NMNA, though not too far away. From the posting:
It has a bad motor, but great for parts or rebuild. It is an awesome car. A person could make a small fortune by parting the car out on here or eBay, but I do not have the place to do it. The wheels alone could bring $500 too $700, they are authentic Porsche 951 wheels. Click reply and text me with an offer
Porsche 944
So, question for those who would know: are they anywhere near right about the value of the wheels? Because buying it for a few hundred less than they're asking and selling the wheels in favor of something much cheaper and finding something fun to put into it engine-wise sounds like the start of a fun Challenge car...
The guy's a clown. The wheels are boxsters or cheap, heavy knockoffs.
tooms351 wrote:
The guy's a clown. The wheels are boxsters or cheap, heavy knockoffs.
This 951's were phone dials IIRC.
Woody
MegaDork
1/5/17 4:38 p.m.
There was no 944S in 1983.
I just remembered the first time I went to look at a cheap 944. Two minutes after I show another potential buyer showed. The seller thought he'd start getting us to bid against each other. We looked at him then each other and both walked away.
I've been looking around for a 944, and I saw that one. Some Craigslist ads are full of red flags, and that is one of them.
Stefan
MegaDork
1/5/17 10:18 p.m.
Porsche wheels aren't cheap just because of the small volume of cars and their funky bolt pattern (5x130 for most).
That said, this boxster wheels are pretty cheap by comparison and a bit large for a 944.
As to it being an "S" that is likely just a cheap stripe package someone added, since that isn't a factory stripe and there wasn't a 16-valve motor produced for general consumption in 83.
So you have a basic, early 944 with a bad motor, a set of cheap Boxster wheels and Pep Boys or eBay seats and poorly installed harnesses. That's a $500 car, $6-800 if the paint was in better shape.
