Possible 914 owner - questions and photos Options

[skaufmann]

Previous Porsche owner - my first car I bought when I turned 16 was a used 1985.5 944. I loved it.

I now have an opportunity to acquire another porsche from a family member who is the original owner. I'm expecting a ton of work to get it in working order. The car is in Los Angeles, I'm in San Diego so I can't see it in person, just photos that I've attached.

Here's the deal:

-1972 1.7l
-VIN 4722913284
-OD says "01187" (I'm assuming that's 101,187 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )
-It's been sitting covered for 15+ years
-Interior appears to be in decent condition
-Exterior is in good shape, paint looks to be fading
-I was told it was a custom color... gold?
-Some rust in the trunk and up the driver's side *post*
-Was running when last driven but was having a carburetor/fuel issue

Based on the attach photos, can anyone give me more info about it? Also, the driver's side post (sorry, don't know what its called - the side of car that support the roof behind the driver) is painted. I normally see this with black vinyl or something similar in other photos.

Like I said everything is original. The family member who owned it is too old to do anything with it and looking to pass it on to someone else in the family. I'm thinking of acquiring it and trailering it to San Diego and see what it would take to get it running. If it's too much I'll probably sell it for parts.

Any info would be great.

Scott

[Madswede]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) I definitely agree with what everyone else has posted here already. Speaking from a guy in the middle of a major rebuild from a California-delivered and California-lived car (until I brought it to the desert here in New Mexico), rust is your major enemy. I was lucky to get one with very little rust, but even then it still had some (including a substandard hell hole repair job that needed to be repaired)

In plain speak, pay attention to what everyone has said here so far and think long term about what can be done, is my advice. I was very lucky to get a car that lived most of its life in CA. I got it semi-running for $6K and yet it was in better shape than some cars that have become legendary in their re-builds. So your car has some serious potential I think.

Besides the inevitable hell hole issue (which can be fixed to a certain extent), look for rust on the frame rails and anywhere there is something to do with load-bearing. The worst killers are the members of the frame just in front of where the power goes to the rear wheels. (I am not probably using the exactly correct terms in the interest of simplification) I think that that is the worst-case, no-can-do-a-rebuild location for rust, though there are probably others.

Oh yeah .... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welcome.png)