Re: Dear god no!

[Khan Klatt <khan@mediaaccess.com>]

At 4:48 PM -0800 03/29/2000, Chuck Van Pelt wrote:
>Don't know what's scarier...that car of the price.
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290836918

What scarred me was the atrosious speling. Althogh the sterio sounded 
kinda cool.

All joking aside, I thought I'd seen pictures of this particular 
Jetta before. I would never buy it myself, but the paint job is 
fairly interesting.

I can't help but think that you could go out and buy a 1998 Jetta GLX 
for $19,000 used. Get some Bilstein/Neuspeed shocks struts for $1000, 
installed. Spend another $1000 for a kick ass stereo system. $1000 
for tires and wheels, assuming you don't like the stocks. Spend 
another $1000 to personalize it (motor mounts, chips, brakes, K&N 
filter, etc.) and you're only at $23,000.

So all you're really spending the difference on is the custom paint 
job and custom interior. That's probably why there are no bids on it. 
I could see if they wanted to sell the car for $24,000 if they wanted 
to argue that the "unique-one-of-a-kind" features make it so unique 
that it's worth the difference.

On the other hand, this is a two year old car which, other than its 
paint job is not all that different from any other Jetta III GLX. I'd 
pay $19000 tops for that car, and then I'd probably get it repainted. 
You can't improve the paint job of the Silver Arrow. ;)

-Khan


Khan Klatt                                         khan@mediaaccess.com

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