Where are all the 944's ?

[Jonjeffryes]

Painful subject for me at present - I've run one for 15 years as a daily drive - took it off the road in Feb to sort out various things: but last thing I really need is another project, so I'm trying to make my mind up what to do with it. As earlier posts said - economically it's not really worth sorting, since I could get a perfectly decent one with a full MOT for £1500. Even the minters don't seem to get more than 3-4k unless it's turbo or a cab. Crazy really as they are totally useable, great fun and a lot more economical than you'd expect.

oooh I looked at quite a few £1500 cars before I paid £2500 for my car back in 2007.....and then a whole heap of money getting into a good reliable state..

you will know better than most the hidden 'gems' that will bite you if you are unlucky with a cheap 944....if your car is reasonable, it may be wiser to invest in one you know so well?

[Jonjeffryes]

I pass one every day. It's been rotting in the same place for the last two or three years. At least I assume it's a 944 as it looks like one and has a '944' registration.

it's a shame but down to natural wastage. if it has sat for that long I suspect only the brave or foolhardy would take it on

[Jonjeffryes]

I looked at getting a 944 a while back and even 8 years ago they were blatantly divisible into two categories - pre-loved and pre-disastered. The prices fetched by the good ones put them firmly out of the hands of all but the collectors, while the prices of the bad ones dropped them into the bangernomics supercar sector, meaning they get bought for peanuts, thrashed until they died, then broken or scrapped as the repairs are too expensive to justify.

absolutely right and the rule is still relevant.....but now the added burden of fuel costs has an even bigger impact....not that many of us enthusiast buy for the economy, but it does exclude many cars from daily use these days!

[Jonjeffryes]

probably hiding in garages as no one can afford to run them?
i know a chap who had a nice modern 911 but it spent most of the year in the garage, next to the unvented tumble dryer. when he had it seviced the following spring £8000 bill to repair it..

I know a chap who bought a £2500 944 in 2007 and had covered less than 500 miles in the previous 10 years...and then had a £6000+ bill to get the mechanicals back on song......what it gave me was a proper 944 which behaves as Porsche designed and shofar almost perfect reliability over the last 5 years.....so I reckon worth the investment

[Jonjeffryes]

ill have a lookie on autotrader..

lots on there .....and flea bay if you're feeling lucky!