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Originally Posted by Tug68 View Post
Just had my 87 appraised last month by an appraiser that is used by my insurance co. A few here know my car and the shape it is in. All original paint(paint metered by appraiser) all performance bolt on's and a g50 trans. When all said and done it came back at $90k from the appraiser.
Your car is exceptionally clean and looks new. I'd put it at the top of the chart, but then what do I know? Perhaps the mods hold the appraisal down? For sure modded 930s represent the best "value" in the market today. If I were shopping for a 930, I'd buy a modded car. I'd never pay up for a stocker, but then I don't "invest" in or "collect" cars...I like to drive them a lot and hard.

What you all may find interesting is that the valuation conversation seems to permeate almost all Porsches these days. I'm visiting the 997 turbo forum on RL these days (more active then Pelican on those models) and it seems like a large number of threads discuss value, 997.1 turbos as future collectibles due to being the last of the mezger engined, and manual trans turbos, etc.

Probably the safest haven from this mindset is to be among brand new 991 Porsche buyers who plan on extracting value from their cars through driving experiences. Unless it's a "special" model, I can't imagine anyone rolling off the lot in their new 130k 911 thinking that it's going to do anything but depreciate...so they drive them all the time, confident that when it comes time to sell the car will be worth substantially less than they paid for it.
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