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Car looks great and all the little details are coming together.
With regards to values, I think that good ones of any variant will be worth good money. The difference is the amount they built. They produced circa 60K-70K of all variants of 964's and 993's. They then ramped up and produced circa 175K 996's and somewhere similar of 997's so it remains to be seen whether their values will get to the levels that the earlier cars have but the fact that they continue to rise can only mean good things for the values of everything that came after them.
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On the 3.4 litre cars the engine thing is a bit over-blown* I think, any car that's survived to this point is likely not to suffer an IMS failure, and the earlier cars don't have the scoring issue of the 3.6.
That said, my engine is coming out next winter for a complete rebuild that will remove all the potential failure points that Porsche's engineers left in their design.
My expectation is that we'll see a pretty big reduction in the number of good 996 over the next couple of years, and that the remainder will more often than not have a rebuilt engine (wholly or partially) that addresses most of, if not all the issues they have.
With that said, when I started looking for a 996 15k got you a decent one (or so the theory went), that figure is definitely 20k now looking at what's been bought and sold recently.