[Cobalt]

Here we go again. Yes Both Matt and ShopCat have valid points but I will expand as I have nothing else to do right now.

The 964 started the upward move before the average person even heard of singer. Although they did bring notoriety to the 964 soon after people started to realize the potential of them. I have been buying these for coming up on 20 years now and own 4.

Yes these were unloved for a while but people started to realize the ugly duckling effect and the beauty of the old school looks and modern tub and suspension was a vast improvement over earlier air-cooled 911's.

There were only 5106 +/- a few including C2/ C4's and tip coupes imported. (this doesn't include the RSA, turbo or other limited production coupe variants) So right there it decreases the number of C2 Coupes to around half of all coupes imported with a fair number being tips. So we can split the C2 from the C4's as they usually have a different buyer. That is unless they become a singer or are converted as I have done to 2 of mine. Because they were unloved and cheap it was a good source of income for some as people parted them out by the hundreds for a long time. Blackbyrd here on Pelican was parting a new one out nearly weekly for along time. These were also a great and inexpensive way to get into club racing and or DE so many were turned into track rats. Very similar scenario as the 914. Another unloved Porsche that was easy to part out or track. Then a lot of them were crashed and crushed and many had mechanical issues that exceeded the value of the car at the time and were just abandoned to sit and rot. I can't tell you how many I have come across that fit that description.

Because of this the supply of 964 coupes has become quite low. Those like myself with pristine examples will never part with them or if I do, have a long list of interested buyers at premium pricing. What most people see on the market are the cars with needs that have been poorly fixed and or need lots of TLC or are the pristine car that has been sitting in someones garage and hasn't been touched in years now looking for all the money.

There might be more than half of the 5100 coupes still in existence but I doubt it and when you divide these into C2 manuals, C2 tips or C4's how many of each are there remaining in the US and how many people looking?

This is why they are so hard to find these days very little supply and huge demand.