i have no idea where to put this thread, there's not a general/general section, and it's not necessarily camaro related even, but im wondering what you guys think anyhow... so, i apologize to the mods for sticking this in a random section....

so as some of you know, i have an 06 busa... i ran across a guy who's willing to trade a Teal automatic 94 vette for my bike straight across.. i've gone over it with a fine tooth comb, and it's perfect. even plugged in a scanner.. it's sound. the guy has too many cars and would rather have the bike..

the bike is also sound...

with that said, it's getting to be winter and the camaro i have doesn't run yet, isn't street legal yet, needs tons of work and time that i don't have, is an hour away from me and it's hard to FIND the time to go and work on it much less the cash.... and im running out of time before it starts getting too cold to deal with riding that bike. what i'm saying is, i don't OWN a car that i can drive this winter.. the camaro is too far out really..

so... if you guys (who aren't really bike guys in general) had this bike and loved it (more than you love your camaros probably) would you trade it for a teal automatic corvette? ok let me elaborate.... compare this bike to your dream camaro... if your camaro was EXACTLY like you wanted it.. would you trade it for a vette?

the car is worth considerably more than the bike is, and even the owner knows that and admits to it, but loves my bike.

what would you do...

and don't say "it's up to you" .. i know it's up to me, but i cant decide so am looking for words of wisdom.... and that's the only answer i've gotten so far "it's up to you"

the car is 100% sound though, no hidden crap... and it has Z06 wheels on it with 195's on the rear..

and........ LT1... 145k miles, this guy is the second owner and has managed an autozone for 15 years and builds race motors professionally. so it's sound and maintained...

 

That is the ugliest color of the ugliest generation of Vettes, and auto = girl car.

However I support the trade. Rice rockets are toys, not tools. I say drive the Vette, fix the Camaro, then trade the Vette for something more useful once you have the Camaro to drive.

 

lol aaron, you're absolutely right... the LEAST desirable color corvette ever made, and an automatic... it IS a girl's car or an old man's car either way...

trust me, if it were black/black and a 6 speed, i'd have already done the trade... OR ANY color of C5

btw i updated the first post lol... not significantly, but somewhat....

but yeah, i'm leaning more towards that idea too.... and my girlfriend's little honda is falling apart too, and no money to fix it, so, she can drive it or the camaro when i get it running, then sell her car to buy me another bike..

but, considering i make my money working on bikes primarily, it makes sense for me to have one lol.... i rode my bike -every- day last winter.... it sucked, but i did it lol... i just took off of work the 2 days that it actually iced over here.. forget about snow.. that doesn't happen very often here...

 

THE WORST vettes and low value is the 84 up to about 91. At least in 92 they got a facelift with oval tail lights. Personally, I would trade for the Vette. A LOT more peole would buy a vette more than a Busa. They are not the worst Vettes but not the best either. I think I would give it serious consideration and think of VALUE more than a car vs. a bike.

 

well, if i sold the vette and my camaro, i could buy a C5

i guess i'd have to find a different forum though

 

and... yeah.. 92-96 or whatever are nicer, and LT instead of TPI.. but LT's were basically the test platform for the LS, which is preferred greatly...

ultimately, i WILL end up with a black/black C5 with HUD and 6 speed in my garage.. i've been trading up for a while now lol...

i had an 00 z28 that i traded for the bike which was worth more than the car, now trading the bike for a car that's worth more, then sell the car for something better, eventually i'll have a ferrari if i play my cars right LOLOL

 

Hahaha trade the vette for a porsche and keep moving up till ferrari status. Id only trade if it was a manual I cant stand auto cars anymore lol

 

i actually had a porsche 928, bought it for 1200, washed it inside and out, cleaned up the carpet, put seat covers on it and sold it for 2200 not even 3 weeks later.. i hated that car...... hated it with a passion. but found the right buyer though.

and it was my intention to flip it... screw german engineering though, way too complex and over engineered.

but yeah... the whole automatic thing sucks...

but i'm still leaning towards the trade, and letting it sit in my garage with a cover over it until i get the camaro running, then selling both of them and lowballing someone on a C5 with a T56.. then cleaning it up, selling it and getting a lower mileage one exactly like i want with the exact options... i'm almost there. lol

but until that happens i'll miss my bike and won't be happy with a teal automatic barbie car. not even my girlfriend would drive that vette... (i asked)

 

 

agreed.... made profit though.. lol i'd buy a geo if i knew i could turn it for a buck.

 

ok.... going to look at the corvette in a few minutes.....

eeh... i hope it's what he's talked it up to be.... if it's anything less, i'm not going to do it.

 

Hows this

Trade 1:1

Sell corvette

Buy another bike you like and have cash left over

 

I was thinking the same. Trade bike for vette. flip vette and buy another better bike and a car for your G/F thats not falling apart. (Thats IF its a serious relationship)

 

I'm the biggest car performance nut around, and trust me when I say you will want to kick yourself in the nuts for losing your bike if you really love it that much. I had my camaro on the road for 2 weeks, then it broke down, and still is broken down for the moment, everytime I go by a performance car in the little 4 banger grand am, a piece of me dies, esp if its an fbody, and esp if its a 3rd gen.
You did it once, you can do it again, IMO tough it out through another winter on the bike, ESP. if you have modified it, but if you do get the corvette you would be able to sell it after and get another bike, but it may never quite be the same, or maybe things don't work out, and you wind up with no bike for a year or 2.
Tough it out another year imo.

 

yeah, im just glad to see that everyone else is pretty much in line with what ive been thinking, it means that i'm not being irrational.

but yeah i traded a 00' z28 with a fracked up t56 for this bike, and my intention was to sell the bike and trade up for a C5 vette, but money had been tight..

if i get this C4 vette, i'll drive it until my 91 rs is fully roadworthy, then park the vette in the garage, and drive the RS, then next winter sell both of them for a C5...

and or sell my girlfriend's car and buy another cafe racer project or something.. but probably just get a C5 lol... but as for the seriousness of our relationship, we've been together going on 5 years, so it's pretty serious. lol

everything else is speculation though until it happens. but my goal is to end up with a black C5 LS1 with a 6 speed, which i will keep for decades lol or keep trading for newer ones.

as for the bike i've decided that i don't care about it as much as i thought i did. i had a nice long ride last night and decided it's really too much bike. the bastard will do 210mph as it sits today. had it to 225 with the turbo on it. i just...... dont need that... i'm in my 30's and would love to live another 60+ years...

 

Lol, a c5 will run you about 15k btw, if memory serves, just throwing it out there...I want to get one myself...thought about getting a c4 in the meanwhile, but I think I'll just stick to the camaro till I can get the c5 after looking into it a bit.

 

yeah i've been pricing vettes since i was old enough to drive, pretty up on prices and such,

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ok, so i went down to look at it, it was decent, had some exterior issues but not tooooo bad, but EVERY panel in the interior was broken.. EVERY panel.

the leather and whatever looked good on the outside, but all the plastic n cardboard underneath were jacked up cracked and broken. i have no idea what they did to that poor car...

then i took it out for a test drive. the engine ran smooth and great but there was a weird vibration that i couldn't quite pinpoint that didn't change with road conditions... i got out to the main road and slammed it into first and floored it, shifted into second, and............................................ it didn't shift into second for about 15 seconds, then slammed into 2nd, then i tried 3rd and...................... it wouldn't shift into 3rd, then EVENTUALLY slammed into third, then i put it in overdrive and.........


it never shifted into overdrive.... it was stuck on 3rd... i feathered the gas, sped up, slowed down, did whatever i could and eventually when i slowed to about 20mph it shifted into 4th then back into 2nd.... so i stopped, put it in drive, and drove it normally and it didn't shift into overdrive again, but eventually did... after quite a while...

in other words, the transmission is -focked-

and the rear end clicks and clanks and makes noises...

it's not the U joints, it was definitely the rear end..

the plexiglass top he has on it had stress cracks ALLLLLLLLL over it... and given that these targa tops are known for body flex, what the stress cracks mean to me is that the body HAS been flexed enough form stress cracks in the top........ in other words, he floors the **** out of that car constantly.

all 4 tires are different brands..

the headlight doesn't pop up...

ok....... granted all of those things are fairly simple to fix if you have the money to do so, and if you love the car, it's worth doing...

but would i trade my beloved bike for that car?

nope...

the point is, i need a reliable daily driver, not another project.. i already have a camaro for a project..

so.... i guess for now i'm going to keep this bike, keep the camaro, fix it up this next week and get it on the road.

despite the camaro isn't running and is about half the power, it's still in better shape aside from the paint. which i have covered anyway...

so.... i guess that's the decision...

i left on my bike, and i rode home on it too.

 

Yeah, sounds like a bit of a basket case, and a 10 footer.

 

lolol yeahhh...............

well all of that would have been ok if the car didn't wreak of heavy duty flea market cologne... that was the real deal breaker.

lololol

 

OK, so this is one of those threads where peoples "opinions" are solicited. That measn each one is no more wrong or right than the next one

Austin TX- I see that as being a 10-11 month bike selling season vs if you were up north

If I recall, wasn't the Camaro given to you for free by your dad?

so, you have a bike which isn't a comfortable ride for 2 people to go to dinner or grocery shopping or riding in the rain

your girlfriend has a car which is falling apart

you now want to trade your bike for an 18 year old vette

there are wants and then there are needs

right now, your needs are not met and yet you want to discuss wants

you need reliable transportation, not an 18 year old vette.

if you really have the Busa and it's free and clear, sell it and get newer reliable transportation. Then, when you can afford it, start looking at your wants and that means project or fun cars.

 

no.. it's not a 10-11 month bike selling season. bikes don't sell worth a crap from about october to may.. its a great time to buy at 50% off, shitty time to sell for obvious reasons. it doesn't snow but it gets cold and wet.. it hovers around freezing for quite a while but rarely actually freezes enough to put snow on the ground, just lots of rain and t-storms sleet and hail. not fun to ride in. not doing that again...

yes.. free car from my dad that i've been jacking with for how long now several weeks now and it was supposed to be a weekend project? still not running, dumped tons of money into it and it still needs more money dumped into it, and it's nowhere near reliable, and not so sure it ever will be fully reliable.

The vette sounded like a promising answer to that problem of reliable transportation whereas the camaro would have become the "fun project car" that you speak of... the vett guy talked it up quite a bit and talked about all the things he changed and all the records he kept, and it was pretty much hearsay until i got to go look at it myself because....... PEOPLE LIE..... and he did.... but in fairness, its not like i took everything at face value either, i'm rather skeptical of just about anything like that until i see it, and i was sure to bring a highly trusted and certified mechanic with me to go over the bastard with a fine tooth comb...

as far as wants and needs, that one statement was the only one you got wrong.. everything else was right. i wasn't looking for a luxury item in the vette, i was looking for something to get me back n forth to jobs out of the cold that i can haul my tools in etc. and like i just said, the camaro needs -tons- of ****.. every time we fix something, something else comes up.. but... with that said, i have no choice but to get it running at this point, and should have it by the end of the weekend, but ... it probably won't pass a smog test, so, there's another bunch of bs issues i gotta deal with..

but if you read the rest of the posts you'd know i walked away from the vette.. i've moved on, im keeping the bike, fixing the camaro and dealing with the weather in the meantime. we'll take everything else as it goes..

so....... that means i'll be on here posting a bunch of questions probably... keep a look out.

 

If you've owned the camaro for a year or more, and haven't driven it(sounds like you haven't driven it, or driven it much) for more than 5k you can get emissions exempt, also, idk what the regulations are in tx, but you could also look into classic/antique plates to get around emissions, if you really don't think it will pass.

 

Yah it doesnt fit those requirements, title hasn't been transferred and had it maybe 3 months myself for a few weeks.. and the antique plates, you can do hat if its more than 25 years old but you can only drive the car to festivals, car shows, parades n crap like that legally, and it actually costs more to get that kind of plate. Ill just register it in a smog friendly county and pay some ******* a few bucks to turn a blind eye to whtever else doesn't pass..

 

Oh.. but if u don't pass a smog test you can file for excemption or extentions, its just not easy to get an excemption. Lots of hippies here.