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After taking my daughter surfing on Satruday, we visited one of my favorite (nameless) Porsche stores. The kind that buys old P-Cars, and either spruces them up or does a frame-off restore, then sells them for what I believe is a 50% markup over market value. I've seen average early cars with the wrong (3.0) in them for $30K +. However, the owner is a pretty nice guy and there's always plenty of eye candy.

Anyway, a guy flys in from up norht to pick up an early "T". I'm guessing the price was in the low to mid 30's. Good looking car - nice respray but paint on the window rubber. I ask the buyer if he would mind if I looked at the engine. "No problem" he says, and moves to the FRONT of the 911 (I kid you not!). He says "I'm not sure how to open it." So I open the drivers door and pull the release for the engine lid. He looked shocked.

I wasn't sure whether to laugh or to cry. Who knows, maybe he was testing me - but I don't think do.

Pray for him!

Moral of the story - direct new buyers to the Pelican Forum.

p.s. The engine looked very tired!