Here's Why Everyone Overpays for an Air-Cooled Porsche 911 (Including Me)

I don't really know how to start this video because I didn't buy the cheapest air-

cooled

911 in the US nor did I get an exceptionally good deal on an air-

cooled

911 to even lie about it being the cheapest for sale in the US I feel like I was overpaid for this car, but that's what

everyone

does when they buy one of these, so I'm not alone, but today I'm going to justify why I overpaid for this car and the condition of it. the entire air-cooled vintage Porsche market in general. I'm going to try my best not to call it a bubble, shit.

I just said bubble, right? I'd rather read my inco

here

nt ramblings than watch myself awkwardly speaking on camera. I had the solution below a link to my column on autotrader.com oversteer bar, check it out, so this is my new 1985 Porsche 911 3.2 Carrera, which was a factory option with front and rear spoilers. Oh look at that, also a sunroof comes from the factory but I will never use the sunroof because it breaks all the time. Now this car is not that fast. It has 200 horsepower and a 0 to 60 that is a little over 6 seconds. It obviously has a rear-mounted engine, so no.

It is the best balanced car and has a fairly normal gearbox for a sports car. It also shares some heritage with the Volkswagen Beetle despite all this. I paid $38,000 for it. I did what I did. $38,000 for this car. Oh, now, to my chagrin, five years ago. this would have been a reasonably low 20,000 something car now, as nice as this car looks on my dad cam, it's actually just a nice slightly above average car as far as Porsches go, it's got a hundred grand miles and you know it's a pretty good ride quality. repainted and doesn't have much service history and t

here

is one accident reported on Carfax early in its life, I still paid $38,000 for it, which may seem like a lot and it is, but if I wanted another coupe with less miles of original paint and not so many stories it would have been about $10,000 more it really is disgusting I don't like the prices any more than you but that's what you have to pay for the privilege of owning one of these things what a privilege I'm privileged now enthusiast use the air cooled 911 as Exhibit A in your rant against the era of investing in car collecting for good news, buy this stuff and hold onto it in the hopes that you'll get a good return on your investment at some point in the future and it will drive up the prices.

The 911 is particularly strange because there are billions of them for sale and they obviously made a lot of them, that's why there is anyone for sale and for a long time they were cheap cars, not quite disposable, but still really sports cars. cheap ones that pretty much anyone could buy when I was a kid, my dad had a few of these when they were cheap, when he was a target and when I was four I apparently repeatedly stabbed the seats with a screwdriver over and over again. I don't remember this or why I did it. and along with the other things I did when I was a kid, it's a wonder I'm not a serial killer, but in my father's Porsche he finally sold the one he had a few others in, but he bought the father king of impact bumper cars what they're called after these bumpers, this little flexible rib here they have their impact bumpers that he bought in 1986 930 turbo with 6000 original miles on it, paid $40,000 for it, bought it around the new millennium and sold it a few years later. for $60,000 really very good return, but he also did it shortly before I reached driving age, that was also very smart of him, but today that car would be worth 160 thousand dollars or more and as much as I would love to buy one , I can think of much better ways to spend that money, so I've settled for not really buying, paying ridiculously overpriced for this 1985 3.2 Carrera, the last version of the Impact-era 911, but just a few years away from the much improved g50 manual gearbox it actually was.

I was a really good boy this time as it was a lot of money and I actually paid a mechanic to look at it before I bought skaar. He was in San Diego and I was in Kansas. I know a brilliant idea to get a correct PPI, why not? I thought about this before anyway, he checked it out and gave it a clean bill of health, so I paid the seller and spent a thousand dollars shipping it from San Diego to here and wouldn't you know it, it showed up, it showed up a little broken. the PPI was broken it didn't matter Still I bought a broken down car the first night I had this I thought I was going totally crazy because I didn't know how to work the air conditioning I never owned an old 911 before but I thought I could figure it out now it's a bit strange because there are these knobs down here, I look like ejector seats, but it actually controls the heater and then you have another switch panel up here that controls the fan motor to bring in fresh air. and the heater looks like it could show the air conditioning control, but it doesn't.

Actually, it's down here. There's a second fan motor that turns off these center vents here for the air conditioning. Now I knew all this, but this thing wasn't coming. I thought there was another button somewhere to start it because it wasn't now. I bought this car in June and it is very hot here in June so I was determined to get it running again. I discovered that the fuse was blown. I was really excited, but the moment I put in a new fuse it just popped again, so like all my other purchases where I didn't do a pre-purchase inspection, this car had to immediately go to me. mechanic, with no honeymoon period, did some research and found out. the blower motor was totally blocked that's why it was blowing the fuse, also the ac coolant was low and it's still on the old r12.

He fixed it and changed the oil, which was 11 quarts and the whole thing cost $1,200, $1,200 is a lot. money, yes, but now I have slightly cold air conditioning, which is exactly how Porsche made it from the factory. Now back to the oil, eleven quarts is a lot and that's because this air cooled car is actually an air cooled car, its oil cools. I have a radiator but it's full of oil, that's why you need so many quarts to get through the engine and cooling system of this car. This car is so obsessed with oil that it has three dedicated gauges, one is for the normal oil pressure gauge, except this one. says druk press as well as one for oil temperature and one for oil level and it's a giant tank now the 3.2 Carrera is considered the least problematic of the air cooled engines they tend to break down regularly anyway they tend to break down regularly and it cost over $10,000 to rebuild, but this one lacks the carburetors of the previous cars which caused a lot of problems and it also lacks the timing chain problems of the 911 SC that preceded it, although it does have that creaky old gearbox, but mine has been rebuilt but my engine is original and then you start using oil around this mileage and it only gets worse until you decide to rebuild it.

I haven't driven mine enough to know if it uses oil, but it doesn't smoke, so I'm optimistic, although my mechanic noticed a small oil leak at the oil thermostat which is located in an area my Porsche enthusiast called the triangle of death because I guess this thermostat and some other things here behind the engine are really hard to reach and you can't see them, you have to fix it, you actually feel like you've blindfolded yourself and you have to work on the car anyway let me put it back on yeah so you might be wondering at this point why would I or anyone who has bought an air do it. -911 refrigerated in recent years are enough to put up with all this garbage.

I mean, for $38,000 you could have bought a comparable early 2000 state, 11 turbo layout or even a 10 year old Carrera S. Actually, that's a good question, that's great. question the answer is because because it's pretty it's pretty and no no it's not just that's why you really have to experience it it's the experience just bear with me this is nice now having a 911 is not about the driving experience, it's about the overall experience and the first thing is the smell of this thing oh oh it smells so good there's something about new cars with all their plastic and they have to use synthetic smells to make them sell well.

I was wrong with the words, they are synthetic. the smells smell good, but not with this 911, it's such a rich leather smell, it's different when it's an old Mercedes or an older high end car. Something about it, it's just so good, the exhaust on an air-cooled car is also very unique, very exclusive. and now it's not loud I'm really terrible at driving this thing we're really bad because it's so quirky it's different from any other car I've ever had the clutch is weird the shifter isn't the best but it's also weird and it's fun it's part from experience, getting to know this car, really learning how to drive it, those cars are just toasters now, if you get in, push a button and that's it, but not this 911, it's so hot now that some might prefer the new ones, I mean, They're great, very fast, but you can't have as much fun with them legally.

You have to go to a track. There's no way to enjoy that car anywhere near its limits and any kind of legal speed, unlike. This car yes, that is a disadvantage for some because they really want to go fast, but one advantage that this old car has is the size. The new 911s are six inches wider and six inches longer than this car. It's huge. This thing is smaller than a new Boxster. Cayman too, and for reference, it's actually an inch thinner than a first-generation Mazda Miata. This Porsche is slimmer than a Miata. That's crazy, okay, let me see if I can shift gears because I'm not very good at that, okay, Tony?

Be careful, don't get past the second one, the first one, here we go, oh, I can't stop smiling, it's so much fun, it has so much personality, I feel so attached to this thing, not too much compared to a beetle, again, but this car , because Herbie was so adorable and since the character's car felt alive and this thing feels very alive too, but it's not like a Volkswagen Beetle, it's on, it's not really a beetle, I'm not sure I did it justice to this car in terms of explaining why

everyone

overpays

for them.

including

me, but he gives me points for trying.

If you think about it, you can't walk into a showroom and buy a car like this new anymore and you'll never do it again, so I guess that's why people run back to these. beautiful old cars and it's beautiful, it's so beautiful as far as the market goes. I know a lot of people like to use the B word when it comes to air cooled 911 prices, it's a really bad word now I don't know. I don't think that's going to happen, but I'm still waiting for baby hat prices to recover while I'm sitting on a gold mine there anyway, thanks for watching.

I really appreciate it, oh my babies, this is my retirement portfolio Oh No