I have posted about this in another thread and thought it time to resurrect this discussion since there are so many new members recently joining the Forum.
It would be good if members could post about their experiences with the "Process" and how they went about the hunt for their first early 911.
It might give new buyers some useful tips about the do's and dont's when looking at early 911's.
In my experience, the first thing I did was go to Technical Bookshop in melbourne and invest in a few good reference books. I still have these books today and only yesterday referred to one for some VIN numbers advice. I am sure Amazon.com can also assist.
The best book I found for initial education about thee cars was Peter Morgans 911 book with plenty of helpful photos and valuable VIN, Engine number and colour codes info. I know some people query the correctness of some numbers but I found it generally OK .
Hopefully other members can chime in with book suggestions that have proven useful as good references to get an early grounding about 65 - 73 911's. Excellence and Porsche & 911 World also seem to be good magazine references and I subscribe to Excellence (which is very cheap by car mags subscrition standards).
I am afraid there is no easy way unless you have limitless funds (mainly to pay for the repairs to the car you hurriedly rushed in to buy too quickly).
It would be good if members could post about their experiences with the "Process" and how they went about the hunt for their first early 911.
It might give new buyers some useful tips about the do's and dont's when looking at early 911's.
In my experience, the first thing I did was go to Technical Bookshop in melbourne and invest in a few good reference books. I still have these books today and only yesterday referred to one for some VIN numbers advice. I am sure Amazon.com can also assist.
The best book I found for initial education about thee cars was Peter Morgans 911 book with plenty of helpful photos and valuable VIN, Engine number and colour codes info. I know some people query the correctness of some numbers but I found it generally OK .
Hopefully other members can chime in with book suggestions that have proven useful as good references to get an early grounding about 65 - 73 911's. Excellence and Porsche & 911 World also seem to be good magazine references and I subscribe to Excellence (which is very cheap by car mags subscrition standards).
I am afraid there is no easy way unless you have limitless funds (mainly to pay for the repairs to the car you hurriedly rushed in to buy too quickly).
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