how much is it worth

[Arkrider410]

How much is it worth if it runs?

[datzenmike]

You know what you paid for it. Add the cost of anything you bought and added to it. Pay yourself $0.25 an hour for all the work you did on it. Estimate the value of the gas in the tank. Add it up and add 10% for your trouble. Post here...  http://community.ratsun.net/classifieds/category/15-trucks/?sort_key=date_added&sort_order=desc  . Expect to get 2/3 of what you want for it. This is an enjoyment tax. Datsun owners mostly keep their Datsuns because they are worth more in their minds that what people will pay for them.

 

 

 

 

It will sell for what someone is willing to pay for it.

 

Your location might make it a rarity but likewise, there may be no market. Like having one at the south pole. Time may limit how long you may want to wait for the perfect buyer. Look around on e Bay, craigslist , auto trader for similar sales in your general area but ultimately take a guess, post it and wait, or lower the price till it sells. You might entertain the idea of just storing it safely and waiting for a future opportunity to restart your project.

 

 

The above were assuming it WAS running. If you have to fix it first add that to your asking price.

 

Store it and fix up later. There's no money in Datsuns.

[Arkrider410]

Well Crap ok I guess it's a long term project

[datzenmike]

YES!!!!

[Arkrider410]

I'm still going to sell it though

I'll just push it behind the barn and collect parts

[Ricebiker]

I saw a couple on Craigslist recently for upwards of $3k. For a rough one.

[datzenmike]

Dude get off the fence. Sell or don't. Put a price on it and advertise it. It will either sell or not. Lower the price and it will sell or not. Keep going until it sells or the price isn't worth it. Then stick behind barn. It will sell for what someone is willing to pay for it not what others sold for on craigslist..

[flatcat19]

Collecting parts is just a waste if money of selling it.

 

Datsun is not investment. Unless roadster.

[mcordero8]

It is a beautiful truck. I know in Cali it wouldn't sell for that much. Due to the year, but if you do not have to smog where your at I'd say you might be able to 4k if it's running. Good luck what ever you do with it.

[racerx]

Just like bbq, it takes some time to marinate. Let the him marinate in his ideas for awhile. Btw wheres the the truck located at?

[Arkrider410]

What else am I supposed to do I was never on the fence about this truck i was always going to sell it.

The trucks in north west Georgia near Rome. And no the the truck is ugly it's got a botched camp spray bomb paint job that peeling off.

[sebpv]

sounds exactly how my truck was. Hell some guys here have better parts trucks then my project...

[Arkrider410]

The reason I have to get junk projects is I can't afford projects in good shape

[sebpv]

same but ends up i already spent 10k in the long run

[racerx]

Better to spend a little more on a car that runs good than having a few that dont run. Or get one runnin well and sell the other thats a pos.

[Arkrider410]

Good idea but finding one at all thats close to me. Im not on the west coast.

[racerx]

I hear you hard to let go. But do the math on how much it will cost to get it going

[TENDRIL]

south east = rust 

[Arkrider410]

Its not that it hard to let go i got it to flip

Yeah rust is a problem but finding anything datsun thats not a z car is the bigger problem

[flatcat19]

Why is this still going?

 

 

Did your mother not hug you enough as a child?

[datzenmike]

Its not that it hard to let go i got it to flip

There's no money in Datsuns.

Rare to find one out there. This makes fixing it up an investment in time, effort and money. The more you spend on it, the more you have to ask for it, the less anyone will want it and the more likely that you will keep it rather than throw away your money.  This is what being a vintage car owner is like. Too much time effort and money invested to just give it away.

 

 

Try selling it right now. For what you paid + $500 and say it's running. See if there are any bites.

[Ranman72]

IBTL 

we need boobs 

[bilzbobaggins]

I will give you 300. I can store it in Summerville. Pm if interested. I'm off 14th and 15th of this month

[D.R.F.15]

if it helps to put it in perspective, I sold a '74 short bed 620 for $800 with the motor pulled out. Mostly clean except for dents on the fender and cab (big dent too, ran people away), and that I had switch out the hood for the '79 long bed I had just bought (lol). I'm probably super late to the party, but if you want it gone, someone will take it. eventually.

 

 

 

[datzenmike]

The '74 would be smog exempt making it more valuable.