Hello I'm hoping you can help me figure out if I made a good deal or not. I purchased a 1976 914 for $2,000. It has pretty bad rust in the passenger longitudal. When you jack the car up it flexes and you can not open the door. Other than that it is in fair shape.

The service records go back to 1978 and it is believed to have a genuine 79,000 miles. It will need a repainting in the factory yellow color as the one bare metal repainting is not holding up well.

The interior is in good condition with the exception of the yellow tartan on the seats. It is a heavily optioned car with A/C, fog lights, Fuchs wheels and the original fuel injection still in place. The smog pump is present also but not plumbed up.

It is not running and I am a told it needs trigger points in the distributor - any help finding a set would be appreciated.

What are your thoughts?

Thank you,
Ben

Lets take a look...

I can fix up with trigger points. Pay for the postage on them and send me your address.

From your description, you paid too much. The rust sounds serious and expensive.

These cars are targas, so the floor pan is the structural rigidity in these cars. If your car is bending it's no longer safe to drive & is going to cost some coin to fix properly.

Of course its quite perplexing,
When the Porsche you bought is flexing-
But when there's so much rust
The car's a bust-
Parting it out is really the best thing....

You Paid $2k which these days might be a Parts Car Price. If the car is as described, you could make a Profit selling Parts.

Without Pictures anything else is a Guess

BTW

Thank you all for the input, my son and I will take some pictures this weekend and post.

Ben

When reciting this, you really have to pay attention to the meter otherwise is just sounds goofy... Robert Frost you ain't but it's a damn good try!

There once was a lady from Nantucket...

Ah, hmmm.. let's not go there.

Anyway, a 2K flexmobile sounds overpriced and not worth fixing, unless you LOVE the car. As stated above, assuming other things are in good shape, you can probably recoup this from the parts, and then start over with a better car.

Unfortunate as it is to hear...I gotta agree.

I know what it's like to pay too much for a project car. But even if you sold it now and took a loss, you'll be well ahead on buying a better car that you feel safe driving. Here's a thought...

$2,000 - This Car
-$1,200 - Sell it outright to someone on Craigslist. (Try to get your $2K though)
=
-$800
$3,500 - Decent driver that doesn't need repaired.
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$4,300 - Not too shabby for a safe car that isn't going to put you or others in danger.

Or...

$2,000 - Current Car
$2,500 - Repairing it the right way
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$4,500 - And a shit-ton of time/work to get you there.

I though he was going for SirMixaLot.