Yeah the dirt around there is a funny color. Looks like wallpaper paste. Especially cause it ain't red like round here.

The dirt in the land of Yankees is brown and some of it is brown or grey. Funny lookin when our dirt is red clay.

Sparrows fart on Sunday Mornings too.

Good Morning.

Another spectacular view from our room.

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For Rolla that looks kinda flat. But hey, looks like you an Mrs. Carrera can play horse.

Oh boy.

I mentioned a 996 for sale on Pelican to my wife and she's wanting to buy it. :eek:

Although I would love to have a 911 again we would have to take some cash out of savings and get a small loan.

As much as I want it, depleting our savings seems like a bad idea.

Thoughts?

It's going to be cool here in AZ today. Only 109 for the high!

When I got the 928, instead of using savings and getting a loan, I got a lease. It was much more affordable for an older car since it was $40K. And lower payments since there was a $15K buyout at the end of the lease. Have leased my new cars for the last 15 years. Made sense because I put less than 10K a year on them. Also if you lease the full amount if it is totaled insurance pays the lease off and residual no matter what the current market value of the car is. Understand a lot of people that buy collector cars do the lease thing because of the insurance pay off if totaled. BMW actually had a great lease for 10K miles/year and a year before the lease is out you could re-valuate your mileage and pay only $0.10 a mile for anything over the 10K/year. Never had to use it, but it was a great deal. They even moved the lease to different car at no charge when I traded the 3 series for an X3.

The only payments I got now is Mortgage, taxes, insurance, and utilities. Think it is a sad situation that the taxes and insurance on my house is more than the mortgage payments.

I got signature loan when I was going to buy the newer Cayenne. My plan was to sell the current Cayenne for enough to pay it off. But the guy sold the car out from under the deal the very weekend I had made arrangements to go pick it up. My credit union evidently felt bad for me, they took the money back, and acted like it never happened without charging me anything. Still very disappointed the guy sold it to someone else.

Still up? You posed that at 10:45 am on a Sunday Morning here.

I conversed with a local Pelican that had a 996 and asked his opinion. He also sent me a couple of links to ones for sale in MI. My wife really liked one of them and the wheels started moving on how to make it happen.


To think about it I went to the grocery store and a little drive by myself.

As cool as it would be to have another NOW, I'm just not feeling it's the right time. We agreed to set a goal of looking again next spring. We have other priorities that should come first. I must be getting old and logical.:rolleyes:

There will be plenty out there when we are ready.

Yep. No need to rush into this.

Stop looking at what's available until you are ready!!!!

That's what happened with me and the 928 GTS.

After my 944 Turbo tanked and I sold it, look at regular sites for BoxsterS's and 911 Cabs with PASM just to see what years and how much money I needed to save. While looking pulled up 928s to see what my old 90 928 GT would be worth today and stumbled on a 5 speed 94 928 GTS in Iris Blue Metallic/Classic Grey. A very pretty blue 928 that is also very rare. Not only that it also had all the suspension etc upgrades that I would do and in perfect and well maintained condition. Tried for 2 weeks to talk myself out of it and ended up deciding there would never be another 928 like it come up for sale. Offered the guy much less than he was asking and HE TOOK IT.

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This is from the autotrader add. There were only 4 made that color. 2 5 speeds and one was totaled and scrapped. One of the 2 Autos is in Helsinki.
At 46K miles it wasn't enough to be a low mileage collector car, but low enough it's a really nice car.

So...I have to tell everyone to NOT look unless you are willing to buy because you just might find that one car.

Still pretty cool that my wife is so into getting another. I'm a lucky fella!

It was 44 degrees when we left Jay Peak. It is 91 degrees here at home. We made it home 30 minutes ago. The dogs are happier we are home than we are and we are indeed happy to be home.

Welcome home holiday groupies. Rest up!

Yep, she's either a good one, or you are absolutely miserable being Porscheless.

It was 2 months between the 944 turbo and the 928 GTS.
When I told my brother I was offered 70K for it he thought I should sell it, get a Mustang and bank the difference.
He has a 57 T-bird he is trying to sell and daily drove a Mustang, but after wrecking the Mustang twice now has one of those French Ford SUVs, an Escapé.
Pretty sure that he wrecked the Mustang because he kept trying to drive it faster than it was capable of handling.

Yep. :)

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Wayne, no reason to rush on 996s. They seem to be at the bottom and stabilized. I don't see them going up in the not few years.

Yeah, that's what I figured.

We are going to look seriously next spring. Barring any major emergencies, we will have more to spend anyway.

Glad Glen and Mrs. arrived home safe and sound.

Ok, in case anyone ever asks you, you can say with certainty a 1985 911 Carrera can haul two people and enough clothes to make 5 full loads of laundry. That does not even include the towels used to wash the car. Of course we had other stuff besides clothes. The car is empty but still dirty. I was about to wash it and the rain arrived. Washing cars in a thunderstorm is not on my to do list.