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Being nit-picky but I don't believe Porsche offered clear LEDs on 911R. Looks awkward. Black LEDs or the Xenons PDLS (black housing). For the OCD-type, don't watch the test drive on empty gas tank.
This whole thing is making me wish I kept my first track damaged 997.2 GT3- I spent the money to get it repaired properly and then wholesaled it out at a loss. Would have made a great daily driver and two daily drivers later would be money ahead!
Ouch!
Ugh! (I still won the time trial LOL!)
Pickup day after repairs- $20K later all OEM parts (bumper 8K!) frame straightener etc... Should have kept it!!
The first video states he had a buyer which they were doing the bidding together.
This came out really well and I’d have no problem driving the heck out of it for many years.
if I were to guess I’d say on top of the 165k (don’t remember exact) add another 20 maybe 30k for parts, labor and paint. Shop doesn’t make as much as a normal Fix but more importantly they added great content to channel and shows the meticulous work this shop does. Win win all around
However. I want the video on the lower front rocker repair. That is where the damage got interesting.
I bet he took a shortcut here. Pulled out and bondo or hide behind wheel liner vs Porsche repair manual require full section replacement since part of crumple zone and crash protection.
It’s a reason the car was totaled by the insurance company.
Agree, but…
Originally Posted by montoya
This whole thing is making me wish I kept my first track damaged 997.2 GT3- I spent the money to get it repaired properly and then wholesaled it out at a loss. Would have made a great daily driver and two daily drivers later would be money ahead!
Ouch!
Ugh! (I still won the time trial LOL!)
Pickup day after repairs- $20K later all OEM parts (bumper 8K!) frame straightener etc... Should have kept it!!
^ This post really resonates with me.
I'm liking the totaled 911R more and more, if only for inspiring this thread and getting me to revisit some of my thinking—and the double standard many of us apply to modern Porsches...which will of course be old Porsches one day.
Sure, the cleanest/most original Porsches (old or new) will always bring the highest price (and thus make sense for collectors/preservers), but that's a "can't/won't drive it" curse that only gets worse with age. When it comes to recent Porsche GT cars, everyone seems to value "no stories" cars—often ostracizing anything else. I'm guilty of that. But most enthusiasts look at 356s, 914s, early 911s, etc (stock or hot-rodded) and tend to judge them on whether they drive right and look right (whatever that means for each of us). And there are many old Porsches that have had more damage than the subject of this thread or your old GT3 and were fixed (often to a lesser standard due to the tools available in the day). They remain super fun and desirable today. Are any of us not happy that this 911R was saved, even if the fix took some necessary shortcuts to make things pencil out? I suspect there are plenty of rare vintage Porsches that followed a similar path way back when…which is why they were still around to be restored years later when it finally made financial sense. Hopefully, after a lot more fun miles.
Speed yellow GT3, yeah would have been perfect for DD in addition to relatively rare.
Originally Posted by montoya
This whole thing is making me wish I kept my first track damaged 997.2 GT3- I spent the money to get it repaired properly and then wholesaled it out at a loss. Would have made a great daily driver and two daily drivers later would be money ahead!
Ouch!
Ugh! (I still won the time trial LOL!)
Pickup day after repairs- $20K later all OEM parts (bumper 8K!) frame straightener etc... Should have kept it!!
Curious to hear what the car sold for but in my mind, his biggest issue will be the pool of buyers. Genuine 911R buyers won’t touch this car with a pole vault pole which leaves guys trying to overreach and buy a 911R on the cheap! I don’t see the second pool of buyers paying over $180K for this car given its history. This project is designed to generate content for his channel and whatever he sells the car for is just to recoup costs (I doubt he makes a profit).
05-22-2020, 10:56 PM
Part V
