Re: I should probably buy this C-182
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2023 1:35 pm
Everyone loves a shiny paint job for big bucks but ….
If you could find an antique with horrible, peeling, cracking paint but good metal underneath….
Buy it “cheap” because it has horrible cosmetics and strip it to bare Alcad. Put a stripe and letters on with decals.
It would actually be lighter than the shiny paint, and look ok to me.
Bonus if you can get it cheap because it has a disaster original interior. Replace with new. Not hard, just tedious. Like stripping paint.
In the words of Tommy Emmanuel, when you play guitar eith someone, play where he isn’t. Same thing getting value in used goods. I bought a pristine 190 mph 2007 Hayabusa for $6k with only 4400 miles on it. Looks like new and it will do the quarter mile in under 10 seconds. What would a similarly performing shiny car cost?
PS my kid had a good year, bought an AMG M-B autobahn rocket ship. It will spin it’s very wide rear tires accelerating at over 100 mph. I didn’t know a street car could do that.
If you could find an antique with horrible, peeling, cracking paint but good metal underneath….
Buy it “cheap” because it has horrible cosmetics and strip it to bare Alcad. Put a stripe and letters on with decals.
It would actually be lighter than the shiny paint, and look ok to me.
Bonus if you can get it cheap because it has a disaster original interior. Replace with new. Not hard, just tedious. Like stripping paint.
In the words of Tommy Emmanuel, when you play guitar eith someone, play where he isn’t. Same thing getting value in used goods. I bought a pristine 190 mph 2007 Hayabusa for $6k with only 4400 miles on it. Looks like new and it will do the quarter mile in under 10 seconds. What would a similarly performing shiny car cost?
PS my kid had a good year, bought an AMG M-B autobahn rocket ship. It will spin it’s very wide rear tires accelerating at over 100 mph. I didn’t know a street car could do that.