This is practically a compliment seeing as you are the resident troll here. I've seen enough to know that. Your Larts buddy so of course you lowball everything. You can't buy parts cars for that anymore. Good 944s are 7-10k nowadays. This one is what it is. Good turbos are 12-18k. It's a sad time to be 944 hunting. Good on those who bought in cheap. Those days are fading fast.

Maybe it’s the part of the country but here in FL there are still many cars at realistic prices. I’ve bought more 944’s in the last 3 months than the last 10 years. An 87na with 126k, decent body and original paint, tired interior but sports seats, good running engine, belts just done cost me $2,600 (advertised for $4k and couldn’t sell it). I bought a running 168k stock 88 turbo for $4,800, it needs interior and paint but the body was straight (owner had it for sale for months at $8,500 with the only interest coming from tire kickers). An 96k 86 turbo with a broken timing belt, fuchs, lsd, decent body and interior fell my way for $4,600 (owner asking $6.5k), head refurbished, belt job, oil service & tires it’s now my daily driver. Two na’s, both non-runners and sitting a while but they were complete and straight, one had 15in fuchs, paid $500 and $800. I spent less than $1k to get both running but only one is a viable restore, the other will be a parts car.

If decent na’s are fetching $7-10k they are getting that because they are complete, original, good paint, body, interior and a well maintained engine and running gear plus lower mileage helps. It doesn’t mean half decent cars should fetch half that money. Prices are only up on the good examples, all the others are still were they should be though everyone thinks their values have also increased and ask for more. They either sit unsold or some mug comes along and overpays.

I don't really want to relive my time in the Navy, it was long ago and mostly results in nightmares now, but I do have some funny stories too.

My real accept price is $3500 and I may update the ad to reflect that. If it won't bring $3500, it may very well get stripped down and converted to LS1 power. In the meantime I could do the suspension and drive it auotX and HPDE days and let the 2.5 blow if it wants to. I'm about to have a lot of cash flow and will do my Miata 5.0 project first but I could easily question this as project car #2.