Leads to 360's at dealers?

Hey everyone. For those who saw my last "looking for a 360" thread, I ended up caving and buying a Nissan GTR. I don't have buyers remorse, however I need to put the idea of which car I want more to rest.

If there is any semi-local 360 Modena 3 pedal cars available in our area, I'd like to go check it out and take it for a drive. It will boil down to, If I like the 360 more than my GTR, I will trade my car in right then and there for the 360, and if I don't, I will walk away knowing I made the right choice.

If anyone has any leads to local 360's for sale please let me know. All I have found so far are too far away, spiders (out of budget), or F1 trans.

 

Hey guys, thanks for what you have found so far. I have been eyeing that yellow one. It looks to be in good order. I am trying to figure out if yellow is a deal killer or not though. Price is right on target for what I am looking for. Unfortunately the 89K red car is just too much money for my budget.

 

Since I would be trading in my car, it would be difficult to drive down to Miami with my car, trade in and drive that 360 back. otherwise... nothing wrong at all with that one. I think black, white, and yellow are the colors I dont really want.

*reason I want to trade my car in, is because I want to avoid paying sales tax. I paid 4 grand in sales tax on my car, I dont want to pay another 4 when I register a new car.

 

Thanks, I did shoot an email to the dealer with that yellow one. I hope to hear back today. I figure they were closed for the Holiday weekend.

 

Thanks for the offer, I actually just spoke with him on the phone. He doesn't seem to be too familiar with the market for my GTR. He said he will email me back after looking into it further, although he didn't seem to be too interested in making a deal unless he made a homerun off the sale since his car is so "rare", and he typically only sells Porche Ferrari and Maserati.

I'd like to hear others opinions on the situation. Maybe I am dreaming?

His car is listed for 65K. I feel this is top dollar for a 99 360. That's fine, if it is as described it deserves top dollar. I feel my car should retail for 65K as well based on KBB, NADA, and the general market for my car. I asked for 59K in trade for my car which is top dollar trade. If he wants top dollar for his car, then I should get top dollar for mine. I would write a check for the difference. It seems like a solid offer in my eyes. He would make 5-6K off my car when sold, and is making probobly 5+K on his car selling it to me now. It seems like a fair deal to me? What do others think? Am I being fair or should I expect to be writing a larger check?

 

He is still very far from me, and I would like to only make one trip out there. I don't want to drive out, and find out when I get there that we can't meet on numbers.

 

sigh....

So I called a few places with 360's I was interested in within a few hundred miles of me. I like honesty, so I tell them up front what I am doing, my car, my trade, my plan, I am a serious buyer.... We talk for a while about the car, and start to talk numbers... and the typical 360 bull**** begins. This is why I stopped 360 shopping, because I am damn fed up with hearing all these dealers talk about how their particular car is so awesome and better than all the others out there, and perfectly maintained, and the best part is every 360 I have inquired about is THE RAREST OF THE RARE, and they can sell it whenever they want, and there are so many buyers, and so many offers on the table, and they want 5-10 grand over market value because of this. "Why I ask is this one so rare?" Then they cite some random feature of the car, like the color, or modular wheels etc. Newsflash guys! Every 360 cannot be super rare just because of some option or feature you rattled off to me. Just because there were 200+ color and option configurations, it doesn't make every one of them rare for ****s sake!

One of them even had the audacity to tell me that his last belt change was in 2008, and that was fine because "all the 360 guys go 10 years between belt changes now". Are you kidding me? Do people think 360 shoppers are not educated?

Has anyone else been through so much grief shopping for a damn car? My budget is 70K or less (preferrably 65K), which is fair for an earlier model year 360 coupe right? Why can't I just find a car, and pay fair market value for it?

 

Thanks for the confidence!

I actually have just this morning found another car. This one is quite a bit further but the price is... well almost too good. but it is at a Ferrari dealer who advertises here on Fchat. It is a 99 360 manual transmission in silver with blk interior with that dark blue carpet. 38K miles on it, asking 59,000. They say it has a fresh belt service, it has shields, regular seats, regular starfish wheels, tubi, challange grill, and some stickies from what I can see. It is about 13 hours away from me by car. Maybe it'll be worth the drive. I am waiting for them to contact me back.

 

My father lives there anyways, maybe his son will pay him a visit and take him for a ride in his new Ferrari haha.

Any insider info on that one? Seems to be a car that hasn't seen much internet before posted for sale recently. VIN number in a google search comes up dry.

I am excited about this one though, perhaps too excited.

 

from what I have seen, 20% are manual, which makes it 1 in 5 cars.

The car I spoke of earlier this morning is sold already. back to the drawing board again.

I have been checking sources daily, autotrader,cars.com,craigslist, dupont and here. What is TDR?

I prefer regular or daytona seats, I don't want carbon seats. I am more interested in comfort. I would only buy a car with carbon seats because I know I could easily trade them for a regular set here.