Hi everyone, thought it was time to do the usual first post and introduce myself and my car. My name's Jimmy, I'm 33 and live in the South Island of New Zealand with my wife and son. I've been a long time lurker of this site and love reading about all your great cars and advice.
Like elsewhere, the air cooled market has gone a bit mad here with prices going skywards and good cars getting snapped up pretty quickly. Due to the size of NZ it's also a pretty small pool to start with compared with many other countries. I limited my search to an SC or Carrera but they are few and far between on the open market.
After a long time searching I finally got a car that I'm pretty happy with. It's a NZ new delivered car (which is pretty hard to get here as many are imports) 1984 Carrera 3.2. It's a rand prix white sport edition with the usual extras of spoiler package/shocks etc and a quite interesting interior of burgundy with cloth Porsche script inserts. It came with a really good history of owners and documented maintenance with some bigger expenses already taken care of which was a bonus. Pretty original apart from a few small things and has a nice note with the stainless sport muffler on it.
I've done a few things already including lowering slightly (although NZ new which means it would've come in at Euro height it had been raised above this). Added bump steer kit, H & R rear spacer adapters, seine gate shift kit (already had factory short shift), rear rotors, pads and changed fluids/filters. Next jobs will likely be trying to get a plain decklid that I'll paint to match so I can switch between the two, getting a new 'smile' and probably straightening up the rear lower valance and just looking forward to getting in more drives.
It's my first Porsche after a history of classic bikes as it fits in with family life a bit more than motorcycles for us presently. My wife and I have just returned from a road trip from coast to coast (east to west and back) and really enjoyed the car, even though we got typical west coast (NZ) weather which was pretty heavy rain. Here's some pics from the trip...
first alpine lake of trip Lake Lyndon
heading towards the alpine and the alpine pass over to the west coast
second alpine lake, Lake Brunner on west coast side of alps
our stop for the night and great view from hotel
on the way home in the alps with a New Zealand native alpine parrot, a Kea
pointing towards home after a great trip
cheers, Jimmy