 If you had the money for the 916, would you buy it? |
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| horizontally-opposed |
 May 11 2007, 06:48 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 3,432 Joined: 12-May 04 From: San Francisco Member No.: 2,058 Region Association: None 
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I dunno, if I had it I'd drive it. The one nice thing about $150K+ cars is that you just about can't total them. And, so long as they're not original anyway (like the blue car), why not fix them after a shunt or repaint after rock chips?
It was made to drive, after all, and the funny thing about a 916 is you could park it in the Mission and it wouldn't get keyed. After all, to most people, it looks like a bad 914-based kit car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) However, I'd rather spend the money buying that blue Kinesis 914 and sticking a hot 3.4 in it -- or build a seriously bad-ass, seriously accurate Yellow Bird replica. To date, still the best old Porsche I've driven by miles... ...and miles. pete |
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| SLITS |
May 11 2007, 07:00 PM
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"This Utah shit is HARSH!" Group: Benefactors Posts: 13,602 Joined: 22-February 04 From: SoCal Mountains ... Member No.: 1,696 Region Association: None  |
Nah, I'll take a GT40 though.
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| So.Cal.914 |
May 11 2007, 07:04 PM
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"...And it has a front trunk too." Group: Members Posts: 6,588 Joined: 15-February 04 From: Low Desert, CA./ Hills of N.J. Member No.: 1,658 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(SLITS @ May 11 2007, 06:00 PM)  Nah, I'll take a GT40 though. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif) |
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| Crazyhippy |
May 11 2007, 09:06 PM
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Insert witty comment here... Group: Members Posts: 1,659 Joined: 28-July 05 From: Home of the Coyotes, AZ Member No.: 4,493 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(Bleyseng @ May 11 2007, 05:43 PM) Damn, beat me to it!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drunk.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rocking nana.gif) |
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| porschecb |
May 11 2007, 09:11 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,092 Joined: 13-August 04 From: Las Vegas NV Member No.: 2,529 Region Association: None |
Why would I want two!!!!!!!!!
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| rick 918-S |
May 11 2007, 11:40 PM
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Hey nice rack! -Celette Group: Members Posts: 20,489 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Now in Superior WI Member No.: 43 Region Association: Northstar Region 
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I'm in if money was not the issue. I would need to hire a guard to keep me away from it though... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) I have a habit of modifying things..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
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| boxstr |
May 11 2007, 11:53 PM
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MEMBER:PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION Group: Members Posts: 7,522 Joined: 25-December 02 From: OREGON Member No.: 12 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
I spoke to the owner of the car four years ago. The motor was out and he would sell it then, at $175,000. I gave it serious consideration. But bought a home in Palm Desert instead.
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| So.Cal.914 |
May 12 2007, 12:06 AM
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"...And it has a front trunk too." Group: Members Posts: 6,588 Joined: 15-February 04 From: Low Desert, CA./ Hills of N.J. Member No.: 1,658 Region Association: None |
The home in Palm Desert was a better investment.
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| bigkensteele |
May 12 2007, 12:33 AM
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Major Member Group: Members Posts: 2,197 Joined: 30-August 04 From: Cincinnati, OH Member No.: 2,660 Region Association: South East States
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I am not sure. I think that the 914 is finally (30 years too late) beginning to be appreciated in the Porsche community. As one of 11 or 12 or 16, depending on who you want to believe, it is one of the rarest Porsches ever produced. At $300k, it is not a bargain, but it may very well appreciate past that in the next 5 years.
I remember trying to get my dad to buy a Dino that was advertised in Hemmings for $11k. That was back in the '80s when the 308 was popular. I KNEW it would be a good investment, even though I was only 15. My dad drove a Pinto at the time, so we were not what you would call affluent, so he passed on the opportunity. Long story short (if it is not too late for that), Pops probably made a hello of a lot more by socking away that 11k into his 401k than he would have had he bought the car, but you can't go out to the garage at night and drool over your 401k. You can't fire up the engine of your 401k and listen to it hum like only 10 other people on Earth can. The kind of people who buy this kind of car don't buy it as an investment. They buy it because they want it and they can. |
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| Lou W |
May 12 2007, 12:46 AM
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"Here Kitty Kitty" my ass...... Group: Members Posts: 4,109 Joined: 9-May 04 From: Roseburg, OR. Member No.: 2,039 Region Association: Spain |
QUOTE(So.Cal.914 @ May 11 2007, 06:04 PM) QUOTE(SLITS @ May 11 2007, 06:00 PM) Nah, I'll take a GT40 though. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif) |
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| cyclocross |
May 12 2007, 01:46 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 7-May 07 From: norcal Member No.: 7,722 |
yes....and I will drive it....if I have that kind of money. In uk, you see per-war bentleys running in vintage race all the time. And they drove the heck out of it.
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| Dave_Darling |
May 12 2007, 02:45 AM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,991 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California
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QUOTE(Scott Schroeder @ May 11 2007, 01:24 PM) If you had the cash to pick up the blue 916 that is for sale, would you do it? Nope. I'd take a tenth of the money and build a 914 that could beat the 916 up one side and down the other. And it'd be a car I wouldn't be afraid to drive on the street--or at the track! Then I'd have fun figuring out to do with the rest of the $$. --DD |
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| JPB |
May 12 2007, 05:47 AM
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The Crimson Rocket smiles in your general direction. Group: Members Posts: 2,927 Joined: 12-November 05 From: Tapmahamock, Va. Member No.: 5,107 |
OH HELL YES BEHOTCHES and ten more at that! Why? Because that would mean the rest of my life was in order. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)
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| rhodyguy |
May 12 2007, 08:58 AM
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Chimp Sanctuary NW. Check it out. Group: Members Posts: 22,090 Joined: 2-March 03 From: Orion's Bell. The BELL! Member No.: 378 Region Association: Galt's Gulch |
yes. then i would part it out and have the hulk hauler drag it across the gravel on to the back of the tilt bed.
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| watsonrx13 |
May 12 2007, 06:00 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,734 Joined: 18-February 03 From: Plant City, FL Member No.: 312 Region Association: South East States |
HELL YES
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| IronHillRestorations |
May 12 2007, 07:50 PM
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I. I. R. C. Group: Members Posts: 6,728 Joined: 18-March 03 From: West TN Member No.: 439 Region Association: None
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About ten years ago I had the chance to purchase Jerry Leonard's 916, which (correct me if I'm wrong) is the blue car with the pumpkin leather interior. The deal was brokered by a guy named Brian Stewart, IIRC.
The price at that time was $75k, and being single without any dependents or debt, I seriously considered getting that car. After much deliberation, I passed. Considering the asking price then vrs now, probably a bad decision, and as a dedicated 914 nut perhaps a missed oportunity. So why did I pass? I had just completed a extensive 6 conversion/upgrade/how good can I make this car project, which was a very fun car to drive. I thought "what am I gonna do with a 916?" I mean sure you could chance driving on occasion, but for me it would have been more of a collector piece that sat under cover and didn't get used. At the time it just didn't seem worth it to have such a car that I wouldn't want to drive. When you can build a 6 conversion car that is better in so many ways than a 916, and you wouldn't be afraid to drive it. It just didn't make sense to me, but I'm not really a car collector either. |
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| JPB |
May 12 2007, 07:59 PM
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The Crimson Rocket smiles in your general direction. Group: Members Posts: 2,927 Joined: 12-November 05 From: Tapmahamock, Va. Member No.: 5,107 |
Now we be talkin ovaheeya!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)
Its like saying, if Christina Aguilera put her butt in your face would ya violate it? It probably would not happen to most of us but not many would turn it down even if it were against one's circumcision. |
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| rhodyguy |
May 13 2007, 09:43 AM
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Chimp Sanctuary NW. Check it out. Group: Members Posts: 22,090 Joined: 2-March 03 From: Orion's Bell. The BELL! Member No.: 378 Region Association: Galt's Gulch |
boy... i'll be thinking about that reply for some time. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) . 2 words...harvest moon.
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