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MONTEREY RICK MOTORSPORTS JEFFERY’S Reunion
MILLER’S
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‘73 Carrera RS And Much
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RICK JEFFERY’S 1973 CARRERA RS
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“KAP’N KARMEL” 1973.5 911T TARGA
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MILLER’S MEANDERINGS
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PROJECT: NINE_ELEVEN PART 6
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SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL STORY AND PHOTOS BY ADAM WRIGHT
In case you haven’t heard, the Porsche market is softening. It’s started with Brexit and has continued since. I don’t believe the bottom is dropping out, but with the European’s buying less frequently and spending less money, the market will have to adjust. This is a dangerous time to be in my business, buying can be very risky. In order to be good in this business, you have to be two to three steps ahead of the market and I pride myself on usually being at least two steps ahead, three
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on a good day. But, being ahead of the market when it slows down makes buying very hard. When you go to buy a car at a time like this, people will start telling you what cars have been selling for over the last year or so, except you know that those prices are no longer valid, but convincing sellers of this is tough, they think you are just trying to get a better deal on the car. Many times they call me several months later and ask if my offer is still good, and agree that it was a fair offer. But this is
normally after I politely offer less than what they were asking, they decline, and then a long line of guys come after me who aren’t quite as polite with their offers. Always be nice, the nice guys get the call back, the low baller know it all’s don’t, no one calls that guy back. So, the current status of the market makes it very hard to buy cars. What is a guy like me to do? After all, the show must go on after all. A lot of times, when this
part of the cycle hits, we just hunker down and work on the cars we already have, maybe even holding off until spring, hoping the market picks up. But there is another avenue to go down at times like this. When you spend your time crisscrossing the country looking for Porsches, you invariably pass on a bunch of cars for whatever reason. Many times when the market is hot, it’s not worth dragging back the real rough cars; there are just too many bigger fish to fry. But, when the market softens, the rough and cheap cars start to look a lot better. Minimal investment makes for a good idea when you aren’t sure what the future will bring. I had two stashes that were in the back of my mind, one in Tennessee and one in Virginia. The stash in Tennessee was owned by an old friend from whom I bought a whole truckload of Porsches back in 2012, but I left a bunch behind that were still there. I had another friend
“In order to be good in this business, you have to be two to three steps ahead of the market and I pride myself on usually being at least two steps ahead, three on a good day.”
in Viginia who had a bunch of cars on his farm and he was talking about selling the farm soon and was eager for a big buy out. Between the two places I counted ten cars, and ten cars fills up a car transport truck. It’s important that the number of cars I buy fills a truck, because when you book a whole tractor trailer you are paying for the whole thing, whether you fill it or not, and booking a whole truck for thousands of miles isn’t cheap, even if the cars are. By filling every slot on the truck it worked out money-wise. Remember, the whole point of scraping the bottom of the Porsche barrel is to get the cars cheap, so you have to watch the money a lot closer than when you are loading a truckload of pricey cars. The deal was set, both friends were happy to sell me all the cars, so the planning phase had begun. The logis-
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tics of a deal that will happen thousands of miles away will make your head hurt. Remember, you don’t know what you will find once you are in the field so you have to prepare. Things like you may or may not have access to compressed air for an impact wrench, so bring a lug wrench and lots of lube. Also, getting a car on a car carrier that has four flat tires and frozen brakes is a nightmare, so on a deal like this you have to arrive several days ahead of the truck to prepare the cars and this includes bringing dozens of wheels with good tires attached, so you can swap out the flat tires. Luckily, this isn’t our first rodeo, so we have all the equipment and materials needed; we just have to remember to bring it all. In the case of this trip, we brought everything in our road kit and needed most of it. We used all of our good wheels/tires; we even used our large rolling cart for the car that had no front suspension, because you
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“We ended up with seven 911/912s, two 356s, and a BMW 700, plus lots and lots of parts, two barns full.”
can’t put a wheel on a car that has no suspension, ask me how I know! What I didn’t count on was the amount of available parts. My friend in VA had a whole barn full of parts. Luckily I had brought the big trailer and an extra guy because both were needed. Then, when we got to TN, my friend there had a bunch of parts to see and I actually ran out of money! Remember, what I said about buying the whole truck? Well, I used this to my advantage and packed every car with parts using every square inch of space in the cars, as well as in my truck and trailer. I burned a lot of gas on the way home going through the PA Mountains; my truck was very heavy. There were a couple of things, no matter how well you plan, that are just out of your control. The first stop was
in VA to prep the cars for transport, this involved cutting down small trees and pulling them out of beds of weeds. These cars had not moved in a long long time. Once the cars were packed full of parts and loaded on the truck, we headed out to Tennessee to prep the cars there. We were running ahead of schedule and had plenty of time to get the cars ready and the trucker showed up right on time the next morning. Since we had all the cars rolling well, loading in Tennessee was a breeze. From there, it was twelve hours driving back to Virginia. I noticed a major weather system coming in, so I planned to have the trucker there at noon. He ended up being several hours late and the sky had opened up by then with a downpour. I hate loading cars in the rain, walking on the upper deck of a car carrier is already a circus act, adding slick wet decks and wind and it becomes downright dangerous. We got it done, but it wasn’t very much fun. We still had
to load up our trailer with the remaining parts and we used every inch. The 911 on the trailer was barely visible once we got it done. From there it was a long ride home. I had planned to be home by Friday night. but with the trucker’s delay and the rain delay, I ran out of steam once I got near Carlisle, PA so we stayed the night, arriving home on Saturday. So if you ever wondered what it takes to buy, load, and transport ten hell box Porsches across the country you now know. In case you weren’t taking notes, it takes no less than: 1. Three guys. 2. Dozens of wheels. 3. A car hauler with a winch. 4. Lots of tools. 5. Intense problem solving, i.e: “How do we get the tree out of the car it’s growing through?”
6. Money and extra money, just in case. 7. And last, a week of time, yes, it took a whole week. We ended up with seven 911/912s, two 356s, and a BMW 700, plus lots and lots of parts, two barns full. That’s why you hit the road, because, if there is one thing I’ve learned out of years of doing this job it’s that you have to hit the road, because once you are there and money is on the table, you just never know what the guy will decide to sell, you really just never know. And, it is fun to scrape the bottom of the barrel, you don’t worry about scratching the paint when the cars are hell boxes, you just load em up! Adam Wright
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