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I'd buy it. Here's why: there's a saying that every Porsche 911 is at least $20k, either upfront or down the road. The truth is more daunting - finding a pre-74 911 for $20k takes a lot of luck, a lot of patience, and a lot of elbow grease these days; you can spend $15k on some cars and learn it will take another $20k to wind up with something worth towing to the nearest landfill.

This car's got its issues, but buying it for ten or eleven grand and spending another nine sorting it will actually leave you with something presentable. Not collectable, no concourse-winner, true, but a nice, drivable vintage Porsche that should last you a while, and if you wanted to spend some more money on it in a few years, tidying it up a bit more, it wouldn't be wasted money.

And I'd be at least partially motivated to buy it simply to prevent another solid-roofed 72 being turned into a misguided RS clone.