[Mark021]

Thanks for the feedback L.J.

My appreciation is as you say it's just hard to be patient.

There are a lot of people who want to believe that current events will not have an effect on the price of these cars and a lot of them have a vested interest in thier beliefs so it's a very emotional conversation.

A lot of very astute and very stubborn people are still refusing to acknowledge what much of the economic trend seems to indicate about a turn around possibly beig a long way off and a lot of fallout yet to be realized. You're either a "the sky is falling, pay for the illegals healthcare liberal" or a "brain-dead; read my lips no new taxes" conservative these days. I hope I can stay somewhere in the middle and just be a realist.

Reality is I haven't been in a position to afford a "well sorted out" mid to late 80's 911 and with a son that may actually stand a chance at a decent school and a shack in Orange County that "still" costs more than it has any right to I probably won't be in a position to spend too much more than around $20K and change on a car.

I have a history with these things that goes back to high school and memories of an early 70's 911 that a friend and I drove into the ground on country roads with pretty girls stuffed in the back. I loved that car and have been through several cheap europeans in college and shortly thereafter in an attempt to replace it and never did.

Every once in a while I see some "old fart" putting down the road in an older 911 with a grin on his face and a look like he knows something the rest of us don't. I think I may have a clue what he's thinking and I woudl like to recapture it is all. I'm old enough now to look in the mirror and think; who the hell is that? so I'm quickly becoming the old fart without the car is all.