Flood damaged 914, Ouch Options

[GeorgeRud]

A friend of mine just moved down to Baton Rouge, LA last month, and had his cars in storage as they were having a large garage built at their new home. Of course, they were involved in the flooding up to the top of the windows. Besides his 914 2.0 and his Porsche tractor, he last a Jaguar XKE, Jensen Healy, 67 Ford Mustand, and a 35 Ford Coupe. At least their home is on higher ground and didn't flood so they are OK!

Has anyone ever had any luck resurrecting a flood car? Since his was nice and straight, I wondered if it could be stripped to a bare chassis then rebuilt? Same ? about he Porsche tractor.

[zambezi]

The 993 I was trying to save for the guy was only in 18 inches of water. He removed the battery terminals when he saw the water was coming up. The water was below the taillights by about an inch. I removed all the interior and all the "computers" under the seats. I dried them all out and reinstalled them. The car is mechanically fine. Water did not get high enough to enter any of the vents in the trans or engine. The car is completely drive-able, just needs complete cleaning of the carpets and seats to be complete. If it were mine I would just find another set of good used seats because these have a good amount of wear and one rip anyways. The carpet kit is not that much either to just replace. Then the car would be 100%. My friend had planned a few times to sell the car anyways, so when the told him they would just total it and give him his agreed value for the car, he did not hesitate. It is a shame because it is a good car otherwise. It is still here at my house waiting on the check to arrive and then we will arrange for it to be picked up. His wife's camry was the same way. She was actually using it but her drivers door lock was giving her some trouble (2012 camry) so the insurance company said if the seats had got wet then they were totaling it.