Jerry Sinefel'ds 993 Turbo S for sale?!?!
03-31-2006 | 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Tom Larkins
That thing should have been at Barrett-Jackson a few months ago, those drunks will bid on anything.
03-31-2006 | 02:13 PM
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Let me give you a Sloan example.
A few years back there was an estate sale here in town where a pretty nice collection of Porsche's were for sale. I bought a 94 turbo S. Sloan bought a Euro 996 GT3 the GT3 that wasn't federalized before the next one was built for North America. This particular GT3 was sent to NA without an engine and then an engine was installed after it got to Florida. This GT3 sloan bought at the estate sale had significant body damage to the right front fender and passenger side door when the decedents girlfriend allowed the gate to close on the car when entering the grounds of the decedent's estate.
Subsequently as about 6 months passed a friend of mine from the midwest called me to tell me he was about to buy a Euro GT3 from Sloan. I verifed that it was the same one Sloan purchased at the estate sale and let my friend know he should have the car looked at by a body man to evaluate the quality of the body work.
Sloan denied that any body work had EVER been done to the car in both written and telephonic communications with my friend. All Sloan would admit to was that the door jams had been touched up due to the seatbelts hitting them. Finally after many repeated denials my friend told Sloan that I and many others had seen the previous body damage and it was quite extensive. Sloan then made a tacit admission that a small amount of work had to be done to the fender.
The fact is the damage to the fender was pretty bad so either there was a ton of filler used to repair the dents or hopefully the fender was replaced. But either way Sloan refused to disclose the body damage until confronted with the fact that I and others had actually seen the previous body damage. We even had to go so far as to verify the car left the estate with the car still damaged and checked with the executor of the estate that sold the car to establish that he nor anyone else repaired the car prior to Sloan taking delivery before Sloan would finally admit to doing body work on the car.
You can draw your own conclusions. But if you need more examples research this site for other posts some of Sloans former customers have posted.
A few years back there was an estate sale here in town where a pretty nice collection of Porsche's were for sale. I bought a 94 turbo S. Sloan bought a Euro 996 GT3 the GT3 that wasn't federalized before the next one was built for North America. This particular GT3 was sent to NA without an engine and then an engine was installed after it got to Florida. This GT3 sloan bought at the estate sale had significant body damage to the right front fender and passenger side door when the decedents girlfriend allowed the gate to close on the car when entering the grounds of the decedent's estate.
Subsequently as about 6 months passed a friend of mine from the midwest called me to tell me he was about to buy a Euro GT3 from Sloan. I verifed that it was the same one Sloan purchased at the estate sale and let my friend know he should have the car looked at by a body man to evaluate the quality of the body work.
Sloan denied that any body work had EVER been done to the car in both written and telephonic communications with my friend. All Sloan would admit to was that the door jams had been touched up due to the seatbelts hitting them. Finally after many repeated denials my friend told Sloan that I and many others had seen the previous body damage and it was quite extensive. Sloan then made a tacit admission that a small amount of work had to be done to the fender.
The fact is the damage to the fender was pretty bad so either there was a ton of filler used to repair the dents or hopefully the fender was replaced. But either way Sloan refused to disclose the body damage until confronted with the fact that I and others had actually seen the previous body damage. We even had to go so far as to verify the car left the estate with the car still damaged and checked with the executor of the estate that sold the car to establish that he nor anyone else repaired the car prior to Sloan taking delivery before Sloan would finally admit to doing body work on the car.
You can draw your own conclusions. But if you need more examples research this site for other posts some of Sloans former customers have posted.
