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Old 01-30-2018, 01:28 PM
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89 5.0 tpi 5-speed iroc, thoughts?

Stumbled across this. Seems like a pretty clean car. Price isn't CRAZY high, which is refreshing. I think this is a good indicator of values going up.

http://www.jkgalleria.com/1989-Chevr...2/Details.aspx
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Here you go. Probably more info on this particular car than you expected.

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/hist...ngs-wrong.html
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AHAH!! The whole time I was looking at that and thinking "man, I know I've seen this car somewhere before."

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Like I said in the other thread, I shoulda grabbed it for 3 grand way back then....
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Least they could do is put the seatbelt guides on the right sides.
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15,500 lol .. another dealer asking over twice of what the car is worth .. another iroc that will sit on ebay for the next couple years ..
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15,500 lol .. another dealer asking over twice of what the car is worth .. another iroc that will sit on ebay for the next couple years ..
Eventually, it'll sell for around $10K, which is still a tidy profit for them. Basically, they paid all the money for it at Mecum last October.
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...and the chrome cig lighter lives on!!! At this point, they gotta just keep that lighter, just to keep the story going.
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...and the chrome cig lighter lives on!!! At this point, they gotta just keep that lighter, just to keep the story going.

Agree completely!

30 years from now, when Wayne Carini's grandson finds it in a dusty garage, he'll identify it as the "chrome lighter car", with various threads posted about it on TGO!
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Re: 89 5.0 tpi 5-speed iroc, thoughts?

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Agree completely!

30 years from now, when Wayne Carini's grandson finds it in a dusty garage, he'll identify it as the "chrome lighter car", with various threads posted about it on TGO!
No sons, two daughters, one is autistic and far nicer than her father.

Actually the other one is far nicer than her father too.
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No sons, two daughters, one is autistic and far nicer than her father.

Actually the other one is far nicer than her father too.
You're not the first person to tell me he's not real nice.

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