Buying Price of a 95 Vette

[Hansen]

Hello, I am new to this forum but it looks like all of you know your stuff and are very helpful.

My father and I are looking at purchasing a Corvette.
We looked at a 1995 with 84,000 miles on it.

These are the options on this car:
6 speed
Power Driver and Passenger Seats
Sport Seats
Adjustable Sus
Bose Stereo

It is Red with black interior and he is asking 15,500/offer

He also just put about 3k in new parts a few months ago.
After looking on KBB and ebay and other online sites we are thinking that that seems a bit high.
Any insight about that or buying any corvettes would nice.
We also live in North Dakota so that might have an affect on pricing.

Thanks

[Full Bull]

hansen, I paid $13,500 for my 95...had 90,000 on it..... Offer the guy $14,000...bet he takes it.

[6 Shooter]

Heck start @ $13K . . . u can always go up but it's hard 2 go down was the offer's out there!

[kingman]

Hi
Forget the 95 with high mileage, you are looking for a problem unless you are an A-10 mechanic. This is of course there are no vettes in North Dakota!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a diff between the 95-96, but it's on the inside (mechanical).

Just as long as you buy a 94 or newer you will be able to sleep at night because starting in 94 they came out with twin air bags, one for the driver and one for the passenger.

Everything on the vette is very expensive to replace, almost stupid to a point, but we have to deal with what we were delt.

Do not touch a vette that has over 50,000 miles unless you have deep pockets or was owned by a highway driver.

Remember the seats will set you back over $1000, plus the carpeting $400, plus the weatherstripping $500plus not to mention the tires close to $1000. This is if your vette is perfect.
Little things inside your car could cost $50-350 where you think would be 1 tenth the cost.

So when you really think it over, paying a little more will save you allot down the road, a short road.

Now getting to the point a 95 in mint condition coupe should set you back approx 14-14.5 tops. That's for a red one , a yellow one approx $500 more and the other colors, $500 less then the red one.

Sport seats are a must as is the performance rear. The rest is just come see, come sah.

[Hansen]

So is the high milage that bad?
It seems to be taken care of and he seemed to get a lot of its problems fixed last month.
The problem with out-of-state corvettes is my father is unable to get away from his job long enough to go look at vettes that are that far away. So you think that 13,500 would be a good offer for it?
Finding corvettes around North Dakota is very hard.

Also is the 6speed a good transmission?

[Hansen]

I will also provide some history to make sure that 13,500 would be a fair offer.

The first owner of the car was a women who drove it for about six years or so then she had some financial trouble and she sold her corvette to a guy from New York State.

This guy sold corvettes and he had it on sale when the current owners wife was there for her job.

The current owner has had it for about 2 years or so and he has to get rid of it and his 2yr old Harley because they are having a baby.


Thank you for all your insight on this corvette.

[kingman]

It sounds to me that you are young and thinking with his heart and not his brain. But do not feel bad, because we all do that from time to time.

Be patient and wait for the right one, or you'll wind up with a money pit, like you have never seen.

Just think how many miles you will put on it during your first year driving it. Before long you will be over a hundred thousand miles and it will be worth $9000 at best, plus all the money you sank into it.

PASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way $13,500 is still to high.

[*89x2*]

Originally posted by kingman
[b]Just as long as you buy a 94 or newer you will be able to sleep at night because starting in 94 they came out with twin air bags, one for the driver and one for the passenger.

What???
I wish my 93 didn't have an airbag... ALways liked the 86-89 steering wheels myself

So when you really think it over, paying a little more will save you allot down the road, a short road.

...agreed


Ohh , back to the original question, 13.5 top dollar for Auto, 14.5 if a 6 speed w/ other options like sport interior, etc.

nada has that car at $19,000 I think that's high for that milage but thats what the ins. co. would give you in the event of a total.I was asking 13,999 for my 87 (14,000 mi) untill it got hit last week. the ins. co would only give my 7,000 if it got totaled. I just turned down 11,500. before it got hit. now $7000. looks good even after it's fixed. It's no longer mint!

[warren s]

I was told my 95 would be worth about 16 grand from a dealer and he could sell it for 18 grand, it has 2o,ooo miles on it.

I have seen and worked on C4s with over 100K on the clock, its all in the maintnace. Some low mileage cars that sat around are going to be more trouble than a high mileage good condition model.

The 95 and 96, except for the LT4 are the exact same. Just have it checked out before you even make an offer to see where you stand.

[warren s]

Remember there were over 358,000 C4s built, you dont have to settle.

[kingman]

Warren
There were several important changes in the 96 from the 95.

Check some of the earliar threads.

The transmission was upgraded, and the injectors were also upgraded and the ecm codes went from 60 to 180 to begin with.

Alan

[warren s]

Kingman-

Yeah, I also have the corvette black book.

But please define "important". The maintnace schdules are the same, the part numbers for injectors are the same so are the performance numbers for the LT1s of both years.

[kingman]

Hi Warren

No, l do not go to a book and spout information, because most of the Corvette books leave to much out and add info that does not interest me. Inorder to get the kind of info really needed, you would have to read several books.

But to save time go to "Search" and look up "LT1VettePilot"
Date 2-02-03 at 03:25 and read his post which came out of a Corvette Book word for word. This only lists the important upgrades.

Alan

[warren s]

Kingman-

Not to sound up tight, but the Corvette Black book has stuff like that about every year vette. If you start at the first C4 and go foward to the last, the 96, and look at all the improvements over the years, it a wonder the 84 even ran at all.

BUT- to work on the various years, and drive them, its almost impossible to tell the differance between the first and last LT1s.
All that stuff that changes between years of the LT1s is just small potatos.

Other than the change in the optispark, from a drivers stand point its the same car.

And by the way its 60 to 140 codes.

Where in Jersey are you? Do you go to the Corvette challenges at RP?