[Mark021]

Thanks guys,

Yes it appears that the price range I want to shop in pushes me more toward a 915, but I want to believe in Santa so I'm going to go slow here and see what happens. Under the heading of "it happens" I refer to the silver 87 out of Chicago with about 70K miles on it that was sold within a couple of days of listing for $21K I believe, it was exactly what I would have hoped to find where the body appeared immaculate and the owner apparently had the means to put the money into the car mechanically and then the class to turn it without listing it for $35K like most arround here look like they would.

I grew up with these things and it's a feeling I'm hoping to recapture, something very simple. The sound of the 911 growling down a country road wih the country girl smiling at me with the wind in her hair is long passed but the joy of that time in life lives on and an oil burning pale yellow 73 911 with windows that just refused to role up lives on.

I'm not looking for something to sit in the garage and stare at but I do want something that is "relatively" low maintenance and as mechanically sound as I can find so an 87, 88, 89 with about $10K worth of engine/suspension/transmission maintenance previously committed to it over the years by an owner who respects it but also drives it would be perfect. Maybe there will be another situation where the car just needs to go and it truly isn't about squeezing the most money out of the fantasy that it'll be worth $100K some day. These cars were made to be driven and driven hard, that's the joy of them. A full 90% of the stuff I've seen on this site is never going to be anything more than drivers so it amazes me how much more people try to make out of them.

Off my rant,

Cheers

Here's to youth and the sound of a 911 screaming down country roads and corn fields... and that girl with the wind in her hair smiling back at you on a warm summer day.