DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Title EDIT

Quite a few months I convinced my wife I should get rid of my daily and replace it with a 911 ( must give my wife credit here for putting up with me and my cars . )

So, daily sold and the search began. It wasn't going to be modern .... I've done the watercooled stuff before . I decided it was either going to be another 993 or a 964 ..... Had to be coupe , C2 and with a manual gearbox.

Now, anyone who's recently searched for a nice air cooled car will realise it's not quite that simple. The idea you can go out and find one straight away isn't reality . I took a trip down south and looked at over 7 different 964's that were on sale with a number of well known dealers ..... A real mixed bag of cars , non of which I was happy with.

Returning home , pretty disheartened , I wondered why I'd sold my wonderful daIly driver

A few days later, and in a better mood, I made the decision I wouldn't compromise and I'd search out the car I REALLY wanted

Hurry up or I'm off to watch IACGMOOH!

I'm listening


Edit - thinking of selling my C2 964. But it's a tip...

Finally

Which is why in the middle of October, 2 days before I was jetting off to Spain on holiday, I found myself jumping into the CSL for a quick blast over to Düsseldorf , to meet in a petrol station forecourt , a German who I'd only ever emailed and spoken to once ! What's the worse that could happen ?

As it was, I'd never been to Düsseldorf before and as I had come off the hull ferry at 9am and wasn't meeting my new German until 2pm, I had time to visit the car museum I'd read about.

Interesting place, a converted industrial building which contain numerous small auto based shops, car dealers and specialist classic workshops + a cafe ..... Well worth the visit and most of the cars were for sale too, not cheap though

This rs was nice, 280k euros from memory





Car storage facilities

The pink one?

Darren65 wrote:The pink one?

No, that's just the interior

View from the cafe



Lunch



At this point I should say, I wasn't buying a car here

After lunch, I headed up the road to meet my new German friend. I was meeting him at 2pm , but had to leave Düsseldorf at just after 3pm to make sure I could catch the ferry home from Rotterdam .... So only an hour to check over the car I had come to look at.

.... Well, it wasn't difficult to find the guy I was meeting , there in the car park was the 964 I was interested in.

I left my car and jochen took me out in the 964 up the motorway and off to the large indoor ski centre car park where I could check the car out ( not your traditional car viewing I admit) . Luckily, it was exactly as described and from the passenger seat it drove loverly.

Back to get my car and then off to Jochens house ( mainly so I could confirm I wasn't being scammed !! )

I agreed to buy the car,and then had to head off to catch my ferry

Come on man! Spill the beans!

Fast forward to this Tuesday ... After a 2 week holiday , then a big learning curve incl currency transactions, German registration laws and me putting a huge amount of trust in jochen ( I'd paid him in full the previous week ) .... Me and my wife were sat on a plane heading for Düsseldorf .

Jochen collected us from the airport , and then off to collect my new car . A handshake later, temp no plates fitted and off to the hotel we went .... Also the 1st time I'd actually driven the car

Now, Düsseldorf was quite a surprise, loverly City and one I'm Deffo returning to in the future

Glad you gave in & took a risk ...