To be fair the only place you'll get that kind of money is there. I think they have some Saudi oil shieks there buying stuff just to screw with people.
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To be fair the only place you'll get that kind of money is there. I think they have some Saudi oil shieks there buying stuff just to screw with people.
I would kind of disagree unless maybe you just want to just sell and get out. One of the things I've always liked in these cars was that they are relatively affordable and you can do what you want with it. Now are we going to be like the Corvette, Ferrari, and Porsche guys and not drive them for fear of devaluing it?
It's just wild to see one go for that. I like driving mine too much to sell, and it has sentimental value to me. I know I don't plan on doing anything that can't be reverted back to stock. Hold on to those clean ones, just in case you have a run in with an oil tycoon lol.
I like mine very much - the MK2 was the first car i bought completely on my own, and they will always be special to me, But if somone offers me 1/2 of that price ill give them the car, all my parts, and help them load it as well - LOL.
That's interesting. You made me think any my '84 was also the first I purchased all my own. Though the vehicle i've driven in the longest was an '82 toyota pickup; for about 11 years, ever since I was 16. Because it was so dependable and ran and ran and ran, I became a huge toyota fan.
Once I discovered these little sports cars from the same era, drove one, and saw that they too have many miles on them and are still kicking, I became quite hooked and I don't think I can justify getting rid of mine. I hold a lot of sentiment in these cars as they have served me well and I feel I owe it to them to restore em and keep driving them.
Also I can't tell you how many times I've heard my dad and many many old timers I grew up with that told me about the cars they had and no longer. I vowed that wouldn't be me.
I have spent maybe 7 K in my '84 L and it will NEVER be for sale....only If I total it ..or DIE.
It's my daily and don't have room for another car on my property.3,so far. No garage. No Haggerty insurance.
Hey, Geico rebated me $55 'cause of this world wide mess. If I did have a garage,it would be full of crap,anyway.
35K for a MK II? Insane. That buyer must wipe his butt with twenties.😆
I've told more than one friend over the years, "these are the 57 Chevys of JDM" . I still believe it.
Wish I had heald on to a couple ive given away in the past. The days we could find a decent looking, running one for 2500 are gone.
Always love it when I see this beautiful example pop up here and there over the years. Not sure I could have let it go at any of the price points along the years. To each their own.
Yes, indeed, I've missed a lot of cars on online auction sites that I might have otherwise liked to buy. There may be people in this world who can afford to bid on cars sight-unseen, but I feel like I've got to go see it and drive it. I wish I was retired but with these online auctions, I'm usually pretty well stuffed. By the time I discover the listing, there's usually no way I can make arrangements around my work schedule to travel before the auction ends. I was actually considerably more gungho about a Starquest before March, but with this COVID thing going around and ticket prices going up, I've got to be pretty damned sure about a trip before I get on a plane. Besides scheduling difficulties, I'd hate to spend $500 to $1,000 traveling to see a car, exposing myself to communal cabin air, and then not win the auction. I'd more likely fly if its a private seller, I can work around my schedule and feel there's a good chance of being able to make a deal. But I also have a lot of other classic cars on my long wish list too, and one or another are likely to turn up close enough to home that I could make a day trip in the pickup truck, rent a U-haul trailer to bring it home if I make a deal. So I'm not going to be too sad if I miss one on the east or west coast on an auction site. Those are probably not in the cards anyway.
This is a fabulous original and very clean 1988 Chrysler Conquest TSi with the 5-speed manual transmission. There has been one owner from. This TSi runs and drives beautifully. The 2.6L Turbo engine runs very strong and smoothly without any noises, smoke or other issues.
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At some point you've got to roll the dice. The question is are some of these cars worth the price? IMO no. I have a friend into E30 M3s and I've drove those and I wouldn't consider them a 40k+ plus car even though the majority sell for more than that. There are members here around the country that can do an in person survey to weed out the majority of the BS used car sellers. I've been on both sides of the coin on that multiple times. You can spend $1200 and have a car shipped cross country to your door. Factor that into your price. Probably a little cheaper since you're in the middle of the country.
Interesting. I've long theorized that both the mk4 and the mk2 would be worth a fair bit one day, much more so then the other gens. Being that the other gens are the development mules (mk4 is the mk3 with all its issues fixed, mk2 is a mk1 with all its issues fixed). Thats cool, but we don't need to get our shorts in a knot about these becoming worth so much that we can't drive them. The highest selling mk2 is still like 20% the cost of the highest selling mk4, and the average selling price of each is even less then that. You can still get deals on mk2s too, theres a nice black 85 for sale locally right now that needs a small ding fixed and to be reinspected, $1800. A really mint low miles one in Victoria too for $7000cdn, and its not that uncommon for lots in between those 2 ranges to pop up.
Sadly the replacement part issue is real. I did the reverse of you guys. I drove a mk2 as a daily from my teen years until just last year, then started driving an 03 Tacoma 5spd instead largely as it was getting too hard to get common replacement parts locally.
That Conquest looks really nice. Wish I'd seen it when it was first listed on the 15th, but now there's barely four days to go. I should probably be searching the web every day and not wasting time posting here, huh?.
I've a couple buds who have had them. Super cool cars, but inferior to ours in a couple key ways actually. The transmissions aren't great, too fragile for a japanse turbo car. The stock efi is garbage, throttle body injection. I was reading on wikipedia that they got upgraded to port injection though, just not sure if we actually got it here. Maybe just the 89s? Last, the heads suck. SOHC, not much you can do with them, everyone hates them. But anyways, the aftermarket has worked around most of the problems, and if your into keeping it stock they aren't too big of a deal.
I had an 87 ESiR. Great looking and handling car. Hated the electronics issues (like with most Mitsubishis). Motor had lots of low end due to large displacement and small turbo, but ran out of steam in the upper RPMs. The heads were weak between the valves and would often develop a crack when boost was upped. Loved owning the car though.
I'd just be into keeping one bone stock and taking it to car shows. Everyone at the local car shows has seen my current fleet a bazillion times and people aren't stopping to look or ask questions anymore. I haven't gotten anything new to show in eight years, so really I was just kinda getting the itch to get something different. I gravitated to a Starion for no other reason than that, like the Supra, I wanted one back when I was high school and college. But there were a LOT of cars that I wanted back in high school and college as well as plenty that I've wanted since. I just talked to a friend in Philly that I'd trust his judgement who said he might be able to inspect it for me, but I haven't gotten in touch with the seller yet. Being a holiday weekend, I'm not going to hold my breath.
I just talked to a friend in Philly that I'd trust his judgement who said he might be able to inspect it for me, but I haven't gotten in touch with the seller yet. Being a holiday weekend, I'm not going to hold my breath.
Got it checked out. It runs and drives like you'd expect for the mileage, but it needs considerably more work than shows up in the online pictures, including evidence of unreported accident damage. I'm going to wait for a better one or something else from my wish list. Maybe the coming economic depression will liquidate some car collections. But thanks for the heads up.
Its a good time to buy an MR2 Turbo btw. The collectors are starting to figure out that they're going to be worth a lot soon, they're starting to crop up in the "cars to buy now" lists, so I bet they will double in price within the next 5 years.
You're looking in the wrong places. We got the JDM ones up here so its diluted our prices somewhat. I actually passed on a really nice black body that came up on craigslist locally last year. No motor or tranny, started life as an NA, but really good body and interior and it was like about 4000 I think. It was so tempting. I don't actually like the stock motors these things came with all that much. A friend converted his NA to the all aluminum v6 from a 2010 Rav4, and its now the perfect MR2. Lighter and more powerful then a Ferrari 328, brand new Toyota reliability and a sweet 6 cylinder sound track. Also, that motor is easier to work on in the MR2 engine bay then the 3s motors are. Tons of room around it.
I'd have pounced on that black one.... but I kinda hate MR weight balance actually lol. I have all my cars, my stable is full (and then some).
This car isn't perfect (which one is?) but it sure is nice!
A good reference for how things were put together on these cars.
Things like the imperfections on the car are perfect - hey an oxymoron if ever I've heard one!
After about 5 years the cam cover wrinkle paint started to peel off exactly like this.
This is a FABULOUS reference collection of photographs for restoration.
Hey Dale. Yeah, BAT is a really good site for reference photos, and potential top dollar sales prices. Its really nice that the sold cars stay up on there forever for everyone to see what they went for, what condition they were in, and that they give you a nice chart over time of all the completed auctions of the same model.
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