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I am really shocked someone would do something like this.
I am really shocked someone would do something like this.
How not to buy/sell a car
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Basically he wired the money (£38000) to someone before he picked up the car, and the guy isn't giving him the car until his private plate has come off it which takes a week or so. Something like that anyway!
I read that then skipped to page 13 where they were all whishing him good look with the car.
Faith in human honesty goes far for him, but looks like it turned out ok :s
Buyer agrees to pay £36,000 for a car, has a signed agreement to that effect, wires the guy the money and then the seller decides he wants an extra £1,000 for it!
Buyer threatens legal action, but then pays the extra £1000 to secure the Porsche and is now planning to take the seller to court to reclaim his £1000.
Sounds like the guy was lucky to get the car, as said by one person in the post, I wouldn't hand over all the cash until the keys were in my other hand!
The thing that really takes the ****, apart from the seller demanding another £1000, was that the car clocked up 550 miles between the point of the guy agreeing the sale to the buyer collecting! Not good for a classic car that only did 3000 miles a year. Wouldn't surpirse me if the previous owner thrashed the living hell out of it too before he handed it over
Buyer threatens legal action, but then pays the extra £1000 to secure the Porsche and is now planning to take the seller to court to reclaim his £1000.
Sounds like the guy was lucky to get the car, as said by one person in the post, I wouldn't hand over all the cash until the keys were in my other hand!
The thing that really takes the ****, apart from the seller demanding another £1000, was that the car clocked up 550 miles between the point of the guy agreeing the sale to the buyer collecting! Not good for a classic car that only did 3000 miles a year. Wouldn't surpirse me if the previous owner thrashed the living hell out of it too before he handed it over
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This would have been a 996 surely?
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Since the launch of the 911? Because if so - is it hell....it's like every other 911 since they lengthened the wheelbase for the B-Series cars from '69 - diluted in the character department.
/JRS reckons that might be a contentious point, but will plough on regardless
The 911 was always best with a reasonable amount of horsepower and properly tail-happy nature. The 911R is about the best example of this - 210ish horsepower, very light and by most accounts very good fun indeed. Pity they only made about 20 of the damned things. Of the early (pre B-Series) ones I've only driven a 911S - 160 horsies, but still very much a light and lithe sports car that was perfectly well balanced if you actually thought about what you were doing. The trouble was, most people didn't think about what they were doing. If everyone who clambered into a Porsche 911 actually took a moment to realise that a good portion of the weight was to be found quite a way rearwards, then they might have stood a better chance of driving one at speed without ending up in a ditch. It was never going to happen, but that's not exactly the fault of the car....
I will admit this much though - as far as the longer wheelbase cars go, the '73-4 Carrera RS is pretty much where they peaked. But at least they peaked pretty bloody well
Since the launch of the 911? Because if so - is it hell....it's like every other 911 since they lengthened the wheelbase for the B-Series cars from '69 - diluted in the character department.
/JRS reckons that might be a contentious point, but will plough on regardless
The 911 was always best with a reasonable amount of horsepower and properly tail-happy nature. The 911R is about the best example of this - 210ish horsepower, very light and by most accounts very good fun indeed. Pity they only made about 20 of the damned things. Of the early (pre B-Series) ones I've only driven a 911S - 160 horsies, but still very much a light and lithe sports car that was perfectly well balanced if you actually thought about what you were doing. The trouble was, most people didn't think about what they were doing. If everyone who clambered into a Porsche 911 actually took a moment to realise that a good portion of the weight was to be found quite a way rearwards, then they might have stood a better chance of driving one at speed without ending up in a ditch. It was never going to happen, but that's not exactly the fault of the car....
I will admit this much though - as far as the longer wheelbase cars go, the '73-4 Carrera RS is pretty much where they peaked. But at least they peaked pretty bloody well
How many 911's have you actually driven to come to this conclusion then?
The aforementioned 911S, two glorious laps around a makeshift circuit in a '74 Carrera RS, an admittedly quite tired 964 Carrera 4, a well looked after 964 Carrera 2 and a 996 Carrera 4. I'll freely admit that I've not exactly sampled every single facet of the 911 range, but I do know this much - the 911S was the best of the bunch, by miles. Not the fastest, not the most well equipped, not the most comfortable and in no shape, way or form the easiest to drive quickly. But it was bloody good fun, and I want to drive one again.
If a Series 1 E-Type wasn't my dream car, an early 911S or 911R would be in it's place.
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38k for that!?