Forty years later
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Forty years later
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of my taking delivery of my 1985 911. Nearly 130,000 miles of wonderful trouble free driving. What a car!
I remember delivery. The dealer called me late on a Friday afternoon to tell me that it was ready for delivery, but I was scheduled to fly to Colorado early the next morning for a week of skiing, so I had to wait for over a week in order to pick it up. Seemed like an eternity, but the skiing was great, so things worked out.
I only put about 1500 miles a year on it anymore, but I’ll put some of those miles on today! Mike
I remember delivery. The dealer called me late on a Friday afternoon to tell me that it was ready for delivery, but I was scheduled to fly to Colorado early the next morning for a week of skiing, so I had to wait for over a week in order to pick it up. Seemed like an eternity, but the skiing was great, so things worked out.
I only put about 1500 miles a year on it anymore, but I’ll put some of those miles on today! Mike
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So I ended up with a pair of 911’s that I expect will get me to my finish line. Mike
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Indeed, outstanding!!! Huge congrats and kudos to you for sticking it out year after year despite whatever new candy was the year's temptress over the long haul. May you enjoy many more years of 911 excellence and happiness!
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Thanks. I almost lost my way about fifteen years ago when my 1985 was only about 25 years old. I figured I had about 25 more years left in me, so my 911 would have to make it to 50 years old, and that seemed like a stretch. Problem was, what could I replace it with that I would be willing to live with for another 25 years? I didn’t really like the direction Porsche was taking with the new sports cars; the new 991 had been announced, and it was larger and more of a GT type than I wanted, so I spent some time test driving the 997.2, and I liked it and ended up buying one. I did a build order, and I backed off my original plan to buy an “S”, and instead I went with a manual transmission base model which was a lot cheaper, and frankly, it’s what a Porsche should be, and with the “savings” I added a few nice things such as sport exhaust and leather—-but much more importantly, the cheaper base cost took the financial pressure off a little so I didn’t really need to sell my 1985 911 in order to make the deal go down. This was prior to the value explosion for 911’s.
So I ended up with a pair of 911’s that I expect will get me to my finish line. Mike
So I ended up with a pair of 911’s that I expect will get me to my finish line. Mike
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My wife drove it once.
I regretted getting that PDK every single day from that point on.
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what a great story ..
imagine " sorry i cant pick up my Porsche , i have to fly out to go skiing " lol. i can imagine the eye rolling from the first world problem back in the day, for those of you not around, those were the days of horrific interest rates and people weren't buying much of anything .
Now it is just an epic story of endurance. !! well played
slow gold clap for you !!!
imagine " sorry i cant pick up my Porsche , i have to fly out to go skiing " lol. i can imagine the eye rolling from the first world problem back in the day, for those of you not around, those were the days of horrific interest rates and people weren't buying much of anything .
Now it is just an epic story of endurance. !! well played
slow gold clap for you !!!