Some enjoyable E-Bay reading
 

I was bouncing around ebay tonight, just checking out the market (911's o'plenty out there--sign of a bad economy) when I stumbled on this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10156&item=2428694 045

These guys do have a unique and romantic way to describe old Porsches.

Where are the CA Classix Girls?

Dude sounds like a cross between Robin Leach & Ricardo Montalban. Swath of unmarked black Roser leather must be similar to genuine Corinthian leather & delightfully opulent Palomino hide, give me a break. The upholstery shop bent him over. I bet his reserve is at least $30k, I'd give no more than $18k. Dude is delusional if he thinks he's going to get even half his money back unless he puts it in a time capsule for twenty years. Other than the dead horse smell it's a nice car. :D

When money is no object...
 

If this guy had so much money why didn't he buy a newer car??? With all that he spent, I could have done 2 complete restorations!!!

When money is no object...or at least not for Visa!!!

Cheers,
Derek

Lot'sa money...
 

and a dirty, undetailed engine. Gimme the dead goat skin seats and the 12 coats of hand rubbed what ever paint products.

I care litte for the cars performance value...just as long as it smells good. Anybody out there got early p car funk..man I love it.

Price that car high boyz, the general public like's it that way.

Shawn.

What a waste. It's not in fitting with concours standards, not like this guy was trying to restore it to them but what a waste.

yeah, like Paul said, he really does have a touch of Riccardo Montalban in him.

Come on guys, the car is OK, looks quite nice, mid milage, looks quite clean.

They have just over described it a bit. So long as you dont fall for that it is probably a good car.

I dont like the wheels though.

"the odometer, showing 79,312 miles, was reset to zero to commemorate the thorough cosmetic refurbishment"

Too much.

Cut through the buII $hit and it looks like a very nice car. If he indead did all those things to the car its worth looking at.

There's a lot of BS in that typical CA Classix ad, but it's a nice Carrera nonetheless. I'd give him $10k for it.

I guess:

"Blue car, dingy tan interior, non original wheels, recent repaint and non original front bumper (hint: accident)" didn't work at first.

They had to turn this one over to the staff of "Californina classics" for a redo. I actually wept when I first read it. It would make a great movie!

what a bunch of clap-trap :rolleyes:

a fool and his money are soon parted
very nice car though

"the odometer, showing 79,312 miles, was reset to zero to commemorate the thorough cosmetic refurbishment"

Anyone else see this as a huge red flag? Why would you spend so much $$ and then mess with the odometer making it a 'mileage unkown car'. Anyone pulling a Carfax report on this is going to gt an 'unclean' report.

This guys had some interesting cars

I thought the 85s had the black Porsche script between the brake lights?

/ J

I added up all of his figures and he spent over $24,100 on this and ended up with a respray and nice interior. Now if you had a decent 85 carrera and $24K to spend what would you end up with?

If it needed a new interior, AC, paint etc, like this one apparently did, then I'd go the other way. Race seats, roll cage, harness, suspension work, sticky tires, dump anything that doesn't make it go faster... you get the idea. With good planning there'd be enough money left over for a health engine massage!

Come to think of it, Caliclassix had this car bout a year or more ago too. I guess they got it back from whom ever they sold it to. It had original Fuchs on it before.

I enjoy the cali classix ads. Even though there may be some polishing on some of the statements, I find the writing far more creative and intelligent than most of the fluff descriptions on ebay. I'm also fond of the lady models they use in their ads. They are usually a little outside of the mainstream. Haven't seen any in a while though.

They used to have a section on their girls as a part of their own website. There girls have a certian "cheap" look about them that can be a good look.

That's what I thought too. Something just doesn't look right about the accordion section of the front bumper. It looks like it's pointing down a little bit like it was hit. Maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me.

Yep, you are correct.


That car also has the following red flags:

*Possible new left rear quarter panel (see funky left weld/overlap on the engine bay shot).
*Possible new right front fender (radio antenna: `85's had them in the windscreen).
*tweaked rear valance.
*The front bumper looks like it's been pushed back.
*Non-stock: wheels, rear reflector, and front valance.
*Odometer roll-back (why?).

All that and the fact that it's a California Classix car, my recommendation would be to run, run away!


SmileWavy

Now that's just plain funny talk! :rolleyes:

I still miss the tattooed lady...;)

Sounds to me like that dude is about to loose some money! With such low milage why would it need all that rework anyway?

the guy bidding on the car was the guy who put a bid on mycar(slo-ride), the a**hole won the bid on my car then made me drive 100 miles friday, then nickel and dimed me for small details. i hope he gets this car that he put a bid on and he ends up with what he truly deserves.
2 cents.

Every time somebody links to a CalClassics ad, I take comfort in knowing there will always be somebody there to pee down my back and tell me it's raining :D

Sounds like the guy selling the car used to be a realtor.

Shame about the 'pimped out' wheels...

I love it! I'm going to pay that guy to write my next car-for-sale-ad. Hell, I'll pay extra if he throws in a couple of blondes, too.

Me too. I luv slutty.

she had an edge
 

Ya that chick had a groovy look. Anybody got a pic of her to post?

OK, now you guys have my attention now. What chicks? When I posted this thing, all that I thought I stumbled on was a dude who had too much time on his hands and 1 too many hits on the pipe as well as a bizarre love for Porsches.

Where are the Chicks? What tattoo????

Trust me, you didn't miss out. Here is the only thread on the subject I could find with a picture (yikes!).

I've sold more than $15K worth of stuff on eBay in the last two weeks. If there is one lesson to be learned, it is that your description is king. Nothing beats a good description with literally hundreds of photos. I think I can atribute much of my success to the photos and the lengthy and detailed descriptions...

-Wayne

As I said before, I luv slutty...

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Stop!!!..I'm trying to work here.

a couple more
 

Here's a couple more of the website

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