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> Introduction and Questions to aid my search
DrinkMan
post Feb 25 2017, 12:20 PM
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My wife and I are getting close to pulling the trigger to buy a Porsche 914. As you can see from my signature line, I'm not scared to buy cars from that era. We love fun to drive small "value" sports cars from the late 60's-early 70's.

I'm currently studying 3 cars. 2 are local (which I strongly prefer) and 1 is not (I'm not scared to ship, after all I imported 2 of my current fleet and others have come from Arizona and New York). The car that is not local is quite frankly over our budget and I think overpriced. However, it is a color that my wife loves deeply and if it could be negotiated down a little bit and if it really is a great car, I may be willing.

I'm going to be going to look at and drive the two local cars soon.

Is it okay Forum Etiquette to post links and solicit input? I would love to see all the comments criticizing and tearing up the cars. They don't belong to me so you won't be insulting me and if I buy one of them, at least I know how bad they are. The VIN numbers don't show up in the databases here so I assume I won't be insulting members.

Our current desire (but willing to consider others)
Excellent Condition (2, may 3+) 1973 2.0
We don't care about A/C at all. None of our old (pre 2000) cars have A/C and we don't mind driving them in Atlanta summer (both my wife & I grew up in Georgia without Air Conditioning)
Color - needs to be interesting - Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange, prefer not Gray-scale (but again, great condition may overcome that)
My original budget was <20k but I'm considering increasing that a little bit (again, great condition can overcome that)

I thought about posting this in the WTB Classified but since I'm soliciting discussion on specific cars, thought this would get attention. (Moderators - if you want to move to that forum, fine by me)

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DrinkMan   Introduction and Questions to aid my search   Feb 25 2017, 12:20 PM
Tom_T   You're in the right forum for this post IMHO. ...   Feb 25 2017, 12:43 PM
DrinkMan   You're in the right forum for this post IMHO....   Feb 25 2017, 12:55 PM
Tom_T   BLUE, Blue, and more blue. Our Alfa is blue, our ...   Feb 25 2017, 01:12 PM
SirAndy   ... Being in the ATL area, you may want to swing ...   Feb 25 2017, 01:17 PM
ConeDodger   You're in the right forum for this post IMHO...   Feb 25 2017, 01:40 PM
DrinkMan   I see that you already have the Emma Peel Elan,...   Feb 25 2017, 01:05 PM
Tom_T   Good point about fun linkages of cars to movies a...   Feb 25 2017, 01:28 PM
Tom_T   PS - For the condition you want on a 73 2L, you...   Feb 25 2017, 12:57 PM
Dave_Darling   And look on evil-bay for some of their auctions. ...   Feb 25 2017, 01:27 PM
Tom_T   And look on evil-bay for some of their auctions. ...   Feb 25 2017, 01:31 PM
914Next   Welcome!! You have a some nice cars there...   Feb 25 2017, 02:16 PM
DrinkMan   Thanks everyone for the replies. Just what I hoped...   Feb 25 2017, 03:03 PM
Big Len   I agree with Tom on every matter except perhaps on...   Feb 25 2017, 07:02 PM
Tom_T   I agree with Tom on every matter except perhaps o...   Feb 25 2017, 10:59 PM
DrinkMan   I agree with Tom on every matter except perhaps ...   Feb 25 2017, 11:25 PM
Cairo94507   Drinkman - :wttc: I checked out your links and ...   Feb 26 2017, 08:33 AM
DrinkMan   ....... On the blue car, I have a hard time looki...   Feb 26 2017, 09:18 AM
Tom_T   [quote name='Cairo94507' post='2458434' date='Feb...   Feb 26 2017, 11:56 AM
Larmo63   An excellent black '74 1.8 just sold over at 9...   Feb 26 2017, 09:56 AM
Shadowfax   :wttc:   Feb 26 2017, 10:45 AM
Mikey914   Like most car buying you tend to do better on pric...   Feb 26 2017, 10:52 AM
gereed75   A quick look at the cars and my quick opinion Th...   Feb 26 2017, 11:13 AM
Tom_T   PS - I realized I didn't do any kind of link a...   Feb 26 2017, 12:27 PM


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