Thread: ERA vs SPF
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Old 05-18-2008, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by madmaxx View Post
To be honest I sold my first one to cheap, I could have made $11K. The guy I sold it too turned around two years later and 12K more miles and sold it for $1K more than I sold it to him for!!!!!
Ah yes, but what type of money did he invest into the car to "make it his own" in that time period?

As for the SPF vs ERA debate (can't remember if I did ever respond to this thread originally and I'm too tired this AM to look at all the pages of posts to find out), I've owned both (and then some ) and love each and every one of them for what they were. Is one better than the other in regards to resale, well, on this one I'll just say the old adage that there is a "behind" for every seat still rings true. Each individual owner/potential owner and each individual seller/buyer has to decide for himself just what that is. Pricing one car vs another when each one was individually tailored to the original owners whims, desires, and personal tastes seems more like a futile attempt to try and justify your (his/her/their?) own personal choices and spending habits, nothing more, nothing less. I'll leave it at that.


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