Some background first, we bought our car in 2007.
We knew very little about early 911's, the other half liked the look of them, and it was going to be her daily driver.
Our small budget would just get us a T, and we had just started looking when I spotted one on American Ebay.
It was black, looked ok, seller had decent feedback, and was an E. I put a bid in, and had a good nights sleep safe in the knowledge that it wouldn't be enough.
Woke up the next morning and we had won it.
Oh shite! How do you get a car from America to Northumberland. Well seller would take it to the docks, Kingstone shipped it over and I arranged someone to pick it up and deliver. Very easy really.
Well what had we bought? Paint was a typical american one, and in a modern BMW colour, (originally Irish green)but could be a lot worse. Came with 2 sets of wheels, neither of which were the correct 15". 2 steering wheels and an interior cover.
No evidence of rust, and after the battery was charged and some fuel put in, it started right up.
So really lucky, it turns out the seller sells a fair amount of early Porsches, and apart from the paint/wheels was fairly original.
Now slight problem, as the car was mid Atlantic, my other half rang and said "I've seen this house". So a few months after the car arrived, we moved from our newly renovated house with a garage, to one that needed a total gut, oh and no garage.
We had already discovered DDK, and over the next couple of years went on a couple of runs out.
This was first day of the coast2coast
He didn't end up being our daily, but was used as often as possible, we are blessed with great roads round here.
And had the seal of approval from the most important member of the family.
Longer trips to Devon on holiday all performed without a problem.
In 2009, after a lovely day out in Scotland, 10 minutes from home,I had a crash. Thank god for agreed valuation as they wanted to right him off!
