Prices Keep Drifting Up
#7262
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-65/
This car will tell us the state of the market. This is a COMPLETE BaT ad. Take notes.
Even Arctic Silver over Black, this car could have been a record setter a few months ago. Easily $65k....
Gonna find out how much it's really worth in 3 days.
This car will tell us the state of the market. This is a COMPLETE BaT ad. Take notes.
Even Arctic Silver over Black, this car could have been a record setter a few months ago. Easily $65k....
Gonna find out how much it's really worth in 3 days.
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bdronsick (06-28-2022)
#7263
Rennlist Member
At $26k already and 4 days to go I think it will go well
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bdronsick (06-28-2022)
#7264
Drifting
#7265
Rennlist Member
The M96 market is alive and well. Keep an eye on the expensive stuff. My bet would be that it weakens considerably as the bear market continues and the economy slows. But the more affordable 996 and 997 market will keep catching a bid.
#7266
Rennlist Member
That’s a solid widebody there, should be $50K min, and will probably do considerably more
Three years ago that was a $25K car so no whiners
Three years ago that was a $25K car so no whiners
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...carrera-4s-65/
This car will tell us the state of the market. This is a COMPLETE BaT ad. Take notes.
Even Arctic Silver over Black, this car could have been a record setter a few months ago. Easily $65k....
Gonna find out how much it's really worth in 3 days.
This car will tell us the state of the market. This is a COMPLETE BaT ad. Take notes.
Even Arctic Silver over Black, this car could have been a record setter a few months ago. Easily $65k....
Gonna find out how much it's really worth in 3 days.
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pulpo (06-28-2022)
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bdronsick (06-29-2022)
#7268
#7269
Rennlist Member
Good catch I mean four years ago: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...e-collectible/
Time is flying even faster than prices are drifting!
Time is flying even faster than prices are drifting!
#7270
Rennlist Member
Thread Starter
Looking at these 2 recent sales I'm not sure what this 4s will bring:
https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/2...-carrera-4s-6/
https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/2004-porsche-c4s/
https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/2...-carrera-4s-6/
https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/2004-porsche-c4s/
#7271
Rennlist Member
I've always wanted a 996 C4S, so Im curious what that BAT listing will bring today...
#7272
Rennlist Member
Thread Starter
I thought I would cut/paste the best section of that 2017 R&T article:
"I recently read an article that said something like this: Eventually, the supply of 996es will contract as the bad ones are put in junkyards and the good ones are restored. At that point, everybody will fix the IMS problems and the prices will start rising, helped by the fact that galvanized Porsches don’t rust and most of them will have relatively low miles. Buying a 1999 911 in 2017 is just like buying a 1983 911SC in 2001. You’re at the bottom of the market.Sorry, but it ain’t necessarily so. To paraphrase a great Vice-Presidential candidate, I know the 1983 911SC. I’ve driven the 911SC. And you, Fried-Egg-Mobile, are no 911SC. To begin with, the air-cooled cars have character that no modern car has. They are relatively simple to repair. Most importantly, they are rare.
The 996 is not rare. It will never be rare. Bad examples will haunt the buy-here-pay-here lots from now until the end of time. The cost of maintenance and repair will always exceed any resulting increase in value, because you will always be competing in a resale market flush with maintenance-deferred fright-pigs with noisy wheel bearings and metal shavings in the oil pans.
The Loofa-Cult vintage-Porsche movement is nostalgia-driven, but nobody will be nostalgic about the 996-generation 911. It was an unloved interregnum between two round-headlight superstars. At best, you’ll have same kind of kitschy appeal that you’d have with a 1977 Monte Carlo—but you can get parts for a 1977 Monte Carlo for pennies on the dollar at a junkyard."
"I recently read an article that said something like this: Eventually, the supply of 996es will contract as the bad ones are put in junkyards and the good ones are restored. At that point, everybody will fix the IMS problems and the prices will start rising, helped by the fact that galvanized Porsches don’t rust and most of them will have relatively low miles. Buying a 1999 911 in 2017 is just like buying a 1983 911SC in 2001. You’re at the bottom of the market.Sorry, but it ain’t necessarily so. To paraphrase a great Vice-Presidential candidate, I know the 1983 911SC. I’ve driven the 911SC. And you, Fried-Egg-Mobile, are no 911SC. To begin with, the air-cooled cars have character that no modern car has. They are relatively simple to repair. Most importantly, they are rare.
The 996 is not rare. It will never be rare. Bad examples will haunt the buy-here-pay-here lots from now until the end of time. The cost of maintenance and repair will always exceed any resulting increase in value, because you will always be competing in a resale market flush with maintenance-deferred fright-pigs with noisy wheel bearings and metal shavings in the oil pans.
The Loofa-Cult vintage-Porsche movement is nostalgia-driven, but nobody will be nostalgic about the 996-generation 911. It was an unloved interregnum between two round-headlight superstars. At best, you’ll have same kind of kitschy appeal that you’d have with a 1977 Monte Carlo—but you can get parts for a 1977 Monte Carlo for pennies on the dollar at a junkyard."
Last edited by Optionman1; 06-29-2022 at 12:14 PM.
#7273
#7274
Racer
Looking at these 2 recent sales I'm not sure what this 4s will bring:
https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/2...-carrera-4s-6/
https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/2004-porsche-c4s/
https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/2...-carrera-4s-6/
https://www.pcarmarket.com/auction/2004-porsche-c4s/
#7275
RL Community Team
Rennlist Member
Rennlist Member
Liking a 964 over a 996, that I can understand. The 993 I simply just don't get.
TBH I've never been in a 993 either, so this is all just from a numbers/aesthetics standpoint. Maybe someone else can explain it.