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3.2 Supersport buying advice

As others have said get the car to an impact bumper specialist like Jaz Porsche, Adrian Crawford or JZM to get it checked out for rust properly. Cars that look okay on the outside have later to the new owners dismay turned out to be rust buckets needing masses spent on them to put them right. A Supersport won't be a cheap car nowadays so tread carefully. Remember you're buying a nearly 30 year old car.
 
IMI A said:
As others have said get the car to an impact bumper specialist like Jaz Porsche, Adrian Crawford or JZM to get it checked out for rust properly. Cars that look okay on the outside have later to the new owners dismay turned out to be rust buckets needing masses spent on them to put them right. A Supersport won't be a cheap car nowadays so tread carefully. Remember you're buying a nearly 30 year old car.

That is what many people forget, thirty year old cars thirty year old parts.
 
Luckily the guy is visiting the garage which is restoring his 911T so he's going to take the Supersport down with him and I'm going to pay the Indy for a pre-sales inspection.

I'm also going to look at another Supersport on Wednesday, but the guy has already confirmed that there are small rust pimples in similar places to the one I've already looked at but also has a bit or rust on the front wing join just above the indicator repeater.

Surely unless you have a complete restoration job which has been documented you are always going to be at risk from rust coming through in later years. If you did find a car like this I would guess the price would be £40K+ and not £30K. It looks like these cars have shot up in price in the last year or so.

From the history file also I've discovered that the outer sills were done on the car back in 2007. This helps doesn't it. The ends of the wing join would have been exposed and cleaned out. This could be the cause of the rust pimps as they are very close to the area where the sill would join the rear wing.

I'll let you know how I get on and what this other Supersport is like.
 
RichD1 said:
Luckily the guy is visiting the garage which is restoring his 911T so he's going to take the Supersport down with him and I'm going to pay the Indy for a pre-sales inspection.

I'm also going to look at another Supersport on Wednesday, but the guy has already confirmed that there are small rust pimples in similar places to the one I've already looked at but also has a bit or rust on the front wing join just above the indicator repeater.

Surely unless you have a complete restoration job which has been documented you are always going to be at risk from rust coming through in later years. If you did find a car like this I would guess the price would be £40K+ and not £30K. It looks like these cars have shot up in price in the last year or so.

From the history file also I've discovered that the outer sills were done on the car back in 2007. This helps doesn't it. The ends of the wing join would have been exposed and cleaned out. This could be the cause of the rust pimps as they are very close to the area where the sill would join the rear wing.

I'll let you know how I get on and what this other Supersport is like.

If you have a budget of £30k unless the garage comes back and tells you its light rust and won't cost more than a thousand quid to fix walk away at that budget. For £30k you should be able to find an early 911 from 1980s thats not been restored - this is what I would be looking for even if I have to sacrifice going for a wide body car. There's guys out there who have restored supersports and narrow body 911 properly and spent approaching six figures trying to get them right (including the purchase price of the car). Restoration is not cheap exercise and you very rarely get your money back. Better to buy a car thats never been restored in my view. Originality is what i personally look for sans rust!
 
The difficulty is trying to ascertain if the work done is:-

Cover up job to sell

Repair work.

Proper restoration process.

If it is either of the first 2 you are better off buying one that is raw and had nothing done - at least that way you are walking in 'eyes wide open' in terms of potential cost and extent of the work. If the Indy is not experienced in these cars then th inspection may not be a true reflection of what you ar eloping at.

Good luck.
 
I've now had a Porsche Indy and a specialist body panel fabricator and restorer look over the car and though there were issues they both concluded that the car was basically sound and a good buy. Engine and gearbox were pronounced sound as too the suspension and drive shafts. Fuchs recently refurbished with matching Bridgestone SO2 rubber. Kidney bowls were scrapped, poked and felt and both guys felt that with a bit of cleaning and re-sealing should be good for several years to come.

So I've bought it!! And it didn't cost me £30K, so I've got a bit of my budget left to carry out some improvements.

Should be able to pick it up tomorrow.

Once I've got it home I'll post some pics.

Richard
 
Exciting times, I don't think you'll be sleeping tonight :D


Ian
 

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