The
2000 Metro winter beater is sold!
Price: $750.
Details:
- 230k km = 143k mi.
- I was completely transparent in the ad: needs front exhaust w/cat, rotors, axle (CV joint gone), maybe an inner tie rod. Clutch has at least one broken damper spring. Summer tires have lots of tread, but cracks in the sidewalls.
I have
NEVER seen so much interest when selling a car before (in several decades of selling about a car a year).
Within 30 minutes of posting it on FB marketplace, I had several legitimate contacts, and several more legit contacts through Kijiji within the next couple of hours.
The buyer arrived to look at it within the hour, and had cash in hand. And I even said "no test drives" (not currently plated/insured).
I could have sold it 3 times over yesterday.
Clearly I could have asked for more money. But I didn't want to waste time with tire-kickers / negotiators.
Also, I only paid $1000 for it back in 2017.
The buyer was a mid-20's car guy who showed up in a slammed old Lexus V8 sedan. He was so excited! "I've wanted one of these forever!"
Could it be that Metros are now seen as ironically cool old cars by a subset of today's yoots? Radwood influence, I'm thinking.