Under 1000 Miles

[Brother Mike]

Anyone have a Marauder with LESS than a thousand miles? Besides me.....:D

[Vortech347]

Why? Just curious.

[Iowa Rick]

Anyone have a Marauder with LESS than a thousand miles? Besides me.....:D

Right, That $35,000 car you are just sitting there admiring is now worth maybe $15,000. Not much of a return on your investment. Why aren't you out driving it and enjoying what you have?

[UncleLar]

Kinda like being married to a drop dead gorgeous babe and not making love to her....................:coolma n:

[CWright]

kinda like being married to a drop dead gorgeous babe and not making love to her....................:coolma n:

ditto!!!!!!!!

[justbob]

1000 miles over six years, this sounds like nothing but trouble if you do start driving it.

[fastblackmerc]

What a waste! :shake:

[baltimoremm]

Right, That $35,000 car you are just sitting there admiring is now worth maybe $15,000. Not much of a return on your investment. Why aren't you out driving it and enjoying what you have?

agreed^

congrats on maintaining the extremely low miles, and i applaud you self control, but considering depreciation alone it has cost you $20/mile to drive. you havent even driven it enough to know if you got a lemon.

seriously, join the fun the rest of us are having! (just remember to change the tires and oil before you do)

i'd like to see pictures of how clean it is, though.

EDIT: I just noticed you have three marauders

[n00bkiller944]

Thats awesome you own three marauders... Do you ever drive this one? Or is it locked up tight until it becomes a collectors item?

[Motorhead350]

What a waste! :shake:

I agree. A car, ANY CAR!!! is built for one reason and one reason only and that is to be driven.

Brother Mike at least tell us it isn't being preserved underground only to be rained up and find out it's spend all it's life under water. :puke:

[SID210SA]

I agree. A car, ANY CAR!!! is built for one reason and one reason only and that is to be driven.

Brother Mike at least tell us it isn't being preserved underground only to be rained up and find out it's spend all it's life under water. :puke:

Kind of like that car in Tulsa.....it was ruined....

[GordonB]

Brother Mike,
How about posting up your Signature?
GordonB

[rayjay]

Seems I remember that there are few collectors out there that bought their MM and immediately put it into storage. 20 years from now, who knows where they'll be at price wise. On the flip side they could be worth next to nothing ala the originals that really don't bring much coin at the auctions.

[justbob]

I agree. A car, ANY CAR!!! is built for one reason and one reason only and that is to be driven.

Brother Mike at least tell us it isn't being preserved underground only to be rained up and find out it's spend all it's life under water. :puke:

Would you be hinting about that real life 58 Plymouth?

[Motorhead350]

You bet I am.

[Black_Noise]

that would be kinda cool to have, but then you are missing out on SO MUCH!!

[Vortech347]

Investment...

sub 1000k 93 Cobra R, 95 Cobra R or 2000 Cobra R. Saleen SSC, Saleen fox body, 60's old iron stangs..

These cars are cool but they are just another Mercury.

[whd507]

thewre is a guy I know in california, that bought a bunch of no-miles average 60's-70's cars when the state of Nevada liquidated most of the famed Harrahs collection in 1986.

he recently sold a 4-door 67(?)pontiac bonneville with 20 miles to another collector for more than $100k. he paid mabey $4k for it, and it sold for $2500(?) new

if he had driven it, it woudl be worthless in comparison.

the whole hyped auction atmosphere of the last few years has inflated some prices, but has also spawned a back-room network of unpublicised sales and trades.


if I could have three Marauders, I'd for sure store one away for posterity, in fact I plan to do much the same thing when the Grand Marquis reaches the end of the line in 2010 or 2011. I'm going to buy three, drive two, and put one away in a controlled environment for the future.

[quota]

Agreed. I believe that I would do the same if I had the possibility to own 3 MM, MGM or TC.

Regarding the investment value, the current selling frenzy will not, I believe, damage any collector's value that the car will gain after 20 more years.

JP

[Marauder]

I agree. A car, ANY CAR!!! is built for one reason and one reason only and that is to be driven.

Brother Mike at least tell us it isn't being preserved underground only to be rained up and find out it's spend all it's life under water. :puke:

As much as I wanna preserve mine also, I still drive her. I'm pushing 32k which is low for a 6 year old car these days but I still have fun with her.

[Cheeseheadbob]

I would suggest if you are looking for an investment that just sits/lays/hangs around and does nothing, buy art. You have a machine which requires movement to function properly. Go ahead and not drive it, you may be able to join the elite club of people who sell their cars at one of the televised auctions and have to have said car pushed across the stage because won't even start due to neglect (read - not driven).

[ROB502]

My mom has an SSR with 1500 miles. I don't know why?? :shake:

[Pops]

I dont see anything wrong with what he is doing as long as the up keep is done on the car. How many low milage original examples are out there. Needs to ba a few unmolested cars to see how they were really built.

[Zack]

Give the guy a break, after all,its a DTR

[ChiTownMaraud3r]

Give the guy a break, after all,its a DTR

Whew.. Thought it was a black or blue for a sec. ;)

[Master]

I'm gonna run mine to 1,000,000.0 km, then drive it for a day and store it. It will be the 000,100.0 km car. Hey, after 20 years, who will know?

[Eric-Blk2004]

Guys - its a Mercury...not a collectable. And who the heck will save and Grand Marq? LOL these cars are MASSED produced - way more then the 60s and 70s cars in comparasion.

The Marauder is fine to drive and a nice niche car - but its lack of popularity actually hurts its collectable nature. No one has heard of the car - its liek Jay Leno digging out some junk car from a garage thats older then water and 3 people in the world know who it is. Its only worth something if someone pays for it - and I doubt anyone would be running over each other for a Marauder at auction in 50 years.

Because you know in 50 years we will have flying cars and space travel so who gives two craps about 4 wheels and a fossil fuel motor? 0 to 60? 60 lightyears?

Up up and away!

Or...we will all be plugged into the Matrix

[Iowa Rick]

[quote=Eric-Blk2004;656630]Guys - its a Mercury...not a collectable. And who the heck will save and Grand Marq? LOL these cars are MASSED produced - way more then the 60s and 70s cars in comparasion.

Eric, I agree with you.

What is a really nice lo miles 1963 1/2 Ford Galaxy 500 2 door fastback worth today? Maybe what a lo miles MM is worth right now, and you are talking about a car thats 40 years older than the MM. I chose this car (in black) because it evokes the same feelings in me as a Black 03 MM.

Another thing is maybe the whole collector car thing will go away. The world is going "green" so who is to say in 20, 30 or 40 years you will be able to legally own or operate a fossil fuel vehicle. It certainly wont be socially acceptable.

The way the US Dollar is depreciating the million you sell your MM for in 50 years will probably only be worth $100 in 2008 dollars.

In the military when we had a break and the "smoking lamp was light" they said "smoke em if you have em". Well my philosiphy is "drive em if U have em", You know what is happening to cigarettes and they are still a legal product. The large V8 car is sure to follow. Rick

[whd507]

the 70's were a "green" (eco) decade, and people scrapped muscle cars in favor of pintos and B210s, coronas ect. now those cars are long gone, and the muscle cars that survived are worth quite a bit.

people threw away edison tube phonographs when radios came out, and then HI-FI and such, three years ago I sold 600 Edison tube records and a fair condition player for $5k

[baltimoremm]

the 70's were a "green" (eco) decade, and people scrapped muscle cars in favor of pintos and B210s, coronas ect. now those cars are long gone, and the muscle cars that survived are worth quite a bit.

people threw away edison tube phonographs when radios came out, and then HI-FI and such, three years ago I sold 600 Edison tube records and a fair condition player for $5k

Thats why i'm holding onto my Atari, Intellivision, sega genesis, commodore 64betamax and laserdisc. (actually, i cant bring myself to part with them, they all still work great)

PS: I still want to see pix of this >1k marauder....soooo clean i bet!