The Collecting Cars Porsche thread…

The Collecting Cars Porsche thread…

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thegreenhell

15,502 posts

220 months

Thursday 14th March
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donutskidmark said:
https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1989-porsche-9...


Very nice 964 for auction, as previewed by Chris Harris in the video above.
Looks great with square wing mirrors and D90 wheels.
Only shame is it’s a C4 and not a C2, and Grand Prix white with black interior would be
ideal spec imho…..but still, this looks good and has King Hussain of Jordan provenance.
No sale at £113k

ChrisW.

6,339 posts

256 months

Thursday 14th March
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I'm just not sure how well such cars may have been looked after ... but low miles and ??

GT3Manthey

4,547 posts

50 months

Thursday 14th March
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thegreenhell said:
No sale at £113k
Personally I find that quite astounding but wadda I know !

freedman

5,446 posts

208 months

Thursday 14th March
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thegreenhell said:
No sale at £113k
No sale?

Owner must have some bonkers expectations then, just as a car it’s not worth half of that

Armitage.Shanks

2,285 posts

86 months

Thursday 14th March
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freedman said:
thegreenhell said:
No sale at £113k
No sale?

Owner must have some bonkers expectations then, just as a car it’s not worth half of that
I agree, plain greedy. He'd have better luck contacting King Hussein and asking him if he wants to buy it.

It reminds me of the 'representative' of the Sultan of Brunei seeing Rodney Trotter's advert in the Peckham Echo and reaching out to him on how to start a three-wheel van.

GT3Manthey

4,547 posts

50 months

Friday 15th March
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Armitage.Shanks said:
I agree, plain greedy. He'd have better luck contacting King Hussein and asking him if he wants to buy it.

It reminds me of the 'representative' of the Sultan of Brunei seeing Rodney Trotter's advert in the Peckham Echo and reaching out to him on how to start a three-wheel van.
Lots of chat of Shill bidding on another channel & I can see why.

Id doesn't even look particularly nice

paulguitar

23,668 posts

114 months

Friday 15th March
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Armitage.Shanks said:
reaching out to him

Asking him

ChrisW.

6,339 posts

256 months

Friday 15th March
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GT3Manthey said:
Armitage.Shanks said:
I agree, plain greedy. He'd have better luck contacting King Hussein and asking him if he wants to buy it.

It reminds me of the 'representative' of the Sultan of Brunei seeing Rodney Trotter's advert in the Peckham Echo and reaching out to him on how to start a three-wheel van.
Lots of chat of Shill bidding on another channel & I can see why.

Id doesn't even look particularly nice
It's certainly an outlier on price, so surprising that it hasn't sold at that ... unless ??

RATATTAK

11,220 posts

190 months

Friday 15th March
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paulguitar said:
Armitage.Shanks said:
reaching out to him

Asking him
Here here wink

stuckmojo

2,985 posts

189 months

Friday 15th March
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freedman said:
No sale?

Owner must have some bonkers expectations then, just as a car it’s not worth half of that
Agreed, and I get that the older the cars and rarer, the more irrational the process becomes, but this? What would you do with it after you paid £120k and it's not that nice to drive, too new, not that great to look at, a 4 ( so not the purest)?

Weird.


Slippydiff

14,872 posts

224 months

Friday 15th March
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stuckmojo said:
Agreed, and I get that the older the cars and rarer, the more irrational the process becomes, but this? What would you do with it after you paid £120k and it's not that nice to drive, too new, not that great to look at, a 4 ( so not the purest)?

Weird.
Send it to Singer ...



Nurburgsingh

5,125 posts

239 months

Friday 15th March
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I've never got the "originally owned by this King or that Prince.." label and how its supposed to somehow raise the value of a car.

And this one was "originally" owned by the king, its since had 6 other sweaty arses in the driver seat so no matter how big a fan of the King of Jordan you are you're not going to find any trace of him in the car or on the V5. I bet if you asked him you'd discover that he never drove it and prob doesn't even remember having it.

So it's nothing more than the wrong version 964 with the wrong wheels in the wrong colour combo.




Armitage.Shanks

2,285 posts

86 months

Friday 15th March
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Slippydiff said:
stuckmojo said:
Agreed, and I get that the older the cars and rarer, the more irrational the process becomes, but this? What would you do with it after you paid £120k and it's not that nice to drive, too new, not that great to look at, a 4 ( so not the purest)?

Weird.
Send it to Singer ...
Too expensive. They buy knackered ones given the amount of work involved.

Slippydiff

14,872 posts

224 months

Friday 15th March
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Armitage.Shanks said:
Too expensive. They buy knackered ones given the amount of work involved.
They've all gone, now they're into the next level stuff, and let's face it, for someone the cachet of having a Singer that was based on a car formerly owned by King Hussain of Jordan, will be just too tempting.
Think of the added bragging rights at Cars 'n Coffee events !! smile

thegreenhell

15,502 posts

220 months

Friday 15th March
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Is there a point where Singer would draw the line and refuse, for example if someone with more money than sense asked them to Singer-ise a 964 RS? Or are they just another cynical corporation now, willing to take a couple of million of anyone's dollars for anything?

Cleanhands

64 posts

33 months

Friday 15th March
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Don't know how true it is, but Derek Tam-Scott, from The Carmudgeon Show, did say that someone asked Singer to do an RS and they really didn't want to.

Not sure if they did it.

Slippydiff

14,872 posts

224 months

Friday 15th March
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Rob Dickinson said early on that he wouldn’t convert any 964’s that had historical significance, which I took to mean RS, 3.6 Turbos etc.
Whether that’s still the case is different matter altogether …

Nurburgsingh

5,125 posts

239 months

Friday 15th March
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Slippydiff said:
Armitage.Shanks said:
Too expensive. They buy knackered ones given the amount of work involved.
They've all gone, now they're into the next level stuff, and let's face it, for someone the cachet of having a Singer that was based on a car formerly owned by King Hussain of Jordan, will be just too tempting.
Think of the added bragging rights at Cars 'n Coffee events !! smile
If anyone knows that "someone" send him my way I've got an outfit fit for an Emperor that I can let him have cheap... ish

PRO 5T

3,995 posts

26 months

Friday 15th March
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Slippydiff said:
Rob Dickinson said early on that he wouldn’t convert any 964’s that had historical significance, which I took to mean RS, 3.6 Turbos etc.
Whether that’s still the case is different matter altogether …
Interesting, I imagined the Turbo Singer abomination thing would be based on a Turbo but I guess why would you?

GT3cs

1,201 posts

242 months

Friday 15th March
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PRO 5T said:
Interesting, I imagined the Turbo Singer abomination thing would be based on a Turbo but I guess why would you?
I imagine 3.3 turbos rather than 3.6 turbos .