help me help my friends make a deal on a 914-6, what is a 3.6 914 worth? Options

[Chris Hamilton]

One of my friends is selling a 914-6 to another friend, and I'm caught in the middle! They're both asking me what a fair price on the car is, and I can't find many comparable cars sold. Help me put a price on this thing.

The car:

1971 914-6 ( originally a 4 )

Body:
Straight
Clean title
Steel flares
Oil cooler in front bumper
rear frame has had 914 stiffening kit welded in
no rust!
Paint looks OK, but will need to be painted at some point

Engine:
1995 3.6L motor from 993 with ~20k miles
Stock porsche injection
ECU mods by patrick motorsports so everything works properly

Exhaust:
B&B Headers with magnaflow mufflers

Transmission:
Fresh complete rebuild 915 gearbox from guard with clutch-type LSD from guard ( less than 250 miles )
Patrick motorsports cable shifter ( adjusted properly, works well )
915 axles
hi-torque starter from pelican parts

Suspension:
New Bilstein RSR shocks
Tarrett front swaybar
911 torsion bars
Aluminum front axle beam from SC
re-inforced rear trailing arms with real 5-lug flanges
front a-arms and rear trailing arms have polybronze bearings from elephant racing
koni externally adjustable rear shocks with bicknell coilovers and eibach springs
front weather sealed monoballs
stock rear swaybar with new bushings


Brakes:
930 big black front calipers
bigger master cylinder
914-6 rear calipers with dual plane rotors and working e-brake cables

Wheels:
Polished and painted REAL 16x7 and 16x9 fuchs

Interior:
New leather door panels, recovered leather dash, recovered leather 914 seats.

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[grantsfo]

Market for vintage cars and race cars sucks right now. If you can find somone with money and you can stomach price they are willing to pay thats what market is bearing. Like Randal indicates .25 to .50 on the dollar.

I pulled my Boxster race car off the market temporarily as I wasnt willing to take .30 cents on the dollar invested in the car. If I could get .45 cents I'd sell it yesterday. Know anyone who wants a fun Boxster race car for under $15K?

I'd say that 914-6 is probably in the $18K range. But finding somone to pay that is nearly impossible.

I dont know if the used Porsche market is ever going to recover? Perhaps in a decade? But I dont see any near term economic prospertiy coming back to US. As long as housing values stay down to stagnant the use of the home equity lines of credit have dried up. I'm a firm believer that many race cars and Porsche projects were funded either directly or indirectly from wealth generated in ever appreciating housing market. When that bubble burst so did budgets for play things.

Your freind might want to test the market in Europe. The Euro has smashed the dollar again recently. Might find a European who would like that car at a currency discount.

[PeeGreen 914]

Market for vintage cars and race cars sucks right now. If you can find somone with money and you can stomach price they are willing to pay thats what market is bearing. Like Randal indicates .25 to .50 on the dollar.

I pulled my Boxster race car off the market temporarily as I wasnt willing to take .30 cents on the dollar invested in the car. If I could get .45 cents I'd sell it yesterday. Know anyone who wants a fun Boxster race car for under $15K?

I'd say that 914-6 is probably in the $18K range. But finding somone to pay that is nearly impossible.

I dont know if the used Porsche market is ever going to recover? Perhaps in a decade? But I dont see any near term economic prospertiy coming back to US. As long as housing values stay down to stagnant the use of the home equity lines of credit have dried up. I'm a firm believer that many race cars and Porsche projects were funded either directly or indirectly from wealth generated in ever appreciating housing market. When that bubble burst so did budgets for play things.

Your freind might want to test the market in Europe. The Euro has smashed the dollar again recently. Might find a European who would like that car at a currency discount.

I would have to completely disagree with some of your points. You're trying to compare a specialty car with a collector car. This 914 is a mixture of both more on the side of collector car. Your car is going down in value every day where this car is holding or going up. Under $20k you cannot find anything close to this car.