joe951

Have heard non-original paint decreases re-sale value (all other things being equal) especially if not done by porsche. Thoughts?

V2Rocket

who cares about resale value on a $5k car?

if your paint is beat, then repainting it will get you more money. if your paint is decent or good, leave it alone.

Hollywood D

Sand it yourself and pull most of the trim off and find a place to spray it. You will save yourself a lot of money.

Arominus

Your buyer will prefer a good paint job over a beat down original. I know I would, but then my car is a mix of various paint jobs due to repairs. So I have some original, some resprays and really it needs a paint job.

Dougs951

A nice new paint job should increase value.

944Ross

^^This^^ The "unrestored classic" movement is gaining traction in the high-dollar Pebble Beach type cars, not on DD's. On the other hand, unless you spend the money for a quality job, you may be better off leaving it for the next owner to deal with.

racer

Agreed.. with over 100,000 of these cars out there, it will be a while till the "patina" or "original paint" collector cares. Get a quality repaint (I'd encourage not changing colors) and enjoy. Also, by not changing colors, you might not need to repray jambs, hood/engine compartment etc. At 20-30 years old, it shouldn't hurt resale and in many cases may improve it.

Cole

Looks like he has a 951 from the screen name? There were only 13,982 951s brought to the USA.

Wonder how many of those still exist?

Not exactly rare, but when you consider numbers like, Ford made 500,000 1965 Mustangs alone, the 951 is a rare bird.


Not much of anything from the 80s has really hit its stride yet for collectibility. Most (not all) cars don't seem to reach that mark until .30-40 years old.

Cole

Just further food for though. I looked up a UK site for "how many left"

http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/combined/Porsche_944#!tax

According to the site the peak of 944 registration was 10,143 in 1995 and in 2012 it was 3,608.

So, for whatever reason a car doesn't get registered again, wrecked, parted, rotting in a barn, etc. not many still in use.

Roughly 35.5% of the high

Of those ratios held true to the USA cars then there would only be about 4893 951s left and about 24k 944(all other models combined and rounded)

Rinty

Take lots of pictures before you paint. With the exif data, you can establish to a future buyer that there was no damage prior to the work.

MAGK944

This made me choke on my cookie. By "patina" on our cars I suppose you mean the attractive pink hue that Guards Red turns into over time

87 944 C

when you consider that a good paint job around me is 9g, i'd be more for sanding it myself, taking off the trim and sending it to Macco for like 800 bucks. especially on a car worth like 5g.

if you have a turbo, a really good paint job should increase the value of it

btw: only about 35% of all 944 produced still are in existance in any form. means about 50,000 worldwide

max_boost951

I had a 944 n/a I had repainted and it was never the same. I wish I would have tried some sanding first!!

joe951

Thanks All for great comments, I should have given more info. I'm eye-balling a 92 968 cab w 59k miles. Car has been repainted, CarFax is clean, but seems like a potential price negotiating point...?

Cole

Depends on a lot of things.

Why was it repainted? Same factory color?

There were only 2248 968 Cabs brought to the USA and if you follow the 35% rule that means only about 786 left. How many for sale? How many in a color combo and condition you want?

A repaint can be a good or bad thing.