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KeithV

A few questions:
Is this a Florida car (no snow/salt etc.)?
Does it have a clean Carfax/title?
Are you aware of any damage repair ?
Where can the car be viewed?

KV.

NP993

I recall an identical-looking RSA having taken a very hard hit in the RR at T1 at Summit a few months ago. Not saying it's the same car. But worth verifying.

Nathan Muir

One and the same I think and if so was a no insurance claim, non recorded major frame rack wreck. SSI your ad is deceptive if this the case. Is this the same car?

springer3

Anyone have a picture of the car after the wreck? Past a certain point, the frame can be straightened, but it will never be as stiff. Ride and handling will never be the same. There will be problems getting and keeping suspension alignment settings.

A car that took a hard hit has many over-stressed fasteners and mountings, and is therefore prone to rattles and harshness over bumps in the road. I agree it is deceptive to claim the car is excellent when in reality it has major collision history.

Rennen

This is my car that was crashed in April.

This was a beautiful car before it was wrecked. I can't attest one way or the other for the restoration work that was done. I have't seen the car in person and I'm not qualified to judge.

I can tell you that the owner of EuroPro in Rockville, MD informed me that this was one of the hardest hits he'd ever seen. He told me it was definitely repairable, but that it was going to cost me between $18K - $24K to restore it to factory condition. He was never able to complete the estimate because the engine would have needed to come out to do that. That's why I decided to part it out or sell it outright.

Here is a photo of this car after the crash.



Here is a phot of the other car after the crash.

doug751

$38,0000? OK.....

Frank 993 C4S

Wow - if it is the same car, this was quite a repair.

earlyapex

I had similar damage to my 78 SC and the shop was able to repair it to a very high level. It's too bad that they were not forthcoming in there add. Now they have a stain on their face and have lost the trust of those on this board. The price seams allot considering the repair job. I bought my car for less and there is a RSA on the GGR web site for under 40k.

race911

Looks almost spot on to my wreck sitting over in the yard here. And it also has 42K factory original miles! I've been keeping the carcass around for nearly 5 years now (since it's not in the way), and the best I see for it is pulling it back to somewhere near spec and caging the hell out of it. If anyone is truly interested in a project like that, come on over and take a look!

dave morris

I'm sure I hang out with the all the wrong people ... or something ... but I've sure seen plenty of cars damaged more.

Rennen

He wasn't telling me that based on an aesthetic, external observation, but based on things he was seeing inside the engine bay and across the lines of the car as he was pointing them out to me. Besides, he could have been blowing smoke up my ***. I don't know enough about this stuff to legitimately debate it one way or the other.

If I had known it could be restored to the level SSI has done, and I could have been assured that the car is straight and strong, I might have held onto it for a track car. Of course, I have no idea how much it would have cost me to get it back to where it is now. I might not have been willing to spend it. I was basing my decision in the information I had about how much it was going to cost to fix it and a basic assumption that the car would never be worth more than $30K after taking that kind of hit.

dave morris

Dave,
I did not intend to be second-guessing your decision. I'm sure you made the correct decision based on your circumstances. Sorry.

springer3

It is curious that they did not transfer the RSA bits to an undamaged C2 shell, which is identical to the RSA shell. If the repair cost is 24K, that would be far cheaper, and it would be a better car with no real collision history.

Accident pics show the unibody is buckled enough for the door fit to be off, and there is a crease below the quarter window. It is difficult to tell if the belly pan got buckled. Note the replacement tail light lens in the marketing pictures. They match, but are used and more weathered than the surviving lenses in the crash photo. I would think a "spare no cost/effort" repair would include new rather than weathered used lenses.

ilko

The C2 doesn't have the RSA VIN and you can't command a similar premium.