I have owned several Porsches, and have followed the market pretty close on the aire cooled cars for a while now. I think the 993tt is high now and has been since Porsche decided to make the 996tt appeal to the mass public. I wouldn't think the 993tt is a collector car, just a great car. To collect, I would think you would want cars that were made in limited production. Porsche makes that kind of hard since there are US cars and ROW cars. If you wanted to collect cars you can drive here in the US, but not limited to the track, you woudl want to include:

1994 3.6 Turbo S
1992 US Carrera Cup
1992 America Roadster
1973 Carerra RS


If you really wanted to get creative, and import;

993 RS
964 RS
993 GT2 street version
1992 964 Turbo "S"
968 RS
924 Carerra GTS

I don't think I would include the RS America, it wasn't that limited or that different than the C-2.

These are just a few that I would think would continue to go up in price.

 

just curious what you guys (gals) do as it relates to insurance? i use haggarty for 4 of the cars, but its expensive. they dont break it out individually, but all 4 are $8k total for the year. about 490k in total declared valuation.
basic guideline is 5k miles max per year, else they'll cancel youout.

is there a better program, insurance company for multiple cars? what about if you just plan to title a car, not register or drive on the open road? i have two i might do that with, despite the agony of not driving them. i just cant stomach taking a sub-1kmile "s' on the road and getting a bad nick because some rock got kicked up by some car 1/3 mile down the road. lots of ways to keep them good besides just driving the open road. kind of goofy, but i have a few so atelast the 2 nicests i'd like to keep that way.

what are you guys doing for insurance? ideas?

 

Usually insurance companies give their best deal if you "bundle" it with your other coverages(home, life, umbrella, etc). For a car not driven, simple comprehensive should be cheap and you can skip liability, collision, uninsured motorist, towing and medical. With a fleet of cars and probably some substantial real estate and other coverages, you should be able to shop some real competative bids from a good independent agent.

 

i use state farm for all 14 of my cars.

 

+1, for 17 cars. Very competitve and user friendly.

 

for those with multiple cars, are you registering/titling all of them? doing so in your personal names, or are you forming an LLC or other entity and doing it through the entity? i've been thinking of using an LLC i maintain to "run" this through....not only for insulation from liability but as i think owning 17 cars or 5 would be a 'business'.
going another step further, has anyone thought about, or infact applied for/received a used car dealer license? any real value to that? more hastle than worth?

and then lastly, i bot a 'celebrity' 993turbo s . the actual Pink slip title has the celebrities name. as a non-dealer, NJ requires i register within 10days. i could avoid doing that for a tad, but ultimately need to register, title it so i can take it out very blue moon and put on a few miles to keep it running nice. but i dont want to surrender title. any thoughts there? ihave some but want to hear others.

anyway, hope all is good. thx for the good input.

 

Perhaps if you have a bill of sale and a xerox copy of the title, your explanation that you somehow "lost" the original title (or the dog ate it?) may not prove too much of a hassle. If it is, you could always "find" the title and give it up. For your purposes, however, a good quality color copy of the original title may be sufficient.