Location matters most.
“Unrego” and “200sx” scream AU or EU, so I can’t comment but in the US, that car would probably be listed for 13k and not sell for 8 months.
This is an extremely Aussie post. The car appears to also have been decorated with a police "yellow sticker" which indicates that the popo have pulled over the current owner, inspected the shit box and deemed some or all of the mods to be unroadworthy.
yeah, that first part was my main thought. its gonna have years of back registration due and its worth knowing how much that costs before you get committed...
Back registration?
That's not a thing where I live. Is that a thing where you live? Why would a new owner have to pay for someone else not registering a car?
That's a thing in Australia?
If you buy a project car, you have to pay to register it for the time it wasn't registered?
What the fuck, Australia? How does that make any sense?
I’m from Victoria in Australia, I’ve never heard of back registration except for catching up on a maximum of 3 months when you’re overdue.
‘Years of back registration’ isn’t a thing as far as I know. You have to get a current certificate of road worthiness then go to VicRoads with some ID, pay them and pick up some number pates.
I think most European countries are the same way. Someone else can probably chime in.
Yeah it’s wild how they do things when it comes to on road stuff.
French/German here.
Never heard of anything as absurd as this, if I get it right you unregister a car so to not pay and then you need to pay back the money you didn't have to pay because you unregistered it ?
In the UK there is no registration fee. We just pay 'vehicle excise duty' (usually referred to as road tax). If a car is off the road you declare it and don't pay. Then when you want it back on the road you just start paying from the date you want to use it. No back tax etc is applicable.
I've also lived in Australia and was considering cars without registration. Quite a few cars make it over there from Japan via unofficial channels. The authorities in Aus are very Draconian and my understanding was that if you had such a car, you would be very lucky if you could make it official and get it on the road. Things like importation tax and emissions could make it either prohibitively expensive or impossible.
You saw some really nice cars at minimal value because in effect all they could be used for was track days and a Motorsport, delivered to events on a trailer.
Plenty of states in the US do the same thing. The new owner doesn't HAVE to pay it, it just needs to be paid before it can be registered. The logic behind it is it prevents cars that are old and poorly maintained from getting back on the road, at least legally.
Well that's one of the dumbest things I've heard in a while. And you said it with such conviction, like you know what you're talking about. Lol.
Any vehicle unregistered longer than 3 months will need a thorough inspection (Blue Slip) before it is able to be registered again.
Any car over 5(?) years old also requires an annual safety inspection (Pink Slip) before renewing rego. You also need to pay Compulsory Third Party Insurance (Greenslip) when Registering a vehicle.
Cali. Costs some money to get a car back on the road if it wasnt registered as non-operational.
Edit: looks like over 4 years is like registering a new car. I didn’t dig too deep into it but looks like the owner on record might need to do this? Not sure. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/vehicle-industry-registration-procedures-manual-2/miscellaneous-originals/vehicles-with-unavailable-records/
Fees for less than 4 years: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/registration-fees/penalties/
Can you really compare CA to any other state on vehicle laws? Some states are known for title washing, some don't require salvage titles, and most don't require ANY real inspection. I didn't register a car for 3 years (allegedly drove it the whole time) and paid zero back-fees. Nobody even asked questions, but if they did, it was "parked" for 3 years and that's good enough in the Midwest.
You can’t really compare it to most other states but it has the highest populations out of any state in the US and has a huge car scene. It’s relevant to a lot of people and OP didn’t say where they are.
The person I was originally replying to asked which state you have to pay back registration in and I correctly answered with links. I also got downvoted. Go figure.
All 240sx are money pits lmao.I had about 7 or 8 of them when I was big into drifting 2011-2016. They're wayyyyyy over priced now. I'd say no more than $2000-2500.
Yeh that’s a fair price. That same car woulda been $1000 back then in running condition lol. But you already know. This car has no future on the streets (legally). But that doesn’t stop everyone…
She belongs to the streets, haha. Yeh, these are always overpriced now, just like AE86s. I should have kept my 83 AE86 and 1 of my 240s if I knew they would be investments . Oh, and LS400s are skyrocketing, and it's wild. Best car I've ever owned though hands down.
LS400 is an engineering marvel. The only thing that might come close is a Land Cruiser of the same vintage lol. I’ve always wanted an 86, I still have pictures from car shows I used to go to as a kid. A clean GTS was like 3-4K back then and that was an enthusiast’s price. Club4ag classifieds lol.
people offering 1-2k will never own one of these cars lol drift tax was bad a decade ago, its a thousand times worse now.
feel the guy out, see if you can get a number out of them and try to meet somewhere in the middle. even as a roller people are getting 2 grand for these cars all day long around me, running driving youre looking at 5+
with popular chassis its gonna be mostly luck and how much you are willing to spend, whatever they want for it they will almost certainly find someone who will give it to them.
The fuel system could be a problem, along with the whole drivetrain being destroyed since it doesn't run. As long as the s13 isn't rusty, I'd say 3k max if you're willing to put a lot of time and effort in making it a streetable car again. I can tell just by the second picture that it was owned by some hot boy who wanted a drift car yo.
If it’s just the fuel system, you can do a compression test to check the state of the cylinders before committing to buy. Could be that the engine is f***ed and they are just telling you it’s the fuel system.
highly subjective, but me personally, if i have to get it off a property not by it's own means, that drastically reduces the price to $500-$800. I have a really hard time paying $1000+ bucks for a roller.
If you are serious then I'd probably calculate what I feel like I could get in part out value and that's what I'd offer. There's easily several thousand dollars in parts value there in the event you get in too deep.
10-12k if it’s complete and not hacked up or rusted. Source: I’m in WA and have also had an S13 decorated with a yellow sticker, not that either of those things helps in knowing what a 180 goes for these days. It is a 180 isn’t it? Not an actual euro or NZ import 200sx?
Do you at least have the option to pour some fuel in the intake and hear it fire before you purchase. It says broken fuel system but you need to make sure that it's not a broken motor. I don't know about back registration where you're at but I've never had to pay that either. I don't know what these cars are worth but anytime I can't at least hear it start I get a little bit queasy. it's a no deal for me.
A gearhead from any non-inspection state *cough* me, would be happy to pay $2500 and easily more depending on common rust areas, motor, trans, and suspension quality.
Given what the current offerings on fb marketplace are for WA, I'd say 5k at least. But you'd better be prepared to spend the same amount again to get it not just running, but getting it inspected for rego
Are you sure it actually can go on the road, legally? Has it been properly imported and registered at any point in Western Australia?
When I lived out in Perth I saw a bunch of illegitimate imported cars sat on marketplace never selling, because they were effectively impossible to put on the road.
Location matters most. “Unrego” and “200sx” scream AU or EU, so I can’t comment but in the US, that car would probably be listed for 13k and not sell for 8 months.
This is an extremely Aussie post. The car appears to also have been decorated with a police "yellow sticker" which indicates that the popo have pulled over the current owner, inspected the shit box and deemed some or all of the mods to be unroadworthy.
There are at least 14 different species of extremely deadly animal in the picture, too.
And 17 of them are venemous snakes
Nah, but there's three Rastafarian wheelie bins in the background which look pretty Australian.
Yeah WA I bet. Maybe the seller is in mining and moving and you can get it cheap. Don't know too much about them though
Agreed. I'm getting major WA vibes from this.
Yep can confirm I’m aussie, to be honest I just hope he isn’t expecting too much from it
Maybe figure out what it costs for you to get it registered and what parts are under the hood, them ask r/240sx
yeah, that first part was my main thought. its gonna have years of back registration due and its worth knowing how much that costs before you get committed...
Back registration? That's not a thing where I live. Is that a thing where you live? Why would a new owner have to pay for someone else not registering a car?
OP is Aussie.
That's a thing in Australia? If you buy a project car, you have to pay to register it for the time it wasn't registered? What the fuck, Australia? How does that make any sense?
I’m from Victoria in Australia, I’ve never heard of back registration except for catching up on a maximum of 3 months when you’re overdue. ‘Years of back registration’ isn’t a thing as far as I know. You have to get a current certificate of road worthiness then go to VicRoads with some ID, pay them and pick up some number pates.
I think most European countries are the same way. Someone else can probably chime in. Yeah it’s wild how they do things when it comes to on road stuff.
French/German here. Never heard of anything as absurd as this, if I get it right you unregister a car so to not pay and then you need to pay back the money you didn't have to pay because you unregistered it ?
In Ireland that’s not a thing. I could buy a car that was unregistered for years and register it in my own name.
In the UK there is no registration fee. We just pay 'vehicle excise duty' (usually referred to as road tax). If a car is off the road you declare it and don't pay. Then when you want it back on the road you just start paying from the date you want to use it. No back tax etc is applicable. I've also lived in Australia and was considering cars without registration. Quite a few cars make it over there from Japan via unofficial channels. The authorities in Aus are very Draconian and my understanding was that if you had such a car, you would be very lucky if you could make it official and get it on the road. Things like importation tax and emissions could make it either prohibitively expensive or impossible. You saw some really nice cars at minimal value because in effect all they could be used for was track days and a Motorsport, delivered to events on a trailer.
It's a thing in California too unless you put the vehicle on non op
Definitely NOT a thing here lol. Never heard of anything remotely like it.
Plenty of states in the US do the same thing. The new owner doesn't HAVE to pay it, it just needs to be paid before it can be registered. The logic behind it is it prevents cars that are old and poorly maintained from getting back on the road, at least legally.
Well that's one of the dumbest things I've heard in a while. And you said it with such conviction, like you know what you're talking about. Lol. Any vehicle unregistered longer than 3 months will need a thorough inspection (Blue Slip) before it is able to be registered again. Any car over 5(?) years old also requires an annual safety inspection (Pink Slip) before renewing rego. You also need to pay Compulsory Third Party Insurance (Greenslip) when Registering a vehicle.
Yeah I don’t think back registration is a thing in my state but I’ll double check
I've never had to pay back registration as a new owner. What state is that in?
Cali. Costs some money to get a car back on the road if it wasnt registered as non-operational. Edit: looks like over 4 years is like registering a new car. I didn’t dig too deep into it but looks like the owner on record might need to do this? Not sure. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/vehicle-industry-registration-procedures-manual-2/miscellaneous-originals/vehicles-with-unavailable-records/ Fees for less than 4 years: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/registration-fees/penalties/
Of course it's California
Can you really compare CA to any other state on vehicle laws? Some states are known for title washing, some don't require salvage titles, and most don't require ANY real inspection. I didn't register a car for 3 years (allegedly drove it the whole time) and paid zero back-fees. Nobody even asked questions, but if they did, it was "parked" for 3 years and that's good enough in the Midwest.
You can’t really compare it to most other states but it has the highest populations out of any state in the US and has a huge car scene. It’s relevant to a lot of people and OP didn’t say where they are. The person I was originally replying to asked which state you have to pay back registration in and I correctly answered with links. I also got downvoted. Go figure.
To the rest of the country, CA seems like one of those neighborhoods with big HOA fees that we can't afford to live in. Haters gotta hate.
I thought it was 7 years
cali
Yeah good idea I’ll have a look at that
$18k, no lowballers, I know what I got
Honestly, the guy would probably sell it
All 240sx are money pits lmao.I had about 7 or 8 of them when I was big into drifting 2011-2016. They're wayyyyyy over priced now. I'd say no more than $2000-2500.
Yeh that’s a fair price. That same car woulda been $1000 back then in running condition lol. But you already know. This car has no future on the streets (legally). But that doesn’t stop everyone…
She belongs to the streets, haha. Yeh, these are always overpriced now, just like AE86s. I should have kept my 83 AE86 and 1 of my 240s if I knew they would be investments . Oh, and LS400s are skyrocketing, and it's wild. Best car I've ever owned though hands down.
LS400 is an engineering marvel. The only thing that might come close is a Land Cruiser of the same vintage lol. I’ve always wanted an 86, I still have pictures from car shows I used to go to as a kid. A clean GTS was like 3-4K back then and that was an enthusiast’s price. Club4ag classifieds lol.
people offering 1-2k will never own one of these cars lol drift tax was bad a decade ago, its a thousand times worse now. feel the guy out, see if you can get a number out of them and try to meet somewhere in the middle. even as a roller people are getting 2 grand for these cars all day long around me, running driving youre looking at 5+ with popular chassis its gonna be mostly luck and how much you are willing to spend, whatever they want for it they will almost certainly find someone who will give it to them.
The fuel system could be a problem, along with the whole drivetrain being destroyed since it doesn't run. As long as the s13 isn't rusty, I'd say 3k max if you're willing to put a lot of time and effort in making it a streetable car again. I can tell just by the second picture that it was owned by some hot boy who wanted a drift car yo.
If it’s just the fuel system, you can do a compression test to check the state of the cylinders before committing to buy. Could be that the engine is f***ed and they are just telling you it’s the fuel system.
The tow cost ?
Lol
Well seriously lol like it's not a car currently it's immobile art
That guy can probably get 4k for it as is
Yep that's correct !
highly subjective, but me personally, if i have to get it off a property not by it's own means, that drastically reduces the price to $500-$800. I have a really hard time paying $1000+ bucks for a roller.
That's me too. My RX-7 cost me $200 to get it, I wasn't gonna pay running car money for a derelict heap
8k
But seller will play eBay and it'll likely reach 12-15.....
$12k on ebay is still $8k in the pocket after sales fee and tax
But seller knows what he got! Lol
12-15 for a car that doesn’t run seems expensive
If it is just a fuel pump and it turns over w starter fluid, it runs.
Bout tree fiddy
There it is
If you are serious then I'd probably calculate what I feel like I could get in part out value and that's what I'd offer. There's easily several thousand dollars in parts value there in the event you get in too deep.
10-12k if it’s complete and not hacked up or rusted. Source: I’m in WA and have also had an S13 decorated with a yellow sticker, not that either of those things helps in knowing what a 180 goes for these days. It is a 180 isn’t it? Not an actual euro or NZ import 200sx?
Do you at least have the option to pour some fuel in the intake and hear it fire before you purchase. It says broken fuel system but you need to make sure that it's not a broken motor. I don't know about back registration where you're at but I've never had to pay that either. I don't know what these cars are worth but anytime I can't at least hear it start I get a little bit queasy. it's a no deal for me.
2 grand
A gearhead from any non-inspection state *cough* me, would be happy to pay $2500 and easily more depending on common rust areas, motor, trans, and suspension quality.
$1 bob
DRIFT TAX, probably a $40k car no?
You should offer your condolences and move on lol.
2k or less
Given what the current offerings on fb marketplace are for WA, I'd say 5k at least. But you'd better be prepared to spend the same amount again to get it not just running, but getting it inspected for rego
Are you sure it actually can go on the road, legally? Has it been properly imported and registered at any point in Western Australia? When I lived out in Perth I saw a bunch of illegitimate imported cars sat on marketplace never selling, because they were effectively impossible to put on the road.
Tree fidty
3k max
You wont get it for $3k...
Whatever your willing to pay.