Hi mate,

Once again sorry to see this happen and glad you're ok.

Given your car is a late 3.2 with G50, its always going to be worth something more than an earlier 3.2. Keeping the matching engine and chassis numbers is also very important and given that this will not be an insurance job, there will be no "write-off" classification and stigma assigned to the car. Therefore if you get a first class repair done on the car, where the overall chassis has not been bent, there 'should' be no real concerns for the next buyer. I think its well worth considering the repair.

If you get a rolling shell, I'd think you'd have to be very, very lucky to find one that doesn't requuire some bodywork and potentially a full respray as well, meaning that the final on-road costs may not be that different and, you still have non-matching engine and chassis stigma to deal with.

Very sorry to read this Eckhard.

Hope it all works out ok.
Keep us posted.

Regards

Mark

owie!

I'd say some of your structural parts have some ah, cosmetic damage.

+1 on buying a roller and transfering all of your go fast bits to it. Perhaps look down the road a bit to life after tracking: are you going to want a fast street car? You may want to transfer all of the electronic and interior trim pieces at a later time.

Sorry to hear of your bad luck Eckhard. And good luck getting it sorted. If you arn't in a hurry to get it fixed it may be an option to just wait until one with rear end damage comes up in a damaged vechile aution then you and the guys go shares in it to get the bits you want. I bought a crashed car a few years back and John (Fishcop) is using the gearbox, I've got the engine and a few others have what they wanted too.

Prime TV here in New Zealand had five minutes of action from the trackday and I came over to watch (combined it with a a holiday in Surfers Paradise, Byron Bay and doing beers with John). Great fun, but again, sad there was a Porsche casualty that day.

Sorry to hear about this - glad this didn't happen to the 959 today when I spun at Willow!

-Wayne

Thanks Wayne. I hate to think what this would have cost to repair if I had been driving a 959!

If I balled up my car in that fashion, I think getting it streetable would be a long shot.

So.... Id remove the fenders doors, hood, cut the roof off and dip it, the weld in a full cage.. beef up the suspension pickups, dzus on some fenders, and glue on a glass roof

but thats just me

http://www.rudtnersracing.com/padover/quarter.JPG


what you dont see in this pic is this car was backed into a wall... driver side rear

Wow Tim, that is a nice looking shell! A serious track car is very tempting indeed.