You could give me $2K, and I'd stand there and smack your head with a ball peen hammer. Same overall effect for half the price.

I've already dun it for nuthin...maybe that is the way to get to the ahhh mentally challenged...to keep em from fallin on down those stairs.

Mother always told me, "If you gona spend some money, spend it on appreciating assets..." That was the one time time I listened to Mother and her Gin & Tonic diatribes. I always did think that I was the cause of Mothers drinking..I do have a way of driving people to drink...come to think about it?

928s respond very well to guys who like to tinker and are good at it. They don't respond well at all to 911 mechanics who think they aren't real Porsches, and don't want to work on them.

With the exception of the 80+ Euro S cars, I don't know understand why anyone would buy anything less than an 85. Plus the 87+ are so much better looking, better motor, better brakes... worth the saving up for IMHO.

A cheap car isn't automatically a bad car. There are nice cheap 928s, just as there are nice cheap 944s. You want to buy one that someone has either cared for, or invested a lot of their own elbow grease. You can buy nice ones, or basket cases. Nothing is more expensive than a basket case 928, no matter the price. This one qualifies.

+1

I used to have a buddy in Atlanta who was what I consider a decent Porsche mechanic (and a better driver).

He explained one night how he had spent 12 hours that weekend fighting his POS 928 to replace the clutch. Now I've never done a clutch replacement on a 928 so I can't speak as to the complexity or even if he was going about it correctly, but when he was explaining the details of fighting the torque tube and everything else while laying under a car sitting on jack stands and then went on to explain how much he had spent on parts for it that weekend, I decided right then and there that I would never own one of those unreliable "exotics".

There is a reason why some (most) 928s are only worth 10 or 15% of what they originally sold for, they have lots of things go wrong with them and fixing them is prohibitively expensive, and that is compounded by their unbelievable drop in resale value to the point where having a water pump go bad can total the car.


911s made during the same years on the other hand are typically worth 40 to 50% of original price. Heck, ratty 914s go for more than a lot of 928s.

The mechanic's skill and attitude towards the car has little to do with that.

EDIT: the earlier 928s obviously drag down the price curve on the newer more powerful cars.

Don't forget the joys of having about six miles worth of vacuum lines to leak and split and give you fits. It's big enough of a nightmare on a 944 or 951... I'm sure the 928 is a real hoot (looks to have MUCH more in the vacuum hose department).

But hey, it's exotic...

I've had four 928's. All them were S's. All of them were 16V Euro cars as Euro specs were sold new in Aus. I have paid a little more for a good example to begin with but never really had any major issues. The odd relay here and there and my last one the maf went bad, no biggie though, sent it to Injection Labs and it was as good as new.
Drove one from Sydney to Adelaide with my son and it was non-stop trip and when we got home it was like we could get back in and drive it back to Sydney. Very comfortable cruise machines. They are great cars, complex granted, but still a great car.

But Shaun, everyone isn't like us, some just want to say they own a Porsche, and in the 80s, part in thanks to this movie..
YouTube - Risky Business

And this one..

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James Bond caused a rush on DB4s, Magnum PI did for 308s, but of the cars, only the 928 is to be found cheap (although a buddy is selling his 308 for $15K)..
One I had, dang I was young...

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I guess most of my post should have been green. I can't imagine how much that car would cost in the end.