Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:28:50 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: F/you think we have problems? Try owning a Porsche 928
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Maybe it's just me, but I believe that no matter how expensive a car is, if
you can't find one on the road in 20 year, it's not a great car. I'm not
naming names, but think about it the next time you're the road. Look at
whats left. Some Mercedes, Datsun B210s, Volvos and Vanagons.
In the early 90s, I restored an MGA as a "daily driver" (along with a new
Vanagon Carat I had just bought) but I spent more on the MGA than the
Vanagon. I drove the MG again recently, it's worth three times what I sold
it for, but it still sucks as a car! The Vanagon was faster.
Jim
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> they are and were a black sheep of the porsche family.
> when they were new and current..
> they had advertisements claiming the door-to-door travel time in a 928
> on the Autobahn was faster than the door-to-door airplane flying time
> over a distance of something like 250 miles.
>
> you sure don't seem many of them on the road.
>
>
>
> On 1/11/2013 4:29 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>
>> Changed the subject...
>>
>> Wonderful cars, but.....
>>
>> ....an absolute nightmare to keep everything functioning
>> properly....perhaps why you can buy them cheaply...Porsche dealers often
>> refuse to work on them, if perchance an owner had the cash to keep taking
>> it to the dealer every time something didn't work properly. Before I
>> gutted my 91 928GT and turned it into a dedicated racecar, it had over 80
>> relays in the 'power center' alone, which of course was located directly
>> below the heater/ac compressor and in the passengers foot well.
>>
>> Still, when working properly these cars are capable of Autobahn speeds
>> in comfort and control at a now remarkably low initial cost.... During
>> the 3-4 yrs I had mine in street form, it probably was 100% for only a few
>> days.....It almost always was amazingly fast and accurate on the highway
>> or
>> racetrack, but you would close a door and the alarm would go off, or move
>> the heated seat and the traction control light would illuminate, really
>> weird stuff...and often interconnected in insidious ways so you simply
>> couldn't "unplug" the offending system without disabling some other
>> essential function that should have been unrelated..... The workshop
>> manual? 14 full volumes! 3 full books on the electronics alone....a
>> nightmare... Called the "German Corvette" by the 911 gang, who hated them
>> and treated them like the black sheep of the Porsche family....
>> Don Hanson
>>
>>
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