I had a pretty much immaculate Venetian Red over Mercury Silver SLE 5.0 not long ago. I gave the engine bay a respray, tidied up the wiring, repainted the block and rocker covers in GMH Blue, repainted the original air cleaner,new decal..etc. It had a manual conversion from the Auto to an M21 setup. Engine was the original though with no mods,low k's.
I sold it for $10000.
The days following the sale,(buyer was yet to pick up the car), I was bombarded with calls amd messages asking if i'd sell them the car instead and that they would offer more money(I had a guy beg me to take $14000 for it). I told them it was too late and a bloke from S.A took the car home.
Another thing, and I'm not joking here, I had received heaps of calls 6 months after asking If I still had the car!
What's my point here?
Well, if a car is really sort after, it doesn't have to be in an absolute original condition for a worthwhile sale to happen, but is does help. As long as most of the original stuff is intact it should be fine.
At the moment, i'm on the hunt for an SLE two tone 5.0 again. I've been looking and looking but to no avail. I've begged the bloke who bought my car to sell it back but he has absolutely no intention of selling!
All I can say is, if you have one for sale, they are worth nothing so sell it to me!
Seriously though, there has been of late an influx of shadow tone SLE buyers with no SLE's to be seen(5.0 version).
They are the last and best of the chrome bumpers and will fetch high prices in a few years to come...you'd better believe it!
P.S- Does anyone have an original two tone SLE 5.0 for sale,lol?
No,seriously,anyone?