my lease is gonna be up in a little less than a year, buy out is a little below 18k for my 01 R
cant decide if i should buy out the R or strip my mods and give it back to the dealer and spend like 12k on a 70' 454ci stingray w/ t-tops -black on black
hmmmmmmmm what should i do???
im leaning towards the vette right now what do you guys think?

 

keep the r more of daily driver

 

buy out the R

 

yes, unless u have a beater.. keep the R. That Vette is not really a track or daily driver

 

Well i have to ask u what forum you are on? I think u should keep the R. If u give the R back then go out and buy u a CW ITR. They are a little cheaper plus i always loved the CW ITR.

 

Vettes are garbage. A friend of mine bought a 2001 and hated every second with it. Poor manufactoring was his biggest dislike. Everytime he would drop the top it would scrape a little paint off the rear. He took it to the dealership and they said they would repaint it until his warrenty is up since it was one of the many manufactoring defects for that year.... Keep the R!!

 

which has absolutely nothing to do with his questions. In case you are blind, he is looking at a 1970 vette, not a C5.

18k buyout for a lease'd R? that sucks. I would turn it in.

 

12k on a '70 vette w/ a big block sounds like a heck of a deal if it's close to original.


[Modified by danelot, 1:25 AM 1/27/2003]

 

stingray yummmmmm but its true they do have alot of problems

 

keep the R. the vette is nothing but headaches.......

 

how many of you have owned older vettes out of curiosity?

-Dave, whose father did and had 0 major problems with it.

 

buy the R

 

Let me rephrase that...

Any older car will cause and have more maintance then a newer car- Its just a given.

Especially if the miles and age is higher.

But the good thing about owning a Chevy is the parts are very availbe and somewhat inexspensive.

 

Hehe 454ci of bad attitude..... heheheh go for the vette man stand out from the crowd. Screw the riceboy opinions. Do whatever you feel you want to it's YOUR money.

 

Bottom line, i got into hondas cause i couldnt have a 69-71 corvette, if i ever was presented with the opportunity to own one, id take it.

 

A modified ITR is likely to be faster than a stock Vette of that vintage

 

gas mileage?

 

Thats not true.
Look at car-stats.com at a 69 vette. Its fast. And remember, those numbers are on old shitty rubber. Strap on a set of S03's and that thing stock should pull low 13's high 12's. Quite a bit faster than mid 14's


edit: I just looked at another site that has a 1970 454 vette with a 7 second 0-60, so I dont know...





[Modified by jond, 11:19 PM 1/26/2003]

 

Do what I did, I was leasing my 01 R...I had a manager at the dealership work it where they bought the car from me, then sell it back to me as a certified used car: 7yr/100k bumper-bumper warranty and 4.9% APR.

Also, 18k is not bad price for a 01 R, you could probably not find a used 2001 for that if you think of it that way.

 

http://www.maximum-cars.com/Cars/Car.php?carnumber=185

http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/ford/performance1.htm (dont know how accurate this is, but another data point)

http://www.conceptcarz.com/folder/ve...asp?car_id=222

 

if it were a new vette, i'd buy the vette, but i'm not a fan of stingray's so keep the RRR

 

neither

 

Same situation with me. Thats why I got a honda. Anyways I think you should get the vette.

 

While true, that does not make it worth it. You are forgetting that he's been making payments on the lease and the buy out is generally much lower than 18k. An 18k buyout on a 25K car is a rip-off.

 

If it were me, I'd keep the R