Originally Posted by superquant

I believe they are Singer's own design in carbon

Originally Posted by tcsracing1

A restored 73RS is $1,000,000.00 plus?

Originally Posted by Carrera GT

The "both" answer is the usual choice of investors in any speculative market --you could see it optimistically as participating in the average of both gains, or you could be skeptical and argue that one or both segments will eventually experience an abrupt "correction" or reversion to some more realistic rate of price change. This latter observation is statistically far more likely, while the former is the kind of buoyant exuberance that can continue on for so long (as has been the case for the last three years or so in the stock market) that it's no longer a matter of if, but when, so the job becomes one of timing the inevitable. As they say, prices tend to go up the stairs and come down the elevator (sometimes the vacant elevator shaft.) In the Porsche market, there's no historically significant precedent, nor is there any way of determining the "whys and wherefores" leading to the seemingly inexhaustible demand for a thing that is undefined other than to be in short supply. Which brings me to the observation that when speculators, especially the novices, come into a market en masse, they tend to be called "weak hands" and will likely fold early and often. This weakness will return to the market supply the least appealing cars at the highest prices -- this in turn sours the experience for would-be "greater fools" on two counts: they're getting mediocre cars; and, they're losing value with reports of each successive sale. It can be hard to see while it's happening, but once the time sample becomes long enough, the inflection downwards becomes evident. Will that have been 2014? 2016? That would raise the topic of timing, which is more religion than science. Will this kind of speculator market become cyclical, driven by economics and geared to some other supply-and-demand factor, or will it be a statistical model resembling some other well-documented form of price discovery or market manipulation.
As with the 993 market starting with the turbo s and spreading to almost any and all 993's, and the Carrera GT market, I fear the prime mover is market manipulation. Long term speculators involved in the market as brokers and dealers setting low expectations for private sellers and setting dishonestly high prices to retail or auction buyer with an open-ended time frame to wait for demand at those higher prices. I expect we'll see wider and wider gaps between reported sales and actual, real bids on cars. Sure, we'll see a perfect '73 RS go for a million due to provenance, some special connection to the Porsche family, some unique event in history, and that will buoy some future sales, but then the average millionaire with his '73 RS will try to get $400K and find even that seemingly modest number will not find union of willing buyer and willing seller.
Or so it seems to me.

Originally Posted by Tacet-Conundrum

What about a One Owner 73RS with just 1500 miles?

Originally Posted by tcsracing1

Left nut, first born and $2 million u.s should get you into it.

Originally Posted by tcsracing1

Left nut, first born and $2 million u.s should get you into it.

Originally Posted by Tacet-Conundrum

Too bad its not like the days when you could buy an old Ferrari in the early 70s for $17K and $2K for the fifth wheel hauler they would use to take the car to the track events and races.

Originally Posted by Nugget

I dunno, adjusting for inflation $17k in 1975 works out to $75k today. This car is comfortably within that price range. A nice no-stories car from a reputable seller. You might have some trouble finding a fifth wheel hauler for $8800, though.

Originally Posted by jdcohenmd

Superquant your car looks amazing, congrats. I just put my deposit down to secure a SVD build. Start date 12/15, anticipate 10 months for completion. Now the long 2 year wait begins.