$50K 914-6 for sale on Ebay, Awesome looking car! Options

[JawjaPorsche]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Porsche-914...=item2c6369f8e5

[brp986s]

Good gawd - all you nit-pickers. If that car is as nice as it looks the seller is taking a loss at 50k.

[MoveQik]

Good gawd - all you nit-pickers. If that car is as nice as it looks the seller is taking a loss at 50k.

I agree. Every time a nice car comes around it is like a fuching contest around here to see who can tear it apart the fastest. 9 times out of 10 the car is nicer than anything the nit-pickers will ever own. Maybe that is their motivation, I don't know....

This car is gorgeous, regardless of price. Any of us would be lucky to own it.

[larryM]

Good gawd - all you nit-pickers. If that car is as nice as it looks the seller is taking a loss at 50k.

I agree. Every time a nice car comes around it is like a fuching contest around here to see who can tear it apart the fastest. 9 times out of 10 the car is nicer than anything the nit-pickers will ever own. Maybe that is their motivation, I don't know....

This car is gorgeous, regardless of price. Any of us would be lucky to own it.

agreed.

We cogniscenti constantly berate the cars of fellow owners - i don't get it

- aren't we just a tiny club of folks of mostly modest means interested in an almost forgotten car that time has passed by, all hoping for the prices to rise enuf to justify the money we've spent restoring or personalizing and customizing our own?

We should all be celebrating any 914 we actually see running and driven. And congratulating anyone who actually sells one for more than they have "invested".

A rising tide ....


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[TJB/914]

Good gawd - all you nit-pickers. If that car is as nice as it looks the seller is taking a loss at 50k.

I agree. Every time a nice car comes around it is like a fuching contest around here to see who can tear it apart the fastest. 9 times out of 10 the car is nicer than anything the nit-pickers will ever own. Maybe that is their motivation, I don't know....

This car is gorgeous, regardless of price. Any of us would be lucky to own it.

agreed.

seeing what 'way worse cars have sold for in the past 18 months, there is apparently still some real money out there, and ya can't blame the seller for trying to find it.

Byron just sold a rust-bucket six for $6500 and I sold a similar one for same price 3 yrs ago. Priced simply as the used value of the parts. Think about the true cash cost and the years it will take. Can ya do it for $50K?

Do any of us actually believe that the sixer is the "next speedster"?

If so, put in your bid just for grins and great bragging rights on "the one I almost got" (Ya can't even lose your money since it's below reserve!)

I know a guy who is restoring a 914-6 who will easily have over $100K in it when done - he has totally stripped what was a genuinely nice original car except for the aftermarket wheels, and sent the body shell for blasting & dipping

and then there's the "GT tribute reproduction" project thread on Pelican - what do you suppose that car (years in development) will be priced at when & if it's ever done? And whom among us will be placing the bids?

"Money talks" as conedodger wrote a few days back.

my friend who is a very successful buyer/seller of all kinds of classics & hotrods says "I never bother with FS ads anymore, it just attracts riff-raff who have no money and wastes my time; I only put cars at auction, 'cuz that's where the money is".

We cogniscenti constantly berate the cars of fellow owners - i don't get it

- aren't we just a tiny club of folks of mostly modest means interested in an almost forgotten car that time has passed by, all hoping for the prices to rise enuf to justify the money we've spent personalizing and customizing our own?

We should all be celebrating any 914 we actually see running and driven. And congratulating anyone who actually sells one for more than they have "invested".

A rising tide....

regarding the nit-picking:
I have not yet been to a pca concours where the judges had any clue about the "correctness" of any 914 or component there-on, - and I have never seen a 914 entered in "preservation" class where it would matter. I also doubt we will ever see a showroom stock 914 at Pebble Beach in our lifetimes.

PCA Judges are 99% concerned only about white glove cleanliness; dust inside your wheels, smudges underneath your distributor, unwashed dark crannies under your battery ...

- i didn't get too excited when a pca-parade-914-expert judge pointed out last summer that i have 2 different kinds of screws in my doorsills and ludicrously suggested that would be a huge problem at the race track because I'd need different size screwdrivers, and that somehow it would cost me time in the pits during a race

that same expert found a dog hair on the seat of Paul's 3.6 - the horrors!

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Larry, I understand your point, but you missed the messages on this post. When someone starts out saying this is the best restored 914-6 in the world our guys are just pointing out he does not know what he is talking about. Yes, the car is probably worth $50K, but his opening statement can't stand up to the experts.
Tom