Would you pay £500 for a tool kit!!

soup dragon · 01-20-2005, 01:02 PM

Looks like someone has more money than sense-yeah its a complete 959 tool kit but ......£500 ($935)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31356&item=4521033273&rd=1

jtratza · 01-20-2005, 08:26 PM

Hope it includes a spare DME relay. Mine (1987 Targa NOT a 959) quit Wednesday 3 miles from the house on my way to south Texas 340 miles away. I should consider myself lucky it didn't quit 300 miles from home. And the spare I should have been carrying was used a few years ago and not replaced like I should have done.

GeorgeM · GeorgeM's Garage

Wonder what happened to the car....

dickster · 01-21-2005, 03:57 AM

mmm, and £50 postage

Deschodt · 01-21-2005, 11:30 AM

People pay that and way more all the time for 356 tool kits ! For show, not even for use....

randywebb · 01-21-2005, 11:51 AM

pwd72s has a rant on the Early 911S forum (I think that's where it is) that covers the tool kit dementia. ...Ooops! Do I sound biased? nah...

Bob's Flat-Six · Bob's Flat-Six's Garage

Hmmmm, If you had a 959 that cost 200K plus and you needed a factory tool kit that I would imagin are NLA if they ever were available? (probably a special order item as they only made around 200 959's) this was a bargin.
Just think how long a guy that can afford a 959 had to slave to buy this kit, 15 seconds maybe.

soup dragon · 01-21-2005, 02:24 PM

Me being cynical-if they only made around 200 959`s who would know what one looked like
you could buy a fancy porsche tool roll £30 a real porsche compressor £65 fillit with some real porsche tools and a few german brand tools-pop in some sparkplugs and v-belts and sell it as a 959 tool kit

real550A · real550A's Garage

$500.00 would buy a lot of lifetime guaranteed...
SNAP-ON
CRAFTSMAN
MAC
+ the specialty tools in the kit like plug and fan hub nut wrench, etc.

masraum · 01-21-2005, 04:45 PM

I gotta say, it is pretty cool, and if I had more money than sense, what the hell.

pwd72s · 01-21-2005, 06:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by randywebb
pwd72s has a rant on the Early 911S forum (I think that's where it is) that covers the tool kit dementia. ...Ooops! Do I sound biased? nah...

Randy, I wouldn't call it a "rant"...but there was a bit of leg pulling going on, since I have a complete '72 Tool kit, as supplied by the factory.

Here it is, cut & pasted in it's entirety. I'll let others judge whether it's a "rant" or not.

Bottom line? EVERY item in the factory tool kit can be bought in the aftermarket, as far as function goes. Even going all, or mostly (Stoddard sells a better than original fan belt wrench, for one example.) snap-on with a custom made leather case would cost you less than the original kit would, and the tools would be better quality. So, I suppose it all depends on whatever turns your crank, or the cranks of PCA Concours snoots? I gave up caring about what these folks cared about my car back during the 1978 parade, when one of them took great delight in telling me what was "improper" about my car. I responded that I thought my car was "proper", because it was MY effing car, and it was exactly as I wanted it. Oh...I got 3rd in class...and I DROVE it from Orygun to Colorado, then entered the concours. To try to please everybody in the Porsche world is an exercise in futility. My suggestion? Please yourself first...
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randywebb · 01-21-2005, 08:56 PM

I didn't mean rant in a bad way. I enjoyed it, and it's very true.

I'm glad _other_ people do the councours thing - I enjoy looking at their cars and some of the historical research they do is interesting. But I'm not one... and I really get off the boat when the "snotty" stuff starts.