need help with checking a car!, in hawthorne, CA Options

[alexkirkham]

hello, this is a plea for some help!

I'm new to the forum as I have only recently thought that buying a 914 would be a good idea. And I'm in the UK - lots of carbed cars, and plenty of rain and rust.

I'm after a car in a non metallic colour with working injection and ideally excellent condition / recent resto (I know everyone else is too!). And there is this orange car in hawthorne, CA that looks great... see: http://lticars.com/

however, it is ringing some alarm bells! Firstly, it's all shiny but there are no actual pictures of the resto available and there are no pics of the hell hole or rockers available. It's just possible that it hides deep problems. And secondly the seller's got some poor feedback on yelp!

But this isn't necessarily the end of the world: it just means I have to be very careful. And basically I wouldn't do it without someone with some experience having a look...

So firstly, anyone got any advice? And secondly, does anyone fancy going to have a look at it for me if they live close?? I'd be incredibly grateful. I'd make it worth your while (though I suspect that most of the folk on here are not motivated by that!)

thanks, in hope,

alex

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

This is not a bad car now, and was and is a california car, so is probably rust free, but was not a very nice car before they started the "restoration" Probably at one time was color changed, hence the comprehensive repaint. However for the money there are much better cars still out there.
Look at a lot of the hardware previously painted black and half cleaned off, the DOT sticker missing in the door jamb, the body plate in the front right trunk painted over, the Karmann badge stripped of its paint, the aftermarket carpeting, the rusty brake backing plates, the 914 2.0 decal missing, the porsche silver lettering missing the cheap old kyb shocks and funky red aftermarket springs, the air guide plates missing the split heat exchanger (75 76 heat exchangers were fragile) (also LOVE the sunflower yellow intake tubes!!! LOL)

hello, this is a plea for some help!

I'm new to the forum as I have only recently thought that buying a 914 would be a good idea. And I'm in the UK - lots of carbed cars, and plenty of rain and rust.

I'm after a car in a non metallic colour with working injection and ideally excellent condition / recent resto (I know everyone else is too!). And there is this orange car in hawthorne, CA that looks great... see: http://lticars.com/

however, it is ringing some alarm bells! Firstly, it's all shiny but there are no actual pictures of the resto available and there are no pics of the hell hole or rockers available. It's just possible that it hides deep problems. And secondly the seller's got some poor feedback on yelp!

But this isn't necessarily the end of the world: it just means I have to be very careful. And basically I wouldn't do it without someone with some experience having a look...

So firstly, anyone got any advice? And secondly, does anyone fancy going to have a look at it for me if they live close?? I'd be incredibly grateful. I'd make it worth your while (though I suspect that most of the folk on here are not motivated by that!)

thanks, in hope,

alex