Really? Someone had a bumblebee and decided that a quick respray of the exterior in white was a good idea? SMH

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Porsche-914-Limite...em=381461574997

That aside, it appears that it could be a decent deal especially if someone wanted to put it back to it's original bumble bee goodness. Buy the rusted out one in the classifieds for some of the parts, like the correct front spoiler...

One of the most, if not the most desirable model of Porsche's 914, this is an 2.0 liter LE model built by Porsche in 1974 to celebrate their Can Am racing success. Produced in very limited numbers the LE cars were offered in either Ivory (L80E) known as "Popsicle" or as in this case Black (LO41) "Bumblebee."

Popsicle? Popsicle?

Not a bit of yellow paint to be found anywhere, even the rocker covers are chipped and no yellow! What about the back of the spare rim?

Yikes, that passenger door gap reminds me of my old car!

Also, killer spacing job on the engine grill letters

Do they have a COA to verify the pedigree?

And early bumpers, which actually look to be in respectable shape...

With the sale price, someone thought it was special!

The Can Am scheme fell out of fashion in the 80's and more than a few got changed to conventional. Also repaint/color change is indicative of previous accident repair. Not saying it is in this case, but that RH door gap is alarming to me.

Wow $16500 for a car needs paint and repair to fix the door gaps. Also not 100% sure the front valance is OEM, would need to see the ends to verify. Not saying it is not a good car, just not $16.5K in my book.

It is not the correct front valance, I think it was stated as such in the description iirc.

Not correct front valance but seller states the brackets are their to attach the correct one. Also seller has COA on order and buyer can return the car if it is not a confirmed Can Am car.

Does seem high considering a good repaint (disassembly, bare metal blasting, body work, paint and reassembly) will be around $20K. But the car will be cool.

Assuming it is an LE, assuming the engine work described was done, say in the last 10K miles who knows how many years, assuming the 40K miles is true +-100%. What would the car be worth if it didn't need to be repainted?

In my book $20K ish maybe more since prices for really nice examples are climbing.
The COA should have the engine number included and if it matches the one currently in the car that would help bring the value up.

Also has wrong bumpers on it. Has early ones, which is not a bad thing as they can be sold to cover costs on correct bumpers.

For that money I would let my Bumblebee go and it comes with a original front lip I think someone paid way to much for that car, it needs a complete restoration, might not be numbers matching, and the door gap locks scary.

Whats my correct perfect Bumblebee worth if this one went for stated? LOL.

What's your VIN so we can see its photos on the LE Registry?

And where in nj ?