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To keep this sort of Porsche oriented, here's Roger's thinking on why he's looking at this (yellow) Ferrari...a cut & paste:

My thinking: Porsche was where it was all at in the early 1970's with the best being the S's and RS. No one could compete with them in their hay day and I'm fortunate to have lived in Germany at that time and enjoyed not only my RS and the 77 German Carrera's I owned. I cant afford one now and good ones like yours are virtually impossible to find. I wasn't as fond of the 98 C2S for several reasons: it was too electrical dependent, (almost a nightmare sometimes when I wanted in the car, and was trying to start the car after leaving it set disconnected from power for any length of time) a blip in the electrical department and you don't know where to turn, I didn't like black as a color as it was too labor intensive to keep looking like you want a car like that to look, and an automatic transmission really suits me; with paddle shifting being a hoot and negating the automatic transmission stigma with the purists, such as the Tiptronic, which never was esthetically appealing to me. If you've got to go water cooled, I like the idea of something that's always been water cooled, rather that water cooling a rear engine car....
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-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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