WTB: a decent condition RX8, AE86 hatch, Miata or maybe R53 Cooper S

As subject, after spending another Sunday driving close to 500 miles to look at overpriced, overdescribed sheds I was wondering if any GRMer out West had any of the following cars for sale (in order of preference):

• RX8, manual, preferably Sport with no sunroof
• AE86, preferably hatch, will consider a coupe. Well executed GT-S swaps are fine
• Miata. Well, if I must
• R53 Cooper S

I'm fine with a car that has a salvage title as long as it was repaired properly, I'm also fine with sensible mods. I purposely want to avoid CL as I pretty much had no luck recently with finding decent cars for a decent price on there and wasted a ton of time looking at crapcans for non-crapcan prices.

Budget is about $6k-7k, looking anywhere on the West Coast in a weekend's drive from Reno, NV. That should cover Seattle to San Diego and inland to about Phoenix and Salt Lake City.

Let me know what you have!

BoxheadTim wrote: As subject, after spending another Sunday driving close to 500 miles to look at overpriced, overdescribed sheds I was wondering if any GRMer out West had any of the following cars for sale (in order of preference): - RX8, manual, preferably Sport with no sunroof - AE86, preferably hatch, will consider a coupe. Well executed GT-S swaps are fine - Miata. Well, if I must - R53 Cooper S I'm fine with a car that has a salvage title as long as it was repaired properly, I'm also fine with sensible mods. I purposely want to avoid CL as I pretty much had no luck recently with finding decent cars for a decent price on there and wasted a ton of time looking at crapcans for non-crapcan prices. Budget is about $6k-7k, looking anywhere on the West Coast in a weekend's drive from Reno, NV. That should cover Seattle to San Diego and inland to about Phoenix and Salt Lake City. Let me know what you have!

VERY nice AE86 coupe.... http://club4ag.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=13241

I know the current owner... I was the previous owner -

In reply to oldeskewltoy:

That looks yummy indeed, and guess who just signed up for club4ag . Can I refer to you when I contact him?

BoxheadTim wrote: In reply to oldeskewltoy: That looks yummy indeed, and guess who just signed up for club4ag . Can I refer to you when I contact him?

sure..... not sure what that'll do... current owners name is Steve

I have a 2002 Miata that was going to be for sale around April 1. Blue on black cloth, 100% stock, never hit, unmolested, some normal wear/tear but a rust free great driver that needs nothing, new soft top, matching hard top, and an extra set of wheels with snow tires, though this was a VA/NC car until just this year. I am in PA, which is quite far away though, but I am at the bottom end of your budget range.

Thanks, but once I factor in the transport cost it wouldn't really work for me. I won't have the time to fly out myself to pick it up.

Thought you said you didn't fit into a miata?

I don't fit them very well and if I buy another one I'll probably have to get the local race shop to custom make me a roll bar to fit properly around me in the correct seating position.

Mind you, a car you don't fit well beats having to trackable car at all, because I'm still trying to work through the MR2 and it's unlikely to be done by mid-March.