more eBay fun..... early 928 Turbo
07-01-2005, 07:16 PM
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Heinrich points out some interesting details, especially the radiator cap. The hoses may just have some of that colored plastic ricer mesh over them. Looking at the crooked brake pedal and haphazard crooked amp installation I have to wonder if this assclown messed up the metal injector lines while he was disassembling the intake. Or... maybe those are oversprayed too? Jeez, the guy didn't even bother pulling the plug off the front of the plenum to paint it. Makes me wonder if he pulled the console trim and pod switches to spray paint them or if he just (poorly) masked them.
This thing has got to be a wiring nightmare. The stereo install may have been clean... but somehow I don't think so. It may have been the 5th or 6th hacked job. When gross stuff stands out at 20 feet like the loose wire across the shroud and whatever is going on near the jumpstart terminal it gives me the heebiejeebies. Oh, and given all of this workmanship, what do you all think of the fact that he had the pod apart and was messng with the odometer? Aside from the fact he may have rolled it back, who knows what he may have buggered up or left out...
This thing has got to be a wiring nightmare. The stereo install may have been clean... but somehow I don't think so. It may have been the 5th or 6th hacked job. When gross stuff stands out at 20 feet like the loose wire across the shroud and whatever is going on near the jumpstart terminal it gives me the heebiejeebies. Oh, and given all of this workmanship, what do you all think of the fact that he had the pod apart and was messng with the odometer? Aside from the fact he may have rolled it back, who knows what he may have buggered up or left out...
07-01-2005, 07:17 PM
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to each his own car. if you pay for something you can do what you want with it. sh@# all the repairs we make and money we spend to keep our cars on the road. if somebody wanted to paint a shark pink thats none of my concern now. on the other hand if his father gave him that car he should be shot in the big toe.
07-01-2005, 07:37 PM
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It's usually an age thing...
I did the EXACT same thing with my very first car, when I was 15...
Before I could even drive legally, I was building my first car.
And I was painting EVERYTHING.
The engine, the suspension, even the transmission...
I was inspired by all the cool custom cars at car shows, and in Hot Rod magazine,
and I wanted mine to look cool too. But I did not have the skills or the money to
take the whole car apart, and have everything professionally painted or powdercoated.
So I was under that car with a spray can, masking tape, and yes, a PAINTBRUSH.
I was building interior parts out of wood, and covering them with foam and vinyl.
At that age, I simply did not know any better, and did not have the money to have
someone else do it.
It's just sad that a 928 is so cheap that a kid can save up, and buy one, and mangle it like that.
The kid obviously wanted a Ferarri. He wanted it to be yellow, and red, and exotic.
But he ended up with this poor 928, and he did his best to make it "cool".
I did the EXACT same thing with my very first car, when I was 15...
Before I could even drive legally, I was building my first car.
And I was painting EVERYTHING.
The engine, the suspension, even the transmission...
I was inspired by all the cool custom cars at car shows, and in Hot Rod magazine,
and I wanted mine to look cool too. But I did not have the skills or the money to
take the whole car apart, and have everything professionally painted or powdercoated.
So I was under that car with a spray can, masking tape, and yes, a PAINTBRUSH.
I was building interior parts out of wood, and covering them with foam and vinyl.
At that age, I simply did not know any better, and did not have the money to have
someone else do it.
It's just sad that a 928 is so cheap that a kid can save up, and buy one, and mangle it like that.
The kid obviously wanted a Ferarri. He wanted it to be yellow, and red, and exotic.
But he ended up with this poor 928, and he did his best to make it "cool".
07-01-2005, 07:50 PM
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I just filled my rust holes with cans and cans of bondo...
Sheepskin seat covers.
Lots of speakers, no amps... (didn't know about amps, just that you wanted lots of big speakers!)
But hell, that's how I started learning about how cars work.
Sheepskin seat covers.
Lots of speakers, no amps... (didn't know about amps, just that you wanted lots of big speakers!)
But hell, that's how I started learning about how cars work.
07-01-2005, 07:56 PM
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I rebuilt my carb .... let me tell you, that is a sure way to learn how to work on a car or it will simply not go. I also painted my wheels white as well as the hubcaps but they HAD to have the silver "mazda" shine through 
.... I helped my best buddy instal his "powerful" 9-inch door speakers from Fred Meyer, and he accidentally poked a screwdriver through one, which caused him to lose it (as we often did back then) and with a very loud and rapid series of "Fxxx"'s, he pulled the thing out, and with it the whole inside door panel, which made him madder, and he then banged it on the ground repeatedly.
When he sold the car a year later .... the door was still bare
.... I helped my best buddy instal his "powerful" 9-inch door speakers from Fred Meyer, and he accidentally poked a screwdriver through one, which caused him to lose it (as we often did back then) and with a very loud and rapid series of "Fxxx"'s, he pulled the thing out, and with it the whole inside door panel, which made him madder, and he then banged it on the ground repeatedly.When he sold the car a year later .... the door was still bare
07-01-2005, 10:42 PM
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Ahhh....memories of my first car...1966 Ford Falcon Station Wagon...160 C.I. 6 cyl with a TWO speed auto! (As my dad told me when he gave it to me..."You may knock some off with some floozie in the back, but you WON'T be burning the rubber off the tires!")
I DID put racing stripes and hood pins on it!
I DID put racing stripes and hood pins on it!
07-01-2005, 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Adam C
That has got to be the ugliest, pimped out ride I have ever seen. Where is Vanilla Ice when you need him
07-01-2005, 11:53 PM
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Keep making fun the of the car but you guys have not noticed that this is one of the few limited numbered factory race 928. Checkout the porsche emblem on the dashboard, proof of the authenticity of the 928. Heck, it even looks like the passenger air bag tried to deploy sometime in the past.
07-02-2005, 02:20 AM
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Well... If you start changing parts of something without a clear image of what the end product should look like as a whole, then you'll get something like this.
From his perspective, the car is beautiful, because each individual change he has made has some kind of an attraction for him. For most of us, we look at the complete car and wonder, if he forgot the small sticking-out lowrider wheels...
From his perspective, the car is beautiful, because each individual change he has made has some kind of an attraction for him. For most of us, we look at the complete car and wonder, if he forgot the small sticking-out lowrider wheels...
