Somebody Sold an Entire Warehouse of Porsche Air-Cooled Parts

Solid Buy

In recent years, the air-cooled Porsche has only surged in popularity, driving the prices of those earlier cars up exponentially. Of course, Porsche gave up on air-cooling years ago, which means that parts, well, they're only going to get harder and harder to find moving forward. Thus, this recent auction at Bring a Trailer - which is quite literally for a warehouse full of air-cooled Porsche parts - seems like one heck of a great investment or potential profit-maker.

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Massive Collection

The seller of these goods - Henry Schmidt of Supertec Performance in Fallbrook, California - amassed this massive collection over the past 38 years, encompassing model years starting in the 1960s and reaching all the way into the 1990s. 

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Engines and Engine Parts

There are loads of mechanical parts here worth soaking in, including approximately 50 engine cases, as well as cranks, connecting rods, pistons, cylinder heads, camshafts, and valve covers from various air-cooled Porsche engines, along with velocity stacks, throttle bodies, fuel pumps, and lines utilized in Bosch mechanical fuel injection systems.

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Drivetrain

As one might imagine, this collection contains plenty of drivetrain parts as well, a list that includes axle shafts, transmissions, main shafts, flywheels, clutch assemblies, bearings, gears, and hubs, to name just a few.

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Exhaust Parts

Then there are the exhaust parts, which consist of manifolds, pipes, gaskets, and heat exchangers, running the full gamut of goods in that regard for a variety of models.

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Suspension

Those looking for suspension parts will find plenty of them in this collection as well, with the auction offering up everything from coilovers, springs, and shocks to brake rotors and calipers from various Porsche machines.

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Solid Deal

If all of those mechanical goodies aren't enough, the warehouse is also full of other things, like doors, hoods, decklids, windows, trim pieces, and interior parts including seats. Overall, it's one heck of a collection, and with a selling price of just $105k, we feel like the new owner scored a pretty great deal, to boot. 

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