Andre The Giant

The original owner of my car was a guy named Elias Bassile in Ottawa and I found on the web that he was incorporated under this company:

Corporate Name
MALIBU JACK'S CALIFORNIA FOOD EPIC CORP.
Status
Dissolved for non-compliance (s. 212) on 1995-12-13

Found it here: https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/scr/cc/Corp...corpId=1841548

He bought this car from Mark Motors in Ottawa and traded it in on something else at Citiwest Auto in 1991 and then the second owner Keith Miller which had the car until last November before I purchased it.

canadagord

Andre... Cool that you're in Ottawa as well I just bought my first Porsche in late summer. It's origionally from the US west coast and is now asleep for the winter. We'll have to get together in the summer once the snow has gone.

Gord

Andre The Giant

Yes Gord, we will have to get together. I am currently in Gatineau, but next year I plan to move to Russell Ontario.

Income tax is 6% too high here, so I will move to Ontario and put part of that tax money in a bigger mortgage ! LOL

jcorenman

Our GTS was first owned by a doctor in North Carolina, his third 928 I believe (83, 86, 93). He drove it for a few years then parked it with 16K miles, fortunately with fresh fluids. We bought it 16 years later.

The GT is a bit of a mystery, we bought it from Louie who got it from Jim Hurt, 140K miles in 2008 and 240K now. It was the one GT that Jim didn't crash or burn. He had posted that be bought it from "Mark A" in the bay area, and I have seen a comment on RL that it may have been Phil Tong's before that. (Phil's site-- www.928s4vr.com-- now points to 928OC).

Our 88 S4 is simple, bought new from a dealer in November 87.

marine928

Mine was purchased in 1987 at Long Beach, CA, by Kahreem Aboud a businessman from Lebanon. According to the extensive maintenance records, it was serviced by by the Local Porsche dealer in Santa Monica for 12 years. In 2000 he sold to a transplanted Brit, Mark Coles, a businessman/ Porsche collector ( he had several 924/944's, some modified some stock) this was his first 928.
Mark moved to Texas( along with his collection) and in 2012 decided to sell the 928 when he started his own company in Clear Lake area. I was lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time and purchased this great piece of automotive history and engineering. Mark was a very meticulous owner and made sure the S-4 was in perfect condition.
He kept in touch with me and was always available to help out. Could not have asked for a better PO.

OTR18WHEELER

The first Owner was Chloral H. Hilderbrand 1914 - 2001.
A banker who owned or controlled several banks in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, he was the head of the family who owns the local Stone City Bank. He was owner of Hilderbrand Motors, a Bedford Ford dealership from 1947-1963. He was a member of the First Christian Church in Bedford, the Bedford Elks Club, and the Bedford FOP. He was a Kentucky Colonel and a Sagamore of the Wabash.
He took possession 7/30/1986 at Royal Porsche in Bloomington Indiana.
He owned it less than 8 months, the 2nd owner, Dr. John A. Roshel, took possession 03/27/1987 from the Porsche Dealership (Shanks) in Terre Haute with 7,383 miles. and owned it untill 1994 with about 52K miles, the third owner, David P Hollingsworth, did not keep maintenance records.
I bought the car in March of 2012 with a broken odometer showing 75,100 miles.
VIN WP0JB0924FS862119

Binladen's928s

My 1983 928s was delivered by Binladen in Jedda Saudi Arabia. At this time he lived in Jedda. Very strange.
Regards

gcthree

You kidding? THAT Binladen?

gcthree

I do this with all my cars...putting together an ownership path and timeline. As you can see, the 2nd owner is the same as the 5th owner!

andy-gts

My 93 gts was first owned by a chinese gentleman last name chen, cant remember first name, was placed in storage in michigan and found by a banker dude that bought the storage stuff on auction and after finding it with 4 flats and dust after yrs of storage, He took it to a dealer and changed fluids , t belt etc and sold it to me for a song. car had 56 k miles on it when I bought it in 03.... I think the banker dude paid off the lein on the car that was written off as a loss 5 yrs prior to him finding it in storage...

now it has stroker and is a much wilder ride

Binladen's928s

The car was only delivered by binladen cars. But like I said before he lived there around that time. It's weird to think in the showroom he sat in one time. Cause it was a showroom car that's for sure because of the delivery and registration date. If somebody is interested I can post a copy of my service manual.
Sorry for my English, I'm from Germany.
Regards
Alex

jcorenman

Alex,

Great story, and Welcome! Can you post some pictures of your car?

OTR18WHEELER

Binladen's928s

siscogts

Was he stupid?
Was she stupid?