F307OFJ my old white turbo S for sale

[g59tester]

.I see my old car is on the market. I 've been in touch with the seller over the last couple of months who bought it 2 years ago , appreciating how rare it was.
I sold it to a guy in Edinburgh in 2012 who did nothing with it for 8 years. Present owner has spent a lot of money on it and it shows
Many of you ex Titanic guys will remember it


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265829232860

Eddie
1987 944 Turbo
2007 Cayman S

 

[blade7]

I recall the dealer going under several different company names. And coming out plenty of rubbish on pistonheads.

 

[PSH]

Ahh..the Titanic days...many fond memories Eddie, alas never repeated/bettered by PCGB..

 

[Eldavo]

I recall the dealer going under several different company names. And coming out plenty of rubbish on pistonheads.

Me too - I wouldn’t trust him at all. He bought a 968 Sport off a friend of a friend, added some £50 eBay Clubsport stickers and tried to punt it on as a genuine Clubsport for an extra £10k. I called him out on it and he threatened me telling me I wouldn’t say it to his face and he’d beat me up. Funny thing is he’d bought an item off me on eBay a few months prior unknowingly so I responded with his name, home address and phone number and said I would be round on Tuesday as I was over that way with work. I then got a load of apologies off his "brother” from the same email address

 

[blade7]

Reminds me of the guy that ran the Turbo S registry, Martin something? He sent a PM threatening to "find you, no matter how long it takes" . Perhaps it's a Scotty sales tactic?

 

[scam75]

Reminds me of the guy that ran the Turbo S registry, Martin something? He sent a PM threatening to "find you, no matter how long it takes" . Perhaps it's a Scotty sales tactic?

Don't tar us all with the same brush!!

Interesting he is looking for £38k and on the ebay link another dealer, Fairmont Sports and Classics, has 2 turbo's for sale @ £42k.

I've recently had my new valuation done independently, and with a fully rebuilt engine I didn't get anywhere near those numbers. Fairmont's are a 58k mile turbo s and a 22k mile early 220.

In fairness, my mileage of 163k and some non standard items does seem to knock masses off the price compared to low mileage, standard, garage queens.

Stuart

 

[Eldavo]

Reminds me of the guy that ran the Turbo S registry, Martin something? He sent a PM threatening to "find you, no matter how long it takes" . Perhaps it's a Scotty sales tactic?

Plot Twist - Martin is now a good mate and we both went to Stuttgart together for the transaxle exhibition a few years ago!

 

[blade7]

I don't see much difference between him and that other clown. Seemed he was a bit of a closet trader, and posted some Dickinson type prose about a turbo he was selling. All I posted was why was he selling it, if it was so good and he went full on keyboard nutter.

 

[blade7]

Don't tar us all with the same brush!!

Interesting he is looking for £38k and on the ebay link another dealer, Fairmont Sports and Classics, has 2 turbo's for sale @ £42k.

I've recently had my new valuation done independently, and with a fully rebuilt engine I didn't get anywhere near those numbers. Fairmont's are a 58k mile turbo s and a 22k mile early 220.

In fairness, my mileage of 163k and some non standard items does seem to knock masses off the price compared to low mileage, standard, garage queens.

Stuart

Increasing values is mostly what stopped me pulling a perfectly good sub 100k engine out, and chucking £7-8k I'd never see again at my 3.0 project.

 

[John Sims]

Sadly, a good thread degenerated somewhat with "banter" that might be perceived as otherwise. Moving on.

 

[John Sims]

I see it has one of Rick's Silverstone Classic "Cup" stickers (Oh how we all laughed). I wish I had left mine on now considering the obvious market appeal.

[Edit] Oh no it isn't, what a shame.

With no disrespect intended (not knowing who did it), for such an exceptional car, I think the "Cup" sticker, strange bonnet badge and white wheels do it a disservice and would assume a buyer would change them back to original in pretty short order?

 

[scam75]

I see it has one of Rick's Silverstone Classic "Cup" stickers (Oh how we all laughed). I wish I had left mine on now considering the obvious market appeal.

[Edit] Oh no it isn't, what a shame.

With no disrespect intended (not knowing who did it), for such an exceptional car, I think the "Cup" sticker, strange bonnet badge and white wheels do it a disservice and would assume a buyer would change them back to original in pretty short order?

Agree completely there. It's not standard either going by the dyno print outs and at 121k miles I think £38k is miles off the mark in the current market. £20k - £25k would be about right imo. Be interesting to see if/what it goes for and also if there is any interest in those 2 garage queens @ £42k from Fairmont although if completely standard those two will fetch more then the white s purely because of mileage and being completely standard (if they are indeed standard) and more likely be more appealing to a collector/speculator.

Stuart

 

[blade7]

AFAIK the Turbo S didn't come with sports seats, and my late 90 build turbo has the welded in front chassis stiffeners. It looks like a nice car, but it's £10k over priced, and it needs a detailed inspection, by someone like JMG that would look past the pictures. I wonder what it's like underneath?

 

[dlknight]

I wonder what it's like underneath?

My thoughts every time I see someone trying to get top whack for a 944 or 968 in particular []

I was looking at 968s a year ago and after asking a couple of sellers for pictures of the chassis I only recall one seller who was honest and gave me the pictures I asked for (someone I found on 968uk I think). The other sellers (including a well known dealer from down south) either gave me photos which didn't show the usual rust areas or purposely took them out of focus.

 

[scam75]

AFAIK the Turbo S didn't come with sports seats, and my late 90 build turbo has the welded in front chassis stiffeners. It looks like a nice car, but it's £10k over priced, and it needs a detailed inspection, by someone like JMG that would look past the pictures. I wonder what it's like underneath?

You could get a turbo s not in silver rose colour and not with the plaid comfort seat interior. I'm not sure if 7 is the correct number though, certainly not huge amounts to be fair. You could spec sports seats. Frenchy on here has a black turbo s that came with half leather black sports seats from the factory IIRC.

Stuart

 

[Eldavo]

It does look quite a clean car though and the boy knows how to take (or perhaps edit) a photo.


My car is a Turbo S and came with black leather sports seats and the 10 speaker package too. I know of another white one and a red one within 10miles of me that are also genuine Turbo S cars.


The dyno printout looks about right as well, heard several of these cars pulling 270-280 when in good fettle, and that dyno run was 17 years ago so seems legit.

 

[blade7]

You could get a turbo s not in silver rose colour and not with the plaid comfort seat interior. I'm not sure if 7 is the correct number though, certainly not huge amounts to be fair. You could spec sports seats. Frenchy on here has a black turbo s that came with half leather black sports seats from the factory IIRC.
Stuart

I know, but the cars painted silberosa with the plaid interior are the money makers. I'm not even sure if Porsche called them Silver Rose, or that was a press thing. Supposedly there was going to be a fixed number of cars, but like Renault with the Clio Williams, Porsche amusingly screwed the investment buyers, and made some more. 15 years ago I came very close to buying a red turbo S spec car, that was known to some members on here back then. It was a nice car with 993 turbo brakes, cup wheels and some Promax uprates. But I think it was on the insurance register.

 

[scam75]

It does look quite a clean car though and the boy knows how to take (or perhaps edit) a photo.


My car is a Turbo S and came with black leather sports seats and the 10 speaker package too. I know of another white one and a red one within 10miles of me that are also genuine Turbo S cars.


The dyno printout looks about right as well, heard several of these cars pulling 270-280 when in good fettle, and that dyno run was 17 years ago so seems legit.

So that's 5 then including the OP's white one and Frenchy's black one, maybe 6 if the one Blade looked at is different from the red one you mention. Very much puts the 7 number in doubt!

 

[blade7]

How much is a chassis plate from a rotted out/crashed turbo S worth I wonder..

 

[g59tester]

Thanks for your support John. Has anyone got anything constructive to say on this thread? If this is anything to go by it seems a complete waste of time. What a negative lot. You'll be glad to know ive got the message.
Eddie