They say there is no such thing as a cheap Porsche and yet not today Nice price or no dice Boxster is … a cheap Porsche. Can the low price make it an easy ramp? to Porsche ownership? Or is it a rocky path to future expenses?
The road laid by yesterday’s 1979 Ford F-250 was definitely an interesting one. On the one hand, there were many remarks praising the era from which the truck came, as well as the overall specification and condition of the large long bed. On the other hand, there was A asking price of $ 14,500 that fell short at a loss of 56 percent with no dice. The the amalgamation of praise and passing may not be in line, but hopefully that cool truck will still find a new owner.
Speaking of new owners, many of you know this I recently acquired an older Porsche Boxster and is working on the joys and tre of his ownership to share with you all.
My experience could very well lead one or more of you to take the “Porsche dive” and pick up your own fairly wrench sports car from the German car manufacturer. If you’re so bent over, then maybe it’s 1999 Porsche Boxster is a great place to start. It definitely looks the cheapest.
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The advertisement for this black over Savanna Beige is light on the details, although it does provide striking information. The photos also tell a story. Here is everything the seller provides in the description of the car:
175K miles.
convertible.
In a very decent form.
Walking and driving really great.
Looks ok.
Custom exhaust.
Top works manually. No electric.
Legal price for quick sale.
Clean title in hand.
OK, so first, we find out that the car ran 175,000 miles further. This is a good road for a 986 and may make you wonder about the condition of suspension consumption and the like. Perhaps to alleviate the problems slightly, the seller notes that the car ‘runs and drives.’ Not just amazing, but “really amazing.”
The downside is that the seller blurs the car’s aesthetics by saying that it’s just fine. The photos carry it out, especially when we get inland. On the outside, there are some obvious flaws. It contains some paint chips and dents, as well as the absence of both inlet grilles and the front side lights.
The car later had 996 headlights with the more subtly colored flashing lenses. Some people prefer it a lot. The boot lid carries a Porsche badge instead of the expected Boxster screenplay. The factory Twists look in a decent condition, but it is not mentioned how much life is left in the tires.
On top of that, the convertible roof looks intact, albeit with a cloud rear window. It’s all too common on these cars. Less common is the failure of the electric top mechanism, which is good because it is an expensive repair. It failed in this car and required the man (or woman) muscles to put the top up or down.
If you lower the top, it looks like an interior that has had better days. The seat upholstery was cracked and broken on both sides foam filling in places and bag-changing gaps in others. The rest of the interior looks awful and needs to be deeply cleaned, but looks at least intact. The rubber finish also seems to hold its own.
There is also an “adapted exhaust” and the seller’s claim that the car has a six-speed transmission. We can see nothing of the exhaust except a two-point outlet under the rear license plate, but hopefully the adjustment still maintains all the catalytic converter.s. Regarding the six-course: Uunless there was a replacement gearbox a later Boxster S, the only way there can be so many gears is if you count upside down.
A quick VIN check shows that this Boxster is not an S and the 201-pointer 2.5-liter pancake has six under its narrow handle. For those among you knickers who are turning a blind eye to the infamous problem with IMS, you can relax. The failure rate of the 2.5 was about 1 percent, and if the car had blown off the car, it would have done so long before it hit 175,000 miles.
The title of the car is clean, and actually we can see it on one of the photos in the ad. That’s a good thing. From other photos we can see that the registration took place in December and that the car still carries its 2020 labels. This may indicate old screenshots, or it may just be that the seller simply does not want to build a car for sale. Whatever the reason, it will need 2021 labels and – if you live in California, where this car is located – a smog test to get it.
The car costs you $ 3,500 in front of all the registration rigs, and it’s the cheapest Porsche Boxster in the country you can drive and drive. Does it look like a deal?
What do you think, is this worn out but apparently not worn out Boxster worth dropping so much on? Or is it actually too cheap considering how much more is probably needed to fix it?
You decide!
Sacramento, California, Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears.
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