My friend who just had me sell his C4S now wanted me to find a 987.2 Box S. We discussed colors and options but knew it could take a while to find a good one at a "reasonable" price. I got busy looking at my normal locations. We found a couple of 2012 S Black Editions, but one had slight damage repaired but the dealer in Orlando still wanted insane money and the other one had some minor issues and the dealer in SF wouldn't budge on his price (it was prob $2K high). Then I found this one:
A 2011 Box S in Austin, TX w/ 17K mi, a 6spd, heated / vented seats, and SC. It didn't have PASM, which he wanted, but he know that was going to be a tough option to find. I coached him on what to ask and what to look for. Had a PPI done and the guy doing the PPI was great. My friend flew down, bought it, and drove it back. Very nice car.
He mentioned he wanted to do a bunch of maint on it and asked me what I thought the dealer would want for everything. I figured $3-4K dollars. I made a pitch to do 90% of what he wanted done (there are a few items I couldn't or didn't want to do). With parts and labor, it would be around $1300. He was down for that, so I got the parts ordered - plugs, coils, engine filter, cabin filter, oil & filter, brake fluid, hood struts, and some DR Colorchip. He also wanted me to polish / detail it.
The car was very dusty but very clean underneath. The engine bay was very dusty but cleaned up w/o a lot of work. Here's the before and after:
The top had the usual issue of spilling over the top bow on both sides, so I did my normal fix for that issue. The offending elastic band had lost its ability to stretch. The top now closes inside the top bow like it's supposed to.
Now all that was left to do was the polish.
There were a lot of swirls in the paint and they ended up being quite deep. My normal swirl compound wasn't cutting it so I stepped up to a Turtle Wax rubbing compound. It's not a full force compound and was better at getting the deep swirls out. Then hit it with the swirl compound and then polish compound. Finished it with a nice coat of wax and it looked great. Unfortunately it was cloudy the day I return it to my friend so you don't get the full effect, but it had its shine back.
With the money I earned from a finder's fee, doing the maint, and polishing, I parlayed that into a new set of tires for Punkin. Discount Tires had a smokin Black Fri deal on a set of Yokohama Advan Apexes. Out the door it only cost me $68. Baby needs a new pair of shoes.
So don't watch the classifieds for this one, it's not for sale. But the Wheeler Dealer business is expanding to consignment sales and finding cars for clients. Covid pricing is still too wild for me at the moment.