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One night Series900 and I are up at his shop and decide to take a dinner break from the final assembly of '065. We pile in to "Goldfinger" one of his collection of 928s, I think an '83, gold exterior, tan interior, and drive to a local restaurant a few miles away.
It still has that big GT feel, power unremarkable (these days minivans have more HP) but still a classy machine after all those years. If you lived in Germany and had a meeting in Switzerland, you didn't take an airplane or the train, you took The Shark.
As we depart the restaurant. . . ignition. . . click, nada. Battery voltage good. Visual check of ignition components good. No excess heat in coils or ignition modules.
By and by we make it back to the shop and get the dually tow vehicle and trailer, drive a few miles to the restaurant, load the 928 on the trailer, cursing. Just for fun we try the ignition again.
And the car starts and runs with no hiccups, no warning lights, just the same as when we drove it there.
THAT is 928 ownership. A beautiful dream that is occasionally a nightmare.
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