A P.S. to my previous "what is it worth..." question- "A good price" is what it is worth NOW as a MAJOR project car. NOT what its' potential is. You don't pay two arms and a leg for a basket-case Pierce-Arrow because a RESTORED one is valuable. Tell him THAT over & over. Offer him a hand full of change. OR, suggest, with the price of restoration, HE should be paying YOU to take it off his hands! Drive Stainless Robert VIN 6924 From: "John Spangler" <johnspangler@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [DML] Restorable or Parts Car? Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:59:05 -0000 I'm encouraged by the number of overnight responses to this post, and I also received a number of emails asking how much the car is. The current owner bought it from a guy's widow along with another, much better condition car, which he subsequently gave to his grandson in CA somewhere. This one became the parts car as it wasn't running. After looking it over and showing him how bad it was, I still asked how much he wanted for it. "I want a good price for it" was my answer, time and again. $500 or $5000? No idea what he thinks is reasonable, but I'll post pics and take recommendations, as I'm not the best haggler when I'm excited. Here's a link to a quickie page I made. http://johnspangler.com/whitedelorean It's ironically sitting next to another rear engine car. I didn't get to the passenger side door at all, 'cause basically I'm afraid of spiders and didn't want to venture between the cars. Maybe next time. And yes, I'm a bit smitten with it, and I only got a few hours of sleep thinking about it all night. I think if I can get it for like DIRT CHEAP I'll give it a shot, and at the very least have a car to learn with so I don't mess up a nice one someday. It fell precisely into my criteria of what I might consider buying, a late '81 with less than 25k miles on it, straight stainless panels, good door fit and gray interior. I've got a few weeks until my garage is finished, so I've got some time to think it over. Another short while in the sun isn't going to make a difference at this point. Decisions, decisions... -John To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/