sportscardigest

We're happy to report that the Tii has been sold to a great collector. And we easily could've sold five more of them. Thanks again for the critique. It's been fun. We'll be back for more, no doubt!

Hi Guys - We’re the seller of the Baikal Blue Tii currently listed on eBay. We’ll start with saying how much I respect the passion and knowledge on the forum. We spend a lot of time in the Early 911 forum, as that’s our bread-and-butter, so it’s fun seeing how similar keepers of the originality flame are active here as well. We know early 911s well, but can’t say the same for 2002s, especially to the level demonstrated here. Our purposes for purchasing the 2002 were not to enter Concours (even though we did…longer story), but to have a quality example that allowed us to ‘scratch the itch’ in experiencing a Tii. In other words, we were concerned with its structural and mechanical condition, not with its overall correctness. It’s hard to publicly say some of these things, given how we operate with buying other cars (like early 911s), but during our due diligence process we didn’t even ask if Baikal Blue was correct for the car. We loved how it looks, better still our better half love the color combo, so that was good enough for us. This wasn’t a reckless purchase, however, as we did significant due diligence, but more focused towards our intended purpose for the car. Since purchasing the car in 2013, we have really enjoying having the 2002 around the garage. Unlike some of our British cars, the Tii has started every time without fail, it doesn’t smoke, it pulls really well, it handles great and it brakes straight and true. We fully understand why everyone loves these cars as they do. As mentioned in the ad, we have way too many projects right now, so we’re passing it along to someone else that will better utilize it. If it were in crap shape, then we’d keep it around, but we have a problem with nice cars like this sitting around so much. In regards to the correctness, we’ll first say that this is a 40+ year old car and it would be safe to say that there are many little things that are incorrect on any car of that age. We don’t know its specific history before 2008, but we’d wager that at least one of its previous owners viewed it as a tool. If something broke, they fixed it regardless if it was a correct piece or not. They only cared about whether or not their car got them from point A to B. Total conjecture, but that’s a good generalization for any car of this age or older. We have a massive pile of receipts from the restoration from reputable places like 2002AD, Maximilian Importing, Roger’s Tii and so forth. They look to be correct pieces to us, but then again we’re far from 2002 experts as stated above. We also have another pile of receipts on what went into the restoration, including one receipt that’s equal to our reserve on the car. These were some of the data points that were important in our decision to buy the car after it was restored. Regarding the price, as always the market will tell us what it’s worth. The level of interest is considerable, with 270+ watchers and easily a dozen folks that are seriously circling the wagon. The 2002 is currently bid to $30,600 and the reserve isn’t far off.