Looked at my 1st 914, wow, disapointted. Options

[gaspump]

I looked at my first 914 yesterday. Now I'm not new to the 914, having followed them since they were new. But never owned one. This one was rust free, and at around $4000, I thought it might be nice. I guess my idea of nice and his is a bit different. I was, am, looking for a runner to fix up and play around with, but this was too much for the average back yard wrench. It rode nice, hard, but had a Bursche ??? muffler which was LOUD, and probably toast. If I were to buy it, I would have to have taken the entire car apart and cleaned/updated/buffed everything on the car to make it nice. It's just me, I guess I'm anal when it comes to cars, they have to be fine. And if I sell one, you can bet it's in better shape then when I bought it. That would have cost about $2-3000 dollars.It neede a complete paint job, seats, bumper rubber. I have been out of this (914) market for a while, but from what I see, the really good examples have really gone up in value. I;'ll keep looking for the right car and I'm in no rush. To those who have nice examples, keep them going and you're in the drivers seat.

[Evil914]

Best to not get in a hurry when buying one of these cars because if you wait long enough you'll find what you need/want.It's better to drive for a day or two to get a better car than have to fix rust any day!!! I bought three cars before I found the best one I'd ever seen for three grand with no motor but it had been soda blasted and every area photographed bare metal before primer,paint.I couldn't have done that much work for that kind of money.I've seen some others out there but I live in Texas so it's better than the midwest for clean cars.Rust sucks! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)