I have a '79 corvette with <90k miles. I love it, but I don't drive it. I would like to sell it, ideally to someone else who will both love and drive it. I don't want to use Facebook and I live in a rural area. Is there another good option?
I have a '79 corvette with <90k miles. I love it, but I don't drive it. I would like to sell it, ideally to someone else who will both love and drive it. I don't want to use Facebook and I live in a rural area. Is there another good option?
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 1d
Join a corvette club and sell it there. FYI, not worth much.
toynbee@piefed.social · 7 pts · 1d
Noted, thank you.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1d
Yeah, op, I'll take it off your hands for a couple 100 bucks to do you a solid.
toynbee@piefed.social · 9 pts · 1d
So kind.
mlfh@lm.mlfh.org · 7 pts · 1d
https://bringatrailer.com/edit: I don't actually know what I'm talking about, listen to the person below me lol
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d
OP will pay a ton of fees and likely not sell at all. It's not a rare car, or a desired car, and it's very high mileage.
papalonian@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
I'm not sure 90k miles for an almost 50 year old car would be considered "very" high mileage. The average 10 year old car has more mileage than that.
Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1d
Not a whole lot of cars in the 70s made it past 100,000 miles
papalonian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Yeah, I came to the conclusion elsewhere in the thread the "low mileage" is a subjective term. 90k for a "50 year old car", low mileage. 90k for a "car from the 70s", high mileage.
Elextra@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 1d
I feel like some Corvette owners are a different breed. Its one of the least driven cars and my local Chevy dealers won't even let you test drive them as there are people that buy just to collect them in their garages. I personally find it unfortunate because they are truly fun to drive.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1d
My truck had over 300k and if i were to swap the battery and shifting cables I could keep going.
My current car has 250k
I would love to have only 90k on the odo
papalonian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
My "real" car is an 07 Honda Fit with 215k and no signs of stopping. If the motor or transmission blows up I'll get a new one for like $300.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Big auctions do consignment and even if the closest one is 8 hours drive, its gonna be worth it.
A lot are done annually or every X months, the big ones are even televised.
But not only will people be there to buy cars to fix up, people with enough money to buy fully restored will be there.
You'll need to do some paperwork first, but to actually do the sale you just drop it off and walk away. They take X% of the price, but after that is still more than you'd get in a private sale for a nice classic car, especially low miles like that.
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
Thanks!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 1d
90 000 miles is not low.
toynbee@piefed.social · 12 pts · 1d
For a nearly 50-year-old car, I think it kind of is ... But maybe I'm just hopeful.
papalonian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
When I opened the post and saw the year/mileage I was surprised. 90k for a '79 would definitely be considered low mileage. I know corvettes are a stereotypical "garage kept, barely driven" car, so I'm sure most are under the average usage, but even if the car was driven 1/3 as much as the average car it would have over twice the miles (assuming it still ran.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1d
Not for older cars. Most cars from the 70s would be retired or require a major overhaul by 100k miles.
New cars just last soo much longer than they used to. That's a major reason when I was younger Japanese cars started to eat American car manufacturers' market share. Seeing a Nissan maxima last 150k miles without needing any work just spoke for itself when you were used to buying a new car every 3-4 years.
papalonian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Edited my comment. I didn't mean to say, "the average car from '79 would have x miles on it" (if a car that old managed to survive this long while being daily driven it would have well over 500k), so much as I was highlighting how impressive it was the car was still at such low mileage despite (presumably) still running and being driven occasionally.
I suppose "low mileage" is subjective. It's got less than 1/5 the miles it "should" based on age, but it also probably has less than 1/5 of it's remaining mileage left before something goes bang (unless work has already been done on it).
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
Yeah, it's a bit of a survivor ship bias, most of the cars from the 70s that are still surviving have even lower mileage on them. A lot of classic cars that are still around were ones that people put in barns after driving them 20k-30k miles. Most of the ones that were actually driven around and used died a long time ago.
A lot of those low milage classics are basically just show cars, where the owners cart them around in trailers so they can keep the milage low.
OfCourseNot@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1d
How is it not for a 57 year old car? Not even 2k a year..
That's what I put on my 206 (that had already quite a bit more on it) on 7 years, including 2020 (Covid) when I barely drove it. I bought a used 2015 car last year with 75k miles, and I consider that 'almost brand new'. Both with 1.6L 4 cylinder engines, quite smaller than the beast op is talking about that must have a 5-6 litres v8 at least...
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
It's all relative, most cars from +50 years ago were lucky to make it a 100k miles before needing a major overhaul or just giving out completely. Even in the 80s the average person would be buying a new car every 3-4 years.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Have you tried putting a sign on it and parking it by the road?
toynbee@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1d
By "rural area," I in part mean "not many people drive down my road."
But anyway, this was an impulsive post. I haven't tried anything yet.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
I live in a rural area too. Not much traffic. But I'd try putting a sign on it and parking by the road, and also contacting any corvette clubs locally.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1d
I will sadly agree that Facebook and eBay are going to be your best options to start. Sadly, in that you'll have to do the work to get the info out there to find someone else to love it like it deserves, and that sooooo many people are still on TV. I also hate it. Spam every corvette group you can find online, tell the sobbiest story about how you hate to sell your baby.
There are some autotrader sites, but I wouldn't sink much time into them.
Doom@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Car shows. They happen all the time. Look for one for corvettes and go. The people who attend them love the cars and will either be willing to buy or know someone who is. If you aren't sure where to find one look for classic car museums in your area or garages that specialize in classic car repair. Both may be able to direct you or may even know someone who would be interested in your car. Car people are chatty as fuck and it's the kind of community that will happily tell you where to go or who to talk to.
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1d
Find the Corvette forums. Post on said forum
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
First of all, you get you one o’ them . . uh. . y’know, women? And then, see, they stand next to the car in like a bathing suit or something, and pretty soon people start showing up.
Next thing you know you’re holding five hundred real American dollars! 😃
Nah j/k but this says the price is 12-24k depending. Might be worth it to suffer the indignities of - whichever - if you’re going to do it.
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
Craigslist, eBay, marketplace, car forums, buy sale trade community, car shows, local papers and penny savers, etc
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d
how did you purchase it or did you actually buy it in 79? its kinda funny because there is an episode of just shoot me with this setup.
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
My then BIL introduced me to the sellers. I don't know how he encountered them.
edit: Missing word.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
I know around me there is more than one type thing showing off peoples cars but im in a big metro area. I would think things like that would be a good place to let people know you are looking to sell your car. Thats all I got but people you find there should I think take care of it.
chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I sold my '89 Chevy Caprice to my neighbor for like 500 bucks. Could have gotten a lot more than that for sure, but man did it make him and his son sooooo happy to fix it up. And it had just been sitting in my driveway anyway.
vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1d
Don't have a great answer for you, but I would at least wait until next summer to sell. Put it up in April /May and you'll get better dollar than selling while winter is on the way.
radix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d