How far did you go for your F body?
 

I've been in the market for a new car for a while and looking at every option possible. SUV's, trucks, even sedans. The only Vehicles that I have wanted on a consistent basis was a Trailblazer SS(no manual is a big heart breaker) and the fourth gen F body. It seems like everyday for 3 months now I have checked local craigslist, autotrader and cars.com up to about 300 miles and there is nothing for sale at dealerships!

I don't really want to buy a car with out seeing it in person and I need a dealership so I can trade my Cobalt in. Is there a better season to buy these cars and how far did you have too go for your car?

mine was 2.75 miles from my house according to mapquest lol but i got mine from a private seller.

my latest purchase was less then a mile, previous car purchased came from long island but i had the guy deliver it, never saw it, bought on ebay

about 160 miles from my house well worth the trip

why not sell the cobalt outright so you could add private sellers to your options?

Our Camaro was ~125 miles away but we weren't looking for it. Just happened to stumble upon it when on vacation.

My Z was 98.9 miles away on the MD/DE border, according to the AAA driver that towed it to my house. :)

I’m guessing financing may be needed too. hard to get that for private party sales. not impossible, just difficult.

I got my both my 68 Firebird & 02 WS6 from Connecticut

I pretty much left myself open to states that I considered within considerable driving range.

JW :D

What's wrong with the Cobalt?

You're under 25 still, right? Insurance on the Cobolt will be cheaper, the gas milage is better, and it's not a cop magnet. You wont get into trouble having knuckleheads throw revs at you to race, and it's not listed as a sports car for trade-in value (a negative) when you're ready to get a sensible car a few years down the road.

I just finished paying off my Toyota Camry. I haven't liked the car since I drove it off the lot, and yet the damn thing runs like a champ and won't die. I looked around and decided to hang onto the car, enjoy having no payments for a while, then look into getting my next Trans Am as a 3rd vehicle in a year or two - still without payments, but maybe a driving project I'll have to fix. Many people do this, though it takes a few years to get financially independant (and responsible) to get what you want.

Lastly, as strange as this sounds, enjoy "wanting" the car of your dreams. Spend time researching, looking at pics, collecting models of it, etc. Oftentimes the road towards ownership in a few years, makes it that much sweeter when you finally get it.

You're still young - you have many other things you should be working towards before satisfying the need for a sports car. Most of all, in this economy, saving some money "just in case". If your mom is strapped for cash someday, you'll wish you had the cash in the bank instead of a gas guzzling sports car in the driveway.

Thus endeth the lesson... again.

flew down to florida to buy a corvette, if we didnt like it when we got there we woujld have just flown back. We told the guy to tell us every little detail before we left to come see it so we can decide if it would stop us from coming or not. We picked it up the next morning after looking at it and drove it home.

so NY to FL i think it was 1300 miles maybe more

TA - bout 15 miles
Jeep - was my cousins, so it just kind of showed up at my house
Riv - bout an hour drive

9 miles. not a bad thing if it's under warranty from a dealership if something goes wrong with it

Only had to go about 10 miles for mine, last one i looked at though was in NC so....yea lol. It all really comes down to how much do u want it.

depending on the price of the financing needed, you gan get a personal loan and then once you buy the car refinance into an auto loan to get the normal rate... not the greatest way to do things, but not much more money in the end. only issue is that most banks have a 10k cap on personal loans...

Went about 14 miles to get mine.

i got mine at a dealer like 5 miles away, but it was brought in from 243 miles away, after having the dealer search the whole east coast.

I went 30 miles south for the '68 and 40 miles north for the Firehawk.

IMO ... go get what you want.. i coulda put a down payment on a new car with the money i used to buy my SS but it wouldnt be worth it to me... to open my door and not see the car I WANTED to drive.. i smile every day at my SS

and frown every day at my DD bmw e30 but it takes me where i need to go.. been stuck a few times but nothing serious.. i see new cars on the side of the road all the time.

my SS isnt my dream car but something ive wanted since i crashed my 3rd gen... itll do for now

i may be young and dumb but im happy :)

OHH BTW i went about 50 miles for mine.. NJ to PA :D!

I don't know mileage but to the 87 I went from mcguire to central phily. And for 91 either going all the way to FL or VA

i drove from brick to rt22 in north plainfield so it was over an hour and it took me 6 months to find lol was well worth it

my 98 z came from highpoint nj
my 99 z came from delaware
my 99 trans am came from st petersburg florida

both of mine came to me

My first car I bought from my home town. My Camaro I bought from Long Island.

my car was towed from sparta to hopatcong. so i think at max 7 miles. would have driven it but the lack of drivetrain didnt help...

my 84 i drove maybe 15, 20 mins to green brook.

00, about 40 =)

now the louvers for my 84... 4.5 hours...