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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $25,000 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z?
Detroit, 1:37 PM
Fri Dec 11
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Would I buy this one? Not on your life. A funny thing about looking back into your past. You fondly remember the good times, while trying to block out all the bad times. Sometimes it works, like looking at the Daytona picture. But after a while, you remember why you moved on...
11/26/08
The biggest problem that I see is that even if we can suspend disbelief and agree that it's worth $25k right now, you couldn't drive it. It would depreciate faster than a new car, if you ever drove it.
If we can pretend that it's worth $25k, with 2k miles, the value would half by the time it hit 10k miles. If the seals would hold up long enough to see 50k miles, it's down into typical "low mileage" value, and you'd be hard-pressed to get $6500 out of it. If you could get it to 100k miles, you're down into $3k or so in great condition, but let's be honest, if you drove it for 100k miles, it wouldn't look like that any more, and would be closer to $1500, with a better than average chance at being worth a LeMons-friendly $500.
It's probably a fair bet that it is the most valuable 1984 Daytona Turbo out there, but that doesn't say much.
Anyone who thinks it's worth $25k is smoking something, no doubt.
11/26/08
No, wait. It doesn't work for me. Commander Caractacus Pipe!
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But my two favorite things about it are:
The huge gap on the rub/trim strip between the door and the fender. Couldn't omit that little piece behind the wheel well, but couldn't get it on there gracefully either.
The second thing is, look closely at the silver bits. Looks like the red car is actually sitting on top of an identical silver one.
11/26/08
Ha! 'Wow, it's super-clean underneath', I thought when I saw that.
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is it sad I still occasionally roll around and hotbox my car while listening to Sunny Day Real Estate... in 2008?
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As far as the Daytona, I like '80s FWD Mopes and this one appears to be in awesome shape, but 25 grand? Huffing Aquanet fer sher.
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Nice car, but still crack pipe, no doubt.
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If I had a nickel for every Daytona owner who espoused these qualities I, too, could re-enter Malaisey Chrysler world in high style with enough left over for a Omni GLH, a sweet CSX, and a gently-used TC by Maserati.