Yeah, that car is gone...

That 912 is technically a 66 even though it’s still a 5 gauge. Someone will restore it.

Lol who is this Alex? Picks everything up? Nice example I'd change the TT wheels thats about it

The bummer of working a full time job.. 8-5pm. Also I'll be in Wichita this weekend driving an s2000 14 hours home. Hopefully use that to fund the 911 hunt.

Thats not a perfect sheeper man.. those super ugly vents and the FRONT END lol why the hell would I spend that much shopping around my budget for a 911 that doesn't have the iconic 911 front end no way.. I'd snag the 77 911S for 27k before that one.
Since alot of you are confused what I'm looking for, here are THREE (3) perfect examples of me having the cash ready and would buy the car if I was given the chance or seller didn't flake on me...

1.) [post #15 for pics]
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-marketplace-discussion/937907-should-i-have-bought.html

2.) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-marketplace-discussion/943434-another-find-buy-1985-carerra.html

3.) [might still have it, seller is an idiot]
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-marketplace-discussion/901458-looking-buy-1985-targa-euro-pricing.html

4.) Drola on here always has some cars he is selling and he has a nice steel wide body he wanted 19k for and sold. I keep in touch with him and if something like that comes up again he has my number.

Those are some examples that I was able to post about and get opinions while waiting for the seller/waiting to plan a trip. The rest sold quick I didn't even have a chance. One super nice blue 911 with a renegade hybrid V8 swap sold for high teens needed third gear syncro. Should have bought that one, he was on pelican as well.

Sold gone? Or like rusted to the ground gone?

If I could grab it at like $2500-3k would it be worth to resell like the local shop by me does? I'm assuming it will end up there if I wait a couple days. Can slip out tomorrow and bring it home.

This ad follows the pattern used in MANY scam ads now on Craigslist:
Low asking price
1 or 2 picture only
Short text with few hard details
No phone number

If real, gone in 48 hours....

You talk a good game- but have nothing to show for it. Sellers taking bike rides/ have to wait til it warms up to start the engine/ working on my gsxr til it's too late to call the owner and so on and so forth... a lot of reasons you throw out as to why you havnt found one 911 that you can actually try to buy. Just admit it, the hunt is what you are after. Not the kill. I do not think I have seen some one go after ONE thing for so long with no results.

I'll see if he emails me back. Should be interesting.
Usually they don't go into detail about the issues the car has but we'll see.

I'm not trying to prove anything haha just trying to get a good deal.

I was messing with the gsxr few nights in a row after work again and cleaned injectors and fuel rail and still had the issue. Pulled off the fuel pump and the filter was super nasty so have that on order hopefully fixes it.

I'll post a (short and not very informative) YouTube video as we speak and it will be my next post that I actually went and checked the car out haha I don't make this stuff up he literally told me he is going for a bike ride and all that jazz and he doesn't want to take the car out until the weather breaks so it beats me. You guys are the OG's you tell me why he is telling me these things lol. Matt had a good guess that he doesn't want to sell it just show it off idk

I would have picked up 2 rollers, one being a pile of rust, for $2k cash in buffalo until the seller had the sport seats removed upon me showing up which pissed me off and I called off my buddy who was going to head up with a enclosed trailer.

Things like this seem pretty normal in the Porsche community not many people actually looking out for someone who wants a deal and know what they are actually worth instead of people hyping them up. I'm willing to pay good money for a decent car but won't go out of my way. I'll keep wrenching on bikes and cars to afford a better one in the near future.

I officially graduated May '17 it hasn't been that long so results will come but I'm no baller making crazy money.

See poor YouTube video below

First pic is me about to sit in the driver seat, couldn't edit the orientation since all I used was quick iMovie, other way would have made it worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJVtFz_l8k

Seller is updating me as soon as he is allowing test drives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Man are you new... :D

https://www.beverlyhillscarclub.com/

Sorry, I got distracted by the kids mid-post. The first comment was in reference to the SC as a follow up to D's comment. Alex owns BHCC. He also probably owns that 911SC by now.

As for the 912, I wouldn't waste my time and neither should you. Someone will restore that car. You wouldn't make enough on the flip to go get it and flip it. It's cheap but it's not put a quick $10k into your pocket cheap.

Hahah well I'm familiar with the site. His cars are actually pretty fairly priced at times I just wish he wasn't the furthest away from me on the other side of the country. Lots of Porsche's for nice deals pop up on the west coast :rolleyes:

Totally understand that.

I'm not buying anything until I drive it though (at that price).

He can't start it/ buy it/ or any of that fun until it warms up, owner gets back from his bike ride with no seat, and once the gsxr fuel issue is fixed.

hahaha :D

The gsxr is fine but yea idk when he is getting back from that bike ride, kinda like forrest gump maybe one day he'll finally just stop and turn around.

That Alex dude looks pretty young. Seems like he got it made. Dream job to mess with the classics all the time..

google BHCC and alex. i wouldn't call that a dream job.

so, you'll consider a rusty POS roller that requires a ton of work and $$, but won't take on a slant nose that's under your budget? fenders and vents are real easy to fix/change. you could have been driving and enjoying that while you get the parts together to change it. that would be so much cheaper in the long run.

i don't get it...

Yea you might be right, messing with bunch of more rusty cars isn't the greatest but seems better than a desk job.

The POS rollers were only mentioned and posted here since I was planning to get them and post for sale more of a flip venture so I can save up some more money for a decent runner.

I'm not going to pull a full resto on a car so comparing that slant nose to the rollers isn't a good one. One of my posts above is what you can compare the slant nose to. Those are ideal runners for me. Or this one below I should have gotten around $20k..

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-cars-sale/906333-1977-iroc-look-v8-swap.html

This is getting nuts...You won't consider a nice looking slant nose because "it doesn't have the iconic front end" but you will consider a 911 with a chevy engine in it?? Wtf

As you said before, dude is more interested in tire kicking than actually buying.

Buy a Slant, put 930 fenders on the front, viola, not a Slant anymore.
Had I been in the market, that yellow would have been in the running, but from what I have seen, I would be going with the Carrera for $28K, just my MHO..:D

.................... shoulda saw that coming hahhaha

Anyway. Yea you are exactly right. I'd rather rip burnouts knowing if I blow a rod out of the side of the block I can visit a local junk yard and pick up a motor for a coupe hundred blocks and rebuild rather than spending 5-10k+ on a full rebuild on a Porsche motor just because.

Rather than drive around in a big yellow shovel with rear fish gills....

:rolleyes:

The hunt is fun as I've heard a million times but if you guys really think I love wasting my time idk what to tell you. I sold my last s2000 to a buddy who really wanted it and started looking for another one and it took me about 1.5 months to find myself a great deal that I am picking up Saturday. I had to deal with alot of idiots with s2000's lately and didn't really enjoy that especially since I almost made a few long trips in the middle of winter...

Think what you guys want. Just start that GoFund me and get me out of your hair LOL

Which Carrera? Link?

If you just want to do burnouts why don't you buy a Camaro then?

I had a hunch this was what was driving the naivete (pardon the term, but it's accurate here) and you just confirmed it.

There is a large, profound difference between the air-cooled Porsche market and other used/enthusiast markets. I'll only use my direct experience here, but if a smoking deal pops up on a Mk1 mini cooper or 1960's era Bronco it will sit around for a few days, perhaps a week. Forums will discuss it and even help a novice facilitate a purchase. These cars are marked degrees harder to find than a s2000 and still not relatively liquid. You cannot interpolate the experience to an air-cooled Porsche.

You've basically locked in on one or two unicorn deals and assumed that's market because it happened once. Great. But well priced Porsche's in this environment don't trade in increments of weeks, days or hours. It's minutes. There are 1,000s of companies/flippers that troll every available site every second of every day with cash on hand and will close sight unseen immediately. That does not happen with the cars with which "you have experience".

I'm all for your search and think you should hold out for what you want at the price you want, but enough of this "they are out there, see X and Y" bull****. It's annoying and embarrassing. I'd think given how long you've been searching you know the reality by now.

That's my rant.......and good luck! Seriously; I am rooting for you.