What have you bought/ sold your 914 for? Options

[wbgoggans]

We’ve all seen the recent 914’s on bring a trailer big numbers, but has the private market adjusted to these new numbers? Please reply with a photo, and other important info that would effect the value of your car.

[mepstein]

Or he's helping to bring long forgotten cars to market.

It's easy to hate on flippers but most people don't want to go through the trouble.

[Superhawk996]

Or he's helping to bring long forgotten cars to market.

It's easy to hate on flippers but most people don't want to go through the trouble.

I want to be really clear. I'm not hating on anyone. Utmost respect for Unobtanium. God bless him for saving as many 356's as possible. Plus we all know from other posts how hard he works to retrieve some of these from barns, fields, etc.

I just didn't understand the post. As I re-read it maybe he's sharing wisdom that he has a pile of cash tied up in that inventory and that there really isn't a fortune to be made in it though it certaily "looks" that way in the photo given we all know how much even rusty 356's cost. Honestly I don't know.

[mepstein]

Or he's helping to bring long forgotten cars to market.

It's easy to hate on flippers but most people don't want to go through the trouble.

I want to be really clear. I'm not hating on anyone. Utmost respect for Unobtanium. God bless him for saving as many 356's as possible. Plus we all know from other posts how hard he works to retrieve some of these from barns, fields, etc.

I just didn't understand the post. As I re-read it maybe he's sharing wisdom that he has a pile of cash tied up in that inventory and that there really isn't a fortune to be made in it though it certaily "looks" that way in the photo given we all know how much even rusty 356's cost. Honestly I don't know.

Sorry. Not directed to you or anyone here. It’s just people get pissed at flippers but don’t want to do the background work they do.

[Unobtanium-inc]

Or he's helping to bring long forgotten cars to market.

It's easy to hate on flippers but most people don't want to go through the trouble.

I want to be really clear. I'm not hating on anyone. Utmost respect for Unobtanium. God bless him for saving as many 356's as possible. Plus we all know from other posts how hard he works to retrieve some of these from barns, fields, etc.

I just didn't understand the post. As I re-read it maybe he's sharing wisdom that he has a pile of cash tied up in that inventory and that there really isn't a fortune to be made in it though it certaily "looks" that way in the photo given we all know how much even rusty 356's cost. Honestly I don't know.

Sorry. Not directed to you or anyone here. It’s just people get pissed at flippers but don’t want to do the background work they do.

I think the flippers that most people hate are the ones who scour forums like this or Craigslist and try to snag every deal before anyone else can. I'm not one of those guys. 90% of the cars I buy aren't on the market and the people call me. So the cars I buy aren't being snatched from the hands of guys who want them, the average guy would never hear about these cars. It takes years to put deals together sometimes. I did a 50 car deal with a guy in the mid-west back in 2015, it took me 5 years to put that deal together, it was mostly 356's. But that's years of work, and for everyone that hits like that one I have dozens that amount to nothing.
As far as the 914 being the next 356, that won't happen either, it would of already happened. The 356 was the flagship of Porsche, and produced in very low quantity, especially the early ones. They made about 125,000 914's with not a lot of differences in them, so a guy with a 1.7 and a guy with a 2.0 has about the same car, or the same desire from others for that car. As opposed to 356's where one is worth $30,000 and one several years earlier is worth $300,000. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE 914's (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) I own two of them personally in my collection but, and it's a big butt, it was never the flagship of Porsche, was never a rich man's car, and they made too damn many of them. Same reason the 944 Turbo's are worth some money and the rest aren't, too many of them out there, more than enough to satisfy demand. Also the same reason your average 996 will languish forever not being worth a lot, too damn many of them. That's the bad news, the good news is you can buy a cheap 996 for the forseeable future and that's a lot of car for the money. But compare 996 production to 993 or 964, and you can see who one is almost worthless now and the other are sky rocketing.
The good news for the 914 is you can now have a nice one, spend some money on it and have it not be a money drain, it can actually absorb money now. So if you put a really nice paint job the sales price down the road will appreciate that. But the wave we are seeing now is probably as good as the 914 will get, a well respected Porsche where the nice ones end up in collections and the average ones are driven by regular dudes, so not a bad place to be.