Finally breaking down and selling my baby. Pics/Video are on the auction page. No deals outside of Ebay will be considered. Please see the Ebay auction for details, and to bid. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1993-Geo-Metro-XFi-42k-miles-60-MPG-avg-no-reserve-/271215761771?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item3f25b8196b
I wish they could sell this car today. Yeah , I know it doesn't have all the "safety" of newer cars , but I drove many hundreds of thousands of miles in cars without airbags or ABS , and by some miracle, I'm still alive. The closest you can get to this car (here in NA) today would be the Chevy Spark , or the upcoming Mitsu Mirage.
Yeah that is for sure. I had never heard about the new Mitsu though, I will have to keep my eyes open for that one. Thanks for checking out the auction
It is an easy fix, they are actually ~$25 or so on rockauto. But the brake line is not the only thing keeping me from driving it full time. There is also the alignment toe-in issue I talked about on the auction, which has been working the front tires down. Tires are $50 a pop on TireRack. And I don't have the equipment to do an Alignment so that is also a mechanic bill. That still doesn't seem too expensive to most people more than likely, but I am on a 1 income home salary and my wife and I have already taken out a loan to buy our new car. In all honesty, one of the things that has been stalling me is the fact that (even if I get it fixed) it just wouldn't work for our family at this time because we have 2 young children in car seats. So I was going to work on it slowly (I had many more plans other than just getting it all fixed up) and break it back out after the kids are a bit older. Unfortunately, bills speak louder than hopes and dreams. Thanks for your interest though. Believe me, it burns me more than you know that I have to get rid of it.
Well I get the hard times financially Hope you get a good price. Of course you know it would go for a LOT MORE if it could be driven away. Hope you get a good price-make sure you have a decent reserve. Running driving it might be worth $3000-even $5000 or so Hope you do OK on it. Charlie
Thanks Charlie. I didn't set any reserve though, I am fine if it goes at the price it is at now. I feel like reserve prices force people to have to bid higher than they may actually value the car. In past experience this has a higher rate of non-paying bidders. If a bid is not forced, and a person can bid what they want, there is much less of a chance they will be unhappy, and then they will be more likely to pay.
Goatfarmer Good point. If you find the right buyer-mechanically inclined hyper miler who lives reasonably close to you-you can do OK Luck Charlie
