It does look like a nice car. I think $53,000 is a fair price. I really think the market has stabilized for these early 911's. There is starting to be more nice ones on the market at any given time for sale than a few years ago.
CA. cars can be really bad or pretty good depending on how much time they spend near the coast. There is a large body of salt water, an ocean, right next to California, a fact that seems to be lost on a lot of people who use CA. as a reason a car is rust free. So yes if this is a CA. car it could have easily spent more time in SD than Holtville or coast cites than East of I-5 cities.
And chrome gets pitted and aluminum gets that white deposits of corrosion and rust forms in the bodies from the out side in not necessarily from the wheel wells up like salt road cars. So when some one says a car is from Cal I take that with a grain of salt,
