HI Steve!
I have been reading as many threads as possible, though I haven't been able to type as much as I'd wish, mainly because I haven't had the time to reply.
I don't know how much I should say here, but basically I'm having to re-write a previously completed and done-and-dusted ready for press novel, because a competitor (fellow writer
) has got to press already with a very similar thread idea.
Unexpected, but it happens, but cue headless chicken acts from agents, editors and publishers....
So, my much-vaunted 'do-it-all-in 2008' freedom has disappeared into the mist.....until Autumn, and this isn't a 'flexy' deadine, this is a must-do.
Which means that I can't commit to CLM or going to see cars, or arranging for people to go see them.......ad bleedin' nauseam...
So that's that, for now anyway. However, I will have it sorted as soon as typingly possible.
Back to the cars: Thanks for the great RS addition from NZ, what a fabulous looking car! I even loved the 930 Turbo in the pics!
Again Steve, it isn't me that has bought the MPP Gulf Blue car, sorry chap, neither will I be at Hedingham, this year! But you have hit the nail on the proverbial with your 'dream car' quote.
Since I started this thread back in January I have gained a vast amount of knowledge about RS's (well vaster than before, whatever that vastness may have been, or not...) from the contributors, via PM, via e-mail, via phone calls et al. I have been told all sorts of stuff, which I know that the people who have told me wouldn't me to say on this thread. Which means that I have moved from Mr Iconoclast to Mr Circumspect, even, and it hurts to say this, Mr respect-the-status-quo (a little bit, all over the world!).
Hence not as many 'guess-what-I-know-now posts'.
Still love the RS more than anything else though, but I want a perfect one, I want one like '0496.'
Which leads me nicely into a confession of sorts, I feel that I can say this now, because PMJT has left a couple of nice 'bring-ins' for me to broach this.
<<Deep breaths - Kleenex 'man-size' at the ready- calms the sobs>>
'0496' is the one-that-got-away. I was the person that PMJT alluded to when he said that he 'nearly sold it' earlier this year. We had a long conversation via e-mail and mobys that was 'tentatively' leading-up to me acquiring this fabulous car. James(C) brokered the 'deal', but we had to keep it quiet. Fair -do's, I kept to that, and just mentioned a 'phantom' car that was in the background, well Phil's RS was it.
A few of you guessed the car with no other references! Well done! You know who you are, and thanks for not broaching that confidence.
So, at the same time as looking at other RS's, my heart was set on '0496'. I had to have that car. (You have to admit Phil, I did say from the start that you should be back on here
)
Well, it's history now, Phil got out in the car and that was that, the pale doubts of Winter blossomed into a renewed love in Spring....hey-ho.
Am I bitter? No way
Phil has been a great pal, and has shared stuff with me that I really appreciate, and is also very entertaining on the dog-and-bone. The very reason he wants to keep her is the same reason that I wanted to buy her so much, she's amazing!
There you have it then, that is my benchmark, '0496'. I have juggled just about every option of, restoring, repping, ad infinitum, but in the end, it's got to be right. No, I'm not a 'museum-curator' (that made me chuckle Gordon
) and I will drive the nuts off the perfect car, that's just me, that's what it was made for.....
BTW Am closely watching REH for more info and pics on the yellow RST, Russell's given me a price, but no pics as yet, or further info.......hmmm!
Am also waiting for the 'credit-crunch' to hit 911 prices.......
Am not holding breath.
Bet your're glad you asked now aren't you Steve.......Ho-Ho!
Cheers,
Steve.
