993 Turbo

[rft218]

Hi All,

I am after some advice if possible. I have a 1994 Arena red/ black leather 993 turbo, it has 128k miles on it. I have had it for approx 16 years, bought it on 102k miles, and done a lot of mechanical bits on it to get it up to scratch given its mileage. The summary of my bits and pieces are, new clutch (whilst OPC were doing an outstanding recall on the engine wiring), New turbos, all new suspension bushing, new shocks all around, new steering rack, new calipers all around. It is currently on BBS split rims with gold centres as I fancied a bit of an update. I have the hollow spokes, which have recently been recon'd in my loft!. Thats probably the good parts - apart from its a great drive and never let me down!

On the downside I am now at a place where realistically it needs a repaint. From 5 yards it looks great but on closer inspection is has corrosion on bottom of both windscreen pillars, a dent on the top of O/S about 40mm size from scaffold pole that dropped on it (dont ask!), some bubbles on both rear arches. The existing paint isn't that great. It is perfectly driveable but up close it needs love!. The other downside is it has limited history, when I bought it there was none. I have all of the history for my ownership for all of the work I have done but nothing before that.

I am trying to decide the way forward, I have restored several 911's and not sure I have the motivation for another!, so I could either find someone who I can trust to do a good job. The guy who painted my 911s can't do it in the foreseeable future and there isn't many people I would trust to do an appropriate job locally to me in Cornwall. So I was thinking of selling as a car that needs a paint.

So my alternative is sell it and move on, I had a 996 GT3 and still fancy one of them again, but where do I pitch it?, there have been a number of TTs on collecting cars but they are collectors ones with low mileage which you coudlnt drive, this is one you can use!. Am I being unrealistic to look for £85k for it?

Any thoughts gratefully received

Cheers

Roger

[yoda]

Interesting dilemma. You can probably work backwards from a good example that has recently sold, the paint job reasonably easy to factor in (£15k?) but the history a bit harder. If you’ve had the car 16 years and it has good history during that period (and bills for mechanical work), that would probably get you close.

I thought high miles 993 Turbos would be under £100k so £85k seems optimistic. Hard to find direct comparables though.

[964RubyRS]

Hi Roger, are you still considering the sale of the 993 turbo?

[rft218]

Hi, I havent done anything yet so still interested in a conversation. I am working on a plan to do the bodywork and full paint. Have some people lined up that will do good job but not yet got it booked in. I cant message you direct as you are newbie to the forum,

[964RubyRS]

Sounds good. Add me to whatsapp 07776959855 for photos & video of the car.