What's a 944 with at least one significant defect worth to you?
02-23-2019 | 12:27 PM
#16
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From: Chesapeake, VA 23322
My understanding always if its not running generally its a parts car so 500-1200 for na and for a turbo a little more. They are getting more rare but even so the 944/951 appeals to a certain crowd and honestly isn’t that large compared to american muscle or specific imports. I bought my 951 for $2800 running with a fresh clutch and had a terrible time selling it as no one wanted to even pay 4k for it except listers on here. I had thousands of dollars of maintenance with reciepts and was pushing 330whp. It wasn’t perfect but still worth atleast 8k the appraised value was higher. I guess it comes down to who the buyer/sellers are ultimately.
03-01-2019 | 05:21 AM
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The cost of removing parts, cleaning them, verifying operation/re-usability, boxing, warehousing, shipping, etc. precludes any real expectation of cost recovery or profit as a commercial venture. Some folks (Lart comes to mind) have a system that works for them, but then I've never seen Lart's books.
The profit margin on anything other than rare parts is non-existent. If you have a shop that lets you dismantle, clean and recondition parts for your own use, it makes sense. If you have 20 acres of cheap land in a metropolitan area saturated by Porsche owners (San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.) you might pull it off as a "pick and pull" sort of operation, but even that's unlikely.