Bill Ball

That actually worries more than a good deal. Is there any way we can put some diagnostic tools on it?

Rob Edwards

Spanner standing by, if it's a '91 and not an '81........

Giovanni

Probably an automatic GT.

IcemanG17

A spanner would be very telling!!!! Still no word....probably not until tomorrow... As soon as I know something I will PM with details!

pscottjr

Very Interesting . . . . . . .

IcemanG17

So much for that idea......the "dealer" bought it for $7500....it turned out to be a 1990GT....so if anyone sees a white over blue 1990 GT for sale in the LA area (Santa Monica) short term future....you know where it came from......my friend never even had a chance to buy it........:>(

RyanPerrella

i was just going to say the thought of a white with blue 81 seems rare to me.

Oh well

Charley B

What kind of dealer I wonder. It's pretty unusual for a dealer to buy a car that obviously needs some work.

heinrich

So ... where do you live, that used cars on dealers' lots need no work?

docmirror

Snooze = Loose. I bought mine for $6000 1.5 hours after the ad hit the internet.

Charley B

Where I live, Dealers buy cars they can wash and put on the lot for you to worry about repairs once you get it home. They generally don't buy cars that need to spend a lot of time with a mechanic before it can go on the lot.

Ispeed

My S4 was a trade in at a jeep dealer, he got $4500 for it...if only I was there then!!

JEC_31

Around here, the dealers pay much more attention to detail.

They only buy cars they can wash, fill the leaky radiator with oatmeal, coat-hanger-wire the muffler back up, drunkenly weld on an un-crashed back/front half of the unibody, steam-clean the hurricane-flooded carpets, have Crackhead Paint Shoppe spritz it with their best $5 paint, and THEN put it on the lot for you.

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Sorry you missed the GT, Brian. It made for an exciting thread.

Giovanni

So it went for $7500? See above quote


It is amazing people mentioning PPI when they ran into too good to be deals. I mean, you take money and you get a car/title in return. That of course, if the deal is too good to be true which it was in this case.

IcemanG17

I found out a bit more about the car today...it was a 1990GT...& I never really had a shot at it....(shocker)....the guy that had is a pure wholesaler......likes to flip cars ASAP...so this local Porsche Dealer (or so I heard) bought it.....with no lights, a TB warning on & a rough running engine + 158k miles.....doesn't sound so good to me!