Scott R

I’m a former RX-8 owner (bought a new 2007 that I sadly had to sell after only owning for a year or so), and have been driving a 2002 Lexus SC430 since around 2008. I’ve missed having a manual transmission car that drives like a sports car (I don’t care about acceleration or top speed - RX-8 is plenty fast enough for me). Recently I was perusing Facebook Marketplace and came across a beautiful-looking 2008 RX-8. It was in an accident that totaled it, but was subsequently re-purchased, completely restored, and repainted in a custom color that I think looks really good. The price seems fair to me (~$9K and under 50K miles) assuming it really is in as great condition as the current owner/seller claims. I believe he (or some mechanic in his employ) did the restoration. But he’s a little over 2 hours away in upstate NY, and I haven’t made a private-party purchase like this before, so I’m not sure how best to go about this.

Advice?

MincVinyl

I wouldnt spend more than 2k on it. Looks like side airbags went off. Poor picture quality, underbody? Chewed enginebay.

Basically over 7k should buy you a really clean car under 80k miles...... Although there are plenty of people that think their 120k mile cars are worth full price.

There is an 04 black one 50k miles in brooklyn for 9k that would be a better purchase (base with no sunroof.... better performance wise, but might be a deal breaker) I would buy it, but I have like 4 spare engines that need homes. So sadly I am looking for rollers in good condition.