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Originally Posted by blau911
Front fender turn signal markers are missing which means that the car has been repainted at least once. No speedo swap documentation, no mention of when the car was imported, from where (although a german owners manual is included in the sale), and how many kilometers were on the car before being retitled in the State. The driver door jam pic shows that the paint code plate has silver paint overspray around the lower edge which means that the car has had a major repaint at some point in its life. The rear bumper is missing the hole for the rear foglight which was required in Germany. And the front bumper has no foglight holes or Euro license plate mounting holes. The Sun visors look baggy, which is pretty normal for a car this age with the usual higher miles. The 81K isn't higher miles though. The seller's ID is only 8 months old and has only 7 feedback, 3 of which are cars, so it seems likely that it's a dealer car.
Buyer beware. Anyone bidding here should do their homework.
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To me it does not look like its been re painted, at least in the door jambs. I can't tell from the exterior shots. The side marker lights were not introduced until 1981, this car is a 79 so it wouldn't have them. The car has had some federalization. Notice how the front reflectors have been added in place of the solid rubber bumper strips. Christian is correct the air pump was standard on all early SC's, the US car had a CAT added instead of the pre muffler you find on the RoW cars. The hole for teh fog light is below the bumper so you wouldn't be able to see that. I don't think anything has been welded shut.
I really like the rear wiper option and overall I think it looks like a very nice example. Downside is the seller is not very detailed in his description, so I'm not surprised there is scant detail about the KM speedo swap. That does suggest dealer to me.
Ultimately if its a well cared for example and has extensive service records of whats been done in terms of maintenance would it really matter ? Having had a few 911's and been through a couple of rebuilds personally I'd much rather have a high mile car with complete records, which has had regular attentive maintenance than a 'low miles' car that hasn't. Its a lot less expensive in the long run. If I was interested first thing I'd do is ask the seller for a PDF of copies of all the records. If it has records and the federalization papers and there are stamps in the original German manuals & service booklet you would be able to figure it out quickly.