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I'm not exactly the neighborhood price expert but 307's are worthless; 305 is considered more reliable but not more valuable. Only the 442 and Hurst Cutlasses are really worth the $10,000+ asking prices. A regular Cutlass in pristine condition still isn't worth much more than $5,000 and for it to be even passing the $7,500 mark every single solitary last detail had better be correct / #'s matching / garage kept 1 or 2 owners then; frame had better look grey/black and not brown. For a Cutlass S to be worth anywhere near 6 or 7 it would need to have cool or rare options such as the SSII rims / sunroof top/ digital clock inside/ console shifter/ sport steering wheel inside. I have the Brougham - I love my car but the Brougham is worthless w/ the vinyl top and not worth much more without it. I've seen someone sell a Cutlass for nearly $10,000 in pristine condition but not over that. The Brougham usually hovers closer to 5 in pristine condition and more typically under 5 even on its best day. Obviously don't pay top dollar for a car with metric trans. Even dealerships back in the day were already taking those out and doing the 200r4 so if one has the 3speed trans I think the decision becomes obvious. I actually prefer the console/bench seat personally idk why most dont ;but they book the Cutlass way lower w. bench/column so you can talk a person down if the car has bench/column pretty fast
I just remembered a guy on the Olds Facebook group was asking $25,000 for an 87 Salon. White, burgundy landau top, buckets/floor shift with 1,207 documented original miles. The comments were hilarious, watching him try to brush off the general consensus that no G-body Cutlass is worth that much(excluding the special ones), and that he needs to come down to 12,000 at the highest
Yeah it would be funny if we made the '1 percenters club' so everyone who actually owns a $10,000 example of Cutlass could show some of these dorks out there why less than 1% of Cutlasses are even worth passing $10,000 mark. I wonder if the ammount is even .5% in my state where the recession hit kind of hard. Lots of Cutlasses came out of the woodwork when people's daily drivers went down around here and it was easy to see how fast a car can go from looking like $10,000 to looking like a thousand bucks in no time with just a few parking lot dust-ups and some surface rust it's over with fast.
pencero said:
Both motors are inferior compared to today's technolgy but back in the day this was not true. Back in the day, the Olds 307 was the better motor (even the vin-y). The Olds 307 had more torque, better fuel economy, better reliability, and better technology. The Olds 307 even had roller lifters - probably splitting hairs but sice you called out the Olds motor, I had to point out a few details. Ha.
Well i'm quite surprised with the feedback. Sure glad i'm doing my homework and asking questions. Chances are i would have gotten taken for a ride just because i like these cars. I never knew that the landau rear vinyl roof was a negative. This forum has allready turned out to be very informative. Thanks guys
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