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Posted by: scotty b Mar 11 2016, 06:09 PM

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Posted by: scotty b Mar 11 2016, 06:14 PM

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Posted by: siverson Mar 11 2016, 06:15 PM

BUY IT NOW!!!

Posted by: steuspeed Mar 11 2016, 06:24 PM

Dream On... GLWTS

Posted by: screenguy914 Mar 11 2016, 06:26 PM

Someone should be embarrassed for displaying this.

S

Posted by: bretth Mar 11 2016, 06:32 PM

Damn. Makes my sub par car look great.

Brett

Posted by: JawjaPorsche Mar 11 2016, 06:37 PM

Unfortunately someone will buy it and will think they are getting a good deal.

Posted by: scotty b Mar 11 2016, 06:42 PM

We heard it fire up and saw some older guy with a bidders tag crawling all over it while it ran.....poorly.......


90% of the cars at this particular auction were poor condition with HIGH asking prices. Poor body work, poor repaints, partially un-assembled after repaint etc.....One of the workers overheard me pointing out all the flaws ( serious ones ) on a 930 and whipped her head around then ducked into a 964 to detail the interior

Posted by: bandjoey Mar 11 2016, 06:44 PM

It's a rust bucket under that frog green paint. $2500 project car??

Posted by: Puebloswatcop Mar 11 2016, 06:50 PM

Holy crap....that car has more seam separations than seams it came with from the factory. I sure hope no one buys it as a car but maybe it could be used for parts $500.....$1,000 max.

Posted by: pete000 Mar 11 2016, 06:52 PM

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

Posted by: jim_hoyland Mar 11 2016, 06:53 PM

Added VIN to database...

Posted by: Chris914n6 Mar 11 2016, 07:05 PM

What a piece of and I'm talking about the guy trying to "sell" it.

Posted by: Steve Pratel Mar 11 2016, 07:18 PM

I know where I/m going if I ever sell mine...

Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Mar 11 2016, 07:30 PM

We have heard that the trend is for auction houses to fill up with inventory from what used to be or should be on CL and Ebay, owners wanting top dollar for low quality. Its the greed from all those auction shows on TV kicking in. Most people with the means to buy from auctions are not fooled by this garbage. The auction houses must certainly be lowering their standard for what they accept, which will only backfire. High value sellers will not want their vehicle to be associated with garbage - they will just not use these auction houses. From these photos the 'high impact' has nothing to do with the willow green, looks like a new clip could have been poorly installed.

Posted by: carr914 Mar 11 2016, 07:46 PM

Posted by: KELTY360 Mar 11 2016, 07:50 PM

Presented as a 1970 MY with a '71 VIN. What's up with that? Bogus is almost too good a word for this offering.

Posted by: cwpeden Mar 11 2016, 08:10 PM

But it has the ultra rare 2 barrel carb!
And the 'hydraulic' disk brakes....I should upgrade to those! I've heard they are awesome.

Posted by: wndsnd Mar 11 2016, 08:18 PM

Yeah!

Not upside down anymore!

Oh, ah , never mind.....

Posted by: PanelBilly Mar 11 2016, 08:22 PM

Makes my car worth 100,000

Posted by: rgalla9146 Mar 11 2016, 08:24 PM

High impact green paint ?
Low impact bodywork

Posted by: rick 918-S Mar 11 2016, 08:48 PM

That kind of pisses me off. I tried to list 7 of 9 in the auction there during the 914 thing and was basically told 914's are not worth enough. Then they allow that junk in there. No wonder there is that impression out there.

Posted by: 914Sixer Mar 11 2016, 09:05 PM

Does it qualify as a POS ?

Posted by: somd914 Mar 11 2016, 09:31 PM

I think I need to call Hagarty and up my agreed upon value...

And perhaps it isn't so bad that I couldn't make Amelia this year, I see far better cars every weekend around here.

Posted by: Vacca Rabite Mar 11 2016, 09:38 PM

So hot right now.

Posted by: RobW Mar 11 2016, 11:08 PM

3/70?

Posted by: SKL1 Mar 11 2016, 11:16 PM

I'm about 99% sure that same car was at the Bonhams auction in Scottsdale in January. It was way in the back row of a bunch of Porsches with an estimate of 30K. Can't believe they even let it in the auction- was a total POS and totally embarassing to say the least.
I assume either it didn't sell there or someone really stupid is trying to flip. The shipping costs alone are worth more than the car because they could have NEVER driven it from AZ to FLA!!

Posted by: Cuda911 Mar 11 2016, 11:52 PM

Yes. Surprised they didn't put that in the ad.

Posted by: Gustl Mar 12 2016, 12:09 AM

interesting VIN

Posted by: Coondog Mar 12 2016, 07:55 AM

I thought the Amelia island auctions were for concours or rare cars.

Posted by: scotty b Mar 12 2016, 08:12 AM

There are multiple auctions all week with varying quality cars. This particular auction (Motostalgia ) is new this year, and is by far the worst one of the bunch. There was a new one the last couple years ( Hollywood wheels ) that I thought had bad cars, until this one popped up.

Posted by: tomrev Mar 12 2016, 08:33 AM

Sweet! Wish I had these detailing skills!

Posted by: Mueller Mar 12 2016, 09:34 AM

I'm embarrassed and it is not even my car!

Someone should have their business license revoked and be prevented from ever auctioning off cars.

Posted by: RabbitStew914 Mar 12 2016, 10:27 AM

Beautiful 914!

Posted by: 02loftsmoor Mar 12 2016, 01:52 PM

Hey don't blame that on me, I didn't work on that one, I use high grade spray paint.

Posted by: 1970 Neun vierzehn Mar 15 2016, 08:03 PM

#4712908012 SOLD at Bonhams Scottsdale AZ auction for $16500 on 28 January 2016. It was described as "beautifully presented".

The only thing that could possibly justify that price considering its condition is the strange (in my opinion) trend for "collectors" to value "barn finds" or otherwise nasty, ratty, suspect, original cars far beyond their real worth.

Paul

Posted by: SirAndy Mar 15 2016, 08:21 PM

Posted by: SKL1 Mar 15 2016, 10:33 PM

Trust me, it was NOT beautifully presented in Scottsdale. It was a total embarassment... can't believe someone paid that for it. Not sure it was even worth $1000!

Posted by: rhodyguy Mar 16 2016, 08:36 AM

Estimated values for everyday 914s have exceeded the rediculus. Really...I can still remember when a $3500 car with issues was NOT a deal.

Posted by: RobW Mar 16 2016, 08:42 AM

A car like this brought to auction takes all of our cars down.... and its a 71 based on the VIN....

Posted by: branston Mar 16 2016, 09:02 AM

Auction result shows sold at $9900 !

http://motostalgia.com/car-detail/?car=AIC16-1971-Porsche-914-&vin=4712908012-AIC16

Wow makes mine worth $100k too.

Posted by: rhodyguy Mar 16 2016, 10:55 AM

Ha! Reality check. No soup for consignee.

Posted by: Coondog Mar 16 2016, 11:36 AM

Add in a 10 % buyers premium plus sales tax and someone paid $ 9000.00 to much.

Posted by: scotty b Mar 16 2016, 11:54 AM

I added the VIN to the thread title last night just in case the new owner decides to Gurggle it

I'm amazed this car even got a second look in that condition


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Posted by: bulitt Mar 16 2016, 08:38 PM

How was the weather?
And Beer?

Posted by: era vulgaris Jan 20 2019, 12:23 PM

The continuing story of this car...or, how to polish a turd


https://www.dickbarbourperformance.com/1971-Porsche-914/Used-ClassicCar/Atlanta-GA/11966310/Details.aspx

Posted by: rhodyguy Jan 20 2019, 12:50 PM

"Captivating looking" what ever the hell that means. 18k worth of fun. Or not.

Posted by: era vulgaris Jan 20 2019, 01:38 PM

At least is has Djet again. But somebody decided it would be a "good" idea to just spray over whatever all the cracked stuff was in the front trunk, rather than remove it before paint.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned anywhere, is that the exterior respray is off several shades from the original paint door jambs.


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Posted by: mepstein Jan 20 2019, 02:19 PM

The paint helps deflect for a moment from realizing the car was hit and not repaired properly. Well, maybe not a moment but a second or two. Well, maybe not a second, the hit is obvious and just sort of jumps out at you as soon as you see the car. It was more than a little


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