Ginger Beer
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People laugh, but look at the prices the VL's are commanding.
Some people ate dreaming of course, but if your rebuilding or fixing up a car that some young guy has wrecked by adding aftermarket tail lights, seats, wheels, interior trim, body kits, then finding mint NOS is a priority.
It will boost the cars resale value no end, and will seperate the average cars from your mint one.
When I went looking for a old fairly stock looking commo V8 for a project/ classic, the first model on my list was a VL, a stock auto Calais 5.0 to be precise, there was nothing good for under $50k, and even the one car that I was close to buying needed some TLC, there was alot of rubbish cars as well or cars with horrible modifications.
I passed on the VL and ended up with a 2002 VX SS auto, but, if I did get the VL it would have needed OEM front seats (car had recaro's), plus OEM rear lights (car had altezza), and an OEM steering wheel (car had some MOMO thing), OEM rims and tyres (it had Simmons), plus a heap of other "modifications" that I would return to standard.
I pay top doller for NOS or mint parts when required.
Luckily parts for the VX are still cheap as chips, which has allowed me to replace crap aftermarket mods and all the old plastics.
I did need to pay $650 for a "clean un-guttered" set of VX SS rims though.
All of these parts are getting old, and alot of them have been crashed or wrecked.
If you want good parts you need to front up with the cash, if you don't some old guy like me will, which will leave you with the old cracked, broken, modified, fadded or missing parts.
As you could guess I'm all about clean factory looking sleepers, stock factory looking outside and inside, the only external giveaway would be the rubber the car runs, and, the sounds it makes when it's running.
Some people ate dreaming of course, but if your rebuilding or fixing up a car that some young guy has wrecked by adding aftermarket tail lights, seats, wheels, interior trim, body kits, then finding mint NOS is a priority.
It will boost the cars resale value no end, and will seperate the average cars from your mint one.
When I went looking for a old fairly stock looking commo V8 for a project/ classic, the first model on my list was a VL, a stock auto Calais 5.0 to be precise, there was nothing good for under $50k, and even the one car that I was close to buying needed some TLC, there was alot of rubbish cars as well or cars with horrible modifications.
I passed on the VL and ended up with a 2002 VX SS auto, but, if I did get the VL it would have needed OEM front seats (car had recaro's), plus OEM rear lights (car had altezza), and an OEM steering wheel (car had some MOMO thing), OEM rims and tyres (it had Simmons), plus a heap of other "modifications" that I would return to standard.
I pay top doller for NOS or mint parts when required.
Luckily parts for the VX are still cheap as chips, which has allowed me to replace crap aftermarket mods and all the old plastics.
I did need to pay $650 for a "clean un-guttered" set of VX SS rims though.
All of these parts are getting old, and alot of them have been crashed or wrecked.
If you want good parts you need to front up with the cash, if you don't some old guy like me will, which will leave you with the old cracked, broken, modified, fadded or missing parts.
As you could guess I'm all about clean factory looking sleepers, stock factory looking outside and inside, the only external giveaway would be the rubber the car runs, and, the sounds it makes when it's running.