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Buying a long time no run 928 and expecting to have a "professional" put it back on the road is not likely to have a happy ending. There are very few professionals that have any 928 skills at all, maybe a dozen around the world? Paying a real 928 professional to put the subject car back on the road would generate rightful and required work whose bills would look like phone numbers. Landseer has put at least 6 928's back on the road after long sleeps, me? I have only done 2. Many hours of work, some of it most satisfying, some, not so much. In my case on the 2 cars I spent perhaps 20 hours on each TBWP replacement. Maybe 60-80 hours on general clean up. 20 hrs on AC systems. Maybe 40-60 hours chasing electrical gremlins, still have some. 15 hours to replace the hoses in the injection system and fuel lines. 20 hours to straighten out the transmission messed up by prior owner. 20 hours to replace all the wheel bearings, clean and lube the CV's. Then there is paint work to do, interior pieces to renovate, instrument cluster repairs, rubber trim to replace, after market alarms to remove, on and on.......