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Old 11-14-2010, 07:51 PM
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Read this and weep. Or don't. Just read.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...f-etc-18k.html
Old 11-14-2010, 08:06 PM
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Holy Toledo! 520,000 miles?!? Wow. That's amazing.

Thanks for posting this.
Old 11-14-2010, 08:11 PM
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That's great! It just been driven to the moon and back.
Old 11-14-2010, 08:23 PM
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That's great! So does this mean my 103k 95 now classifies as a garage queen...
Old 11-14-2010, 08:32 PM
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Jesus Jefferson!

Andreas
Old 11-14-2010, 09:38 PM
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I think he's going to have a tough time "letting it go for $18,000 firm"
Old 11-14-2010, 10:06 PM
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paint looks great... original?

but those seats must look like a bean bag...
Old 11-14-2010, 10:12 PM
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Soooo cool. Nice to see someone that got there use out of it. Now buying a used one with that many miles.... I'll pass.
Old 11-14-2010, 10:19 PM
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Call me crazy but a Porsche with that many miles might be more valuable to someone. Maybe not from KBB values but from a collector point of view who would continue to drive the car, it could possibly be a valuable conversation piece. How many people have 15k miles on their cars? Quite a few. How many have 520k miles? One.
Old 11-14-2010, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by cpdjfd107
Call me crazy but a Porsche with that many miles might be more valuable to someone. Maybe not from KBB values but from a collector point of view who would continue to drive the car, it could possibly be a valuable conversation piece. How many people have 15k miles on their cars? Quite a few. How many have 520k miles? One.
I'll take that one step further.

Buy it, drive it all the time, and then when it hits 1 million miles, call Porsche and have them do a press event for it. A great marketing idea for Porsche as to how sturdy and long lasting these cars are, and I bet you'd easily be able to get Porsche to cough up a new car for you for free to commemorate such a rare occasion. Many other car makers have given away free cars to their owners for rare high mile cars.
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Interesting. Lot's of highway use?
Old 11-14-2010, 11:04 PM
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I'd sure like to see that car in person and drive it. Looks good in the pics and lots of work done to it.........wonder how it feels?

Richard Drew, keep driving your 96 C4 Cab! Might need to drive it more to keep pace to this guy.
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Originally Posted by SKM
Interesting. Lot's of highway use?
Maybe we should ask him if he has his engine tray on Seriously though I wonder......
Old 11-15-2010, 12:10 AM
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Kind of makes my trip today to moms with a stop off to get coffee seem way too short.
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THAT is what porsches are meant to do.
drive it , drive it hard, drive the crap out of it.


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