When Northway last sold it a couple of years ago it was advertised around £40k (definitely forty-something) and wasn't there long. That must have been at least two years ago.
I looked at it with the owner before it went to Northway – unlucky guy had got a massive driving ban having lost his temper in a moment of road rage and wanted to sell it. The car would of sat there for years otherwise. I think it was high thirties? However, wide body 993s have increased a lot in the last two years.
My recollection is the car was repaired by a doctor in Germany some years back and used it in Germany despite it being a UK car. It has a full service history, the service book is still with it and a huge file of receipts – yet sadly no repair receipts. It then passed to the person I met who had spent money on things with the intention to keep it.
The paint at the front was a bit mismatched in places – a fraction of a shade out, there were no pictures of the car before the damage and as seems to always be the story with these things, the person selling seems to know nothing which was probably what ultimately made me wait for another car as it was hard to know exactly what I was looking at.
It then reappeared last year at Hill Moren for £56k and was sitting there a while unsold.
That blue 993 C2S is most likely the better option, but it is another £12k more. Isn't the accepted Cat-D equation minus 20%?
Last year their was a low mileage blue 993 C2S for sale for mid-forties (was advertised on here I think?). Again, owner had no knowledge of what had happened to the car ("think it was just a front wing..."), no photos of damage or receipts for repair, and no full service history. When I HPI checked the car it had been registered as a Cat-C, and then some years later again in a separate claim as a Cat-D! When I questioned it, apparently the Cat-C was stolen recovered and no damage which raised an eyebrow.
http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=113230&sid=5bd7ac3f8f77fdf5314cb1d820a3e177
With these cars now between £60-100k, £46k almost sounds right for a damaged repaired car as long as it checks out.