Adrenaline Junkie

A huge thanks for the input on MAG. Current owner has some familiarity w/them and that was where he was defaulting to. I will ask that Evan's do the pre-buy. Thanks very much for the guidance.

Yup...I have assembled a list of items for them to pay special attention to per what has been identified in this thread, and will be sure to hit the point about them being my lifeline and support team should I purchase. Yes, the dealer we are shipping to is Midwestern Auto Group of Dublin, OH. Once the pre-buy is done, I'll post the results, and my next steps. Thanks all for the wisdom. Remember how much harder it was to gain the collective insights such as this prior to the Internet and online communities? I suspect there were exponentially more "surprises" post-buy than there are these days.

I live in "sunny" Rochester NY. ...and this is obviously a horrible time to be procuring a seasonal toy. We get more snow than most (I live on Lake Ontario, and endure ridiculous amounts of lake effect snow - 2 years ago it snowed every single day in the month of January.) My boats are put away and my Viper goes in storage next week....and here I am considering dropping a C on what will be a garage queen for the next 4-5 months. My plan was to make a move next spring, but this car kind of found me, so I couldn't resist. I am still waiting for the pre-buy - since our closest dealer is in Columbus (yes this will be a PITA any time I need service, but signifies how badly I've wanted one of these beasts), the current owner has to have it shipped out to that dealer. His shipper has been tied up w/hurricane Sandy related activities and is hopeful that they'll get the car out there this upcoming week. So, hopefully within the next 2 weeks I'll have the results of the pre-buy and be in the position to make the go, no-go call. BTW, I did wake up to snow on the ground this morning :-(

OK - I've lurked a bit on this forum and decided it was time to step up and post. Unfortunately, I have an affliction...I love toys. Growing up, the 2 vehicles I fantasized about owning were Porsche 911 TT, and a Lambo. This summer I sold my 911TT and have been kind of passively looking at Lambos. I cannot help but love the unique menacing look of the Murci (I currently also own a 2004 triple black Viper convertible viper that I put Belanger hi flo cats, headers and exhaust on that just screams testosterone (which my wife hates :-), but the Murci's refined yet nasty look has me just too intrigued that I don't know that I can do without much longer). So a friend of mine deals in exotics. He knew I was interested in a Murci....and knew of a 2002 black 6 speed Murci w/20k miles on it that was just sitting in storage. I took my 15 yr old son with me, after his hockey practice, to go look at the car. We both could hardly contain ourselves. Just a nasty looking beast. If I decide to proceed, I'll have a pre-buy inspection done on the car and have remedied whatever is uncovered prior to purchase. Looks like I can pick up the car for about $100k - depending upon what Pre-buy uncovers. Realizing that the car is 10 yrs old and has higher mileage than I typically am comfortable buying my toys at - am I nuts to consider this Murci? I was hoping to leverage the collective wisdom of this board to provide me some guidance as to what I should be looking for...possibly what I should avoid, and what major service items might I expect (for example some of the pixels in the dash are out, so I know I am going to have the dash cluster replaced, etc..). Is 2002 a year that should be totally avoided? Thanks and I look forward to your responses.