I am not as confident as the individuals you have been talking with concerning the continued increase in value of the '73 Carreras. I am more or less thinking along the lines of Randy in that we might be near a market top now and a sizable correction is due (overdue?). The '73 Carreras are not that rare so I think values have actually gone a bit higher than the market will support in the next few years, but that is MHO.

Having said that the long hoods are fun for sure but you also have a very fun, desirable car. I would stick with the '75 for now and enjoy it.:)

Easy call, if you can afford it, and I am NOT a Porsche expert. As I understand it, the RS is a thin metal bodied car and quite rare. It will go up in value at a more rapid rate than the 75. I know Aston Martins, a little, not Porsches, an Aston Martin DB4 sold for about $10K new (USD), a DB4 GT sold for about $12K and a DB4 GT Zagato sold for about $15K. Now they're worth about $150,000, $1,250,000 and $3,000,000, respectively. The RS will appreciate at a faster rate than the "regular" 75. Make sure its a real RS of course, and others know much more about this than me.

Keeping the '75 and an RS is not on the cards.... if that was the case I would be thinking RSR! :eek:

Agreed the market is likely to be continually strong for the RS but I do understand what Brian is saying in that there were a lot of cars produced and the market is heated (but unknown if its overheated). Its an interesting comparison with the '75 there as there were 518 Carreras produced in '75 including the US cars? (not MFI) and supposedly less than 50 produced in RHD (25 was a figure I read somewhere also) so in that respect the '75 is the rarer car.

JG, I hear what you are saying also. I drove a '73S 2.8 (single plug) two weeks ago and it wasnt any faster or better really than the '75. I actually think the '75 was better in some ways. There is a point in buying the best you can, the more I am finding out about this particular RS the more concerned I am becoming about the costs blowing out for a resto. If the purchase cost and costs to restore are the same or more than buying a good example then I dont see the point in it. May as well buy the good car and make it near perfect instead.

Im continuing to do the homework on it and find out as much as possible. May have to rethink my driving style on the road if I do upgrade though, and then again maybe not! :cool:

Actually there were 518 MFI Carreras produced and another 395 US spec Carreras in '75.

I think your point concerning 'buying the best' is very important in your evaluation of the RS. Dig as deep as you can on this car before writing the check.:)

Would you drive the RS as much and as hard as your 75?
Would you be scared damaging the RS every time you got behind the wheel?

With all the "Clones" of the 73 RS out there, be sure it is a REAL RS, you can check in the book "Carrera RS" in German called "Das Buch", it has a list of ALL the RS Porsches produced, serial numbers, chassis numbers, build dates, options etc. And, to what country it was exported to at that time, for no RS Porsches were imported into the US, except for a few "off road" racers.

I've got the book and can check the numbers for you?

Cheers,

T.G