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Do you have any records on the car? Or, can you visit with the previous owner about the repairs made to the car? Not to rain on your parade, but the first model year Boxster was not bullet proof...
I too have a 1997 and many of them from that model year had the motor replaced for one reason or another.
Other stuff that all 97's had to have changed out were:
- Coolant overflow tank (crappy plastic cracked easily). Pull up carpet and wood under carpet in trunk to see if there's any coolant old or new found there. If you find coolant, replace it.
- Top transmission cables. The original ones had no reinforcement inside the black plastic sheath and stretched in heat conditions and disabled part of the top and messed everything up. To check yours, open the top half way and look for a black cable running from the back of the center where the motor is found and look a the cable... it should have a diamond pattern on it which is reinforcement (done under warranty in 98 or 99 I believe). If you see no diamond pattern, replace both of these cables to prevent a very expensive top issue.
There are probably other issues, but these are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
Like I said, I'm not trying to make you feel bad about a wonderful purchase of a beautiful garage queen, but I'd rather you know these things up front instead of finding out one day when something goes really bad for you and you're caught unaware.
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