1976 fiberglass widebody value

[bmc1818]

I checked out this car last weekend and made an offer. It is a 1976 911s with 3.0 from a 78. The car has no sunroof and ~105,000 miles on it. The fenders were all fiberglass extensions, and the wheels looked like turbo twist replicas.

Car was in decent condition, with no rust I could find. There was standing water in both rear seats though. Engine ran strong, but the brakes stuck and had to be pulled up with your foot after every stop. The fiberglass fenders were showing stress cracks and bubbles under the paint, and the hood also need to be repainted. Seats had been switched to some that were non-porsche. The interior was decent, but needed to be restored. The car had "carrera turbo" on the tail, though its just a na engine.

What would you put a value on this car at? How much would a fair offer be?

[COLB]

Standing water in the rear seats in a car with no sunroof probably means the rear window seal is failing. Did you check for rust in the seat pans and rear floors?

Not a lot of info provided on the mechanicals, or the state of the suspension, but the brakes indicate this car has been sitting for a while. The sticking could be sorted with a caliper rebuild, which is not a major operation. But the sticking sounds worse than usual for a rarely driven car.

With a re-engine in unknown condition, marginal and unoriginal interior, bad paint, dubious body work…and the prospect of hidden rust…it would be hard to get in this car from more that $10-12k or so. Frankly, that is getting to parts car money.

It doesn't look bad from the pics, but it also looks like a car that you need to put a hundred hours of labor into, plus $3-5k in parts. And when you are done you have a re-engined midyear with fiberglass body work -- that probably tops out around $15k.

It is a car without much upside.