I'm driving in Upland, CA yesterday and see a beautiful black targa longhood parked on the side of the road with a sign in the passenger window that reads: "runs great / free to good home." I slam on the brakes, spin my van around and jump out. Now I see the front of the sign says: '71 911T $22,000 OBO. I looked inside and it was super clean. Oh well.

 

Yeah, when I drive my van around I've been known to fall asleep and start dreaming too.

 

John, I'm taking my camera to work so I can take pictures while I'm dreaming....

 

I bet the free to good home was for the box of kittens in the front seat. Man, you would have the barn find story of the decade with that one, too bad. I always loved that Porsche ad from the '80s that had the 356 poking out of a barn, with the lady asking $500 for it or something - and then you wake up.

I would like to see what a '71T looks like for 22,000 though.

 

speaking of unreal barn finds...a girl that used to work at my office came by a couple days ago to see if she could do taxes for anyone. She saw the picture of my car on my desk and said "in your dreams, I have a real Porsche" I remember that she inherited her brother's 356 so I asked if that was what she was talking about and she said yes, it's a 1956 356 complete with a second parts car in boxes in a storage unit. I remember the pictures of it on her desk shortly after her brother died.

 

I actually had a sister of my step-mother, give a 1967 Chevy SS Impala, to a couple of guys that did a little bit of cleaning out her garage, to make room for her new car she had purchased. They were there for only about four hours, one day. The car was mint! True, it was her car to do what she felt doing with it, but it sure would have been nice of her to have offered it to a family member, instead of just giving it away to total strangers.

 

I got one of my Hobie Cats that way. I asked about it, the wife went inside and got the pinkslip to the boat and trailer, signed them, and said thank you. she then pointed me to the side yard for an extra mast and the garage for several extra sails. It was a serious score and is to this day the only one of the three Hobies I can get up on one hull and keep up from one end of Mission Bay to the other.