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Cobalts Made From Gold!

Desert Sasqwatch

Bigfoot Goblin
Desert Sasqwatch
Yes, the price (or at least what some people think they can get) for a Cobalt is getting ridiculous. Latest example I found:

for sale/trade - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle automotive sale (craigslist.org)
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In Prescott AZ - plain Jane LS, manual, and 140K. Thinks that KBB lists this car at $9K...what the heck is this person smoking?!? KBB actual is $2800 - guess this one will be listed for sale for a loooooooooong time. :confused:
 
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Between sellers that cannot construct a coherent written sentence to communicate in any of the three languages I partially comprehend and fantasies of selling their car as winning the next Lotto, "junk cars" has become an interesting pursuit.(I blame the internet, and Meth!) I was in touch with a fellow that had started stripping out a unit with title. He advertised it for $200. on Facebook Marketplace. When contacted he said he would take $600 for the body? He thinks he'll get $300 for the "Cats"? and imagines it is worth $700 at the shredder devoid of driveline, interior, K member, wheels and doors? EEEEK! WHAT ARE THEY SMOKING?? (An' folks think I'm touched in the head?)
 
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I guess in a world where the average bloke can barely assemble buttered toast but has a PHD in Oppressed Race Power Structures and Their Effects On Minority Gender Pronouns Studies, a functional automobile would be worth quite a bit!
 
Desert Sasqwatch
The translation of the listing:
2009 chevy cobalt LS, rally yellow, 140,000 miles, work has been done to it (it's a piece of junk and I don't want it anymore), new clutch (because I burned up the last one learning how to drive a stick), 700$ rims (bought them from the local llantera store - paid too much), cold air intake (racer boi appeal, screwd up the AFR), evil energy exhaust (installed a ricer fart-can, further screwd up the tune, but adds 50HP!), carbon painted wing (EBay special, thought it was real carbon fiber, paid too much for fiberglass, but adds 25MPH to the top end!), great project car (I screwd it up, so it's now someone else's junk - er project) Kelly blue book rates the car at 20k (thought I'd call it an SS/TC with zero miles and every option - dreamin') looking for 8-10 for it (still thinking I own an SS/TC with zero miles), runs perfectly smooth clutch (I haven't burned up this clutch yet) and ride (rides better than my buddy's CJ7), 5 speed manual and gears work no sticking (they were sticking before, but after hammering on the shifter mechanism it goes into most of the gears now), looking for another car to work on hopefully a old corvette (those are going for a few hundred dollars now, right?), 170 hp inline 4 (well the 2.4L is 170 HP, so my 2.2L with the super exhaust must be making at least that much HP), sounds great (racer boi tone, the neighbors love it!), interior is in good condition (only a couple burn marks from where I dropped my doobie a couple times - oh and the dog peed in the backseat), right front speaker doesn’t work too well (I was jamming on the highway with the windows down when smoke came out from under the dash, no biggie), have camber bolts for it haven’t put them on yet (buddy told me those are the quick fix for busted struts and srewd up alignment), racing stripes for it too if wanted (racer boi magnet!), little paint chips (drove it through a couple haboobs, only took 1/2 the paint off the front of the car) and yellow primer on left front bumper (tagged a guardrail, but only lightly, the airbags didn't go off), clean title (Mexico titles are always clean!)
 
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Metal Mech
Thats pretty much how I read any of these adds these days. I saw the "$700 Rims" and was like thats not that much, till I looked at the rims.
 
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Car was barely worth that, when new.

No joke. In 2008, my wife and I bought a brand new Cobalt LT coupe for $11,300. Sticker was about $19k, but the car market tanked (you know, 2008), and the dealership had 50+ cobalts on the lot they couldn't get rid of.
 
Robinjo
No joke. In 2008, my wife and I bought a brand new Cobalt LT coupe for $11,300. Sticker was about $19k, but the car market tanked (you know, 2008), and the dealership had 50+ cobalts on the lot they couldn't get rid of.
My father did something similar with a iForce Tundra. He got a ridiculous deal on it because 2008 and the gas was $6 a gallon here.
 
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