Experience with selling a high HP vehicle?

[Big A]

Texas Hot Rides specializes in doing exactly what you're asking about. You might want to give them a shot to make an offer before you deal with random strangers.



You can probably make more by selling it yourself but you'll get calls from toothless hillbillies that'll just want to talk about their uncle daddy's El Camino with a 3/4 race cam that wants to race you for titles. That and guys with $500 cash who are waiting for an insurance check that want you to hold it for them.

I'll look them up when the time come, this is exactly what I'm not looking forward. I don't have the time nor patience to deal with bs, and will probably piss a few of them off, but don't be wasting my time.

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[Big A]

I bought it new in 2017, and threw parts at it immediately. I'm not expecting to take make a profit, due to depreciation alone, but would like to get FMV for the package as a whole to mitigate any loss. I don't want to turn away a potential sale with an unrealistically high asking price, and I also want to know where to draw the line in ignoring low ballers.

If the loss is unpalatable I'll hold onto the car a while longer, but we are moving this summer, and I'd rather not bring it with me.

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[BP]

Texas Hot Rides specializes in doing exactly what you're asking about. You might want to give them a shot to make an offer before you deal with random strangers.

You can probably make more by selling it yourself but you'll get calls from toothless hillbillies that'll just want to talk about their uncle daddy's El Camino with a 3/4 race cam that wants to race you for titles. That and guys with $500 cash who are waiting for an insurance check that want you to hold it for them.

[svauto-erotic855]

Selling a heavily modified car is a losing proposition unless the car is a specialty car. Sometime back I sold a heavily modified FD RX-7 and believe that it is the only modified car I've ever sold that I made money on.

[bird_dog0347]

If you have the stock parts, put back as close as possible to stock then sell the car, and sell the parts for 40%ish off retail.

[D. Lil]

In the past, I have driven the car on test drives. If they HAVE to drive it then I need cash in hand.

[Trip McNeely]

I have never heavily modded a car that I sold, but my take on selling any modded car is that you never recover that money unless it’s a specialty vehicle or at least it is rare to.

[Big A]

I'll need to find a new home for my Mustang in a month or three, and I've not yet had the privilege of selling a car privately. I've traded in up until now, but don't need a new car at this point, and would positively lose my ass on the upgrades (more so than usual).

Two part question, what are mods worth these days on a 2 yo car, and how have you handled test drives in a similar situation?

My primary concern is to vet out the joy riders, as well as protecting against inexperienced drivers who very well may be serious buyers. As far as I'm concerned, the guy/gal that's going to buy it can do donuts in an intersection, if that's what they need to know they want to car, but I don't want some yahoo in there wasting rubber, and potentially destroying the gearbox/clutch, or wrecking it.

Is a deposit of some kind feasible?

On the aspect of upgrades, I've added just about every bolt on possible, including, but not limited to a CF driveshaft, active exhaust, and a blower. Not an insignificant amount has been spent, what can I reasonably expect to add to the asking price as a percentage?