Big Dilema...........
03-30-2010, 11:22 AM
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If the $25k-ish dollars you are hearing don't mean that much financially, keep it and don't worry about it! Just enjoy it on the dry days if you can't enjoy it in the wet.
03-30-2010, 02:42 PM
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Guess I'm one of these "Idiots" as well...
Don't really understand why somebody would make such a statement, but the "Idiots" are clearly not the ones washing their cars!
03-30-2010, 02:45 PM
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Well the door was totally damaged and so was the interior panel.
When you add the parts up buying them new from porsche the parts alone were probably 10K+ (just a guess)
When you add the parts up buying them new from porsche the parts alone were probably 10K+ (just a guess)
03-30-2010, 03:37 PM
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If I owned a 993 with a salvage title I would be driving the pants off it - night, day and 4 seasons of the year! If it's worth mid 20's as others have suggested, you would be hard pressed to find a replacement that's as tough, reliable and fun to drive.
GL regardless of your decision.
GL regardless of your decision.
03-30-2010, 03:51 PM
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There are benefits to Alabama - you may have heard of Count Rossi's 917 being street legal here:
The Road Cars
The 917 may not be the first word in practicality, but at least two examples were converted into road cars. The first was converted for Count Gregorio Rossi di Montelera, a close customer of the Porsche company and also major investor and sponsor of the Porsche-Martini racing team which dominated numerous fields of motorsport in the Seventies and Eighties. The brief presented by Rossi was a 917K as close to the racing car as possible, with only minor modifications, such as a silencer and a small amount of road-rash protection for air vents, which made the job ever harder for the Porsche Motorsport Department. The car selected for conversion was chassis 917.030, which was built in January 1971 but only raced once, by Helmuth Marko and Gerard Larrousse, in Martini-Porsche colours. It was the designated development car for anti-lock braking systems, and spent most of its days pounding the Weissach test track, until being mothballed until being called into service as the road car. Rossi ordered that the car be painted silver, as Germany's national racing colour is silver. The only place where the barely-modified 917K reached roadworthiness conditions was Alabama, where it was registered on Alabama plate 61-27737.
I agree with the ones above who have said drive the hell out of it.
Don't have to worry about depreciation or keeping it perfect or anything!
03-30-2010, 04:49 PM
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Unless the OP is just trying to flip a repaired insurance purchase, I, too, would just drive the crap out of it! Plenty of life still in it!!
03-30-2010, 05:32 PM
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Glad to hear you're probably keeping it now. I've gone back and forth myself on this issue. One dry summer day as you're driving that 993 on an exit ramp or blasting up a windy road you'll be super glad you kept it. You might even yell out in joy as your twisting and turning down the coast, ripping through the gears.
03-30-2010, 05:50 PM
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>In August and September of 2005, Precision Engine editor Mike Mavrigian was contracted by Porsche Cars North America for technical involvement in a “speed record run” involving their high-dollar Carrera GT cars at the Talladega Superspeedway. The official event took place September 1, 2005 at the Talladega, Alabama track, located about 50 miles east of Birmingham<
>The goal of the event was to set a number of specific speed records with the GT, which serves as a repeat of history for Porsche fans (30 years ago, Mark Donohue set a track record at Talladega with a 1,000-HP Porsche 917/30 race car at 221 MPH). <
>Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) has announced it will relocate the Porsche Driving Experience (PDE) to Birmingham's new, multi-million dollar Barber Motorsports Park.<
I'm just sayin'......
