Ten or fifteen year old Hondas may well be worth more as parts than as running vehicles.
I used to have a 68 Mustang visible in a side yard. Such door knockers were a primary motivation for building a gate…
Get a bold for sale sign from the hardware store and write $2,500 FIRM on it. That should chase off the lowballers.
If those two come back, I’ll try it the haggling up idea.
For the most part, the inquiries don’t bother me except for the dog barking when strangers knock on the door. I tell them no and end of story. I’m not even offended by the lowball offers. It’s missing the grill and bumper cover and both fenders are dented. It looks like crap. Cosmetics are at the bottom of the to-do list. What bugs me is when they keep asking me. Also, don’t lowball me when I’m working on it and you can see the cold air intake, the cat-back exhaust, the 16" rims, and the immaculate engine compartment. I had one guy offer me $500 while I was in the middle of installing over $500 worth of aftermarket brake parts.
Ah, yes, Civics. The $5,000 car parents give their son so he can put $25,000 in mods on it, $200 at a time. 
Starting with a great big rear wing spoiler.
Your faith in humanity is touching… 
I used to get people getting me to roll down my window while stopped in traffic who wanted to buy my '98 Jeep Cherokee Sport. I loved that thing.
At 200k miles I gave it to my niece, who later went off to college and left it to her sister. They’re still driving it around and they say that all their friends think they have the coolest vehicle of their group. sniff And now they get offers to sell it.
Lots of people with non-working old cars in front of their houses do not plan to fix them. They just don’t want to go through the hassle of selling, or think they aren’t worth anything. It can be a nice little side job for someone. Buying an old car for cheap that normally will just sit there and rust, put in a few hundred bucks and some elbow grease, sell it and triple their money. The guys are just hustling to make a buck.
It should be a law that anyone with a visible, stored, Mustang from 1965 to 1972 should be REQUIRED to sell it to an enthusiast. It’s a crime against nature to have one just sitting in plain view taunting us.
Signed,
Classic Mustang enthusiast.
Honda cars are evil. The stupidest, most obnoxious moves I have seen in traffic have always been Hondas (usually CRXs).
Who said it was stored? I just didn’t have garage space for it.
It’s the car my parents bought off the showroom floor in 1968 and which I learned to drive in and is on the descending slope of a meticulous $35k restomod. My children already carry weapons around each other pending my demise and its next owner.
Signed,
Classic Mustang Original Owner.
I must say a '99 Civic is a weird choice for a project car, but sort of makes sense now that I think about it.
AMEN! I had to deal with this a lot when I used to keep my old 1991 CRX parked at my parent’s house, which was on a relatively high traffic (pedestrian and vehicle) road. People would come poking around, checking it out as if the driveway was a used parking lot. Leaving notes on the car, knocking on the door, often with this weirdly entitled attitude that made it seem like they thought they had a *right *to buy the car with their lowball, unsolicited and unwanted offers.
Finally have it parked somewhere more private and secure, but still have had to deal with the unsolicited offers on the road. I had one guy one time that drove like a *madman *to turn around and catch up to me, honking like my car was on fire, just to ask if my wheels were for sale. Not the car, just the wheels. I had put on the *perfect *and relatively rare 15" OEM Honda Civic Si (sedan) alloy wheels that never came on the CRX, but look like that’s what they were *made *for. But even if I’d wanted to sell them (and I didn’t) it would have had to be *well *north of $1000 just to make the hassle and cost of getting new wheels and tires worth it.
Lowball offers on things that people are trying to sell are fine - unsolicited, aggressive, self-entitled lowball offers for things that are *not *for sale are just annoying and insulting.
It would have to be a small tape player, unless bengangmo is a more impressive man than any of us suspect.
Regards,
Shodan
Yeah, I’ll go along with this. I know where there is a almost rust free 1966 Pontiac GTO convertible sitting under a slowly falling in carport thing. It’s next to a building that used to be a general store. It’s been sitting there, hood slightly open, 3 flat tires, one still miraculously holding air, for at least 20 years. I have left at least a dozen business cards on the dash with a note that I would buy it in a second, if they would consider selling. The cards disappear, and the weeds are trimmed back from the car, so it seems someone is kinda taking care of it. But no calls. Ever. Sad, it could be a great car!
It looks just like this, just not restored like that one is. Imagine this one if you left it sitting outside under a collapsing carport for 30 years. Just like that!
Still, I’ve never gone to the house that is nearby and knocked. I’m not going to intrude on someone when they are obviously not trying to sell the car. Hell, might not even belong to the people in that house, I really don’t know.
Monty Python might be willing to sell theirs. Just be sure to wipe off the boogers first.
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Whoa. That’s a BIG testicle.
Mom, I need downforce in the turns!
In my family, that’s called “stupid money.”
“What if someone offered you stupid money for your house?”
But I like the Massive Overpayment Fairy.
I see what you are doing here. I don’t like it but I respect a hard bargainer so I am willing to work with you. I’ll tell you what I will do. $850 cash money as long as you throw in a spare bed and that pretty lamp in your living room plus delivery. PM me about when they will be here. I will have that stack of Benjamins waiting. Also, make damned sure the gas tank is full. I don’t like to get ripped off.