Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC: Camaro SS post mortem

[Tom Reynolds (kjtar]

What would you get instead?  For around $10K or so?
Thanks,
Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Polzer" <jason [at] internethosting.com>
To: "Tom Reynolds" <kjtar [at] cox.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] NFC: Camaro SS post mortem


> 100%
>
> Save -Your-Money
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> Jason
>
> Dave Mills wrote:
> > I wouldn't get too wrapped up in the SLP mystique around this car, Tom.
I'd
> > consider $10K way high for such a car unless it had been carefully
packaged
> > up and never driven. It's a '96 Camaro. The Torsen LSD is nice, but
other
> > than that, every SLP part has a better replacement, and that's generally
> > what most Camaro folks did - replace them with better parts.
> >
> > Dave (presuming Jason will agree...)
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Tom Reynolds [mailto:kjtar [at] cox.net]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:40 PM
> >> To: Dave Mills
> >> Cc: The FerrariList
> >> Subject: [Ferrari] NFC: Camaro SS post mortem
> >>
> >>
> >> Well, heh, the Camaro didn't work out, coolant leak, could
> >> have been intake manifold or bad head gasket, which would
> >> have been around $1800.  Didn't want to take the chance,
> >> especially since the car lot droids never once agreed on a
> >> price, and after all the bitching, finally came down to what
> >> I'd originally offered, but by then too many red flags had
> >> been raised.  The guy, when placing the ad, told me "around
> >> $10K" but when I went to test drive it on Saturday, the other
> >> guy said $12,995.  ???  So, I drive it, then Monday talk to
> >> the guy who placed the ad, he said that he'd had it listed at
> >> $11,800 (??) and dropped it to $10,900 (??? again) and would
> >> have to get with his partner (two head honchos).  So, he did,
> >> and he got back to me and, without giving me a price, said
> >> "We're not too far apart, only a few hundred dollars..." So
> >> after all that crap, I really wasn't in a mood to alter my
> >> decision and when they met the price, I told him that I
> >> changed my mind, didn't feel right, and wasn't going to
> >> pursue the deal.  Geez... Tom Tulsa P.S. The car was nice,
> >> though...Torsen LSD, SLP optional exhaust system, Hurst
> >> shifter...
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