Hey Steve Jackson, you need this

[Tacoma]

Sweet Scout buggy thing.

http://pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=700529

 

[ChestonScout]

Nice

 

[scoutabout]

That is pretty cool.

 

[ChestonScout]

16.500 is pretty high though. I was thinking like 6500

 

[gijohn40]

but come on now... its got two old kegs for a gas tanks... that added thousands to the price...

 

[1995zj]

but come on now... its got two old kegs for a gas tanks... that added thousands to the price...

Aren't those just standard propane tanks since it runs off propane

 

[Kiel]

Aren't those just standard propane tanks since it runs off propane

Sure looks like it too me, they are probably more expensive then kegs though

 

[Caleb]

16.500 is pretty high though. I was thinking like 6500

I agree...nothing special about it other than it's been tubed out. It's even still leaf springs all around. It is clean for what it is though.

 

[Meat_]

Come awwn! It has D44s

 

[ChestonScout]

It takes balls to turn a keg into a propane tank!


That and the d44s probably makes it worth 20k. Im sure hes taking a loss

 

[Bodine]

C'mon its only money.

 

[Cody]

but it's a scout, and there are weird fruity people that will pay a ton of money because of it. Some people are finatical about that stuff. You see it to some extent from FJ people as well.

 

[Seth]

Cody, I thought for sure that last line was going to say mac instead of FJ.

 

[Cody]

well, Mac people are cheap. They won't buy a used built Mac for a premium because they can buy a new computer that will come with the latest smuggery inducing cosmetic enhancements and even get a clever mac smugpaign to go along with it.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

...You see it to some extent from FJ people as well.

Hmmm, I don't see it. Quality will always demand a price.

 

[Tacoma]

"smuggery"... Thank you Cody, that is an excellent word.

 

[Cody]

Hmmm, I don't see it. Quality will always demand a price.

I wasn't saying it as a slam at all. People are finatics about things and there are people out there that collect FJ's, Scouts, or just about any older/vintage vehicle (EB's, CJ's, Flatty's, muscle cars, etc etc) and because of that there is a premium on their value. If it were a quality thing, I could take a super clean fj40 cruiser and transplant all of it's gear into a super clean CJ7 or bronco 2 and it wouldn't change the value. But the reality is, what was a $30k fj40 would then become a $7k rig, and it's not because the body is worth 20 grand.

Simple supply and demand. There are fewer clean rigs out there of the older vintage, so someone that has an appreciation or some sort of passion for a particular make will pay a premium for a particularly clean one. It's not the quality.

it's like saying a FJ40 guy will pay 4x's book value for a clean 66 mustang just because it's a quality car. Beauty/value is in the eye of the beholder on older vehicles.