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That's a beautiful color combination - forest green with the cork interior. I'm a novice but will ad a few comments from my limited knowledge from being in the market (and buying an '82 SC) early last year.

The current SC market (bottomed out) plus fairly extensive accident damage and paint + a transmission rebuild points to a part out to minimize your loss. I think you'll actually make more money that way - if you have the time to deal with the time involved - disassembly, advertising, packing, mailing, etc..

If the frame was not tweaked too bad a Cellette rack trip might cost $1,500.00 or so, and a fender, door, QP repair and/or replacement with used parts, another $2 - 3k. A biggie is paint, so I'd guess at least $5k for a decent shot of paint - and that's with you doing some prep work. 915 rebuild, at least $1k, but could be much more. I'd say you'd be looking at least $10k just to have it as a presentable driver (I'm probably too low on the repair costs), and who's paying $20k+ for a 300k mile SC??

If you properly stored it and have receipts of the rebuild, the engine should bring decent money ($3-4k??). The core 915 around $700.00 or so, and you have many interesting parts (Fuchs, 930 steering wheel, seats, cork interior, suspension, etc.) that should sell quickly.

Actually, the $8k price seems almost fair if the engine really is in great shape, but in this economy, (nice SC's can be had for $12k or so, heck a nice '72 T popped up for sale here for $12k!!) it's hard to say. At around $6k I'd say it should sell very quick, $7k seems very reasonable, and a fairly quick sale.

I sure hate to see all of these SC's being parted, maybe a body shop with 911 experience and some reasonably priced labor could "save" it. You might post the same question on the marketplace forum as well.