Hey All,
Sold my '13 SBY Boss 302, which I bought new, this past July after 7 years of ownership. A little difficult to part with it but life moves on, I wasn't driving it much anymore and, well, these things happen. So thought I'd share my experience selling it, FWIW, should anyone else be thinking of selling theirs in the near future.
When I decided to sell I realized that had done a lot of track-oriented mods to it and that it'd be easier to sell (and I'd probably get a better price for it) if I undid all the mods and put it back to bone stock. Fortunately I'd kept all the stock parts and it wasn't cut up or anything, so this was doable. I did some of the work myself but didn't have time to do it all so I had a good local shop do most of the work. This cost about $2.5K in labor, but of course I also had a ton of take off aftermarket parts to sell, so this cost could be somewhat mitigated.
After trying (somewhat half-heartedly) to sell the car locally I decided to get serious. A few local dealers, naturally, gave low-ball offers and I didn't really want to go through the hassle of a private sale, dealing with tire kickers, etc. My daughter had, a few months earlier, sold her Subaru Outback to Carvana and she was pleased with what they gave her for it, so I thought I'd give it a go.
I went on the Carvana site and, after filling out the requisite online questionnaire about the car, requested an offer which would be good for 6 days. I got a reasonable offer, much higher than the dealer offers I'd gotten, but not quite what I was looking for. I let that offer expire and went back on Carvana a week or so later to see about another offer. Lo and behold they gave my another offer that was $1.5K higher than their first offer. This was within about $500-700 of what I was thinking I'd try to sell it for privately, so....SOLD!
After verifying the car's mileage and title status (uploaded pics of the odomoter reading and color hi-res photo of the front and back of the title) to Carvana, they accepted the car and I arranged to have it picked up a week or so later. They will only pick up a car w/in 100 miles of a Carvana location and since I'm about 150 miles from the nearest one, I ended up towing it down to a town closer to their closet location where I met up with the Carvana rep.
He showed up with a flatbed Carvana truck, inspected the car and took it for a short drive, we signed over the title (my wife had to go along because her name was also on the title), he gave us a check and we were on our way back home, sans the Boss.
Now I had a pile of aftermarket parts to sell, most used, some new/unused, and it took me several weeks to inventory, clean up and organize everything. I started selling off the parts in mid August and by now have sold all but a handful of items. I'd say on average I've recovered about 40% of the original parts cost, which may or may not be typical and except for a few items I've covered shipping costs. Of course, YMMV...
Probably the biggest hassle has been packing stuff up to ship to buyers. This takes a lot more time and effort than I thought it would, especially for larger/irregular shaped items. I had some of the original boxes that the various parts came in but not all, and several large items, like the 4-point Watson roll bar, I had to kludge together a shipping box. I must've spent 1.5 hours getting that thing ready to ship! Wheel boxes are another...just keep all your wheel boxes because tire & wheel shops generally don't have boxes lying around for wheels wider than 9" (finally found shipping boxes on OfficeDepot.com that worked). My advice is to keep EVERYTHING as it makes it much, much easier and less time consuming to pack up and ship things should you decide later on to sell stuff. And for sure, keep all your stock parts because you just never know...
All in all, my Boss ownership experience was very positive and I had tons of fun driving and tracking it during my ownership, including a memorable road trip to the Road America vintage races with my son early on. I went a little too crazy with aftermarket stuff, as many of us do, but what the heck. It was all worth it.
Thank you for all your great advice and forum camaraderie. This is easily the best "marque" forum on the internet, with more knowledgable, helpful members and just good people, and no trolls or annoying know-it-alls, unlike many other car forums. Best wishes to all of you with your Bosses, GT350s and other S197 and S550 Mustangs. Enjoy them for the very special machines they are. I'll continue to lurk around here as I'm sure I'll have another Mustang down the road.
Cheers to all!
Sold my '13 SBY Boss 302, which I bought new, this past July after 7 years of ownership. A little difficult to part with it but life moves on, I wasn't driving it much anymore and, well, these things happen. So thought I'd share my experience selling it, FWIW, should anyone else be thinking of selling theirs in the near future.
When I decided to sell I realized that had done a lot of track-oriented mods to it and that it'd be easier to sell (and I'd probably get a better price for it) if I undid all the mods and put it back to bone stock. Fortunately I'd kept all the stock parts and it wasn't cut up or anything, so this was doable. I did some of the work myself but didn't have time to do it all so I had a good local shop do most of the work. This cost about $2.5K in labor, but of course I also had a ton of take off aftermarket parts to sell, so this cost could be somewhat mitigated.
After trying (somewhat half-heartedly) to sell the car locally I decided to get serious. A few local dealers, naturally, gave low-ball offers and I didn't really want to go through the hassle of a private sale, dealing with tire kickers, etc. My daughter had, a few months earlier, sold her Subaru Outback to Carvana and she was pleased with what they gave her for it, so I thought I'd give it a go.
I went on the Carvana site and, after filling out the requisite online questionnaire about the car, requested an offer which would be good for 6 days. I got a reasonable offer, much higher than the dealer offers I'd gotten, but not quite what I was looking for. I let that offer expire and went back on Carvana a week or so later to see about another offer. Lo and behold they gave my another offer that was $1.5K higher than their first offer. This was within about $500-700 of what I was thinking I'd try to sell it for privately, so....SOLD!
After verifying the car's mileage and title status (uploaded pics of the odomoter reading and color hi-res photo of the front and back of the title) to Carvana, they accepted the car and I arranged to have it picked up a week or so later. They will only pick up a car w/in 100 miles of a Carvana location and since I'm about 150 miles from the nearest one, I ended up towing it down to a town closer to their closet location where I met up with the Carvana rep.
He showed up with a flatbed Carvana truck, inspected the car and took it for a short drive, we signed over the title (my wife had to go along because her name was also on the title), he gave us a check and we were on our way back home, sans the Boss.
Now I had a pile of aftermarket parts to sell, most used, some new/unused, and it took me several weeks to inventory, clean up and organize everything. I started selling off the parts in mid August and by now have sold all but a handful of items. I'd say on average I've recovered about 40% of the original parts cost, which may or may not be typical and except for a few items I've covered shipping costs. Of course, YMMV...
Probably the biggest hassle has been packing stuff up to ship to buyers. This takes a lot more time and effort than I thought it would, especially for larger/irregular shaped items. I had some of the original boxes that the various parts came in but not all, and several large items, like the 4-point Watson roll bar, I had to kludge together a shipping box. I must've spent 1.5 hours getting that thing ready to ship! Wheel boxes are another...just keep all your wheel boxes because tire & wheel shops generally don't have boxes lying around for wheels wider than 9" (finally found shipping boxes on OfficeDepot.com that worked). My advice is to keep EVERYTHING as it makes it much, much easier and less time consuming to pack up and ship things should you decide later on to sell stuff. And for sure, keep all your stock parts because you just never know...
All in all, my Boss ownership experience was very positive and I had tons of fun driving and tracking it during my ownership, including a memorable road trip to the Road America vintage races with my son early on. I went a little too crazy with aftermarket stuff, as many of us do, but what the heck. It was all worth it.
Thank you for all your great advice and forum camaraderie. This is easily the best "marque" forum on the internet, with more knowledgable, helpful members and just good people, and no trolls or annoying know-it-alls, unlike many other car forums. Best wishes to all of you with your Bosses, GT350s and other S197 and S550 Mustangs. Enjoy them for the very special machines they are. I'll continue to lurk around here as I'm sure I'll have another Mustang down the road.
Cheers to all!
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