My 964 C4 coupe Full restoration/refurb
01-20-2019, 02:05 PM
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My 964 C4 coupe Full restoration/refurb
Hi all, fairly new to the forum and glad to be joining such a fine league of gentlemen.
Thought i would share my 964 experience with you all! Ok so over the last year i have bought a 1991 964 c4 coupe in midnight blue (manual) with sunroof, elec seats, AC, power steering, and went ahead with restoring it. The car was originally in good condition with no dents or accident history, but paintwork definitly needed to be brought back to life. Im not the most knowledgable porsche guy and this was my 1st project.
I bought the car with 130k miles and 2 previous owners. Apart from needing an engine rebuild most mechanical parts were fine, (exhaust, gearbox, etc) I will write below what ive had done since then.
10k full engine rebuild
New clutch
Full glass out bare metal respray in midnight blue (original colour)
full releather and carpeting of interior
dashboard and trims fully leather painted and restored
all aesthetics done e.g. alloy refurb, new badges, mirrors, wipers, replacing door/sunroof trims, replace whole rear light strip and just other little bits.
The car is running and starting beautifully now. It is still in the garage getting final touches done. Things like new steering wheel, final polish. Brake/clutch bleeding.
I would love to enjoy it but originally done this as a buy/sell project. Now not so sure!
would really appreciate what you guys think of my situation? Around how much do you think i could get for the car? Do i hold onto it as a longer term investment? Have i gone the right way about restoration? Anything else needs doing?
thank you all for reading and would appreciate ANY feedback from you great people!
Thought i would share my 964 experience with you all! Ok so over the last year i have bought a 1991 964 c4 coupe in midnight blue (manual) with sunroof, elec seats, AC, power steering, and went ahead with restoring it. The car was originally in good condition with no dents or accident history, but paintwork definitly needed to be brought back to life. Im not the most knowledgable porsche guy and this was my 1st project.
I bought the car with 130k miles and 2 previous owners. Apart from needing an engine rebuild most mechanical parts were fine, (exhaust, gearbox, etc) I will write below what ive had done since then.
10k full engine rebuild
New clutch
Full glass out bare metal respray in midnight blue (original colour)
full releather and carpeting of interior
dashboard and trims fully leather painted and restored
all aesthetics done e.g. alloy refurb, new badges, mirrors, wipers, replacing door/sunroof trims, replace whole rear light strip and just other little bits.
The car is running and starting beautifully now. It is still in the garage getting final touches done. Things like new steering wheel, final polish. Brake/clutch bleeding.
I would love to enjoy it but originally done this as a buy/sell project. Now not so sure!
would really appreciate what you guys think of my situation? Around how much do you think i could get for the car? Do i hold onto it as a longer term investment? Have i gone the right way about restoration? Anything else needs doing?
thank you all for reading and would appreciate ANY feedback from you great people!
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01-20-2019, 04:54 PM
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Keep it, drive it, then you won’t be able to sell it!
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01-21-2019, 07:07 AM
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Unless you bought the car for peanuts and/or had work done at mates rates, given the current climate, I think you'll be very lucky to break even (I'm making some general assumptions here). I'd imagine you're looking at sub £50k - probably around £45k at a guess imo. Havre you had a trade bids on it ?
01-21-2019, 02:21 PM
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Unless you bought the car for peanuts and/or had work done at mates rates, given the current climate, I think you'll be very lucky to break even (I'm making some general assumptions here). I'd imagine you're looking at sub £50k - probably around £45k at a guess imo. Havre you had a trade bids on it ?