When I started tuning in to this forum 3 years ago there were usually

about 70 - 80 people viewing at any given time of day.


Today i looked as i selected the 928 forum and 201 are viewing.

I've never noticed that many viewing..made me think.


Those that have been around since the early days, is this a lot of

people viewing for this forum?

 

Spring time fixing maybe?

 

big brother and the soccer spammers............
was it spring when you first pinged in?

 

200 people viewing here is a big number imo.

The big 911 forum on Pelican is at about 325 people viewing as it has
been for years. No change for a Sunday. It goes higher but this is about the norm for it. (i remember numbers)

I think there is a rise in interest in the 928 because plain old and very high mile air cooled 911s are just so darn expensive and hard to get into now.

 

216 now; two nights ago I saw 246, which is by fsar the most I have ever seen and I've been here almost 15 yr. Doesn't sound like human participation.

 

Bots can surely add to the numbers.

Another forum was known in the past for "holding" IPs for many hours, perhaps even a day after one visited. They showed hundreds upon hundreds, maybe a thousand online, which skewed numbers to grab advertisers.

Anyways, not saying that is the case here, but one can change the "hold time" however they please.

 

The Moderators could shed some light on the number of registered users viewing but not guests viewing i'm guessing..

With the 928 being mentioned in Panorama recently, Classic and Sports Car and online in flussig (a lot)

maybe interest is up significantly relative to 5 years ago.

I seems to be.

 

Newbies signing up to learn how to change a spark plug.

 

I have noticed that threads dont stay on the first page as long as they used to. Which is probably a better indication than numbers viewing the forums.

 

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

What's a spark plug?

 

I think the older lower price cars are picking up appeal compare to newer car due to reliabilty?

I've seen so much defective design problem on newer BMW that the prices are dropping like brick. A 2007 Alpina B7 cost the same as a 1986 Alpina B7. A 2011 750 LI valued at $35k now when new was $80k. A timing chain guide job on a 30k mile BMW cost $8k. I was considering selling the S4 but with problems I see in newer BMW and my Bimmer buddies are selling their newly acquired AMGs, BMWs to buy back old BMWs and sinking more money into reviving the car than its worth. A $2000 TB job on the 928 is looking pretty cheap.

Even my wife's X5 50k mile car requires valve lifter replacement or new head. I think I'll just let her drive until the engine explode then dump it instead of fixing it.

 

I think it is just time for the 928. I have always loved the design. Recently picked up 2 of them (1 for track)... They are cheap and the idea of a 32V V8 with a 5speed has a certain visceral appeal... Regardless of new car technologies... I am not really old enough to get into the 356 or the 911T cars that much. If I were to go that way, it would be a 930... But, I digress, there is a lot of value in the 928 for those that are into it...

 

The 928 is an enigma. Much of what I like about her (Penny) is hard to explain to others.

I say "she's got plenty of grunt and can really move", only to be reminded that I get dragged off from a standing start by japanese 4cyl screamers.

I say "shes really comfortable to drive, and great for long distance runs", only to be reminded of the road noise and hard suspension.

I say "She has a very unique almost timeless look", only to hear that to most she looks no different to a 944 or 968..

My wife said to me a few months back "when you first brought that thing home I hated it, thought it was a waste of money, but now I think I see what you see". And she even tries to organise dates so we can take it out together.

All I know is that I feel blessed to be in love with a car that is fairly unique, so beautiful, and drives like "I' think a car should drive, and at this very moment is relatively inexpensive. After two yrs, I still go to the garage just to look at Her.

At some stage others will appreciate. And values will as a result.

 

I get the vintage Porsche bug, non-specific but it seems to mean "911". Four-cylinder models do not inspire me - their history has too much VW in it - but wait, the VW history is even stronger for the 911 - gotta ignore that. I learn that the best "raw" experience would be a pre-nanny-end-swapper 911 with a G50 transmission - 1987-89. I seem to be late to this party, though - $30,000 - and the Youtube video for changing spark plugs belongs in the "horror" genre. The end result is yet another old 911 (probably in faded Guards Red), driven like a Prius by an old guy who might otherwise be a docent at a museum.

And there you have it: me, an old guy who is incautiously doing his own mechanical work and, if he succeeds, will drive his Porsche-pure 928 around incautiously, grinning at those docents. Overall, doing something special, mesmerizing the crowd at the PCA meetings. With enough money left over to buy an old Boxster (and with the new-found confidence to do the IMS/RMS job himself).

This story is being repeated all over the world, every day. Don't you think? Even the price of old Boxster 986s is going up.

 

I think that because the price of new Porsches are going up, it is dragging up the prices of the older ones.

Because as more people buy the older ones because the new ones are too damn expensive for most to afford; supply and demand plays a part and jacks up prices even more as more people look to the older cars to get their Porsche fix.

That is what I attribute the insane prices for 911's to anyway and the slow creep up in value for our superior cars.