[911heaven]

I had a 73E same color I bought back in 2000 while home for the 20 year H.S. reunion. I never thought about the color for or against. I was just happy to buy a 911 for 1300 dollars out of a newspaper ad in So. Lake Tahoe. Trailered it home and worked on it while my parents were on a trip to Canada. I had the whole place to myself as I used to come home twice a year for about 2 months at a time.
There is not one car I can compare with that I felt so ripped off in my whole life. If you want to hear the story, and it is a mouthful, then you’ll have to read on.

It came with sport seats which were shabby, and it was a targa. The whole engine bay was caked full of pine needles with no engine hood. My OC CA college friend ripped me off on the seats saying he’d give me his ripped 73S seats in exchange with some JC Whitney covers he’d spend 200 dollars on and to boot. I ignorantly then said done! Over a month later and with 2 cans of WD40 filled up the cylinders and finally it started. It blew a couple of quarts of oil onto the ol’ man’s garage door but I got it running and driving.
I gave it to my younger brother for free hoping to turn him into a 911 man. Two years later he gave it back to me. He didn’t have the money to put into it and wanted straight out of it. It didn’t help that my brother in law David kept joking that Brian drove down the road with the car leaning to the right due to his obese (now ex-wife) Misty on the other side. It never ran quite right anyway since it probably needed the MFI pump done, something I didn’t know then.

I tried to trade it for some work to be done in the home town on two other cars I had there, a 70T and a 70S to a mechanic from out of town (CA) someone who had moved there but good mechanic. I was always out of town generally so I trusted him to do the job, and made the mistake of giving him the title for the above car. No work ever got done on my other two cars.
In 2003 or so I brought back a 73RS #101 from Japan and took it to a Porsche show in Ventura. At the time I saw some **** box cars back in the back of the lot with for sale signs. The above car in brown sepia had a big 1500.00 on the windscreen. I went and looked it over noticing that the engine and tranny were removed. I chatted the guy, got his card and then said this is my f-cking car!! The guy you bought it from is going to get sued and most likely you will be involved. He was shuddering in his boots. I had taken 2 rolls of film with my girlfriend’s camera which she later threw away when she knew what my intention was. Those were the only pictures I ever took of that car. I never followed up on it. The dude still lives in my hometown and works at Jiffy lube or the equivalent. The RS which is why we were there that day. That’s one car I never made money on for various reasons the brown 73E. Let’s just say I learned from it. Your car is pretty clean looking and I think as a result the color is meaningless! That means it's neither here nor there, just vintage and clean which includes the color that will tell the story.