Bowlsby and DaveP are going to PUKE, How to fuch-up a nice correct LE Options

[brer]

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[blabla914]

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Nothing is special, art is just colors on paper, it's all the same. I for one choose to accept the arbitrary values put on things. LE's are more value because most people instinctively want to differentiate themselves from everyone else. LE's are different the other 914s because Porsche made them different. People are willing to pay for that individuality, call it stupid, don't accept it, but society and the market make it truth. LE's have value. If someone wants to throw away the resale value on their car, that's their choice. But most people strive to increase their resale value, not immediately diminish it.

Exactly. Which is why what this guy is doing is SMART. Look, he's only changing wheels, rockers, bumpers, and leaving off the stickers, right? So he's going to pay a premium for a white 914 with black trim. Then he's going to drive it occasionally and enjoy it for 5 or 10 years. After that he can sell it to somebody "who's just GOTTA have that LE history" for a whole lot more money than he'd get for a very nice white 914. Maybe he'll even restore the colors before he sells it. It'll all depend on how much money he wants to make.

I don't see how what he's doing is all that much differerent from Davep's bumble bee with yellow RFX's and a different nose on it. It's all bolt on stuff. By the way Dave, maybe I'm just a sucker for black and yellow, but I really dig your car. Especially the yellow RFX's.

Finally, I can't agree more with Joe. Original sixes are physically different. Just like fake art is never as good as the original. You've gotta be so careful about the quality of the work on a converted car. Original sixes also have parts on them you don't find on most conversions, like the hand throttle, which I could really use.

Kelly

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Art

[Bleyseng]

They are all just "different" models.....4's,6's, LE's, and the rest of the special cars. I don't get too excited about a six unless its in original condition, if it's been modied its the same as a 4 to 6 conversion to me.

[dmenche914]

An idoit would burn a menot as would he if he decied to arson his car.

What we have here is a menot repaint on original canvas (the "special VIN") and the new owner is simply re-framing.

If you really cared about LE cars so much, and can't afford one, why don't you welcome him to the club (contact via the seller) and all the LE purists could complement him on the nice colors and suggest he might keep it as an "original repaint" which in it self is an idiototic concept.

Welcome him to the club even if he does his thing, and help him learn the ways so that this "rare LE "original repaint"" whose only claim to fame now can be the canvas (ie body has the right VIN), does not rot in to the earth do to lack of knowledge on the quirky care needs of these 914's One day if kept up, the canvas will pass to a new owner, and it can be re-framed. he ain't burning it.

Suggest admins delete this dumb thread, so as not to offend the new owner, and send a "welcome new owner" email or letter, telling him about the 914 club.

that's a no brainer,

Now go forth and contact him and complement the "origianl repaint" LE colors before he changes it.

[914werke]

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[olav]

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[Mr.C]

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QUOTE (dmenche914 @ Dec 9 2005, 02:16 PM)

An idoit would burn a menot as would he if he decied to arson his car.

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif) Not trying to stir anything up here but whats an idoit and a menot?? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/poke.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/poke.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)

[brer]

ya know, fredick f&@in cho- pan.