[GH85Carrera]

I have very little experience looking for used cars. When I was looking for my El Camino back in 1991 I looked a vehicles that were beat to hell, because someone tried to use it like a real pickup. The nice ones were just not out there. Then one day driving down highway I saw my El Camino calling to me from a used car lot. The previous owner had traded it in on a new car. The PO was a Wal-Mart shopper and the side of the Elky were covered in door dings front to back. It had never been waxed, and the car lot had sprayed the engine down with clear lacquer to make it look nice. It was in good mechanical condition, and we worked out a deal.

For the 911 back in 1995 the internet was little more than a puppy, and had just become available for commercial traffic. The we sites were horrible, and Google was npt around, and finding anything was hard. I looked at dozens of 911 from early SCs to late Carreras, and they all had lots of issues, or were black, or silver. Finally I bought the Tulsa newspaper and there was the ad. I called him, made an appointment to go see it. My wife said I started drooling as soon as I saw it. I paid the loan value for the car, just wrote him a check, and drove home. I dad not do a PPI, so I got lucky. The PO was a oil and gas man, and worked in one of the high rise downtown buildings. He drove it everyday, but parked it in an parking garage, so it was in the shade all day. He had assigned parking and parked between two guys with nice cars, so not one door ding. When it needed any service, he had a local shop do whatever it needed.

I had the Elky painted back in the 1990s, and it was done by a local Porsche specialist, it has great paint, and not one door ding.