Two days ago i found among FB and Craigslist a post on GNX #537 for sale out in the San diego CA area for the sum of $53K. I automatically assumed it was a scam, BUT inquired just the same, what did I have to loose, just my time. I began a conversation with the owner who's name is Lisa, her husband had passed November of 2018 and she informed me it was his baby and not hers, but, enjoyed driving it just the same. She is moving at the end of March to Arkansas and needed to sell it asap or transport it to her new home. I kept poking her with detailed questions, obviously if I were to drop the big coin, I wanted details about the car i was purchasing! Lisa informed me that the mileage had discrepancies, bouncing from 56 k to 17 k up to 59k (????) she blamed it on the smog testing division, no clue. In our long texting communication, she also informed me the car was in a bad deer collision on the passengers side, PRIOR to her husband purchasing it, and only found out about it after they ran a car-fax. (no clue why anyone would do that AFTER the fact) ALSO they had to replace the radiator and exhaust system.....at 59 k!!!???? The original radio is history with speaker modification in the trunk, the original power antenna was removed and replaced with a stubby flexible rubber one (junk in my opinion) that's like buying steak and putting ketchup on it. Lisa also informed me that the dash was cracked in the normal speaker areas, the exhaust needed a bracket in the rear, the vacuum system needed to be looked at (her new boyfriend who is a mechanic said so, yet didn't get any of this fixed because the labor was so expensive....??? Am I missing something here???) ... the passenger side motor mount was shot and needed to be replaced, the hood and header panel has lots of chips, the hood insulation, well, just look at the pictures, worth a thousand words.
Am I wrong in my thinking here? ....We are talking about 53K!, and all the things that make these cars so valuable, are basically all compromised with doubt and a lot of unanswered questions. Who would really bite the bullet on this vehicle!??..., not when a car fax has 3 mileage discrepancies, accidents ect ect..... There is a #296 in Hemming's with 115 K miles on it and its 3 times cleaner!! People are not using their heads and just see the GNX label and not doing the research they need to do on these cars, weather it be a GNX or any turbo Buick! After finding out all of these things on the vehicle, my other thoughts are, is the turbo original along with other vital matching Items that NEED to be in place to make this car valuable. I would love to have your feed back, thoughts...................
Am I wrong in my thinking here? ....We are talking about 53K!, and all the things that make these cars so valuable, are basically all compromised with doubt and a lot of unanswered questions. Who would really bite the bullet on this vehicle!??..., not when a car fax has 3 mileage discrepancies, accidents ect ect..... There is a #296 in Hemming's with 115 K miles on it and its 3 times cleaner!! People are not using their heads and just see the GNX label and not doing the research they need to do on these cars, weather it be a GNX or any turbo Buick! After finding out all of these things on the vehicle, my other thoughts are, is the turbo original along with other vital matching Items that NEED to be in place to make this car valuable. I would love to have your feed back, thoughts...................
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