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With just 95 water-cooled horsepower
and a sporty four-speed transaxle, the
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1977 Porsche 924 offers the exclusive
Stuttgart badge on a punter's budget and
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it was the first car I ever did on Wheel
of Dealers. Congratulations you just
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bought the world's worst Porsche.
Seems like Ant will need some convincing
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especially as he'll have to deal with
the leaking crankshaft seals. Rough
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idle. It's kind of lumpy all over the
place. Swappy gear change and tatty
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interior. This 924 is five years older
than the first one I took on. So the
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challenge ahead of us is gonna be
much bigger and much more exciting. But if
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Ant and I can help this sporty German
regain its form we can show a new
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generation. This car is worthy of a
new lease on life. They say the early bird
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catches the worm. I am in Northern
California and the worm in question
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today is the very first car I ever bought
on Wheel of Dealers 14 years ago.
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It's a 1977 Porsche 924. Welcome to
Wheel of Dealers the show that loves
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modern classics like this cracking
Porsche 924. They are an amazing little
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car. It's the first front-engine
Porsche and it had rear-wheel drive
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and you've actually got a boot so you
can carry some stuff around with you.
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And that meant this car had uber
practicality plus five-speed gearbox. You
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get it out onto the motorway, open
the taps up and just cruise along
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knowing full well that you're in a Porsche.
Back in a day you could get
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one of these cars for a song. I bought
my first one on Wheel of Dealers for
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just 700 pounds or around $1,500 in
today's money. Today these cars are now
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on the ascent and people are starting
to take them pretty seriously. In fact
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prices have been climbing recently and
that's why I've been thinking about them.
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Believe it or not I have
seen them change hands for
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ten, fifteen thousand
dollars which is strong money.
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Now the guy that I'm gonna go and
see he's got one for sale. He's not had it
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for too long. He's realized it's not
for him and he just wants to sell it
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for $5,000. Can you believe it?
It's about three and a half thousand
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pounds. It's a 77. The cars in guards
red but what I do need to worry about this
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car is those usual 924 problems. Being
out here in California I guarantee it's
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gonna have a cracked dashboard. They
always do. The gear shifter that will be
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sloppy and I bet you it's absolutely 100%
gonna have a leaky engine. I know it's a
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Porsche and getting parts for it can be
expensive but the money that I'm gonna
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go and see it truthfully I don't think
there's any risk and that means that.
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this bum is on its way to go
and see that car. Here we go.
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You must be Duncan. Yes sir. Duncan
how are you Mike? Really nice to meet you.
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Nice meeting you. So this is a little
Porsche. I notice as I walk up there's a
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little bit of damage on that valance
underneath. Scarily it looks human
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shaped. I'm trying to think this car hasn't
run over somebody. I told you not. I got it
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about three months ago and it was
already there so. Right so now you've got
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this Porsche why have you decided to
sell it? So as much as I like the car as.
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fun as it is it's just not
practical for me. I live on a very
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treacherous road. It's not the kind of
place you want to drive up in? No I did
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it once and I couldn't do it again.
Okay well that makes a good reason to
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sell the car. Alright listen I want to
have a good look around it and as we
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stood at the front is there any chance I
could look under the bonnet first? Yeah.
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sure thing I'll open that for you.
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Right here we go. So we've got that
little Audi derived four-cylinder. Have
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you had any problems with it? None at all.
Runs great. It has new distributor
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wires and cap spark plugs. Well it
looks surprisingly clean. Usually these