Quoting Street Surgeon:
Wow...
This can all be summed up as follows.
Mitsubishi Galant VR-4's aren't worth much, probably won't be worth much in the future, and typically many are in a general state of disrepair. IF you like yours, and it's clean, then keep it that way. If you want to be Captain Save-A-Hoe then BUY or pick up these busted shells and "restore" these fantastic works of modern art /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Rather than complain about people parting them DO something about it, buy one.
I like these cars, but sometimes we have to step back and get in touch with reality. Most people don't give a crap about GVR4's, and if we as a community cared as much about them as some claim, then we would buy these shells or take them off of other peoples hands. I like my car, it's fairly clean and now it runs like a top after some major maintenance. That being said, I also know what I own, a relic of years past that's widely been forgotten and is only appreciated by true niche enthusiasts. It will never fetch the kind of coin that I've put into it, nor do I expect it to. Keep the good ones on the road, and a few spares in the garage. What happens to the rest I could give a $hit.
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/applause.gif Amen /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/applause.gif
Quoting red90awd:
Ill chime in I guess!
I am thankful for the folks who do part these cars out for the sheer fact that you can't get some parts anymore and the only way to get these parts is from a donor car.
Thanks for your vote /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Quoting BoostedAWD91:
Guess ill throw my 2 cents in here as well. I hate to see a perfectly good Vr4 ripped apart and thrown away as the next person, but trying to keep these cars around for ever is just not gonna happen. By the time all of us younger members get older, this board will most likely not exist anymore because their wont be any Vr4's left, except for a rare few here and there which then might be worth something.
The only thing that I disagree with is that you have the cause/effect backwards. GalantVR4.org board as a community isn't "going away" because the cars are being parted and going away. If the board/community goes away, it's because of the lack of interest in the car. Members come here, buy cars, get tired of it, sell the car for what they can get, and move on to other things. But there aren't new members coming in to replace the leaving ones as fast as the old guys move out. This is the CAUSE of partouts, low GVR4 value, and "hard to sell cars".
I just can't seem to get you guys to acknowledge that the lack of community enthusiasm and lack of new members is what is driving the whole thing. That's why whole cars sit for months unsold. That's why people part them out. (I'm certainly not the only one...there are many many partouts going on, I might just be the most outspoken one). They go right to parting out because they KNOW they won't be able to sell the car whole.
Doing ANYTHING with rules regarding partouts, car crushing, whatever...does NOTHING to stop the CAUSE of the all the problems. The only thing that will keep GVR4's alive in the long run as a species is renewal in enthusaism and an increase in the size of the community. That is the only way to save the cars.
The sooner we try and come to grips with reality. Sticking your head in the sand and ignoring the root cause and thinking you can somehow increase value, increase demand, and stop cars for being destroyed by somehow exurting control over what people can do with their own property is an utter waste of time and completely foolish. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jawdrop.gif
