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IMO, take your time and get a PPI. Offer the seller a refundable deposit on buying the car pending successful PPI to show you're serious if needed. If the seller is unwilling to hold the car for a serious buyer to get a PPI done then I'd pass and find another car. The PPI is much more important since you're not mechanically minded. You need to know what you're in for or it could get expensive fast since you'll be paying a Porsche specialty shop to do everything for you.
As someone else said, buying a car in California would greatly reduce the smog passing risk since the seller would be obligated to provide a smog cert with the sale.
Good luck!
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