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Old 01-13-2018, 05:14 PM
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Default Saddest 928 of all Time?

This is my entry.
Maybe it’s the state of decay or maybe it’s the used appliances she sits with...

But this is the saddest one I’ve come across in my years of surfing.






https://jonesboro.craigslist.org/cto...452169409.html
Old 01-13-2018, 05:57 PM
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It’s certainly up there
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Yup. Looks like someone started to fix it, then lost interest. Sad, but somewhat typical.

Rear fog, lack of rear corner markers and CIS (I think) means it's likely a Euro.

As is almost always the case, rather overpriced. This is a "scrap value" car.

As reads "front fenders alone worth my asking price".

Ummmm.... No. 928 Int'l has them for $250 each.

I won't dispute the total parts value is worth more (potentially a fair amount more depending on what "Euro bits" are still there), but factoring in dismantling and such, it's still only worth a couple hundred.
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Nah, that's not bad.

This one showed up in 2012 from Alabama just like this. When it left it was very driveable with the body on it and went straight up up to Rob Budd for a complete interior. Came back late last year for more work. It's a charm now.



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Originally Posted by SeanR
Nah, that's not bad.

This one showed up in 2012 from Alabama just like this. When it left it was very driveable with the body on it and went straight up up to Rob Budd for a complete interior. Came back late last year for more work. It's a charm now.



please tell me it was a weissach for the owner to put that much money into its restoration
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Originally Posted by Crumpler
This is my entry.
Maybe it’s the state of decay or maybe it’s the used appliances she sits with...

But this is the saddest one I’ve come across in my years of surfing.






https://jonesboro.craigslist.org/cto...452169409.html
I think that sad lump is a Euro S with an m28/12 engine...the value of which alone exceeds the asking price.

Old 01-14-2018, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Crumpler
This is my entry.
Maybe it’s the state of decay or maybe it’s the used appliances she sits with...

But this is the saddest one I’ve come across in my years of surfing.






https://jonesboro.craigslist.org/cto...452169409.html
I got that beat, but sadly - no pics to prove it. Literally, a tree growing out of an empty engine bay. No windows, no sunroof, bits of cloth and leather strewn about. It was - sad.
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This one comes close to the top of the saddest list...
https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...australia.html
Old 01-15-2018, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by drooman
I think that sad lump is a Euro S with an m28/12 engine...the value of which alone exceeds the asking price.

The runners look too skinny for a Euro S.
Old 01-15-2018, 02:18 PM
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This one makes me sad.

Poor thing looks beaten down to a point where it has just given up and accepts it's fate on being crushed. The cement block on the hood is the final blow.

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That car doesn't have a Porsche motor, but the infamous small block V-8!
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John Curry's (aka Driftking) Euro Stepson was the worst one I've seen. The seller's son took a golf club to it.
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Originally Posted by Imo000
The runners look too skinny for a Euro S.
This wouldn't be the first time, nor the last, that my optimism got me into trouble.
Old 01-16-2018, 05:19 AM
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Not even close to the worst I have seen. Chased down a craigslist ad for some part, I don't even recall what out in San Bernardino, not the nice part, not within miles of the nice part. All the windows covered on the house, two big dogs, and in the back yard with grass growing up all over and in it is the remains of a 85ish 928. Apparently once owned by boyfriend of the guys sister, who didn't know people don't immediately go to jail when you turn them in for selling meth. Two weeks of sledge hammer and welding torch. Set of wheels didn't look too bad, but no way was I coming back with any money on me. Not exaggerating, other than the wheels there was nothing to recover.
Old 01-16-2018, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by 928sg
John Curry's (aka Driftking) Euro Stepson was the worst one I've seen. The seller's son took a golf club to it.
Well, I guess that I would need a passenger seat and door to start the rebuild for this one.


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