DO NOT BUY THIS CAR! ScottyBoy's old rust bucket Options

[era vulgaris]

I wasn't sure whether to post this in the garage or the classifieds. The 72 rust bucket that former, and currently banned, forum member ScottyBoy sold me, is for sale for an absurd price. (It's a long story if you weren't around on the forum back in 2013-14)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115439386827?hash=...moAAOSwt~9isynj

The longs on this car are toast, there are multiple holes in the floors and inner fenders, and the entire thing is loaded with bondo. It was so bad that when I took it to Black Forest Racing in Denver, NC to get a quote from them on rust repair, they wouldn't even give me a number and told me to sell the car as fast as I can. You know it's bad when a shop that made their livelihood from restoring 914's tells you your car is so bad that even they don't want to work on it. Just about every inch of this car is rusty and basically held together with chicken wire and bondo. When you put this car on a lift without the top on, the door gaps changed a truly scary amount.

Aside from the bigger engine and the roll bar the car has now, it looks like absolutely no other work has been done to the car since I sold it back in 2014. The missing orange paint above the rear bumper is still there from when I had AAA push me with their truck to bump start the car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)

Edit: adding VIN number in case any potential buyers google the VIN. Hopefully this will show up in google search results. 4722908443

[Superhawk996]

It really makes me sad to think that someone will eventually buy this car (hopefully not for $60k) and then they will judge 914's by it.

I'm not a tremendous fan of BAT but at least there, the peanut gallery chimes in and can help tamp down unwarranted enthusiasm and unrealistic pricing. No such thing on E-Bay.

[era vulgaris]

It really makes me sad to think that someone will eventually buy this car (hopefully not for $60k) and then they will judge 914's by it.

If it makes you feel better, this was the first 914 I bought. It was also the first car I bought long distance, which is how I got f*cked on it (thankfully for nowhere near the current asking price!). But even though it was a total POS, I saw the model's potential. A couple months after selling it I picked up the '75 Laguna Blue 914 with the 2270 built by McMark that I owned and loved for 2 years. I still regret selling that '75, and often wonder where it is and hope it's being treated well!

If I ever finish this bare metal 66 Ghia restoration, that I'm 3 years into at this point...I will eventually buy another 914. It's a car I truly miss.

But if someone does buy this car sight unseen for the asking price, or anywhere near the asking price, I honestly worry what is going to happen to the seller. Because the asking price is literally criminal. When I sold this car honestly in 2014, showing all these defects, all I could get for it was $5k. Now it did only have a Djet 1.7 at that time, so maybe the bigger motor adds some value, but I can't imagine it'd be a whole lot more if it was sold honestly today. And the interior was in slightly better shape when I had it: the cocomats weren't shredded, and it had a backpad and no rollbar so that a passenger could at least sit in it.