I am with sharky47 and Judson951 all the way on this. There can still be integrity to the car if it is fixed considering for the most parts everything is still together as it came. If you part it out the integrity will be totally lost for what can be a fantastic car again. If you can't afford to fix it, please at least offer it up for sale to other rennlister's that might be willing to let you make some profit on it and you help save a 951. At least give it a chance, worse case scenario no one buys it and your still left to do what you please with it. I didn't know the car existed until this thread started, and I may have been interested in purchasing had I known it was even for sale. So I am sure there are other rennlisters that also had no idea about the car that might be willing to fix it. Just a suggestion but please give the car a chance to be put back together.

 

Wow that is a really REALLY clean car. I'm with the fix it crowd myself..but you seem to have made your mind with some decent reasons

 

I know someone already offered to buy it with a built-in $1k profit for you AND the car gets fixed - everybody wins!

 

Worth while, or am I better off getting a new cat back setup?

 

I'm interested in the dash fan control unit switch. email me at scott@hahnswoodworking.com thanks

 

It would probably be less of a pain in the *** to just go with a 944T Cat back IMO.

 

Thanks! And enjoy that GT3!!!

 

Whats the status on this car? Is there hope for it being fixed or has it already been torn apart and ruined?

 

Yup, it's dead.

https://rennlist.com/forums/for-sale-ads-member-to-member-fs-wtb-free/292937-parting-1988-944-turbo-s-with-11-844-miles.html

 

There was frame damage in the battery compartment and back to the driver's door hing area. Here is a pic of the front frame rails now that the engine has been removed.

 

yup....that's dead.

 

No no no! It is not dead - it just needs another host body........that's all.



Oh the humanity......I cannot bear to watch!

 

That car is ready for NASCAR, easy on the left bank

Come-on you know you could just find a donor front clip....and firewall....and...well you could keep the rear bumper

 

That makes me a sad panda...

 

The beauty of the car is that it was/is all original.

Yeah, we could get a host body, throw more money at it (stripping host body and getting it re-painted), spend a ton of time swapping over all of the good parts to the new body, and all we would have left would be a very nice looking car that has the VIN of the host body showing 100K+ miles. We would never get our money back if we were to sell it. No collector would even look at it (the whole matching numbers and originality thing...).

Face it, this car is dead. The damage goes all the way to the rear quarter panels. Both doors hang when opening and closing so fixing this body is out of the question. I don't know too many of you that have the kind of time and money it would take to do what you guys keep proclaiming we should do. It's real easy for you guys to sit there in front of your computers expounding righteousness and imposing your views on what needs to happen. Meanwhile, Josh and I are busting our butts trying to be real careful when removing items from the car and cataloguing everything so we can have detailed records.

Our hope is that this car will live on in others that desperately need parts in order to become whole again and that the owners will take pride in knowing that their car has been infused with a piece of history.