell my Nova. It will go to my grave.

For the right price I'd sell my Chevelle, for more than I have in it now. Sorry gotta make some money. If you think it's too much you can keep dreaming while I keep enjoying. :D

Everything is for sale... I'm lookin for an excuse to start another project anyway.

I agree, I swore that I would never sell my car as long as I lived, but when the interest got really high for my car, it got me thinking. Now the car that I swore to never sell is on it's way to it's new owner. Plus since I made a little money on this car it got my wife all excited about me building another car ASAP.

If you gave this 20 year old a big house, a great paying career that i enjoyed, a hot wife, great kids, and a new shelby mustang or z06 vette, i would give you my elcamino. untill i meet god i dont think ill be giving up my car.