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Originally Posted by Staylo (Post 6583719)

You already know this, you've been asking for years.

As time goes on selection of low-mileage black SC's are dwindling and prices are slowing rising.

Better get one soon:cool:

NADA classic cars shows my Black '78 SC Targa from low retail of 16.9K to a high of 26.8K.
Coupes are a little less.

My purchase went quite similarly. I have owned it for a few months and have already replaced the front suspension pan an now have the motor and trans out for cleaning and resealing! :)

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<div style="font-style:italic"> Will I ever find "the" car? <img src="http://forums.pelicanparts.com/ultimate/frown.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Frown" class="inlineimg"></div>
</div>Back before my Pelican days......... for as long as I could remember......... I wanted a Porsche 911. I had never driven one and didn't know anything about them; I had never even sat in one. I was experienced with early VW bugs, and I knew Porsche were "something similar". So I felt I would be OK working on it myself. I live in no man’s land, home of the used car lots. Back then, before our little beach community was "discovered" you never saw a Porsche in this area unless it was a doctor or lawyer from DC just cruising in for the weekend. It was a rare sight. <br>
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So, you can imagine the dis-belief, when I noticed a 911SC on the local used lot between an old Jeep and a pickup truck. It was black with a whale tail. I went thru every emotion possible. From the excitement of seeing one, to the sheer terror that someone else might buy it.<br>
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I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. <br>
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So...........I bought it......... No haggling, no PPO, barely what I would call a test drive for fear of wrecking it. I told no one. I just wrote the check and drove it home; broke.<br>
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It was weather worn with patches of rust, and looked like the PO had run it into the ground. It needed everything done to it. I paid way too much for it. I didn't care. It was mine........I owned a Porsche 911.<br>
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Long story short............after 10 years of maintenance etc., changing this and that, upgrading, back dating, and massaging, I now have "the" car. Its never been off the road for more than two or three months at a time, its cost way too much money that I don't have, and I still drive it like a little kid in a candy store. Best thing of all, I know every nut and bolt on the car and have taken a welding torch to it on several occasions to get it right. If I had waited I may have never gotten one. When someone looks at it these days and says, "nice car", I say "thanks" with the biggest grin ever.<br>
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Don't wait. Get one. Get dirty with it. Drive it like you stole it. Then roll it into the garage and give it a little attention, you won't be sorry.<br>
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Just my 10 years and $.02 worth.

Much thanks for your thoughts, gentlemen! If I don't buy this particular car, I may just lower my criterial threshold and make my own "the car" like u suggest.

Funny thing, I've tried considering cars of other colors (i.e., rootbeer brown, bamboo beige, cassis,etc) and different configs (no tail, targa, cab), but my wife says she only approves of an original stock, black sc with tail. I've always considered this my first choice, but its funny when she says "no" to any other config'd car

Dude....make a foil helmet.....get 4 friends to do the same.....get a suitcase full of turkey/club sandwiches, a .22 Woodsman with a plastic coke bottle on the end.....stop by.......ohhhhh crud.....the shrooms have stopped....

Never mind....

Just buy one already!! When I starting lurking here 1 1/2 years ago you were posting talking about the black SC you wanted!

I scratched my itch, I think it's time you scratch yours!!

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Originally Posted by Josh D (Post 6588221)

Just buy one already!! When I starting lurking here 1 1/2 years ago you were posting talking about the black SC you wanted!

I scratched my itch, I think it's time you scratch yours!!

I agree. I won't make any more posts about the black sc until I get one (if!)

Kurt

Buy the 27,000 mile grey Sc in the classifieds. Its as perfect as you will find... well minus the respray, non matching door and all...

I've seen a couple restored SC's sell for north of $25K.

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Originally Posted by rsrfan (Post 6589614)

Buy the 27,000 mile grey Sc in the classifieds. Its as perfect as you will find... well minus the respray, non matching door and all...

Lol....why a repaint on a car described as perfect???

My son bought one sat week. Silver/black. No rust...rebuilt with euro p&c's..rebuilt 915
We are turning it into a really cool hot rod

Rs carpet
Door panels
Fabbed the muffler into a 2 out in the middle gt3 style
Car hauls ass stripped out..be done next week with it

1983 Porsche 911SC

55k miles for $21k ... he was asking $16k at one point but seems to have raised the price.

Or, buy any SC and wrap it black like I am doing right now!

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