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Oct 14, 2022 | 07:11 AM

#31

TsukubaCody

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Originally Posted by 92gli

Smart guy. If I had FU money and space, I'd buy every mint low mileage S2000 I can and store them for 20 years. Price today isn't prohibitive, they're just getting started.

Love to manipulate the market and hoard things rather than just let people enjoy them.

S2000 are already overpriced for what they are.

Oct 14, 2022 | 08:49 AM

#32

Steve Rodio

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Overpriced? I don't think so

Oct 14, 2022 | 11:12 AM

#33

silvio1522

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People tend to forget that it takes multiple bidders, to get the price to these so called "absurd" levels. BaT doesn't set the price, bidders do. Have been at many furniture and car auctions, where people have gotten caught up in the hype and supposedly overpaid for a said item. Funny how they usually resell the item, at a profit, a few years down the road. Doesn't always happen, but I'll put my money on the "goober" every time.

Oct 14, 2022 | 02:50 PM

#34

HondaOwnerForLife

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Originally Posted by darcyw

If I didn't already own an s2000, I wouldn't be able to get back into the s2000 game. I count myself among the fortunate.
darcy

Ditto...

Oct 14, 2022 | 04:18 PM

#35

shrykhar

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Originally Posted by Soul Coughing

When I saw this sale - https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...eclipse-gsx-7/ - it blew my mind. Absurd.

it's pretty though. doesn't seem like those come up for sale in good condition often.

Oct 14, 2022 | 07:06 PM

#36

HondaOwnerForLife

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Originally Posted by Steve Rodio

Overpriced? I don't think so

Nice...I like it...well-played

Oct 25, 2022 | 09:31 AM

#37

Kevin Hammond

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Originally Posted by darcyw

I post on BaT s2000 auctions with some frequency- mostly to enlighten the potential buyers on what to do in terms of maintenance. Rarely have I seen an s2000 maintained to a pedantic level- nice cars, but not once have I seen a DBW with a spec valve adjustment, or clutch interlock bypass, or cat O2 sensor extension, or rear axle nut retorque, or billman TCT, or...well, you get the point.

I do like BaT for the photos- especially the low mileage examples.

If I didn't already own an s2000, I wouldn't be able to get back into the s2000 game. I count myself among the fortunate.

darcy

I have my 35K 2006 NFR S2000 at auction at Bring A Trailer and have maintained it at the pedantic level you mentioned. I trusted the experts here and did all those things you mentioned (except O2 sensor extension). Today is the last day of the auction so if you want to see it or bid on it you better hurry because it closes at 6:26 PM tonight. It's not cheap, but it's a beautiful car in perfect stock mechanical condition.

Kevin