... trying to justify value.
I see $4k for this "hard to find classic Honda" CB9 EX
https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/d/...923466518.html
or
$2500 for this actually-hard-to-find 4WS 4th-gen Prelude:
https://offerup.com/item/detail/664196337/
Both cars look to be in similarly great shape cosmetically, and have similar enough miles, so I'm not seeing the sense in the $4k. The Accord has always been one of the best-selling cars in this country...
I'm not sure if I want to waste the two hour round trip going to the wagon owner to try and throw out an offer of 2500, maybe going as high as 3000, especially considering I'd have to drag a friend along to help get it home. They say "firm" at 4k, which makes me think I'd be wasting my breath on such a lowball. I can't tell if that's a spot of rust on the passenger quarter, or if the slight off-color of the driver door is just down to the camera/lighting, it's got more than 200,000 miles, and there are no interior shots to show quality there, but that body's gorgeous. The headlights line up properly with the hood, and everything. I even really like the color. The car's been sitting on CL for a month; I might email them this weekend after I figure out how to best word that offer. I priced out a manual swap, and it'll run me about $1400 or so done the way I want. Given my H22 build, I've been factoring the trans swap into what an automatic is really worth to me.
This next wagon is another local option, but whatever's going on with the one quarter panel and the bubbled tint in some shots are making me wonder about the timeline and recent-ness of the photos. There are the added negatives of the red interior (maybe I could get over that; it does look mint after all) and the paint being pretty much the same boring silver-gold as my RSX; I want an actual color on the outside. Still, it looks in amazing shape overall, and for only $1550 (making me scratch my head even more at the $4k of the other wagon). Like the blue car, it's about an hour away to look at:
https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/d/...937319501.html
Thoughts on the wagons? As badly as I want the Prelude, I'm not getting a Prelude. If only I wanted to pay the insurance (and for the storage units needed to house them), I could get the Prelude and the second wagon for the same price as the first!
I see $4k for this "hard to find classic Honda" CB9 EX
https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/d/...923466518.html
or
$2500 for this actually-hard-to-find 4WS 4th-gen Prelude:
https://offerup.com/item/detail/664196337/
Both cars look to be in similarly great shape cosmetically, and have similar enough miles, so I'm not seeing the sense in the $4k. The Accord has always been one of the best-selling cars in this country...
I'm not sure if I want to waste the two hour round trip going to the wagon owner to try and throw out an offer of 2500, maybe going as high as 3000, especially considering I'd have to drag a friend along to help get it home. They say "firm" at 4k, which makes me think I'd be wasting my breath on such a lowball. I can't tell if that's a spot of rust on the passenger quarter, or if the slight off-color of the driver door is just down to the camera/lighting, it's got more than 200,000 miles, and there are no interior shots to show quality there, but that body's gorgeous. The headlights line up properly with the hood, and everything. I even really like the color. The car's been sitting on CL for a month; I might email them this weekend after I figure out how to best word that offer. I priced out a manual swap, and it'll run me about $1400 or so done the way I want. Given my H22 build, I've been factoring the trans swap into what an automatic is really worth to me.
This next wagon is another local option, but whatever's going on with the one quarter panel and the bubbled tint in some shots are making me wonder about the timeline and recent-ness of the photos. There are the added negatives of the red interior (maybe I could get over that; it does look mint after all) and the paint being pretty much the same boring silver-gold as my RSX; I want an actual color on the outside. Still, it looks in amazing shape overall, and for only $1550 (making me scratch my head even more at the $4k of the other wagon). Like the blue car, it's about an hour away to look at:
https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/d/...937319501.html
Thoughts on the wagons? As badly as I want the Prelude, I'm not getting a Prelude. If only I wanted to pay the insurance (and for the storage units needed to house them), I could get the Prelude and the second wagon for the same price as the first!
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