Topic: drive line
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i was reading an add in this months drive line about an original battery,for a 84 corvette. i e-mailed this person about it. well he responded back with some pictures of the battery. so i asked him what kind of price did he want for it. his reply was 450.00 plus shipping. i wrote back and said wow wee can you do better than that. he said no. his reason was the 84 vette is worth as much as the older vettes. my reply was where did you get this kind of information from. as far as i know the value of the early c4s are down, way down. his reply was while he was in bowling green at a car show at the factory,he saw several 84 vettes and the ones that where for sale, had very high prices on them. he told me the highest one was around 40,000 or best offer. well never the less i refused the battery. i told him i agree that the battery is rare however there are more of them out there. perhaps he's for real about the 84 or he was drinking to much beer.
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If you're reading the "drive line" and contemplating purchasing an original battery, you must be contemplating having your car judged for originality.....
$450 for a Assembly Line battery is a bargain.
The Standard deduction for a Service Replacement battery is 10 points. A 10 point gain for $450 is only $45 a point. That is a bargain.
Another way to look at points is that each tenth of a point in the Score, is 4.5 raw points. So a 10 point improvement would result in a 93.8 becoming a 94.0, (or possibly 94.1 remembering that calculations only round down, never up, to the nearest tenth ). That's a big jump for only $450. You should have bought it.
BTW, do you know what an original 84 battery looks like if you see one? Don't pay $450 for an old Delco Service Replacement. Those aren't worth $4.50, but I'm sure people try to pass them off as assembly-line batteries.
$450 for a Assembly Line battery is a bargain.
The Standard deduction for a Service Replacement battery is 10 points. A 10 point gain for $450 is only $45 a point. That is a bargain.
Another way to look at points is that each tenth of a point in the Score, is 4.5 raw points. So a 10 point improvement would result in a 93.8 becoming a 94.0, (or possibly 94.1 remembering that calculations only round down, never up, to the nearest tenth ). That's a big jump for only $450. You should have bought it.
BTW, do you know what an original 84 battery looks like if you see one? Don't pay $450 for an old Delco Service Replacement. Those aren't worth $4.50, but I'm sure people try to pass them off as assembly-line batteries.
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