'65 911 Project

[Winston Teague]

Surely lots to like and discuss here:

http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1965-p ... 1-coupe-2/

No affiliation, W

[Winston Teague]

Nothing to see here......move on.......nothing interesting at all.......

[Darren65]

$40K and rising!........brave in a tumbling market when there's so much to be spent but what do I know?.....

.....where do we think this will finish?

[Darren65]

Nothing to see here......move on.......nothing interesting at all.......

.....my only interest is that I'd like another project so happily looking forward to when the bubble bursts!

[Winston Teague]

Seems like a good starting point. Good but expensive is soooo much better that rubbish and cheap. A project car is honest, so many non-project cars turn out to need restoration. Is that a DDK name a few bids back? If so GLWP. W

[inaglasshouse]

Yep, I did have a little bid. At $30K (the level this morning) even I could make a profit. But I'm not seriously in the running for this one.

[911hillclimber]

Porsche Indie, well established for decades, told me sales are very soft right now.
Maybe the bubble is deflating after all?

[MarkIII]

Pretty sure this is the car that the current owner discovered a few months ago, fairly comprehensive thread on earlysregistry on this, general section from memory

[Darren65]

Pretty sure this is the car that the current owner discovered a few months ago, fairly comprehensive thread on earlysregistry on this, general section from memory

Indeed....

http://www.early911sregistry.org/forums ... php?130530

[Darren65]

$55,000 (£42,000) for a rotten but completely matching numbered 65!

Shame its not still two dollars to the pound as I would have been a buyer!

Another year and I might just bag me another 911 project!

[inaglasshouse]

Plus buyer's fee of 5%, plus shipping, plus import duty (for the German buyer).
Still a bargain.
But I would say that, having recently paid a lot more for a less rusty version of the same thing.

[72911E]

what were you expecting it to be bid to? Or another way, what would this have been bid to back in 2015?

[inaglasshouse]

Well... a restored version of the same car ('65 Bali Blue matching numbers) sold for $308K plus buyer's premium in summer 2014:
http://www.rmsothebys.com/mo14/monterey ... pe/1067996

Base car for that one was nearly as crappy as the BaT car, if I remember correctly.

[MikeyC]

Yes, interesting auction to watch, that one. If this was a few years back, I would have expected it to reach somewhere around the $80k mark at least. Even in today's market, and bearing in mind it's a full on project with lots of hard to find bits to fix out or source if you're doing it properly, I think the buyer got a good deal. Would have had a punt myself but workshop is already full of Porsches in bits.