Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Break in the weather

Interesting story Stephen - thanks.

The 928 was unveiled in San Diego at the PCA Porsche Parade - you know, the 

place where you get together with a thousand of your closest friends.  They 

had it placed on some concrete blocks in a pool of water that just cleared 

the blocks - looked as if the car was driving on water.

About 15 years later, or so - at a local independent VW - Porsche shop in 

Thousand Oaks, CA, I see a silver 1979 928 for sale.  No, not the same one 

BUT read on.  Belonged to the owners mother.  Now this poor old car had 

probably never been covered - the interior was sun burned and had the proper 

"I have a burned up interior" smell.  The leather was shrunken and what 

wasn't leather was brittle to the touch.

Hmmmmm - not for me.  The guy says this is a special car.  Huh?  Why? 

Here's the owners manual.  See the picture of the VIN?  See the VIN on this 

car?  Turns out this was the car the factory used to photograph the owners 

manual inserts.  Too bad I wasn't in the mood for $63, 500.00, 7 year 

restoration project.  Woulda been neat to show.

Onward,
DOUG

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Stephen Sherman" <sherman [at] wildblue.net>

To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Break in the weather

Ok. 1st the Impreza, my wife wanted the 'base' model' 4 door hatch back. 

For

me, I guess the problem is it's just too 'quiet'.
When it's idleing your to look at the tach to make sure the engine is

running. Full time 4 wheel drive is good but I like it better if it did 

one

thing really well (got it to replace the Metro) and 30mpg is 10 less but

double the Avelanche.Of course I was not a fan of the Metro at first took 

a

coupe of years. ( I was ready to buy a Golf GTI until we test drove it, 

the

seats were the most uncomfortable seats I have seat in - I am 5' 9" 145# 

and

was ready to love the VW.

Porsche yes it is a 951 with factory installed rocker panel skirts. I had
previously owened a 1979 928 (bought used 20,000 miles on it from a
McDonalds owner - how could I go wrong?, well I found out), it seemed to

cost $500 every time I drove it, in 1984 we went to Stuttgart brought home 

2

suitcases full of parts and manuals - savings paid for the trip.  fixed it
and sold it to a friend who went through a couple sets of tires b4 selling
it with no problems.

In 86 our daughter was visiting her foreign exchange family in Denmark, so
we arranged for European Delivery of the 951.

We crisscrossed  Germany at 142 mph (I was told at the factory 5000 rpm
until the first service which was done 10 days later (they asked did we

sleep in the car - in Europe you have to pay for the first service unlike 

it

was in America. )

During the break in period I was only passed by 2 vehicles the first was 

VW

Golf GTI with 4 college kids in it. They did not fly by but slowly and
steadedly went by. The other a Volvo station wagon went by the same way.

After the first service nobody passed but on the way to Innsbruke there 

was

a fly yellow Testarossa that I kept up with.

When we were driving back to Frankfort there was a motorcycle drafting us

(he could have reached out and touched us at 162 mph (indicated at 

6000rpm -

was never able to have clear traffic to get 6500rpm in 5th).

We did several laps at the old ring, which I understand rentals and 

European

Delivery taged cars now are not allowed to do today.
One bad thing it was shipped into California so it was equiped with
California emmisions when we dropped it off at the factory for shipping -
even though we live in Kansas.

We put a bra on it for the drive back and tested the 100mph limit of the 

bra

at a 110mph the bra began to vibrate so I never tested the top end :-(.

Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 

From: <kjtar [at] cox.net>

To: "Stephen" <sherman [at] wildblue.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Break in the weather

I'd like to hear about the 944 turbo (951?) and more about the Impreza.
Is it "just" the Impreza, or is it an enhanced version, maybe?
Tom Reynolds
Tulsa, OK
---- Matt Boyd <ferrari308driver [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Stephen,

In looking at your list of cars I see some comparisons that need to be

expounded upon. Specifically, can you do a side-by-side comparison for 

us

on
the 308 vice the Metro? Enquiring minds would like to know...

-matt
'85 euro 308

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Stephen Sherman
<sherman [at] wildblue.net>wrote:

> This has been the worst winter since we got our 308 in Jan 2005. Today
> was
> sun, temp  in the low 40's,  old enough to know better and to young to
> resist so broke the 308 out and my wife and I took a drive. Normaly we
> only
> drive on the weekend because
> there are rock quarries near us.
> The end result FUN!  Take that ground hog.
>
> Stephen
> 81 308 GTSi
> 86 944 Turbo
> 89 GEO Metro
> 09 Impreza
> 04 Avelanche
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Re: Break in the weather	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Doug and Terri Anderson (dntdock.net)
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:12:14 -0800 (PST)