The 1997 240SX that will cost you $65,000.

[Pento240sx]

I was browsing for cars and found this S14 for $65,000 dollars (It was lowered from $100,000). I think this price is a bit ridiculious.
It does not have the oem wheels, is auto and base model (4 lug). The good thing is that is in mint condition and has only 676 miles.
What is your guys opinion?

Link.
https://www.carsforsale.com/vehicle/details/34540889

[Bubba1]

I agree. Ridiculous. I don't begrudge the seller. Sadly someone might actually pay him that much money for it. Then one should ask who's the fool?

I personally think the decimal is in the wrong place at $65K, (s/b closer to $6,500) especially for a comparatively undesireable automatic transmissioned example. I know many were bought used by young people as they were dirt cheap. (They were not expensive new either). I recognize every generation gets nostalgic about cars from their youth. But this is a poor investment once you remove the emotion: 1. it's NOT a collectible (Nissan literally built tens of thousands of them) and 2. the value of this one immediately plummets if you modify it or even simply put miles on it. I say good luck to the seller.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Yeah that's wild. I doubt Hagerty would insure it for that much anyway.

[centralcoaster33]

Pfft, it's OBD-II! Nearly worthless in California! JK. I had a 97 and liked the headlights, but we do have the lock down on mods here in SMOG CARB CA. It does look like a base model, automatic, so it's got that going against it. And, as mentioned above, where are the factory wheels? It's molested! It does have a nice tape cassette player though. I like that.

Wow, it mentions being $58,500 above average. I don't think they misplaced the decimal looking at their silly explanation, they just completely miscalculated the value. Whoever buys it, deserves it I think.

When I saw this thread title I immediately thought it could be a listing for M tr4nch's completed car!

I say good luck with sale and thank you for not posting it in our classifieds! (wait, could we use the traffic?)

[Pento240sx]

Yeah I don't know who would actually buys this. I don't thing there could be anyone would actually purchase this. Maybe if it was like 15k to 20k than that would be a "fair price" if anyone does buy this, I hope they become a member here and post the car.

[G37Virtue]

The person has the freedom to sell what he thinks the car is worth, if your a collector maybe, but I would just buy a Silvia out of japan for less or GTR with that money.

[nissangirl74]

He's lowered it to $55K. He should have just driven it. The garage is no place for furniture. Cars are meant to be driven...

[ca18det_boy]

I saw this car on another ad through facebook and it went into great detail about the history of the car. What this particular ad is missing is the details about how there was flood damage to it that the dealer allegedly fixed and then the car sat ever since then. Funny how they left that out of the information section on this one. There's also some other things that were in the ad that didn't make sense, for example supposedly this is actually the 3rd s14 that he got from nissan. The 2 other ones had "unrepairable factory defects" so in a lawsuit, nissan gave them this s14. More power to them if it sells though, I just wish they would disclaim all the information that was previously out there.

[centralcoaster33]

I stumbled upon a Jalopnik article about it, with the initial posting being over 100k and then lowered to 100k. By the time I saw it it was at 65K and now is down to 55k. They mentioned odd details in there as well, that I hadn't seen. Like this car is a show model made of special rust proof metal and meticulously assembled. That the non-oem wheels were one of a kind custom just for this car. Etc. It sounded pretty extravagant, but didn't make a lot of sense to me. At least for how any of that would contribute to value. Just the metal sounds kind of nice I guess.

[asoomal]

Durasteel isn't rust proof lol. Most mid 80's to late 90's Nissan used that steel.