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Bumper crop of Caprices in NC right now!

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:44 am
by elc32955
Hey everyone!

This is a deal alert! State of North Carolina is liquidating a bunch of 2014 & 2015 Caprices currently on their new state bidding website. Currently there are 11 cars up for bid including a 2011 9C3. I just picked up a 2015 through this sale and will be doing a fly-n-drive to get the car on Wednesday. These cars are all around 100K miles give or take (ranging from 94K to 120K) and are 3.6 cars. So.... they're basically grocery getters but also good daily drivers. Autocheck tells me the one I bought had pretty decent maintenance. As you know, the nice thing about the 2015 & up cars is that the back-up cam is already installed by GM as a standard option, no sourcing harnesses, camera parts, or programming the silver box required. And... on these DPS cars all they had is one set of front door decals (sometimes), other then that they are plain white. Mostly no painting required, hop in and drive. Looks to me like someone's shooting the staff car pool in the head.

So, get on down to North Carolina and pick you up a deal while they're available. With this kind of volume it's basically local dealers sniping cars, and they won't be available forever. I haven't seen a one go for over $5K yet. You have to register for access to the new site, if you had an old account it's wiped out as of March 1.

Check it out! Here's the linky.... https://recoup.bid.assetworks.com/bid/f ... :AI_STORE:

Good luck!
Eric

Re: Bumper crop of Caprices in NC right now!

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:49 am
by elc32955
Just in follow-up, if anyone wants to see what this batch of North Carolina DPS cars looked like on-duty here's a pic I found on Flickr. Follow the linky....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rcsadvmedia/15534398558

Thanks
Eric

Re: Bumper crop of Caprices in NC right now!

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:20 pm
by Powder11
Do you guys know if all of the cars are V8 cars?

Re: Bumper crop of Caprices in NC right now!

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:03 am
by elc32955
Nope, not a V8 in the current bunch. All V6 LFX cars.

Eric

Re: Bumper crop of Caprices in NC right now!

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:29 pm
by elc32955
AND... that deal bled out quickly. I was trying to pick up a car for my employer (they had a service vehicle totaled last week at the Oklahoma home office) and every Caprice in the batch except one lightly wrecked car went or is going in excess of $5K now. Same dealers squabbling over the limited cars, they're just forking over more dinero now.

Have to watch the site to see if more cars get sent to sale soon...

Eric

Re: Bumper crop of Caprices in NC right now!

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 6:31 pm
by elc32955
Just in closure, State of NC sold the last Caprice out of the big pool this morning for just under $7K. 2014 with 91K miles that was a re-auction (someone must have defaulted on a bid). So far mine has done pretty well all things considered, if you're looking for a Caprice for basic transportation these cars are the ticket. No pursuit work and no spotlights, just shuttling happy campers back and forth from Jail A to Prison B and various other destinations.

We'll see when the next batch hits the sale lot.

Eric