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Possible Trade: Is It Possible?
I have a 99 Convertable with every option possible. It is an auto. Mag wheels,HUD, You Name It. Anyway, I really have been thinking hard about a ZR-1. Do you think I could sell mine and buy a 93-95 ZR-1? I don't want one with 5 miles on it that has been in climate control. But I don't want one with more than say 30k on it. Am I out of line or what? BTW my car has 18k on it. Just curious.Thanks
Why in the world would you tell someome that wants to step UP to a ZR1 to just keep his 99.
Thats like you saying you want to get rid of your Race car Mercedes for a ZR1 and me telling you NOT to do it, I wouldn't be much of a friend by giving you that kind of advice. :chevy
I have a 99 Convertable with every option possible. It is an auto. Mag wheels,HUD, You Name It. Anyway, I really have been thinking hard about a ZR-1. Do you think I could sell mine and buy a 93-95 ZR-1? I don't want one with 5 miles on it that has been in climate control. But I don't want one with more than say 30k on it. Am I out of line or what? BTW my car has 18k on it. Just curious.Thanks
You will never regret it. Come on over to the dark side. :D A group where membership will always be below 7,000.
I traded my 99' vert in for the '94 and got 6K back in change. However, if you have the money - keep the '99 and get a '90 ZR1. You won't drive the '99 much anymore, but every now and then you'll wish you had it for long cruises.
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Re: Possible Trade: Is It Possible? (LowFlight)
Ok...I found a perfect 94 ZR-1 Black/Black with 64k on it. The guy will trade even for my 1999 that I have for sale on the C5 Forsale. I need advice on this...yes? No?
Your 99 roadster should be worth around $34K. That 95 ZR-1,if nice,is easily worth that. If you can trade even and the ZR-1 is what you really want,my suggestion would be to go for it,Harold. As you are no doubt aware of,95 ZR-1's don't grow on trees. :D They are very special cars.
60K miles isn't anything for a well cared-for ZR-1.
I don't know if you read my other posting on your other thread. Like I said there's a very clean 93 ZR-1 white/Black with 8,000 going for $39,000 out here near San Francisco which I have checked out which is very clean, original owner, no engine stains something I would mind having as a second car. Here is the link if your interested, look it up on the quick list here. http://www.californiaclassics.com/showroom.asp
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Re: Possible Trade: Is It Possible? (SPEEDEMON)
Hey Stockton...that is where Chris Isaak is From....I am a huge fan... :cool:
My problem is that I HAVE to sell my 99 Convertable first before I can buy from an individual. I really want a 94 or 5. I have found the perfect car I just have to sell mine first. I have some trade options...but would rather sell mine and buy this one.
Hey you might want to really take a look at Ted's 95 that he's selling. With 361 rwhp that figures out to right about 435 hp considering with the 17% power loss through the drive train. Not only is it a 95, it has the Dunn heads. Remember only 130 of these cars were made with Dunn heads! http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=241967
Hey you might want to really take a look at Ted's 95 that he's selling. With 361 rwhp that figures out to right about 435 hp considering with the 17% power loss through the drive train. Not only is it a 95, it has the Dunn heads. Remember only 130 of these cars were made with Dunn heads!
I have a question about the Dunn heads. In "The Heart of the Beast" it says: The next crisis came in 1992 when MerCruiser received a letter from Birmal Foundry in England stating they were going out of business and were no longer going to make castings. Birmal planned to shut down sooner than MerCruiser felt it could find a new casting supplier for the cylinder heads. MerCruiser chose to order a year's worth of production before the foundry closed. A.L. Dunn, another English foundry, took Birmal's tooling, made changes to resolve quality problems, and began making cylinder heads for MerCruiser.
It also says in the back of the book that the supplier for 1994.5-95 model years was A.L. Dunn.
OK-Here is my question-- If Dunn was the supplier for 94.5-95 and 448 Zs were built each of those years, how can only 130 of them have Dunn heads? Drawing from the book, shouldn't there be more than that?
One theory I thought of was inconsistancy. If there was no rhyme or reason for differentiating the heads, then they could be sprinkled throughout 94 and 95. If that was the case, how do you tell the difference? :cheers:
Good question and its a very logical question that probably cannot be answered. It was probably something along the line of a pile of current heads already at MM and when they were exhausted they used the new AL Dunn heads. I bet they were even saying things like... "Darn, this has been going quite well, now we got to change to these AL Dung heads and probably mess everything up" . AL Dunn heads do not make a difference in power, in fact possible less overall from a few of the "known" A.L Dunn head cars I have seen. I really do not think that they are even better made, perhaps even worse, but who knows. Those that have them will make sure that you hear about it. I hope the AL Dunn heads give thier owners a warm and fuzzy feeling, as thats all they really can do. What they were was a temporary fix to the problem of not having a casting manufatuer. GM basically screwed Brimel by promising a larger poduction and putting an end to it. GM is good about doing things like that, especially to the car owners. The ONLY thing AL Dunn heads mean is this..... If you happen to get a car that has them, you can say "look everybody, my ZR1 has AL Dunn heads"....
Whooooooooooo...Ohhhhhhhhh...Wooooooow.. ... I think its nice to have a difference and something to be rare and the few cars that got them are rare, but do not look at a ZR1 to be fast because it has AL Dunn heads. If you want rare, get a rare color or a 93 40th aniverssary ZR1... You dont have to go pointing out heads.
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