Unsolicited offers
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From: New Jersey
It has become a real problem. I become worried that someone may carjack me. Some are so aggressive that they block you in your parking spot until you give them contact info (which is always false) or best yet is they chase after you and run out of their car if you get stuck at a light. There was an individual that came to a complete stop on the highway going the opposite direction while I was at a red light honking and screaming at me to give him a price for my turbo. nearly caused a major pileup.
I enjoy driving my cars but this is taking a lot of the fun out of ownership.
I enjoy driving my cars but this is taking a lot of the fun out of ownership.
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just this weekend i got two unsolicited offers,
saturday - someone knocked on my house door and asked if my car was for sale... which freaked me out a little so i immediately moved the car in the garage
monday - this morning i parked and went into a building and a guy randomly asked me if i want to sell my car., i told him no..
lol next time i should be an *** and say sure 70k takes it lol
saturday - someone knocked on my house door and asked if my car was for sale... which freaked me out a little so i immediately moved the car in the garage
monday - this morning i parked and went into a building and a guy randomly asked me if i want to sell my car., i told him no..
lol next time i should be an *** and say sure 70k takes it lol
Burning Brakes
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From: British Columbia, Canada
I also get asked at least 1/3 of the time that I am driving the car.
No one has ever been as aggressive as faced by other posters .... maybe cause I am in Canada.
The popularity and rarity of our 964 does worry me and has caused me to limit the amount of driving I do with the 964.
I've actually had to pick up a BMW 135i as a second summer car.
No one has ever been as aggressive as faced by other posters .... maybe cause I am in Canada.
The popularity and rarity of our 964 does worry me and has caused me to limit the amount of driving I do with the 964.
I've actually had to pick up a BMW 135i as a second summer car.
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I also hesitate now to leave my garage door open. I've had people stop in the street and take camera phone pictures.... I need a cardboard cutout of a Doberman to stand next to the car if I ever leave the door open again.
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Joined: May 2016
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From: Black Hills SD
I have had the "If you ever want to sell contact me " but it has been people from this forum. It's all good everyone has been real cool about it. Most say you should never sell her but if you do😁 Makes me smile and realize how special these cars are
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I was driving my pastel yellow 993 coupe in Miami when a 18 year old comes running up to me and starts telling me how cool my 993 is and he had never seen one in that color. That fact that he knew it was a 993 was instant credibility. He went on to say his dad had a green targa he was selling and being that father-son preferred coupes, perhaps we could do some sort of trade. Long story short I bought his father's mint green targa and kept the pastel yellow coupe...until I sold it to a collector in Naples who on the day he purchased it drove up with his mechanic who was visiting from Maine, in a concours late 60's 911 soft window targa in factory color orange.
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... {I hate seeing people taking pics of my license plate. errrrg}
I am rolling on the floor,...
thanks for the laugh Turbohead!! 
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I see you haven't lost your sense of humor Elliot. Too funny
Who says that todays youth don't have interest in these cars. It is funny how you couldn't give away a soft window targa for the longest time. Now they are such a rarity and highly desired.
I was driving my pastel yellow 993 coupe in Miami when a 18 year old comes running up to me and starts telling me how cool my 993 is and he had never seen one in that color. That fact that he knew it was a 993 was instant credibility. He went on to say his dad had a green targa he was selling and being that father-son preferred coupes, perhaps we could do some sort of trade. Long story short I bought his father's mint green targa and kept the pastel yellow coupe...until I sold it to a collector in Naples who on the day he purchased it drove up with his mechanic who was visiting from Maine, in a concours late 60's 911 soft window targa in factory color orange.
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Remember when most porsche enthusiasts thought the 964 was 'ugly' and maintenance heavy? Ugh, those bumpers are ghastly. Don't hear that much anymore.
I've had a few unsolicited offers but they've been light hearted. The last two were more unsolicited recommendations to sell since the classic 911 market was overdone. Just like the unsolicited advice 10 years ago to buy a 993 since the 964 was an unwanted ugly duckling.
I've had a few unsolicited offers but they've been light hearted. The last two were more unsolicited recommendations to sell since the classic 911 market was overdone. Just like the unsolicited advice 10 years ago to buy a 993 since the 964 was an unwanted ugly duckling.
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Coming up on 10 years of ownership and haven't been asked once! Maybe it's the perpetual smile on my face that they see that keeps them from asking =;>
I think they can sense I'll never part with it.
I think they can sense I'll never part with it.
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Remember when most porsche enthusiasts thought the 964 was 'ugly' and maintenance heavy? Ugh, those bumpers are ghastly. Don't hear that much anymore.
I've had a few unsolicited offers but they've been light hearted. The last two were more unsolicited recommendations to sell since the classic 911 market was overdone. Just like the unsolicited advice 10 years ago to buy a 993 since the 964 was an unwanted ugly duckling.
I've had a few unsolicited offers but they've been light hearted. The last two were more unsolicited recommendations to sell since the classic 911 market was overdone. Just like the unsolicited advice 10 years ago to buy a 993 since the 964 was an unwanted ugly duckling.
It's been so fun watching the 964's rise over the past couple of years.
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Genuine sparkly-eyed enthusiasm (I was a gawker long before I was an owner) is distinguishable from the sullen inquiries of a parking lot dent repairman with two other men in his minivan, all three of which call themselves "Wally."
The former is always welcome.
The former is always welcome.
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My wife calls it the "sausage magnet" because, contrary to the stereotype of Porsches being attractive to women, the people who compliment me on the car are overwhelmingly male. She loves driving it because men (especially construction workers) are uniformly shocked and pleased to see an attractive woman driving an old 911.
The only negativity I have gotten with the car is the miserable emasculated guys driving beat up minivans, who clearly are jealous of my 964 because it looks like a very expensive car and therefore I appear to be part of the hated 1% (they don't know that, in actuality, it cost me less to buy than a new Honda). Those knuckleheads zoom ahead and cut me off on the road or honk their horns if I take more than a nanosecond to get going after a red light turns green. I don't think that negativity is specific to it being a Porsche and imagine that it would be much worse with a Ferrari or other exotic car.