The Collecting Cars Porsche thread…

[birdcage]

Only about 50% of their stuff seems to be selling at the mo. The fear of Omicron can't help. No one likes uncertainty!

[Slippydiff]

birdcage said:

Only about 50% of their stuff seems to be selling at the mo. The fear of Omicron can't help. No one likes uncertainty!

This ^
And just for the sake of clarity, there's absolutely no chance it has anything to do with the fact we're in the depths of Winter nor that Christmas is just over a week away. No siree.

[birdcage]

Slippydiff said:

birdcage said:

Only about 50% of their stuff seems to be selling at the mo. The fear of Omicron can't help. No one likes uncertainty!

This ^
And just for the sake of clarity, there's absolutely no chance it has anything to do with the fact we're in the depths of Winter nor that Christmas is just over a week away. No siree.

Well that and the cars being overpriced. Must be annoying for CC as the sellers all think they have invaluable cars when the reality is most of them haven't been serviced for an eternity or there's some smoke and mirrors.

[Slippydiff]

birdcage said:

Well that and the cars being overpriced. Must be annoying for CC as the sellers all think they have invaluable cars when the reality is most of them haven't been serviced for an eternity or there's some smoke and mirrors.

Indeed, I really feel for them, I mean it’s not like they’ve even been through any kind of purple patch with people being locked down, having loads of time to sell or buy cars, and being able to do so remotely online, is it ?

[caminator11]

991.2 GT3RS in Black with Gold wheels disappeared off CC at some point today?

Had 1-2 days left, now no sign!

Anyone have any insight?

[Swine Enthusiast]

Slippydiff said:

This ^
And just for the sake of clarity, there's absolutely no chance it has anything to do with the fact we're in the depths of Winter nor that Christmas is just over a week away. No siree.

Isn't the rule to always buy cars in December

[Andym3]

Never seen a 996 Turbo in this colour before. A quick Google shows its only 1 of 3 Riviera Blue cars in the UK.
It'll be interesting to see what it makes at auction.

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2003-porsche-9...

[LordFlathead]

Andym3 said:

Never seen a 996 Turbo in this colour before. A quick Google shows its only 1 of 3 Riviera Blue cars in the UK.
It'll be interesting to see what it makes at auction.

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2003-porsche-9...

That popped up on my radar today too. Been looking for a low mile 996T X50 with a manual box for a while. I wonder what it fetches? Too leggy for me as an investment car but lovely all the same

[Fink-Nottle]

Gosh, that does look fetching. Comes with lots of documents, in blue binders naturally. It's the little things!

[birdcage]

Very nice colour...35-40k?

[LordFlathead]

birdcage said:

Very nice colour...35-40k?

I think it will close around £50k including fees.

[Andym3]

I was checking out the Mot history and it looks to have averaged about 1k miles per year over the last 10 years, but suddenly added 6k miles since the last test in May-21. The V5 shows last keeper acquired it on 12th Oct-21 so they look like they have certainly made good use of the 3 months they have owned it !

[GT3Manthey]

Andym3 said:

Never seen a 996 Turbo in this colour before. A quick Google shows its only 1 of 3 Riviera Blue cars in the UK.
It'll be interesting to see what it makes at auction.

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2003-porsche-9...

That’ll be all of 50k I recon .
Someone will pay up for the colour alone

[Digga]

GT3Manthey said:

Andym3 said:

Never seen a 996 Turbo in this colour before. A quick Google shows its only 1 of 3 Riviera Blue cars in the UK.
It'll be interesting to see what it makes at auction.

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2003-porsche-9...

That’ll be all of 50k I recon .
Someone will pay up for the colour alone

Does look superb in that colour and IMHO the 996 turbo is a real classic. Not necessarily saying it is an investment, but rather that, of it's time, it was hugely underestimated.

[GT3Manthey]

Digga said:

Does look superb in that colour and IMHO the 996 turbo is a real classic. Not necessarily saying it is an investment, but rather that, of it's time, it was hugely underestimated.

Yup and to buy a decent 993 TT now is north of 100k .
Guessing a fair bit more in that colour

https://youtu.be/8OwjBYwhdhU

[Andyoz]

GT3Manthey said:

That’ll be all of 50k I recon .
Someone will pay up for the colour alone

Seller was on Insta...he wanted £65k for it private sale ...

[Digga]

GT3Manthey said:

Digga said:

Does look superb in that colour and IMHO the 996 turbo is a real classic. Not necessarily saying it is an investment, but rather that, of it's time, it was hugely underestimated.

Yup and to buy a decent 993 TT now is north of 100k .
Guessing a fair bit more in that colour

https://youtu.be/8OwjBYwhdhU

All IMHO, but I have always believed that, in terms of both tech and also styling, there's a clear lineage from 959 to 996 turbo. The difference in the 996 to the preceding 993 and 964 turbos is significant.

[PushedDover]

Andyoz said:

GT3Manthey said:

That’ll be all of 50k I recon .
Someone will pay up for the colour alone

Seller was on Insta...he wanted £65k for it private sale ...

Think I know the original Owner of that. He's had a few porks in that colour if the case.

[Yidwann]

Some of the premiums on these PTS cars is becoming borderline ridiculous. Admittedly it wouldn't be as it came from the factory but you could spend £20k less on some of them and have a very decent respray to replicate, its what I'd do anyway.

[Mezzanine]

Indeed.

Some of these new liquid wraps are also pretty effective from what I have seen (on a screen admittedly) but authenticity, especially in the Porsche bubble, brings big premiums.