Help for insurance appraisal., anyone with the Excellence numbers? Options

[mihai914]

Sorry, it's kind of last minute and a stretch...

Long story short, I'm having the car appraised after work for the insurance co.

Does anyone have a scan of the last issue of the market update from excellence, I'd like to provide it to the evaluator. Or, at least can anyone give me the values for a 74 2.0?

Thanks for the help.

[avidfanjpl]

I have to agree with Jeff Bowlsby. I overpaid 2k @ 13k for mine, and have another 3k into it, and it appraised for 15,500, so I am not unhappy. 1973-4 914 2.0L originals are getting DAMN hard to find. Hell, there are only a thousand REAL matching numbers 914-6's left in the world, maybe? Most have been altered.

I have not seen a real 2.0L 6 in decades that is still stock, but I missed the last SoCal concours.

I drove Orangina 1500 miles in 3 days getting it home last May. Yes, it still needs some love, but so what? I am getting to it all. I don't even have a paint bubble anywhere. Got some nicks though, and those are going away in September.

I had to go to a specialist to have Mercury cover it. He went over it like crazy. Took 2 hours yesterday and he came to me in SoCal.

He was surprised not to find anything other than the already cut out jackpoints, which I have scheduled to fix in August. New welding is next week.

Otherwise no rust left, 107,000 original miles, and a pretty damn clean driver.

Tom T has seen the car several times.

Sure, Jeff's Creamsicle is maybe a lot nicer, but mine has 95% original paint.

I see nothing like it on the East Coast (just that one in NY State yesterday on Samba in silver), and the best 73 2.0L I have seen in years sold in San Diego for 15,500 last month. Now that was a smoking hot car in Red (Bahia, I think).

I am seriously considering a 6, but I may just buy a racecar. I expect to spend at least 25K, and it may be 35K.

Just my dumbass opinion.

Maybe I should buy Jeff's Creamsicle?

John