Still… I was rather… peeved fore some time and ensured everyone I knew, knew what happened! I’m sure they lost a few high-profile customers.

I had a bulletin in when I was in law enforcement from Ford about not trying to run their police package through an automated car wash. When the “scrubber” knocks the light bar off, the vehicle fills with water through the holes in the roof. Normally the water destroys the radios and the rest of the interior, which voids the warranty [the real reason for the bulletin].

With the quartz, rather than silicon, sand we have down here, if you don’t rinse off the car first, you might as well use a grinder on the paint, because the effect is the same, even hand washing.

I wouldn’t have been nearly as reasonable.

When I sold the Porsche and made a profit, my accountant almost had a stroke! LOL But then things went downhill rapidly (I was too sick to run the business, and my business partner was busy hiding from his wife after she found out about his two girlfriends). Being a Woman born and raised in Hong Kong… running far and long was the only safe option. That or the *Honerable way!* 😉

My Grandfather always warned me “Easy come, easy go!” I finally discovered what he meant. 🙂

But yes, It was a wonderful car to drive! And you had to drive it. It *HATED* doing anything less than 110km/h, and that was it’s most economical speed. Was the only V8 GT Porsche ever made, and was a dream.

I once stayed in a new Hotel in Canberra. It was Summer and dry. So the 928 was quite dusty (it was the pure white Porsche had. NIce to look at, a pain to maintain!) So, the garage attendant decided to show how good the Hotel sevice was and had the car washed while I was at a meeting all day. Nice idea. He used one of the automated, drive-through car washes. It has an automatic areal when you turn on the ignition. replacement cost (parts & labor) was about $400. New popup headlights, $2k. New paint job (at a Porsche authorised body shop) almost $10k! I took one look at the car, and went to the desk and asked for the manager. When he arrived, I showed him the car and gave him the number of the Porsche agent to arrange repairs, or else! Porsche did loan me a nice little Carrera for the week. 🙂

Some people! LOL

ur justuficashun process, ir familyar with it. 🙂

there are two kinds of people who buy such cars: the people who won’t let anyone near their new baby, and the people whose enjoyment is compounded by sharing. back when i was a newly-licensed teenager, one of the latter types showed up with his new lotus at a horse show [or some related horsey event] that i was participating in, and let several complete strangers [including me!] take turns taking it for a spin. there was’t any place available to really try it out at the time, but it was fun to drive anyway. that was probably the genesis of my love affair with small, sporty [and in some cases, speedy], british convertibles.

We brought an Elan back from Britain in several trips one year after one of the guys bought it “factory direct”. It was in the open space at the back of the aircraft and the custom guy kept refusing to believe it was a car. A great deal if you were handy with a wrench. Of course, after he put it together it seemed like he was constantly picking up parts for it.

The 928 was a beautiful car. My brother bought a 944 from the factory after a big payday for a job overseas. and I was looking at the 914 when I was stationed at Rhein-Main, but now he drives a new VW Beetle and I drive a Honda Civic.

I sold the ‘B’ to buy a VW convertible. That was a car that held it’s value.

You have to have the wide open highways to make a touring car reasonable…OK, semi-reasonable…OK, to sort of justify one in any way.

I almost bought an MGB (actually, I was tossing up between an MGB and an E-type) many years ago (80’s), but I was made an offer on a Porsche 928 S4 that was too hard to resist! Then I learned about the *cost of maintenance and ownership*! Brake pads cost about $80 each (twin front calipers and a rear on big swiss-cheesed disks meant 12 pads a year), a new clutch plate cost about $4k, etc! It WAS a dream to drive though! A real road car! It hated the city. LOL I used to do a lot of long trips back then to Sydney and Canberra. Still, it was good value. When I sold it 5 years later, I made a profit. 😀 It was the safest car to drive I ever owned. Saved my life twice in fact! I hated to sell it, but I got badly sick and lost my business and had to get rid of anything I didn’t need to pay the bills. Shit happens. 🙂