[techweenie]

This aligns with my experience. The A grade parts are sold on insurance repair tickets at prices that would astonish the typical Pelican shopper. The parts in the marketplace are often B-grade or less. And still, a nice engine lid grille that would have brought maybe $150 2 years ago is $250 or more now, comparing grade-to-grade.

An average '72 T coupe driver today is a high teens/low 20s car -- probably about equal to where it was 2 years ago when the statistics told us the Great Recession was over. Excellence numbers notwithstanding, the market is active, but not all models are desirable. Fashion changes. A Carrera that was in the low teens a year ago is now in the high teens. I'd say +20% straight across the board for the 3.2 cars in a year.

I don't make my living buying & selling cars. I broker 7-10 cars a year as a sideline to pay for my Porsche hobby. I make $500 per completed deal, so I really don't have a dog in this fight. Since this thread started, I got yet another request to find a car and made an offer on a 911S project that was (I thought) market-appropriate, but which was rejected out of hand. Over half the cars I broker are not advertised. They come to me on a referral basis. So maybe part of the market is just not visible.