mike h wrote:

Paul Wrote:

Low mileage anything in LA is hard to find.

Where do you live Mike? A guy gave me a perfectly good 88 2nd
gen with a cracked rubber boot on the turbo air inlet because
he could not find anyone that could fix it. It was cracked for
over a year while he was trying to find someone to fix it.

The going rate in LA is about $2500.

The junk yards here are savvy and they charge half the new cost
for parts which in most cases is a bunch.

Paul Lamar

I am in Greensboro, NC. Most of the junkyards here are the 'tell us what you
want and we'll go get it' type, no pick-n-pull, and they also charge high
prices. But coils are still pretty cheap, maybe $50 for a set.

I got my first T2 (a 1988) in 1996 for $2500, because of the cracked TID.
Some silicone and exhaust tubing later I had a nice fast T2. I traded that
one in for $5000 about 3 years later.

I've seen some low mileage cars on Ebay and the like, they generally want
$7-8K for them. Same for convertibles - I *really* want an 89 up 'vert (much
easier to swap T2 motor into) but they are still going for $9K and up.

However, get in with your local SCCA racer crowd. Car shells (with usually
everything but motor) get traded around for like $400 all the time. We paid
$160 for 2 chassis, 3 suspensions, a motor and 2 trannies from a guy in TN.
Cost us almost $500 to tow them back. Then I was given an 89 in return for
doing an engine swap for a friend, I was given outright a 89 or 90 T2 body,
and another friend balled his 86 up and gave it to the race shop. There's
another FC out in the parts yard that hasn't been touched for 2 or 3 years
as well, and I was thinking of offering the guy $150 or so for it.

Right now, personally all by my self, I own a 1990 T2 with 160K miles
($2300) and a 1985 12A with 135K miles ($150).

Mike Harrington

Well when you see this you will be jealous. This is my wife's 83
GSL with 69,000 miles. Like new off the showroom floor.

Paul Lamar
 
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