Porsche: Barret-Jackson

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Dark coloured leather, or a good valeting regime.
Not everyone calls their car Monica.

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Pretty much, a lot of new cars don't show up there and more importantly
there are not as many Porsches out there and collectors don't part with them
much. Sure a Chevelle will command big money at an auction, but, there are
tons of them out there in various states of restoration.

Once again, to put it in perspective...there are more Corvettes alone than
all Porsches combined since day one. Ford builds more cars in one day than
Porsche builds in 3 months. So logic would have itthat a collectible Porsche
would not show up as much as an old muscle car or regular production
Ferrari.

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:40:58 -0800, "Devils944S2"
<net> wrote: 

I'd say it's more a matter of the market at Barrett-Jackson. The
few foreign cars that have appeared don't do well. The audience is
mostly baby-boomers looking for American muscle cars or pre-WWII era
cars for the older crowd. These guys aren't looking for old Alfas,
Porsches, Healeys or Ferraris.
Of course, vintage Porsches are experiencing the same bump overseas
- the Boomers over there are snatching them up. With the weak dollar,
it's well worth the trouble of shipping a nice pre-73 Porsche over
there to sell.
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> With the weak dollar, 

Might be a dumb question but is there something better about '73 and earlier Porsches?

cp

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:38:09 GMT, "cp" <com> wrote:
 

The 1969-1973 cars are considered by most to be the classic, early
911s. They've been climbing in value for the last few years,
especially the versions with MFI (mechanical fuel injection).
epbrown
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I had a '73 Alfa with mechanical injection...what a pain in the ass! Italian
though...what did I expect?
"E Brown" <net> wrote in message
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> The 1969-1973 cars are considered by most to be the classic, early 

Thanks. Would a well maintained one be an wise (or not) candidate for daily driving?

cp

"cp" <com> wrote in message news:IjYBf.133862$.. 
daily driving?

If the vintage becomes 'famous' as ebrown suggests (I hope I hope), then
it'd be a bad idea to use one as a daily driver. One of the reasons it's
hard to find good 69-73s is that they immediately predated decent rust
protection. Any that got driven in salt are back to iron ore by now.

Fred Klingener

38 Rolls 25/30
73 911T