Will this car sell for six figures?

[nick8086]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/202315118078?rmvSB=true#viTabs_0

 

 

 

Edited May 26, 2018 by nick8086 (see edit history)

[RansomEli]

Maybe. I'll there are quite a few GNXes stored away with the same mileage. They were collector cars when new and quite a few were bought and put away as investments.

 

Don't know why anyone would pay that much for a low-mileage version when restored ones are just as nice. It's not the same as a 1936 Cord or V-12 Cadillac.

[JohnD1956]

But it's not a GNX. It's a Grand National. It may be a low mileage car but honestly, I do not see it as an investment at it's current 75K bid.  Further, what condition does it assume after storing it for 30 years with a 1/4 tank of gas?

[NTX5467]

(Factory T-tops on a GN will be trouble, but not if it's always on display.)

[Thriller]

$97,000 Canadian so almost. 

 

I love low mileage time capsules. That said, it’s tough for me to think of a time capsule that is younger than me. I didn’t read the entire description but a car like this deserves maintenance and to be driven a bit. If paying a premium for near-zero mileage, then it’s a museum piece. What do you do, replace the hood struts so they hold up the hood, or leave it all original showing a car you paid that much for with a chunk of wood?

 

I'd rather get into a nice one at half or a third of the price that I can drive and enjoy, but that’s me. Of course if I was able to justify half that on expanding the fleet, there’s a 1916 truck in Michigan that would be mine. 

 

Edited May 28, 2018 by Thriller (see edit history)

[ted sweet]

75000 k for a car that cant even be started

[John_S_in_Penna]

Look at for-sale ads, and you'll see many, many

Grand Nationals for sale--likely several dozen at

any one time.  So many have been saved.  

 

When new, they were desirable, low production cars.

I suppose they still are.  But now, beyond everything else,

they are perhaps the most common Buicks of the 1980's.

[60FlatTop]

20 hours ago, ted sweet said:

75000 k for a car that cant even be started 

 

If I was interested I would offer an extra $5,000 if they kept their hands off it and let me start it.

 

I can hear those dry old bearings crying now.

[Barney Eaton]

Why would it?  They made 20,000 1987 GN's