Optionman1

No affiliation

https://cnj.craigslist.org/cto/d/pea...050506200.html

bought as a project....then discovered bore scoring.....

Jengah

It's a 997, but there may be potential here depending on the engine health: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto...050868464.html

motoo344

That looks like a train wreck.

mrdeezy

Looks like a shipwreck that was pulled from the bottom of the ocean

tlippold

Wtf

bweSteve

Subscribed.

Side bar Ques: Probability of success? .. Friend wants to find/buy a 996 coupe, MT, in a bright color (white good too), under 80k miles, IMS, RMS, well maintained,.. for around the $25k mark?

even though the title of this thread is for CL ads,... I'm guessing you guys post Opps from other marketplaces too

Bash Hat

That’s a good budget Steve. Very doable.

billh1963

very doable...should have no problem with that budget

parris

Weird... the same car... in one place much more wrecked than in the other...

Bash Hat

Gotta be a different car, just a typo with the VIN. One has a deployed airbag, other doesn’t.

parris

It is the same car. If you look the sticker in the door, both vin are the same
It looks like somebody took some care of it, to make it less wrecked that it really is (if you look carefully, you can notice that the airbag cover is also open in the "second" car). Also, the emergency brake handle was changed...

Or... it had two different crashes... but they show...exactly the same number of miles

It is really weird.

moburki

Cheap cab:
https://cars.ksl.com/listing/6030893?ad_cid=7
Even cheaper (makes me wonder):
https://cars.ksl.com/listing/6147027?ad_cid=12

GarrettSR5

Probably someone that got in over their head and shipped it back to auction...just a little less rekt

Ahmet

I've tried to buy that car a few times but have been unable to speak to anybody about it. It is significantly wrecked indeed, and it "feels" like something shady is going on as noted by others. The passenger air bag cover seems to have been messed with as well, and front tub is shifted to the side. In some pictures, you can see underbody damage to the opposite rear corner also. Anyway, with clean history/lower mileage GT2s seemingly selling in the $70s, that car doesn't make a whole lot of sense at $45k+.

TechSavvySam

It's pretty common to see a wreck show up a few times for sale at a copart or other place. Either someone flipping to try to make a few bucks by making it "look less bad" than it did when they bought it or, as GarrettSR5 says, someone bought it and realized it was more wrecked than they thought and decided to make it someone else's problem.

If you watch Samcrac on youtube, he mentions this stuff in a few different videos when he is advertising one of the services he uses that lets you put in the VIN and find the auction history of the car.