Originally Posted by switchcars

That is an understatement! That's the same one that was at Wright Hyundai for ages (3 years?) and is essentially a purpose-built track car. They wholesaled it at Manheim for more than it was listed for retail - signs of the times.

It was maintained at Sewickley with an open checkbook, but most of the 10k miles are on track.

Originally Posted by bweSteve

Hey Lance, I think you were the guy I spoke with (when I was standing on the other side of the other owners RS), and I mentioned MrAdair's car. The owner then said he then knew of all 5 of your cars. It was nice speaking with you. The swap was a beautiful day (I ended up taking 2nd place in the 997/996 class for People's Choice w/ my Aqua). The trophies were the ones from the cancelled 2020 event last year, Lol.
It was interesting to me that there was not even one single other Aqua or Cobalt at the entire event. Plenty of Sapphire's though.

The For Sale corral did not have any 997's either.

Originally Posted by lawrence1

Good info. I have some of that info on the car as well. From my end, I am purely speculating because I haven't seen the car in person so my posts should be taken with a grain of salt. Not sure if you have touched the car or not, so you may be right and the car could be minty, although I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's far from it, in reality. In life, and in efficient markets such as the GT3 market, there is typically always a reason something doesn't transact within a reasonable amount of time, when given maximum exposure. I think overall, the car was priced appropriately for what it was, assuming the drivetrain was in good shape.

That said, I don't subscribe to the notion that 10k track miles is no big deal because it was maintained. 10k track miles is a ton of track miles, maintained or not. I see that folks here are also not worried about buying press cars, because those are also maintained. Any other manufacturer, people run from press cars and driving program/school cars, for good reason. They are beat to ****, day in and day out. To each his own but IMO, there is no free lunch, whether it's a GT3 or anything else, wear and tear goes up exponentially when you operate a car in a road course/track environment, mechanically and cosmetically. Yes, I know ... Gt3S aRe bUlLetPrOFF, NoThinG tO WoRrY AbOUt yO!!!1

It's also got some mods that would only appeal to a certain buyer, yet for these cars, we know those buyers are out there, but none of them bought it. What gives? It would've been an absolute bargain for someone looking for a track prepped GT3, and yet no takers in 3 years. I suspect there is likely a reason this car was for sale for three years, advertised nationwide on all the usual car websites, and ended up getting wholesaled. I guarantee you that didn't happen by accident or because it wasn't priced appropriately, OR because they're not good at selling cars. These guys own multiple franchise dealerships, one of them being Lotus of Pittsburgh. I find it hard to fathom that none of their Lotus clientele would've seen it as a good value proposition in the three years it's been for sale. Probably more to this story than meets the eye. I think whoever considers this car would be well served to get leak down and compression tests done on the car to properly assess the condition of the engine. It may be like new, or it may be worn out, no way to really know without doing some proper due diligence. Doug at Switchcars obviously passed on it, even though it's a unique color, low mileage, and in his neck of the woods. Why?

The airbag issue is probably not as simple as a reset, because this car has obviously been at the Porsche dealer multiple times so they could've easily reset it if it was that simple. There is no fuse for the airbags but it's probably nothing insanely complicated to remediate. This wouldn't worry me too much, personally. Looking forward to seeing where it ends up. I'm sure they're going to price it high.

Originally Posted by lawrence1

Quoting my prior post on this car. WP0AC2A96AS783495

Price has now been added ... this baby could be all yours for a cool $142,991. LOL They are saying it's still in transit ... I know it doesn't take 2 weeks to move a car from PA to Chicago so I wonder what's going on.

Originally Posted by LμL

I'm sure they are restoring as much as they need to original to justify the 142k ask. Im guessing it turns up with regular CL wheels and OEM suspension with FAL.

Originally Posted by switchcars

That is an understatement! That's the same one that was at Wright Hyundai for ages (3 years?) and is essentially a purpose-built track car. They wholesaled it at Manheim for more than it was listed for retail - signs of the times.

It was maintained at Sewickley with an open checkbook, but most of the 10k miles are on track.

Originally Posted by LμL

I'm sure they are restoring as much as they need to original to justify the 142k ask. Im guessing it turns up with regular CL wheels and OEM suspension with FAL.

Originally Posted by jreifler

Y'all watching this dumpster fire? https://rennlist.com/forums/market/1249381/page3