No, you.;)

oh, me. right. now i get it. ha ha. .......ha

Thanks to a mysterious benefactor, I have now read the entire article and car listings, and find that while my car is not on the best list, it, more importantly, is not on the worst list, either.

My wife's car is a Mercedes 450SL 1974 (that date is correct) She has not been able to drive because of ever increasing physical disabilities for about 10 years now. The car sits in our garage and I drive it a few miles each month to keep batter charged. I'm told this model is the last year it was built-about 6"longer than current SL's. How should I go about selling it. It has only 80,000 actual miles on it and drives perfectly. Original rag top in pristine condition.

bad spelling ID should read Telephonics

go to user cp, find "edit profile" scroll down, it's on the right

To get the most, you'll have to do the dog&pony show of advertising in specialty publications. That means tire kickers that always wanted to drive one of those and guys that didn't have anything to do that afternoon. I suppose with a car like that, you'll get that anyway.
Before you even start, find out what it's worth and decide what you'll accept. Might be worth a trip to Hershey or Carlisle, maybe even Atlantic City.:)

What are your goals? Do you want to sell it simply and easily, or maximize your sale price?

There are a number of ways to go, and depending on what you intend to acheive, I'll have different suggestions.

My aim is to simply sell asap at decent price. But I don't know what a decent price might be. Wife and I are in our 80's and she is very seriously ill. Have cancelled her driving license several years ago. By the way what is of interest at Carlisle and Atlantic City??

TIA

there are open auto auctions in those places.


I can get a number from our high-line wholesaler for you if you want to make this quick and painless. If you're local, he'll want to buy it, if not, he may know someone near you. where are you?

are the 80K miles that you call "actual" reflected accurately on the odometer?

You say it drives perfectly.
Does everything else work, too? ie. is the A/C still cold?
how are the brakes?
what condition are the tires in?
is inspection current?
what color paint/top/interior?
automatic transmission?

telephonics

You may want to check out www.kbb.com , this the Kelly blue book web site , you can generly determin a good asking price there , i don't know if their list go back that far on the web site

I've been hearing a lot of bad stuff about newer Ford SUVs. People I know and reviews like Consumer Reports rate them as having poor reliability, low gas milage, and a high depreciation rate. Anyone else experience the F.O.R.D. (found on road dead) syndrome?

I ask because a neigbor of mine just bought an Excursion one year ago and its been in the shop three times already (not to mention the fact that the damn thing doesn't fit in the garage). Even people I know with Explorers say bad things. What exactly is your $30,000 worth in a Ford SUV?

The main reason the Excursions sell at all is the tax write off.

I used to sell Fords, and they're nice when they're new, but used, they squeak and rattle, and don't hold their value for sh**.

I'm biased, but jinx's 5 year old Grand Cherokee with 69,000 miles on it runs and rides like a new one.

One of my friends just traded in his 300,000 mile (not a typo) Grand Cherokee on a Honda Pilot.

LJ,

i wrote off my Daewoo a few months ago (thread: would you stop?) and have finally organised another car. i understand you might not have the same makes and models over in your part but i was wondering what you thought about older second hand cars.

Car im interested in is a 1994 Mitsubishi Magna. its 4 cylynder and has just completed gear box reconstruction. the price is right but the taco says 183,000 kilometres, (is there big expensive things that need to be done at the 200,000kilometre mark because all cars seemed to be traded in before this figure turns the clock???? ). Unfortunately its an automatic but has power steering and all that.

i travel a lot! the car will be traveling every weekend back to the farm and home again (some 1200 kilometres every fortnight) and also socially round town. do you think im running a risk?