I probably would have traded....for this clean 98 SSE....

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I probably would have traded....for this clean 98 SSE....

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I was cruising Craigs List and found this:

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...the images are different sizes, sorry. Here's the ad link, which I'm sure will eventually not work:

http://www.theautostore.org/vehicledeta ... =157907389

....anyway, I emailed them with photos of mine. It has 123K on it, looks super clean from the photos. They emailed back and said my car was pretty clean, but had too many miles on it (161K)....so they wouldn't trade me. But I SO would have, if it didn't need the usual suspsects mechanically. The more I think about it though, although I do like certain flavors of the '98s and '99s....I'm pretty much invested into this car that I have now, but I saw that 98 SSE and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy. Sigh.
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I can't believe cars like this are so few and far between now.. I mean, it makes sense, it's just weird.
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95naSTA wrote:I can't believe cars like this are so few and far between now.. I mean, it makes sense, it's just weird.

That's why when you find one you have to JUMP on it!




While the 92-99 is my favorite gen, it probably best financially just to stick with your car for a while anyways as you know what you've done to it already.
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94SilverSSEi wrote: While the 92-99 is my favorite gen, it probably best financially just to stick with your car for a while anyways as you know what you've done to it already.
Agreed. This is my first 2000+, I've had a '93 SE, '92 SSEi, '97 SE, and this '05 SE, in that order. I like my car, I've put a lot of money into it to get it to where it needs to be, and it's almost there...but in retrospect, I like the older style, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but they sure seemed to ride better/smoother...it seems like GM did something way different with the suspension on the 2K+ models.
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95naSTA wrote:I can't believe cars like this are so few and far between now.. I mean, it makes sense, it's just weird.
i hear ya on that one :poke:
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Ludichris wrote: I like the older style, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but they sure seemed to ride better/smoother...it seems like GM did something way different with the suspension on the 2K+ models.
Couldn't agree more on those points, and I think the older style had a bit more headroom also.
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