Hey everyone, Just wanting to know how much I should be paying for a VL Calais V8? I am wanting to get something stock that is fairly straight, clean and mostly original. Perhaps something with less than 200,000ks. Any info would be great, Thanks

From what youve described you might find your average price of around $3000-$4500 if you can find one. Most are flogged though. Try to buy one off an older person.

I've got an unmolestered vl calais v8 that im going to sell in the coming week/s. 190***k's, 3rd owner, previous owners not young, very good interior, all electrics, perfectly straight, and resprayed in candy gold. Will be asking 7K.

Quote: Originally Posted by jp240z I've got an unmolestered vl calais v8 that im going to sell in the coming week/s. 190***k's, 3rd owner, previous owners not young, very good interior, all electrics, perfectly straight, and resprayed in candy gold. Will be asking 7K. sounds phat ide go with that Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

I'm looking for a daily and a candy gold vl calais would probably attract a bit too much attention

It does lol. If you're not after attention then I reckon you're going to have to find one with a stock exhaust because that rumble can attract a copper or 2.

oi theres a white calais with a injected 5L for sale the bloke is a member of this site its on ebay real smik http://cgi.ebay.com.au/vl-calais-inj...QQcmdZViewItem (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=3&campid=5335860158&toolid=10001&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com.au%2Fvl-calais-injected-5-litre-want-turbo_W0QQitemZ150260184868QQihZ005QQcategoryZ35227QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) chek it out if you havent seen it yet? Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Intelligent comment, is that to get your post count up? On topic, I paid $3k for my calais, 293k at the time but running like a charm, even the mechanic was impressed when he tuned it how well it's running. Everything works too, nice and straight, few marks here and there but original paint after 21 years you have to expect it. No major rust, blah blah, I could go on, but....... for what you want I'd be looking around $4k minimum, the one in post #3 sounds nice too.

i picked up my calais for 3,500 bit rought tho. mechanicley its a treat but bit worn on the interor side of things with 229xxx km's

Quote: Originally Posted by jp240z I've got an unmolestered vl calais v8 that im going to sell in the coming week/s. 190***k's, 3rd owner, previous owners not young, very good interior, all electrics, perfectly straight, and resprayed in candy gold. Will be asking 7K. Can you pm me some more details about your calais please?

i know of a freshly painted metellic silver factory 5.0 factory 5.0 VL Berlina for sale going quite cheap... ill get pics if your interested

Quote: Originally Posted by VL-EXEC i know of a freshly painted metellic silver factory 5.0 factory 5.0 VL Berlina for sale going quite cheap... ill get pics if your interested Yeah pics would be great thanks

price 3-5g... are u looking for one in ur state only... coz i seen 1 here stock white berlina.. 5g 190xxxkms..

YEah probably only SA and calais as well

There's a VL Calais 5.0 in the For Sale section here for $1500!

Igor that sold last week.

There was a 5ltr on ebay 165,000ks $5500 extractors not sure if it sold....would like to have a look at that if anyone knows it?

picked this up for $2500 in pretty good condition overall, bloke before me had it for 18 years, had a few minor problems (water pump, and has the orig carby in need of repair) picked this up for $2500 in pretty good condition overall,well under 200000kms, bloke before me had it for 18 years, had a few minor problems (water pump, and has the orig carby in need of repair) <a href="http://img73.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p6290056wh6.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3255/p6290056wh6.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://img604.imageshack.us/content.php?page=blogpost&files=img73/3255/p6290056wh6.jpg" title="QuickPost"><img src="http://imageshack.us/img/butansn.png" alt="QuickPost" border="0"></a> Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others! Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

nice car man ^^^ whats your plans?

thinkin of pullin the motor out and smoothin the engine bay out and respray the bay maranello red but with a gold pearl over the top. maybe hide the wiring, it had brand new pedders suspension and steering rack put in there before i got it, so im gonna replace all the rubbers in the front end while its off the road. put it all back together for the cruise 4 charity. then after that might take it back off the road and respray the rest of it. thinkin about a 355 stroker motor aswell. but its almost in mint condition full grandpa spec so i dunno if i wanna **** with its originality yet. still has the venetians and till recently had factory headunit, come with almost a boot load of new genuine parts aswell