Hey everyone!

I’ve been lurking for a while now and posting bits and pieces here (SRT long road trip thread). At last I have my new (to me) SRT6. Its dark grey and I flew to FL to get it and drove it home. I only paid $7200 for it and it has 80,000 miles on it now (1500 of that was the way home lol). The paint has a few issue but that’s the sacrifice I was willing to make for the really good price!!!


Why:

This was a surprise car for my wife as the Crossfire is her DREAM CAR… I always told her one day when I can afford it I’d get her one. Of course I got this for both of us but I did put a big red bow on it when I showed it to her. She had NO CLUE about this… I have other business in Fort Myers so making an excuse to “fly there on business” was perfect as she had NO CLUE what I was up to. I even fudged a return flight so she didn’t ask why I only bought a single one way ticket…


Back story:

Back in 2007 she (we) had the chance to buy one and didn’t because we were talking about starting a life and having kids, etc…. Well 11 years later I’m fortunate enough to be able to afford such a nice vehicle after paying off my 2012 RAM 1500. I recently bought a 2018 Electric ORANGE Pacifica mini-van too… one of only 2 orange models within 1000 miles of the Chicago area!!!!! Custom order paint color J. When I was younger and fresh out of college in 2008, making good money and living with my parent still (I was only 20) I bought a brand new 300C SRT8 as well and that was my fast car to my freedom as a kid fresh out of college. I sold it for the RAM I have now because I needed a more practical vehicle for my life-style – Boat in particular.


Making this a reality:

As such, I always told myself since 2007 when my wife decided to get a new Chevy Cobalt at the time since it was an economy car that had 4 doors that I’d get a Crossfire one day. That of course was replaced shortly after cuz it was too small and kids were coming in the following years. So we started with a potential crossfire, settled for a small Chevy car due to practicality, then ended up getting a fully loaded Jeep Liberty which 6 months ago was traded for the mini-van. Life right? Anyways, after all that I finally have my wife’s dream car and it’s an SRT which I *HAVE* to have. It’s in my blood…

Furthermore, when I was younger I actually got an SRT tattoo and of course I still have it and don’t regret it at all. Here is a picture of my SRT Tattoo too: http://toughbooktalk.com/public_down...03_1728523.jpg

All in all through I had one scammer attempt to sell me this car here with only 11,315 miles for only $9500. Too good to be true of course… He refunded my $500 down payment and said he was leaving the country… This was after I told him I was gonna fly out, pay cash and drive it home. He insisted in sending a bank wire and his “company” would ship it to me. Come one man, you’re not fooling anyone!!! I of course left him a negative feedback and I reported him to eBay!! This one here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-Chrysl....m43663.l10137

Anyways there were two other blue ones which both went gray on me too, both in Ner Jersey. This one here I attempted to buy at face value ($7300) and after chatting with me from a “private caller” line I never heard from him again either: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-Chrysl....m43663.l10137

This one here wouldn’t come down past $8200 which was more than I wanted to spend too and he went gray on me as well and stopped responding: https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-...ode1=CROSSFIRE

After that I went a bit sideways and attempted to buy this one here for $2000. A kid wrecked his car. I never heard from him so I’m assuming he get $2500 for it. This would have been a project car which my father would have helped me with: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-Chrysl....m43663.l10137

All in and all through this is the one I ended up getting for $7200: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-Chrysl....m43663.l10137

All in and all through I forked over $200 over in Carfax reports too… I have 10 total Carfax report PDF’s and I’ve published those here in case anyone wants to see them: Index of /public_downloads/Robs Stuff/SRT Stuff

Thanks for taking the time to read all this and I’m glad to be here! It’s a small community I’m finding with the AMG Mercedes being thrown into the loop on the Facebook group too of course since it’s the same car/engine. My wife is happy that I got the dark gray color (From what I’ve read there were only 4 original colors on the SRT and her first pick is pearl white (Which you can get a white normal x-fire but not an SRT) and her 2nd fav is the dark gray/gun metal J. I video’d her when she came home with the kids and her jaw was on the floor and she was speechless…

Thanks for everyone’s continued support here! I run the largest Toughbook forum (Toughbooktalk.com) and it’s my career and I know that everyone on there really appreciates the help and community and having this available just like what I run is very helpful so thank you everyone!

I am going to register the VIN database next week when I un-bury myself with work lol

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