# Best ways to sell a rare classic **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342 "2009-01-22T16:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rex\_Racer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Rex\_Racer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rex_Racer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/1 "2009-01-22T16:56:48Z")
I have a 77 Mercury Cougar Wagon (not a misprint) that my teenage neighbor smashed her car into. No time to fix it and the insurance company totaled the car out even though it only had 77k mi, a smashed fender, and front end damage from her pushing the car sideways into the curb. Any advice will be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/2 "2009-01-22T17:05:15Z")
Use craigslist or Ebay. And don’t expect much in the way of $$. For this car ‘rare’ does not mean valuable. ---
**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/3 "2009-01-22T17:13:03Z")
I’d say eBay or Hemmings. Too bad it’s damaged. I don’t think you’re going to get much for this car. A quick Google search shows them in the $500 - 1,500 range. ---
**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/4 "2009-01-22T20:05:00Z")
It’s really a Pinto S/W with a Capri V6, right? Craigslist it. Take ANY offer. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/5 "2009-01-22T20:25:48Z")
No disrespect meant, but a '77 Cougar Wagon that’s been smashed into doesn;t fall into the category of a rare classic. If you can get a few bucks for it, take 'em. By the way, if the insurance totalled the car and paid you damages accordingly, you have been made “whole”…they own the car now. Unless you then bought the wreck from them it isn’t yours to sell. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/6 "2009-01-22T20:27:51Z")
Not quite that small - it’s the mid-size LTD-II wagon, a badge job on the Ford. ---
**Author:** ![FoDaddy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/fodaddy/32/717_2.png) [@FoDaddy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/FoDaddy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/7 "2009-01-22T21:49:17Z")
It may be rare but that doesn’t make it a classic, most cars detriot produced in the Malaise Era (1974-1984ish) were more reviled than lusted over. I’d take $500 for it ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/8 "2009-01-23T01:18:06Z")
Is this your only car? If not, why are you in a hurry? If you just want to get rid of it, advertise it on line or in a cheap mailer. The one near me is called the Pennysaver. ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Racer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Rex\_Racer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rex_Racer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/9 "2009-01-23T03:51:12Z")
Thanks everyone. For those who inquired… It’s not the wimpy Pinto. It’s closer to a Mustang with three extra doors, a luggage rack, and an extra two feet and 200 lbs of steel in front of the front fenders (I jokingly called it my Mustang wagon). It was one of about 4000 and there are only a few hundred, if that, left. While it’s not a Nomad, it’s kind of in that category-- the car nobody bought that all of a sudden became valuable because it is rare. Of course, it’s no where near the same class as the Nomad. It is one of the “more reviled than lusted over” (thanks I’ll use that phrase again) smogged out, low quality, low compression, anemic gas guzzler Detroit made in the mid 70s. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/best-ways-to-sell-a-rare-classic/25342/10 "2009-01-23T14:25:41Z")
If a car is rare, it doesn’t make it a classic. I have a car that is rare–a 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon 4-4-2 that I purchased new. However, in 1978, the 4-4-2 was just a trim and suspension package. The car has only a 260 cubic inch V-8 and an automatic transmission. Everyone who tells me that my car is a classic, I ask what they would give me for the car. These people run the other direction. If someone offered me $500, they would have a car. I tried to give the car to a collector who thought he wanted it, but his wife nixed the arrangement.