1995 civic ex coupe with 265 miles?
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Great idea for investment since there were like 20 bazillion of them sold! Usually you choose a car that actually might be worth something, not a run of the mill car.
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But this one is rare because it was caulk green pearl and didn't have the factory AC installed! Makes it worth more don't you know?
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QFT, I think the return would have been a lot higher if the garage space its been sitting in had been rented out for storage. He'd have saved the purchase price and come out way ahead of anything he might possibly get- even from a friggin' honda museum
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My father in law told me about this car... late twenties early thirties. Dude bought it. He and his wife drove from watsonville to s.f. for dinner. Came home. He had a heart attack. Wife kept it. Had it tuned by a mechanic for 60 years. Never drove it again. Sold it to the gardener for pennies. Figure this car was 60 years old with about 225 miles on it.
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A car sitting for 60 years, or even 10 years, without being driven isn't likely to function properly. Will almost certainly need every single internal/external rubber seal/part replaced. If it hasn't moved, all that stuff will have dried out and cracked, even sitting in a garage. Before I would drive it myself, I'd have to have the engine, transmission and brakes at a minimum checked and more likely gone through completely.
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