Trade my car for this??
09-11-2007, 10:57 PM
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Trade my car for this??
Well I can't believe i'm considering this...but a really beautiful silver early 1985 944 just came up for sale at a dealer near my house. It's only got 59,000 original miles and looks like a time capsule car. Everything works except passenger window switch. Probably the nicest driving 944 i've driven, and i've been in quite a few. Only thing against it, hardly any service history so I dont know what has been done, except that it looks like it was really taken care of.
Now, my car isn't so bad, in fact it's quite nice. 86 N/A with 125k, a near perfect interior, some door dings, no working heat right now, sunroof motor doesn't work, intermittent no start when cold outside that needs to be addressed. BUT... i've spent a lot of money making it very mechanically sound. Recent work includes: rebuilt head, new spring center clutch, recent cam belts and water pump, radiator, motor mounts, new tires, brakes, fluids, and more odds and ends. It's red and I just put on fuchs, it runs and looks great but still just didn't feel like this 57,000 time capsule car.
Would I be a fool to get rid of it for a lower mileage car, and probably have to do a lot of the stuff listed above over again? Driving that car just got me thinking that maybe i'm ready for a change, I really seem to enjoy the early cars more than the late I think, their quirkiness I guess, but I don't know how logically i'm thinking! Any imput??
Now, my car isn't so bad, in fact it's quite nice. 86 N/A with 125k, a near perfect interior, some door dings, no working heat right now, sunroof motor doesn't work, intermittent no start when cold outside that needs to be addressed. BUT... i've spent a lot of money making it very mechanically sound. Recent work includes: rebuilt head, new spring center clutch, recent cam belts and water pump, radiator, motor mounts, new tires, brakes, fluids, and more odds and ends. It's red and I just put on fuchs, it runs and looks great but still just didn't feel like this 57,000 time capsule car.
Would I be a fool to get rid of it for a lower mileage car, and probably have to do a lot of the stuff listed above over again? Driving that car just got me thinking that maybe i'm ready for a change, I really seem to enjoy the early cars more than the late I think, their quirkiness I guess, but I don't know how logically i'm thinking! Any imput??
09-12-2007, 01:09 AM
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Take the money you would spend, and put all new shocks and springs on your car. Replace the original rubber suspension bushings with new ones and take a good look at the A-arm and steering rack bushings as well as the tie rods.
For far less money you'll have very tight handling again, and not lose all the investment you've put into your car already. Not to mention you can drive it as much as you want without feeling that you are hurting the value.
For far less money you'll have very tight handling again, and not lose all the investment you've put into your car already. Not to mention you can drive it as much as you want without feeling that you are hurting the value.
09-12-2007, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by pcarfan944
early 1985 944 just came up for sale at a dealer near my house. It's only got 59,000 original miles
hardly any service history
You have a known evil
with some minor problems... some that seem easily fixed.
Originally Posted by xsboost90
they are both money pits- get away while you can!
09-12-2007, 10:01 AM
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how much do they want?
how much will you get for yours?
how much will you put into it?
Take the first line, subtract the second, and add the third. I bet you are squarely in "a nicer car than a 944NA" territory.
Dont be a fool like me. There is a 91 911C4 cab with about 39k miles for sale by me for the mid high 20s. My wife said i should sell the S2, 951, and Miata, and buy it. Dan/Jeeper was there when she pulled out the ad. He nearly fell over, and i think proposed to her!!!
I said i didnt want that much money on the track. Dan nearly smacked the daylights (and some sense in me) out of me. Wellllll, I am dropping about 3k into the S2 on the clutch, dropped about 3.5k on the suspension, seats, and roll bar. now if i sold the S2 for cheap, say 8k, and took this 7k I would have 15k.
if i didnt spend over 20k on the BMW cab, and bought this cab, i would have say 30k in one car with more power, better resale, lower miles, etc. over my S2. I would have one insurance policy.
Now I am paying over 2k to ship 2 cars to denver, have about 15k into a maybe 10k S2, blah blah blah.
Do you see the folly of my ways? I hope you do, and learn to do as i say, not as i do.
how much will you get for yours?
how much will you put into it?
Take the first line, subtract the second, and add the third. I bet you are squarely in "a nicer car than a 944NA" territory.
Dont be a fool like me. There is a 91 911C4 cab with about 39k miles for sale by me for the mid high 20s. My wife said i should sell the S2, 951, and Miata, and buy it. Dan/Jeeper was there when she pulled out the ad. He nearly fell over, and i think proposed to her!!!
I said i didnt want that much money on the track. Dan nearly smacked the daylights (and some sense in me) out of me. Wellllll, I am dropping about 3k into the S2 on the clutch, dropped about 3.5k on the suspension, seats, and roll bar. now if i sold the S2 for cheap, say 8k, and took this 7k I would have 15k.
if i didnt spend over 20k on the BMW cab, and bought this cab, i would have say 30k in one car with more power, better resale, lower miles, etc. over my S2. I would have one insurance policy.
Now I am paying over 2k to ship 2 cars to denver, have about 15k into a maybe 10k S2, blah blah blah.
Do you see the folly of my ways? I hope you do, and learn to do as i say, not as i do.
