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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
So a 44 year old car with just 80,000 miles. Only 1,888 miles per year. The poor thing wants to be driven!
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Having been around these cars for going on 40 years, I'm confident that, absent an unbroken chain of service records, the only thing a mechanical odometer on an air cooled Porsche can tell you is the absolute *minimum* amount of miles that are on the car (and an unbroken chain of records isn't necessarily foolproof). There's a better than average chance that a given 911 has more miles on it than indicated. Jus' sayin'.
Nathan Merz is "astounded" [sarcasm] by how many "85k mile" 3.2 Carreras there are out there (if I recall correctly, he conveys that sentiment in his PCA 3.2 overview video). Most of these cars were daily drivers back in the day.
Anywho, not necessarily germaine to the OP's question, but a reality of these cars that owners, especially those unfamiliar with the typical foibles, should be intellectually honest about.