Nine oh one...if that's your dream, go for it. It's not my dream. You want a little History? I bought a '72 911S in 1974. I didn't buy it for status or snob appeal. I bought it to drive. Back then, THE Porsche to have for status was the Turbo. Nobody gave a fig about the old early 911S. It was considered obsolete, while Turbo was in.
Unfortunately, much later, the early 911S became "status"...the more coveted my car became, the less I enjoyed driving it. Finally, things came to a head. One night, I got a particularly obnoxious phone call...it began with: "We've decided to buy your car and if a hundred grand isn't enough..." I hung up on the bastard, whoever he was. Then I contacted my dear friend in Istanbul, told him I wanted him to be the next caretaker of my car. We didn't even discuss price for days...let's just say I gave him a half price sale on what is possibly the best unrestored '72S left on the planet. I also got a promise that the car would never leave Turkish soil. My friend is a man of his word. The USA strippers, flippers, and pimps will never get their hands on this car.
All water under the bridge...but here's a link to a thread announcing my decision.
What you don't read in this thread are many posts made by some of the dickheads who helped me make the decision to dump exotic cars. Their trashing on this thread caused it to be closed. Their posts have been deleted.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/328643-adios-old-friend.html
P-cars and F-cars bore me these days...I'm perfectly happy to be driving a nicely built Ford...and I do mean driving. A car I can park in back of my favorite pool hall and not worry about when I'm playing. Right now, learning to control a cue ball is as important to me as any car that I drive. Just a personal quest to improve my poor skill.
Now I feel it's me who was the fool for hanging with P-cars as long as I did.
Watch your mirrors...
