Looking 4 an STR
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Oh god. I was scanning, read your title and immediately thought "SRT-4" which is a Neon. Blame dyslexia will I ever!
Use craigslist, autotrader.com and cars.com. Those are the best three. Start by looking close to home then radiating out. If you find a car on a website, do your best to actually drive the vehicle before hand to determine if it is indeed the best.
Use craigslist, autotrader.com and cars.com. Those are the best three. Start by looking close to home then radiating out. If you find a car on a website, do your best to actually drive the vehicle before hand to determine if it is indeed the best.
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I just went through this. A couple of points to consider.
Figure out which series you'd prefer.
1. 03-04 Slightly different front end and the early style gauges. Brembo brakes.
2. 05 Newer front end with the later style gauges. Brembo brakes.
3. 06-08 Later style gauges. The brembo brakes are deleted. The engine gained VVT and there are a few other styling changes most of which are minor. I think these are 400HP instead of 390 but I'm not sure it's all that important.
How much do you want to spend?
I found Autotrader, Cars.com and Ebay were all very usefull. You can get an early lead on a car on Autotrader or Cars.com which is how I nailed mine down before it hit Ebay.
Depending upon what you're willing to spend I found 5 or 6 nice cars under 35k. I saw several very nice looking 03 MY cars go for between $13-18K with under 35K miles and one had 18K miles.
I drove an 05 car in silver with a very unique interior that had 50K miles and it was tight as a drum, very quick and did nothing wrong. I found that encouraging. Unfortunately it was a smokers car.
If you really like black you're in luck.
Have fun.
Bob S.
Figure out which series you'd prefer.
1. 03-04 Slightly different front end and the early style gauges. Brembo brakes.
2. 05 Newer front end with the later style gauges. Brembo brakes.
3. 06-08 Later style gauges. The brembo brakes are deleted. The engine gained VVT and there are a few other styling changes most of which are minor. I think these are 400HP instead of 390 but I'm not sure it's all that important.
How much do you want to spend?
I found Autotrader, Cars.com and Ebay were all very usefull. You can get an early lead on a car on Autotrader or Cars.com which is how I nailed mine down before it hit Ebay.
Depending upon what you're willing to spend I found 5 or 6 nice cars under 35k. I saw several very nice looking 03 MY cars go for between $13-18K with under 35K miles and one had 18K miles.
I drove an 05 car in silver with a very unique interior that had 50K miles and it was tight as a drum, very quick and did nothing wrong. I found that encouraging. Unfortunately it was a smokers car.
If you really like black you're in luck.
Have fun.
Bob S.
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I have found from looking for my STR that you have to expand your search and be patient especially considering the production numbers of the STR. It took me about a month and a half to find mine and it was a 6 hour drive to get to it one way. So just decide what you want and keep the search up and you will find what you want. I was pretty picky so I felt I actually found mine pretty quick. What you want is out there so gotta be patient. I wasnt patient when I bought my Mercury Marauder about 5 years ago. I wanted a Blue or a Dark Toreador Red one. Well production number were about 981 for the DTR and 327 for the Blue. I settle on a black which was about 8000 and wouldnt you know it had my black for about a month and guess what I finally see for sale as I was driving by a dealership, a dang DTR. So its worth it to be a little patient if you find something thats not quite what you want.
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