1986 Bertone X1/9
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Dave80GTSi
Original Owner 1978 X1/9 (now sold)
Unsolicited Personal Testimony
Folks – If I may jump in here with a comment, even though I have no skin in this game.
I have known this seller for 40+ years, and this particular car for as long as he has owned it.
Anyone who is looking for a solid, no stories F.I. late Series II car being offered by an honest seller should stop their searching and immediately grab this one. It is a great example, thoroughly sorted, reflecting 17 years of fettling. It already has all of the correct and desirable add-ons that most all of us would eventually need to track down individually (Daytonas, cam, lightened flywheel, header, new aluminum radiator with pretty SS tank, Euro spec lighting, updated 1987 leather steering wheel, and so forth). And don’t overlook that key bit about the previous original owner having Ziebarted it.
At his new lower price, this car is a genuine steal of a deal.
Why waste your time rolling the dice, chasing after some unknown eBay / Craigslist car with fuzzy pictures and a sketchy history, being sold by some knuckle-dragging yob with green teeth, when you can instead snag this well-documented solid example for short money?
Think long term here: X’s in general have long ago bottomed out on their depreciation curve, and their values should reasonably continue to inch up over the coming years as fewer and fewer nice examples of these iconic cars are left. So it seems to me that you ought to be able to buy this car today, have your fun with it for, let’s say, the next couple of years, and then sell it onwards for likely the same (or perhaps more) money.
Just fly into Toledo and have one of those leisurely autumn-leaves-scenic-tour drives back home.
Heck, if you’d ask him nicely, I’d be willing to bet that he might even consider throwing in a couple of righteous 1970’s Bachman-Turner Overdrive cassettes for your use on your return trip!
DM
Folks – If I may jump in here with a comment, even though I have no skin in this game.
I have known this seller for 40+ years, and this particular car for as long as he has owned it.
Anyone who is looking for a solid, no stories F.I. late Series II car being offered by an honest seller should stop their searching and immediately grab this one. It is a great example, thoroughly sorted, reflecting 17 years of fettling. It already has all of the correct and desirable add-ons that most all of us would eventually need to track down individually (Daytonas, cam, lightened flywheel, header, new aluminum radiator with pretty SS tank, Euro spec lighting, updated 1987 leather steering wheel, and so forth). And don’t overlook that key bit about the previous original owner having Ziebarted it.
At his new lower price, this car is a genuine steal of a deal.
Why waste your time rolling the dice, chasing after some unknown eBay / Craigslist car with fuzzy pictures and a sketchy history, being sold by some knuckle-dragging yob with green teeth, when you can instead snag this well-documented solid example for short money?
Think long term here: X’s in general have long ago bottomed out on their depreciation curve, and their values should reasonably continue to inch up over the coming years as fewer and fewer nice examples of these iconic cars are left. So it seems to me that you ought to be able to buy this car today, have your fun with it for, let’s say, the next couple of years, and then sell it onwards for likely the same (or perhaps more) money.
Just fly into Toledo and have one of those leisurely autumn-leaves-scenic-tour drives back home.
Heck, if you’d ask him nicely, I’d be willing to bet that he might even consider throwing in a couple of righteous 1970’s Bachman-Turner Overdrive cassettes for your use on your return trip!
DM
rx19
Dennis Jones
Thanks!
Mike:
It's a shame that you don't live close enough to at least drop by to see the car and take it for a drive. Even if buying it isn't in the cards for you now it still sounds like fun...
Dave:
"some knuckle-dragging yob with green teeth" Wow. That's so visual - it's almost like you're painting pictures with words.. It's almost (but not quite) poetic. Anyway, thanks for the kind words..
cheers - dj
Mike:
It's a shame that you don't live close enough to at least drop by to see the car and take it for a drive. Even if buying it isn't in the cards for you now it still sounds like fun...
Dave:
"some knuckle-dragging yob with green teeth" Wow. That's so visual - it's almost like you're painting pictures with words.. It's almost (but not quite) poetic. Anyway, thanks for the kind words..
cheers - dj
rx19
Dennis Jones
Sold!
The X has been sold and has moved on to it's new owner.
Thank you Stephen, I hope you have as much fun with the car as I have for the past 17 years. Enjoy!
Thanks also to everyone on X-Web for your help and advice over the years and for your comments and interest while the car was for sale.
Cheers - dj
p.s. here's a photo of the car arriving at it's new home in New Jersey.
The X has been sold and has moved on to it's new owner.
Thank you Stephen, I hope you have as much fun with the car as I have for the past 17 years. Enjoy!
Thanks also to everyone on X-Web for your help and advice over the years and for your comments and interest while the car was for sale.
Cheers - dj
p.s. here's a photo of the car arriving at it's new home in New Jersey.
Peter Cecil
True Classic
Congratulations on the sale.
Dan Sarandrea (Phila)
Waitin' On Parts...
New Owner?
Just curious if the new owner is, or plans to be, a member here?
Would be nice to keep such a great car in the family
Just curious if the new owner is, or plans to be, a member here?
Would be nice to keep such a great car in the family
I might have been out with my son playing Pokémon. Hah!
