I'm flying to Detroit Saturday morning and picking up my first ever 928. I pretty pumped!!!

I think I'm more excited about the 12 hour road trip home to the New Jersey Shore.

I'll be sure to wave to everyone as I pass you by

I am including my personal endorsement of Andrew Olson because of the following.

I am new to 928's and I was looking for the "right" car. I've owned a 944 Turbo as well as a Boxster and a few muscle cars. When I stumbled upon this site, Andrew (as well as many of you guys) were egar, patient and very very nice to me to teach me about these cars, what to look for and what to look out for.

When I discovered that Andrew was selling his car and I contacted him about it and he was over the top accommodating.

He explained everything about his car, sent me photo's, video's and made sure I was comfortable during the whole process.

He was patient with my stupid questions and went out of his way to fix the things that needed fixing as well as polishing the car for me.

And after all of this, he's picking me up at the airport.

Andrew doesn't know me or has ever heard of me, but he went out of his way to be nice to me.

He is passionate and knowledgable about these cars and cares about people.

I don't know anybody on this site. I'm not a OC member (yet), I have nothing against anyone or any current board members. Basically I don't have a dog in this hunt.

But if a president is elected based on passion, character and kindness, Andrew has my vote!

Well...unless this car turnes out to be a piece of s#@t, the I take all of this back

 

Don't forget its the woodward dream cruise this weekend if your in Detroit you have to make atleast one tour of the woodward/pontiac loop, you have your new baby show it off for all to see.... congradulations and happy motoring


Paul

 

Welcome to the group, and congrats on your purchase. The drive home will be a pleasure. Take a few alternate routes on the way, instead of just I-90/80 all the way. It's your 'first time', make it memorable! Good group of owners there on the Jersey Shore area too. Lots of good support. Take advantage during your formative period.

 

Woodward Dream Cruise would be a hell of a first drive… never been there, only dreamt about it.
Heard from multiple people how cool it is. Something every car guy should experience at least once.

 

The cruise is a good way to test the cooling system.

 

Let's not push it!

Actually, I'm certain it would be fine. The car is all cleaned up and ready to go. My wife cannot wait for it to go... she wants her garage space back.

Steve-
A quick update. Since I plugged the alarm/keyless entry system back in, the battery has been fine. I'll verify when I get back on Thursday night that all is good as this will be a 5-day stint with the alarm activated.

I will not pick you up in your car, because I want you to see it start up COLD, but I will pick you up in a 928!

And thanks for the endorsement.

 

Sweet.. I drooled from a distance over that car. Lucky dog, welcome to the Forums

 

Thanks everyone, this week is going by so slow...

 

Detroit must be the resting spot for 928's. I purchased mine from Detroit as well and drove it back to Baltimore. Flew out, site unseen, and drove it back. No problems on the way back. Just wished the a/c worked.
Good luck with your adventure!

 

Congratulations on your car . You will enjoy the trip. I flew to seattle WA about 4 weeks ago and drove mine back to Virginia also with no A/C or Radio. But who needs one with the way these things sound and move. ENJOY!!

 

Good that you had the sense to buy from an enthusiast on this list- 90% of the battle won with that decision alone!

Just remember you are not buying a new car and things can and invariably will still go wrong from time to time but hopefully not too often and not too expensively. You should still put aside a couple of grand contingency for this and that and if you do not need it great but do not whinge if you do.

Have a good ride home!

Good luck with your new purchase.

Fred R

 

The AC works on this car! SHould be a comfortable drive home.

Fred is a wise man. A $2k reserve is always a good plan. You never know what could go wrong.

Fortunately, here is a list of things fixed/sorted on this car that should make it a non-issue:

Complete topend refresh
Vacuum lines
Knock sensors
Breather hoses
Throttle position switch
Caps
Rotors
Wires
spark plugs
Passenger-side head gasket
Cam seals
32V'r cam timing
Timimng Belt
Porkensioner
MSDS Headers (came on the car)
Sharktuned
New fluids
New front Spoiler
New front brake pads
Trans filter and fluid change
Repaired CE panel (mouse damage)
replaced broken fog lens (damn those things are expensive!)
Alignment
Re-built LH (Another expensive item!)
Complete detail of the paint using Meguiars M105 & M205 followed with Rejex "wax"

I'm sure there's more that I'm leaving out, but this car is in great shape and should be a good runner. THere are still a few projects left to do, so I didn't take ALL the fun out of it. Steve's gonna love this car.

 

I've said it before but THAT is the way you sell a car.

Complete disclosure, clean it up and make it look its best.

 

This guy is going to fit in here just fine. Just fine. Welcome to Rennlist

 

Nice rejuvenation. That's what so many of these cars need. $10,000 worth of very skilled 928 labor. To make them virtually new again.