AO

Hope it works out for you. I wanted this car, but was too chicken to even look at it with the title issues. Pics look great!

RyanPerrella

yeah there is the title and potentially a mileage issue as well which was reported by someone here but never confirmed. I believe its mentioned earlier in this thread, if not then there is another thread about this car mentioning it.

Peter F

Congratulations,

car looks great and I'm sure you will have fun with it.

/Peter

N421LV

It was a leap of faith, but I was just looking for a driver, so the title issue was secondary to me...provided the car was straight, not in a flood, and hadn't been on fire. The PPI helped me pulll the trigger with some confidence. Three different mechanics have looked at the car in recent months and none can find a clear reason for the salvage title. Something has definitely occured with the drivers side door because it is missing the paint code ID plate (so a respray was likely) and the trim piece on the upper door frame has a few waves in it. Otherwise, the car has the original bumpers, and is in pretty decent shape. I've had a fair amount of maintenance done to it on the front end, but would have expected that from any shark I eventually bought...and the purchase price left me with a nice maintenance reserve to start with.

Ryan, I did find a little switch added inside the ash tray whose function so far remains a mystery. It does not switch off the odometer (anymore, at least!). If there was mileage mayhem with this car in the past, it hasn't been to the degree that it became obvious to any of the mechanics who've worked on it lately. It looks/feels/acts like a shark with ~80Kmi on it, they say...and that's good enough for me. I plan to put another 200Kmi on it running weekly between Tucson and Phoenix over the next many years. If you see a black shark on I-10 in the future, it's probably me!

RyanPerrella

Didnt someone say that the car covered only 9K miles since 1995, thats 11 years? does the carfax show that, i dont know where someone saw that but that was where i would think the mileage issure came about in that time period.

either way, if your happy thats all that matters. And yes if you put another 200K miles on the car it then wouldnt be worth much with a clean title or without it wouldnt make much difference.


Enjoy

Ispeed

That car (I think) was owned by a Mike Asaff in southern MA... The speedometer had a trick switch that shut it off hidden somewhere. The car had something like 150+K miles, not 79K. This info comes from the guy's mechanic who did some work for me on my old S4. A reliable source anyways.
The new owner will know if that's the car from the paperwork history.
More than 9K miles in 11 years...........