27,000 mile original '74 on BaT, This will be interesting Options

[Big Len]

I'm going for it, $71K.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1974-porsche-914-59/

[wonkipop]

i'm going for broken odo.

here is the mileage in 77, car is three years old.
the service guy's 7s are hard to distinguish from 9s but with a bit of study its clear.
the 7s have weird little flick.

here is the odo from second ad that @FLacaProductions found.



odo broke sometime shortly after 77 when it was 20070.
(probably in 78 if my maths is right).
did about 7,000 (on the odo only) more since the service stamp until that second ad shows speedo (as was a few years ago when pulled out of storage).
why? too co-incidental its stayed at 20,000 range since 77 to 85.
or turned over almost exactly 100,000 more since 77 to 85.

if the original owner kept up the pattern of driving until 1985.
(think going into storage in 85 is believable).
its a 70-80 k mile car.
that makes sense to me looking at it.
owner wasn't putting huge miles on it. about 7000 a year.
for it to be a 120K mile car the original owner would have had to have changed his pattern of driving from 7K miles a year to double that from 77 to 85.
he could have. but. looking at the car whoever first owned it did look after it.
and for some reason it went off the road.
that would be in the personal history of the first owner.

present seller has had odo fixed and its running again?

based on a really great 74 1.8, that had 44k on it and looked real (from about 6 years ago - ravenna green car, you can still find it on BAT at bottom of archive) that got $30K.
admittedly values have gone up.
somewhere between 30K and 50K.
if it was me and it ain't, i'd go 30K if it was any good.
but you know, the world has gone insane.