2 nice cars for sale in Michigan on the "Cars for Sale" page

If those cars were in socal, they would have a $10,000 higher asking price. Cars are cheap here in middle earth.

A Pantera that has been stripped and undergone a bare metal restoration is the same vehicle whether it is located on the left coast, right coast or middle earth.

The recession does not know geograhic boundries. IMHO, and IF the cars are as nice as described, the asking prices (specifically the red vehicle) reflect economic reality and that includes SoCal.

While what you say is true, the fact is Califonia folks has more money. They buy houses costing half a million bucks. Peeps in back in the woods can score that kind of green. No way can we afford half million dollar anything. Just face it, you left coast guys have more money than you know what to do with. So you can afford to pay more for Panteras out there than us back woods folks do here.
There was a guy on here from Minnisota who sold his car and he was on here bitching about how he coulda got ten grand more if he had just been able to sell it in Califonia. Problem is, how can you get your car to Califonia to sell it??? Pay someone ten grand to haul it out there.
I been thinking about this a lot. Cause I think what I could do is buy Panteras out here in the boonies, drive them back to California, sell them there, and then go back into the wilds to capture another one. Sort of like a hunter sort of thing. I could call it DeToms Safaris Unlimited.

Anyone in the vicinity willing to go look at the red one for me?

I'm looking at what all has been done to it and the price seems like one of those too good to be true scenarios...the one's my mother warned me about and the one's my father-in-law always manages to get dumped in his lap.

--David

deTom,

As the saying goes, "the bigger they are, the harder they fall"

http://realestate.signonsandiego.com/area_homesales/index.php

This SD housing data shows how people's ability to use their house as an ATM to acquire luxury purchases has dissapeared.

just my $.02

I am sorry fourwalling. Didn't know it was that bad. Maybe I should be going to Califonia and buy up Panteras there on the cheap??

deTom,

Panteras are not what I would consider to be on the cheap in SoCal. If the red vehicle is as described, it would still have a higher asking price locally...at least for the time being.

I wonder if the red car is a grey market vehicle. That would seriously impact its value. There is no VIN# listed in the advertisement.

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Originally posted by four walling:
I wonder if the red car is a grey market vehicle. That would seriously impact its value. There is no VIN# listed in the advertisement.

I've exchanged emails with the seller. He says the VIN is 5754. Supposedly the # was in the original ad he sent, but was dropped at some point.

It's unclear to me why the price is "cheap" other than perhaps it's a sell-it-now because I-need-the-money price.

I'm still looking around for someone to eye-ball it for me....

dmjung,

Good luck in your pursuit!

Four walling
Not sure which side of the arguement you're on becuase you seem to contradict yourself but I would have to agree with DeTom that the pricing would be higher in CA for the simple reason of supply and demand (not economic reasons).

The economy is the same for arguements sake regardless of geography, that I agree with you. However a car like the Pantera will have a higher demand, thus a generally higher price, in a state where it is more practical to drive. California lends itself to sports cars. Demand would be less for the Pantera in Alaska than a truck (not making any judgements on anyone from Alaska FWIW).

Compare the two cars above to the cars for sale at PIM. If they are as good as they look they are cheaper than what you get for the same money in CA......IMO.

Hi F351,

I totaled up the mileage of the 6 (CA street legal) cars on PIM.net (that had mileage posted)and found that the average miles on the cars are about 54K. If you divide that number by 35 (the average age of the vehicles), the average miles driven per year is about 1550.

It looks as though there is a lot of missed opportunity to drive these cars in the nice SoCal sunshine

I wonder the average Pantera mileage compares with the vehicles listed for sale on this website?

http://www.pim.net/pim1.html

[QUOTE]Originally posted by four walling:
It looks as though there is a lot of missed opportunity to drive these cars in the nice SoCal sunshine


Sooo true. But when you look at the mileage of the two you posted it's 1000 mi/year. So the Cali guys/gals are driving there cars 50% more....relatively speaking.