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Yes I sold it. Yes I missed it. No, I didn't buy it back. It was my first 944, an 86 in Alpine White. Drove it daily for 3 years and put about 50K miles on it. I foolishly traded it for a car I thought I wanted because it needed some work. Regretted it pretty much since the day I traded it.
It was bought by a woman who lived down the street from me and I always wanted to buy it back but never bad enough to make her an offer. Every day the car was sitting in the driveway as I left for work. Then one day the car was gone. And it was gone the next day, and then the next and the next. One day I drove by and she was mowing so I stopped to ask her what happened to the car and if she sold it. Nope. Her idiot son (14 at the time) took it out with his friends and wrecked it.
Then about 2 months later, it reappeared in her driveway. Didn't look like anything had happened to it. Kept watch on it for a few months and then when I went to work one morning, it was parked on the street. With the front end pushed in with a Hummer parked on the hood. It was finally totaled. Never saw it again.
Fast forward about 8 years I'm at the junkyard pulling parts off a 944 and some kid asks me if I have a 944. Got to talking and he had one too. Showed me pics of it and told me it was an 86. Funny, it was Alpine White. How many 86 Alpine White 944's could there be around here? I know most 944's in this city and never saw another white one. Looked a little closer and it had a set of door handle cups on it that I have never seen on another 944 before (except the pair that I put on my old one). Asked him where he got it and sure enough, he had gotten it from a body shop that had 'restored' it after being hit by a Hummer.
That car was the first car I ever bought on my own without my parents help. It was the first car I drove cross country with. I had many a 'fun' times in that car and memories that could last a lifetime with that car in the short 3 years I owned it. I wish I had bought it back before it became a salvage heap but that's not the way the cards fell. It will always hold a special place in my heart but I'm okay letting someone else enjoy it because I know I could never knowing the history it now has because of the carelessness of other people.
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