Anyone looking at buying a car from GR Auto Gallery?, in Michigan Options

[ChrisFoley]

They have a black '73 1.7L listed for $8900: Car Ad
We have a 914 in our shop which was recently purchased by our customer in VA.
Based on the level of misrepresentation of this car I would recommend staying away from the black 1.7L - or do a very thorough PPI.
Our customer made the mistake of believing their line of BS over the phone and didn't find someone local to do a PPI. I believe he paid close to the full asking price of $18,900. (live and learn)
The '75 orange 2L (as advertised and as shown in the owners manual) in our shop has a 1.8L with hydro lifters and 44 IDF carbs which were so badly mismatched to the engine that it was hardly driveable.
Not only that, there is a sizable rust hole in the left rear corner of the floor.
The required repair includes part of the inner and outer firewalls, floor pan, inner long, and the ebrake cable tube is rotted away.
We also see evidence of other firewall rot covered by undercoating.
Someone installed a kill switch in the engine compartment to keep the battery from going flat all the time - several things were always drawing current.
Someone installed a starter button because they couldn't figure out that the new ignition switch they installed was assembled incorrectly from the factory.
There were two coils, one was powered directly off the battery, and the other grounded to the case. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif)
Most people familiar with 914s would have run from this can of worms, although it appears to be a nice car in the pictures.
Actually it does have one of the best recolor jobs we've seen, having been silver from the factory.
IMO the car was worth less than $15K as it was sold. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif)