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Geronimo,

I get that you want to warn others to the perils of aircooled 911 ownership, but unlike facebook groups, most of the guys here are in the "been there, done that" camp and still love our cars, even though we're probably all upside down money wise. All of us have had a moment with our cars where we had to make the choice. Keep spending or get off the ride and cash in our tokens. Unfortunately, you never really had any fun to begin with as it seems like your car was pretty tired when you bought it.

Actually, I'm surprised there's not more people like yourself that are upset after buying cars sight unseen for peak money on BaT only to find out that the car needed a bunch of work. I watch and comment on the auctions from time to time and try to point out obvious pitfalls, but with most of these you never know without putting hands on the car what condition they are in until after you've wired the money and the truck drops it off.

My advise to you is this. If you want off the ride, no worries. Sell it and move on. But if you want to get it back into fighting shape, lean on fellow Pelicans. There's no way my car would be half of what it is without the knowledge and assistance of the dudes on this board. As Kent Olsen said, score a copy of Wayne's book. And you'll need a bunch of parts; put WTB ads out there and I'm sure there's plenty of guys that have NOS stuff collecting dust that they'll sell you at the right price. Head studs are not the end of the world. Get that beast fired up and come driving with us. There's a ton of aircooled dorks in the upper midwest.