I've only been a member here for a little bit of time.
Since I'm finally able to afford the car of my dreams, a 1977 or 78 Trans Am, I'm faced with the prospect of finding a nice black Smoky & Bandit Trans Am along with 1/2 the countries population, and I need guidance on finding the right model.
I have been looking innocently, and I have made some mild observations.
A 1977 model Trans Am will have about 100.000 miles on it.
However, I see several cars with like 43K or so, and I'm a little afraid of that number and selling at say $25.000, which is my limit, any 44-year-old car with mileage like that is rolled over on the odometer, so a car with say 95K miles would more than likely be a real 95K miles.
If you see my point?
The second somewhat strange thing here is these cars, despite the shape, sell at about $25.000 and go to about $45.000, then nothing till you get to 69.000 dollars and one guy wanted 1.3 million dollars for his car, which to me is just another individual from "Crazytown" looking to hit the lottery in selling his family heirloom.
So I need your help in looking for a Bandit and not getting my head knocked off.
What can you advise me on and how to go about it.
I was definitely going to hire an appraiser and carfax, but I don't think a Carfax is of much use.
How should I go about my search?
What do I need in information, and how do I read a trim plate?
Is there a website that would teach me how to read it?
Thank you!
Since I'm finally able to afford the car of my dreams, a 1977 or 78 Trans Am, I'm faced with the prospect of finding a nice black Smoky & Bandit Trans Am along with 1/2 the countries population, and I need guidance on finding the right model.
I have been looking innocently, and I have made some mild observations.
A 1977 model Trans Am will have about 100.000 miles on it.
However, I see several cars with like 43K or so, and I'm a little afraid of that number and selling at say $25.000, which is my limit, any 44-year-old car with mileage like that is rolled over on the odometer, so a car with say 95K miles would more than likely be a real 95K miles.
If you see my point?
The second somewhat strange thing here is these cars, despite the shape, sell at about $25.000 and go to about $45.000, then nothing till you get to 69.000 dollars and one guy wanted 1.3 million dollars for his car, which to me is just another individual from "Crazytown" looking to hit the lottery in selling his family heirloom.
So I need your help in looking for a Bandit and not getting my head knocked off.
What can you advise me on and how to go about it.
I was definitely going to hire an appraiser and carfax, but I don't think a Carfax is of much use.
How should I go about my search?
What do I need in information, and how do I read a trim plate?
Is there a website that would teach me how to read it?
Thank you!
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