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Yes, I have seen it many times. Nice car, has been for sale for well over a year. I live local, although with COVID19, haven't been leaving the house much so wouldn't be able to get up there for a bit.
I would recommend paint metering that car. When I was looking it over, I was unable to tell if one of the front quarter panel edges felt rough or not to me. It may have been fine and I could have been incorrect, but just a heads up as someone that looked it over pretty closely.
This will likely end up RNM, given the fact this car is on Autotrader.ca for $230k, along with a 1998 C2S for $180k CAD (in other words, seller is living in a fantasy world).
Originally Posted by nochain19
my thought as well. Seems like pcarmarket doesn’t scrutinize reserves as much as BAT - so seems like 90% of cars on pcarmarket just go to their “deal tank” and never actually sell
I guess my opinion comes from the fact that I would never buy any car on auction. never ever. I gotta see & drive it with my bare self first. I don't even have accounts on BaT or pcar. Thus my approach to all these auctions is that I would love for the auction to cease, with very few bidders, and have the car go to deal tank & sit there for weeks,... and then, ... only then (if I was interested in the car), I would make contact. More than likely it would still be for sale. By then either the seller has come to his/her senses, and is willing to sell at a market realistic or lower price.
.... But I will admit, that would be my approach for regular P cars,.... I realize the GT market doesn't work that way. heck, my car was for sale at a dealership for all of zero business hours & I had to jump on it before anyone else could (but primarily because it was exactly the spec I had been searching 4, for almost 1.5 years. Paid market price. But got what I wanted & driving the pi$$ out of it. Anyway, you guys are right. that auction market is not prime time,.... but then again I've always liked off broadway. I'm not a type A guy.
.... & now on a more positive note: .... given Doug was attacked above (re: "RS Expert",....
& he seems to visit this thread regularly...
Congrats to Doug on his mention within the latest Consumer Reports (just landed in my mail,... & disinfected before reading)...
If there is a person that you should trust buying a car from, specifically a GT car from, it is Switchcars and their team. He has been able to explain the DME report for many people, that Youtube video should have way more views than it does, everyone should understand how to read one. Having data files on his cars is another advantage.
I read this thread every day strictly for its entertainment value since I already have the GT3 that I will probably never sell until I am too old to drive it safely.
And like Steve, there is no way in hell that I would buy any high-dollar car without inspecting and driving it myself. Surely a $100K+ vehicle is certainly worth a plane ticket to verify it's quality!
We get a couple of complaints on rudeness. I come take a look and it's more like a multi post dust up. Instead of taking a bunch of time to go wholesale deleting post, what say we all just play nice. Great cars, great people. I'm leaving this one alone.....for now.
Back on topic. Random fact, that I actually learned on Rennlist from somebody who knows more about colors than anyone. "Orange", the most popular color on the 07/08 GT3 RS and offered on the 2008 Cayman S Sport, (and referred to as "RS Orange" sometimes when ordered on PTS cars) was discontinued after 2010 as a PTS color because it didn't pass Porsche's quality tests. It was replaced in 2011 with Pastel Orange which is very, very similar.
There is only one Pastel Orange PTS 997.2 GT3, and there are....uh oh.....going off memory....a lot more RS Orange cars.....and it was sold on Bring a Trailer last year. It was one of the worst presentations of a car ever, with nascar-style brand stickers on the car, no overrev report, and a driving video that tanked the seller's own auction. Somebody took a gamble and either got one heck of a deal or they had to replace the gearbox. Always a gamble buying online, but that one was a gamble worth the risk in my opinion!
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There is only one Pastel Orange PTS 997.2 GT3, and there are....uh oh.....going off memory....a lot more RS Orange cars.....and it was sold on Bring a Trailer last year. It was one of the worst presentations of a car ever, with nascar-style brand stickers on the car, no overrev report, and a driving video that tanked the seller's own auction. Somebody took a gamble and either got one heck of a deal or they had to replace the gearbox. Always a gamble buying online, but that one was a gamble worth the risk in my opinion!
Member here bought that one I believe, posted earlier. I hope it was a great buy and panned out to be safe.
04-05-2020, 01:28 PM
