Re: Interesting Q's for sale - Boston

[Bryan Gunn <bgunn@voicetek.com>]

Gentlemen,

> It depends.  Original clutch and timing belt?  Not worth $11,000.  In good
> mechanical condition?  Worth a lot more.
> 
> Over here, you'd pay $16k for a car four years younger but with 30k more on the
> clock.
> 
> (I know.  I got my insurance valuation back on Tuesday.)

1984 model year and later cars command a premium in the US due to their
limited
numbers and numerous improvements over the previous years' models. We
never got
the digital dash (I know how you feel about the dash, Phil) or the
"voice" in
the US models, so the '84s and '85s are the most desireable in the US.
The seller
of this particular car lives in my neck of the woods and I've taken a
good long
gander at this particular specimen. It seems to be in good mechanical
shape, but
the paint on the car is awful. The seller had it re-sprayed the original
color
(white) at some point and it looks like he took it to the cheapest place
he 
could find. There's overspray everywhere. All the moldings, on the
intercooler,
everywhere. If he had left the windows down, they would have painted the
inter-
ior. It's too bad. It's a nice, complete, original car otherwise.

Good day.

Bryan Gunn
'85 ur-q
Chelmsford, MA
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