Too much for too cheap?, Driving a rust bucket Options

[nditiz1]

If I bought a 914 just to drive around and knew about the rust issues it had, but was more into it for the fun of driving it and owning one is $3k too much to spend? An earlier one I looked at, 75', had some major rust - in the door jambs on both sides to be exact, which you all have taught me means the longs are toast. There was also rust in the front and rear trunk that looked to be surface but that is usually on 10% another thing you all have taught me. The hell holes were solid. It was however a running, driving, stopping, cool looking - at least from 10 feet (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) 914. It has 2.0 fuchs (only4) dellorto carbs, over jetted, 1.8. The interior is original and would definitely need to be redone, which I can do (kits $500??). My thinking is this, even if I don't fix the body and eventually want to transfer the parts to a better one, I have what $800 rims, $1k motor, $500 dellorto carbs. Those 3 items almost pay for the car. I would also try to get the genuine service manuals thrown in (~$600 -800). Oh and the stock steelies that came with the car. Would that be justified?

[Andyrew]

3k is a steal for that car IMHO Rust or no. Full running drivetrain is close to 3k in value, combine that with 2L fuchs and what I would assume is a complete interior... Thats a great car to drive around while you source a 1k chassis from the west coast and spend a year swapping parts around. If source a nice enough chassis cheep enough and put a full paint job on it, for ~ 6k in total you could have what would be a pretty nice car worth 10-15k as well as a decent amount of fun in the process.