Stijn!!

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by HHI944

That bolster doesn't look too bad in the pic, hopefully it looks the same in person. Other than that, looks really nice!

its odd to see wrinkled leather there, almost looks like somebody sat on the bolster instead of in the seat.. you couldn't expect it on a 50K miles car(no matter the 19 years ag)

But I guess tall dutchies have more problem sliding in with a high bolster

[svandamme]

some say I have dark humor..

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by svandamme

its odd to see wrinkled leather there, almost looks like somebody sat on the bolster instead of in the seat.. you couldn't expect it on a 50K miles car(no matter the 19 years ag)

But I guess tall dutchies have more problem sliding in with a high bolster

Low cars and tall/big drivers definitely lead to bolster wear. I was 6’ and 250-260 when I had the lotus and that bolster showed it.

[GH85Carrera]

I got my 911 back from the paint magic place. Most all of the rock chips have vanished, some of the worst are certainly better, but not perfect.

Anyway the guy that own the place had to drive my 911 from the front to the garage in back. His is easily 6'4' and he pulsed the seat to the back of the rails. I am 6 foot tall, and I could not push the clutch in, and I could hardly touch the throttle. Easy to slide the seat forward.

[svandamme]

another atlas grey car drops off with sagging headliner.
There is no way i'm going to go buy a car for 35 grand with the roof stapled up.




Why do people think they can sell a car for such money, and just not fix that properly, before selling.

They are wasting everybodies time and even more of their own time.

I'm not going to buy it like that, cause I don't feel like buying a project, Its not something I can fix myself, I don't have the patience for it.. And Its already been stapled.. I'm not going to improve on that.

[GH85Carrera]

The good news is there are lots of other cars out there.

It just amazes me that a Porsche owner would just ignore maintenance and cosmetics on an expensive car. My 911 is 41 years old and looks and runs fantastic.

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The good news is there are lots of other cars out there.

It just amazes me that a Porsche owner would just ignore maintenance and cosmetics on an expensive car. My 911 is 41 years old and looks and runs fantastic.

That is absolutely ridiculous for a $35k car. Heck, if I was trying to sell the Prius and it had a sagging headliner, I'd get it fixed first.....and it's worth half that on a good day.

[GH85Carrera]

Since I have not bought a used car since 1995, I am far from an expert.

One of my friends was ready to sell his pickup. He wanted it to look right, and have all controls working. He fixed all the little issues that had made him want to sell it, then detailed it. He stood back admired the pickup, and decided to heck with selling it, it works perfect and looks great.

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Since I have not bought a used car since 1995, I am far from an expert.

One of my friends was ready to sell his pickup. He wanted it to look right, and have all controls working. He fixed all the little issues that had made him want to sell it, then detailed it. He stood back admired the pickup, and decided to heck with selling it, it works perfect and looks great.

I've got an uncle who did the same thing with a tractor. It sat around for a few years with a handful of minor problems, he decided to fix a few things up before selling, next thing we knew he had it in the fields bailing hay.

[svandamme]

2007 987.1 Atlas Grey Metallic
seller instantly send me scan of the options sticker, I was surprised to finally have a seller know what I asked for

Called him up, he says mint car from 2nd owner who is old and moves to portugal
headliner is indeed buggered but we ordered new headliner and just got the parts in today.. It will be fixed by Wednesday.
engine? no ticks , runs like a champ

Cool, I will come Wednesday 13h.. if it looks like the pics, interior is clean like in the pics and engine runs like you say and you guys fixed that headliner professionally, you'll have a deal.









Its a Belgian car, so no import, I could be driving by next week
Low options, PCM, thats about it.
The Wheels on it are Cayman S2 18 inch
It was sold on Cayman S1 18 inch wheels.

But I do like em (though I like S1 wheels as well and might get em to be original)

Only thing kinda missing is the cruise control and the ASK or BOSE speakers

But I won't skip a mint looking car with only 66000 km over that.
Cruise control Retrofit is not a big hassle anyway , just need Durametric or Piwis to code it.

and most ASK amps are getting long in the teeth anyway.. lack of MOST fiber optics makes it easier to put in a more modern head unit.

It has a curbed 211 engine, for taxes.. which is easy enough to chip up to stock 245 or a bit more 255
That curbed engine means the po wasn't a hooligan , not tracking it, but its possible he already chipped it.. I kinda doubt it from what I heard (older man).
I'll notice right away if it's 211 (flat spot at 5500 rpm) or 245 (pulls to 7300)



As for footy
I reckon USA 3-0 Belgium

Belgians will have a couple of early optimistic runs, but miss the goal or fizzle out
US will have countered with 1-0 at half time, maybe 2-0.

Then the Belgians, as usuall will fold, lack of team cohesion will start to show, the big egos will start to look defeated and blame the lack of passes to the strikers.. it will all start looking stagnant and defensive, no Belgians attacking and the coherant USA Team mentality will start getting more and more shots on goal till eventually knocking in a 3rd