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Would it enhance the value of my 1986 Cadillac short arm to include the original body with the single boring color paint job?

Because I'd just as soon use it on the quasi-worlds I built up out of parts if nobody would be interested in an old body with a single color forest green automotive paint job with a plain white stock wing.

OTOH, somewhere I have an old original photo of the car from back in 1988 with that body and an first place trophy I took when I won the novice A-main with it at Del Mar one night. So maybe the (very humble) racing history is worth something?

-Peter

depends what shape the body's in, I guess...

here is the body that i might or might not sell with my original cadillac gold pan:


again, if you think this body would enhance the value to the average collector-buyer, i would sell it with the car, but if it's essentially worthless, i'd just as soon keep it. i know the answer is variable... i'm just asking for advice, nothing guaranteed or concrete.

-peter

That body would not make me pay more for your RC10. If you have a sentimental connection to it I'd say keep it.

Jut my 2 cents.

Scott

variant45 wrote:That body would not make me pay more for your RC10. If you have a sentimental connection to it I'd say keep it.

Jut my 2 cents.

Scott

I agree with this.

thanks guys, keep it coming.

-peter

well it s pretty clear mate, especially after that pic

Don't get hung up on how much these things are worth. Even original RC10s are not the goldmines some believe them to be.

Unless it is something ultra rare and/or unopened or whatever, plan on something not being worth any more than you paid for it originally at most. 'Worth' is completely subjective, relative, etc.

Thanks guys. Based on your advice, I'll probably keep my old body then when I sell the rest of the car.

Yes, it is original but i'm not looking for a goldmine, (i haven't even put it up for sale yet). just market rate, whatever happens to be. the reason i started this thread is, i wanted to keep the old original body for something else... but not if it had some historic value that went along with the rest of the car. from the responses so far, old original bodies aren't worth much unless they are pristine and well done. mine isn't. so i'm just as happy to keep it.

-peter

best thing to do is clean it up as well as you can, put all the relevant parts in clear view and take good pictures. nothing blurry, be sure to show the bottom side of the car, and anything really broken as a separate pic.

doing those couple of things will guarantee the best bidding.

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Good stuff.

Meh, not really. Kudos to him for finding deals ($40 for three cars and that Stealth CE was one of them?!) but he's not real knowledgeable about the car itself.

Sure, those old-school resistor-type speed controllers are rare... rare because everyone tossed them out in favor of 'real' electronic ones! It would add NO value whatsoever to an RC10 unless it was included still in the bag.

Oh, and backwards rear arm mounts! Drives me nuts!