Alfa Owner car values

[Howard and Pat Warren <warrenwood@domain.elided>]

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Anybody notice the table of values in the latest Alfa Owner (Feb.) ? - like 
to know where you can find a $5k GTA much less a top notch one for $17k and 
then there's the $20k GTZ-2.....
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I hope this table was a gigantic typo.  A lot of the prices are jokes.  I'd 
buy to find a 93 Spider for $4800 <g>!

But while we can chuckle over the prices, here's something that AlfaBill 
brought up to me: pretend you're hit by a coffee-sucking, cell-phone using, 
yuppie soccer-mom in a Ford GodAlmighty SUV.  Your beautiful 93 Spider, 
with nary a door ding, and only 35k on the clock is totalled.  The soccer 
mom's insurance company offers you $7500 to total your car (BTW, Kelley 
Blue Book lists the trade on a 93 Veloce as $9600.)

You sputter and fluster of course, but you need evidence to support your 
claim of a higher value.  So you tell the claims adjuster there's 
Hemmings... the CPI... and oh yes, there's a national owner's club-OOPS! 
 The insurance company contacts the national club, after all, this is a 
semi-exotic and the club should have good idea of the prices.  The club 
gives a payout of $4800, THOUSANDS LOWER THAN KELLY and the insurance 
company LOWERS THE PAYOUT!

Thanks a lot, AROC.

Howard K. Warren, Little Rock, AR
1984 GTV-6, "Falconi", 138k miles
1991 164L, "Peregrine", 68k miles
1991 164L, "GrayHawk", 78k miles (I take possession 3/1)

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