Droptop93":21lvti3a said:
Why are alltrac's so ridiculously priced? I know the rarity of them and the prestigious past, but they are still a 20+ year old celica. I've found a what seems to be a clean 90 pretty close to me (few hours away) but I just can't justify the over $9k price for it as much as I want one, in what seems like a pretty much stock unmolested trac. .......help me
Where have you been looking for one? All I see are cheap Tracs for sale. It seems like they continue to fall in price. 10k$ for Tubasteves car is a steal IMO!! That is probably rust free and under a 100k miles plus a mountain of alltrac parts. I ask why they aren't worth more!?!
When I started to look for my car I had found a clean well taken care of 1992 which was for sale on this board for 12k$ and a somewhat ratty 1992 in FL for 4500$. Both cars were black but the latter car had a built motor, big brakes, clean interior, KO turbo kit, and it was a Colorado/Arizona car it's entire life meaning no rust. It was in New York. The other car had rust issues, torn up seats, botched body repairs, etc. I began saving a lot of money per week and started to think I could buy the 12k one. Then life happened and I could no longer afford the clean one. I purchased the 92 from FL and began my project.....4 years later it is still in a thousand pieces from all the repairs I had to make on it. I have enough money in it to buy it 4 times over yet it's still not done.
Moral of the story: Get the cleanest one you can not afford and make it work somehow. I bet I'd be driving mine if it had been a 10-15k Trac. They're out there, owned by nut jobs like us, that have no problem dumping thousands into a car that rarely sells for 10k ever! One day somewhat soon they will be worth a whole lot more once Supra's and Mr2's become unattainable in value.