Midwesterners.... what would you pay for a rust free Miata??

I am asking The GRM Hive from the rust belt this question..

What would you pay in cash for a rust free Mazda Miata driven to your driveway? Now these Miata's would be NA type. They would need TLC but rust free. 

As an active buyer, it depends. 

Mileage, color, modifications, options, maintenance history all make a difference to me.

I saw one that was Bondo, hopes and dreams, and a FM butterfly brace to hold the floor together (all the seams were rusted apart!) sell for $6900.  1.6 automatic car.

So really, you are asking the wrong people.  And about five months too late.

$3000.

I mean I'd give you $500...

$3-5,000

Miatas in Minnesota at least tend to be stored during the winter, so clean examples are relatively common.  I just looked at the local Craigslist, and found cars with asking prices from $4500 to $10,000, but the average appears to be around $7k.

Zero.  Zero dollars.  

Thank you for your answers.  I have found a collection of Miatas that are for sale. They are in sunbaked condition. But they are rust free. Run and drivable.  I grew up in the rust belt so these cars free of rust, to me are worth while.  When there are still Miatas rust free over there being sold for the same price as here that changes the view point.  Sunbaked could be just as bad as rust.  And lower there value 

In reply to MyMiatas :

Sun baked is better than rusted.  When repairing them all- the most expensive part of repairing sunbaking is just the last step in repairing rust- which is paint.  And finding interiors that can be used to replace horrible parts isn't impossible.  Not easy, and not at every junk yard, but not impossible.

One more thing- if you can get the stash for well under challenge average, it would be good feeder for challenge cars.

Sunbaked means great race builders but less so on the restoring side because there are still a ton of good clean garage queens up north.

With SM moved away from really building too many new NAs and most everyone building a serious early miata is building NBs. 

So with all that said, Top NAs that are used but clean (summer drivers) are low 5 digits. Sunbaked TX cars which these would really fall into are 4-6K if the mechanics are good on them. That's where I'd price something like this at. More towards the 6K side if the tops are in really good shape and the seats/dash are good and the maintenance is up to date. 

I'd trade my integra challenge car for one with a manual. Post challenge 

The CL ads have been relisted. I bought some parts for my lifted Miata from him. They are all decent cars.