The car has arrived!

The car arrived at 12:30 today; only 1.5 hours later than the estimated time.  I highly recommend using Montway Auto Transport. The driver was great.  The shipping happened fast as promised and it arrived in a reasonable amount of time and better yet the car wasn't damaged while shipping.  

The car looks pretty great on the outside but with some definite issues that we will have to fix. 

I couldn't resist and while I was just on a long lunch we jumped in to take it for a spin.  I LOVE THE SOUND OF THIS CAR!  I'm not sure what is different other than the high performance air filter system and the new upgraded muffler but man the car has a beautiful throaty Porsche sound to it.  It just rumbles.  For a car that is over 20 years old this thing can get up and go.  I took it out on a back road and really pushed it and it drove great.  The sway bar they installed in the front made a huge difference in cornering.  Wow.  

Rather than do the smart thing and test all the lights BEFORE the test drive we decided we should do this afterwards since our other 88' 911 has had several issues with brake lights, headlights, etc. The brake lights didn't work.  I followed Jodi over to our Porsche engineer Michael Rose at 9 Elf Motorsports (formally Tillman's Engineering) in Santa Rosa.  Micheal is a great Porsche engineer and immediately noticed that the rear bushings were shot.  We had a pre-purchase inspection done by German Vehicle Service down in Hollywood, FL and they failed to spot or mention this issue.  Ouch.  Anyway the good news was he fixed our lights in a couple of minutes. 

If you're looking for an amazing mechanic for your Porsche go and see Michael.  He's trained at the Porsche factory and he can fix anything and make your car run just amazing.  He's honest and he always does an amazing job.  Once he fixes it... it's fixed.

Anyway we knew we were buying a classic car that would very likely need a lot of TLC to be perfect.

Overall I am happy!  That being said... Jodi was the one that spent the day with our mechanic with him going through it and listing out everything he would recommend fixing or replacing on the car to reach the condition we want it in.  She has the estimate and list and I haven't seen it yet so I could very well not be quite so happy.  lol

Now for the best part... photos.  Of course it started pouring rain as soon as he unloaded it!