Price evaluation, getting a sense Options

[dudzy's914]

I am restoring my 1975 914 2.0l, with stock FI, center console. It will be black with 2.0l fuchs. I am restoring it to ''as it rolled out''.
I want to get a sense of what the car will be worth( I know the market will go up and down).

thx

[Cap'n Krusty]

Some of us that attended or visited the Parade this year in Monterey had a chance to see the restored '72 911 that was featured in Pano. This car was a clear case of the definition of "over restored" NO Porsche EVER left the factory in that condition. EVER. While the 914 was, for the time, a pretty nice car off the assembly line, none were up to the standards of the 911. A perfect restoration, one with ONLY the original equipment and NO aftermarket sourced parts, would (as Scotty mentioned) have "just" the right amount of orange peel in the paint, the correct factory applied undercoat, the paint marks applied to confirm final assembly torques (including the ones on the lug bolts, a sort of frosty looking light green), applied at just the right angles, no radio or antenna, period appropriate tires, a Varta battery, fuses of the correct shade of white, blue, and red, and many other little details that few people really know. Even the crappy, insufficient spot welds in the under-designed trunk hinge brackets. It will have the correctly colored vacuum hoses as delivered, and the hidden (and not-hidden) assembly numbers. Anything less than this is a "refurbishing", anything more is a "personalization", not a restoration. Can that be done?. Probably. Would I want to spend the kind of money and the YEARS it would take to source all that stuff? Probably not in this lifetime. Could you get your money (and time!) out of it. Maybe yes, as there are fools out there with waaaaay too much money and a corresponding inverse level of sense. Whether some bizarre happenstance throws you, the seller, and that particular buyer together at the same place and at the same time is a matter of chance and luck. Mostly, you're gonna lose your butt on the project.