My Story is really a story of 3 cars.
My Story actually starts with my 944S . I loved that car and swore i would never sell it . i tinkered with it every weekend and always kept it in top shape i had always wanted a Porsche and this was my first . The real estate agent selling my neighbours house had a 944 Turbo and watched me tinker with it on Sundays ..
One day he knocked on my door and asked if i would sell him my car .. i said no way .. He then told me he got t-boned in his Turbo and the insurance company gave him 15 grand. he asked if i would give him the car for 15 Grand.. i handed him the keys.. 944s in those days were going for between 5 and 7 G and i payed 8 for mine.
So fast forward about a year i had no Porsche but was enjoying driving an Audi 90 my neighbor gave me for 1 grand as it had over 350K on it ( km ) . i fixed it up and was loving it. one day on the highway the gas light had been on for about 20 minutes ( typical man behavior ) , I thought , ill be fine , ill make it home.. unfortunately the car was thinking " oh no you wont ! " car sputtered . i did the f1 weave to get more gas and it burst to life for one final run off the next exit, I slipped it into neutral as the engine completely died and coasted into the first gas station i saw ( luckily for me i went through a green light ) . I dead sticked it into the gas station right up to the pump with no PS.. fate struck that day .
This gas station had a used car lot attached to it , and as i'm filling up i see this little brown sad filthy 911 sitting in the back. i knew nothing about the 911 at the time. So i talked to the guy, and he handed me the keys . I couldn't even figure out how to get the rear engine lid open, there was rubber falling off it everywhere, including a giant bite out of one bumperette. It was filthy and a mess.. I went home did some research figured out how to open the rear engine lid and went back ... after thinking on it I came to the conclusion i could save this car ... it was rough but i could do it .. At the time , my wife thought i was insane as the the 944 was so beautiful in its Diamond blue metallic paint, and this thing looked horrible and didnt even have power windows and barely ran. she said i should take it and put it against that new Porsche that just came out a while back ( 996 ) Sure enough .. i did the deal for this one and got it for .. you guessed it ... 15 Grand...
My wife thought i was crazy spending that on this car .. i had to explain to her i basically traded a very nice daily driver Porsche ... for a motoring icon !!
and the rest is history.