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Year:1985 Mileage:13868
Location:

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Advertising:

My wife and I recently moved from San Diego, CA to Baltimore, MD.  I went from having a two car garage to a one car garage, and, now, a baby is on the way.

My loss is your gain.  The last owner of this car never intended sell it.  He spent a lot of money on it, but he was hurt bad in the housing crisis and so I bought it off him in 2009.  I am willing to sell it for the same amount I paid for it even though I have over $15k in my own receipts since purchase.  I am an engineer by background, and I have a fair amount of OCD when it comes to my projects.  I just kept addressing every little thing that I could find.  I think that comes through in how I represent the car.

This is a California car.  The maintenance receipts dating back to 1985 demonstrate the desert provenance of the car, and the VIN report shows emission checks in arid southern California.  It has never seen salt or ice.  It has no rust.

I have over $50k in receipts for the last 14,000 miles on the car.  The car also comes with receipts dating back to 1985.  The mileage listed is since the engine rebuild.  

Here are the big ticket receipts:

Major Engine Rebuild (14k miles)
- Mild performance upgrades including ported and polished cylinder head, compression and cam
- Custom chip programmed on the dyno reaching 208hp at the rear wheel
Complete Transmission Rebuild (6k miles)
- Fast Shift Synchros
- Wevo Linkage, Wevo PSJ, Wevo Spring Kit, Wevo Extended Handle
Suspension Upgrades (5k miles)
- 24mm Hollow Elephant Torsion bars up front, 33mm Hollow Elephant Torsion bars in the back
- Bilstein Sport Shocks, Corner Balanced
Complete Interior Refurbishment
- New leather, new carpets, new dashboard, new door panels
- The pictures show it well

This car is absolutely reliable.  It leaks zero fluids.  It has excellent rubber trim all the way around, great heating, and ice cold A/C.  You could certainly use it as a daily driver without any issue and not have the guilt of devaluing a low mileage car.  I can refer you to Black Forest Porsche in San Diego to ask about my maintenance history with the car and how persistent I was about addressing every little thing I could find. Give them the VIN so they can pull their records and ask for Jeff, or you could just look at my book of receipts.  

There is just over 268,000 miles on the odometer.  The paint is the original single stage treatment from Stuttgart.  It has nicks and chips commiserate with its age.  It looks great in sunshine but a bit faded under artificial light.  The next owner might consider repainting if you can find someone near you who will perform a single stage application correctly.  Please don't mess up this beautiful car with clearcoat.  

The car is for sale locally and I reserve the right to end the auction should another transaction occur.  Serious bidders only please.

Thank you for your time in reading my ad and good luck bidding.

Porsche 911 for Sale

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Porsche LMP1 to use 4-cyl hybrid powertrain [w/poll]

Wed, 11 Dec 2013

With the Formula One season - and indeed his entire F1 career - now behind him, Mark Webber took advantage of his early release from Red Bull Racing to try out the new LMP1 which Porsche is developing, undertaking the final test session of 2013 before Porsche throws it head first into the FIA World Endurance Championship next April. The session - which followed previous tests at Magny-Cours, Monza, Paul Ricard and the Eurospeedway at Lausitz - was held at the Algarve circuit in Portimão, Portgual, in collaboration with Michelin, which is developing the tires for the car. But that's hardly the news here.
No, the news is the first confirmation we've seen on the type of powertrain Porsche has developed for its new Le Mans prototype: a gasoline-burning four-cylinder engine with direct injection and two energy recovery systems. This contrasts sharply with the V6 turbodiesel and single electric motor used by Audi in the R18 e-tron Quattro (or at least the outgoing version) or the naturally-aspirated V8 and single electric motor found in the Toyota TS030. Flexibility in the rules set down by the FIA and ACO give the manufacturers that kind of latitude, prompting F1 teams like Ferrari and Renault to consider developing their new engines for Le Mans prototypes as well.
At this point Porsche isn't saying how large its four-cylinder engine is or how much power it will produce. But it'll be interesting, to say the least, to see how it fares against the Audi and Toyota in next year's championship and at Le Mans when it'll be piloted by Webber, former Lola LMP1 driver Neel Jani and Audi's own 2011 Le Mans-winning pair of Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhard.

Jack Olsen built one Porsche to do it all

Wed, 23 Jan 2013

Jack Olsen has built himself a lair called the 12-Gauge Garage, and inside that garage he built a lairy Porsche 911 nicknamed Black Beauty II. Although it looks like one of Stuttgart's models from the sixties or seventies, it is actually four decades of 911 gubbins from 1965 to 2000 thrown under one shell: the lightweight body is from 1972, the transaxle from 1977, the brakes from a 1986 Turbo, the engine from 1995, for example. It weighs 2,400 pounds and it's got 272 horsepower to get it going, but it's still a pure Porsche, Olsen saying, "If you stop thinking about what you're doing, it will remind you in very abrupt ways."
Olsen said the real point has been to have one car that does it all, so he does everything in his 911 from neighborhood runs to 7-11 to track racing - he loads the aero bits in the car and bolts them on trackside. And he says he'll never stop tweaking the suspension.
You can watch and hear the rest in Olsen's words in the video below.

2014 Porsche 911 Targa

Tue, 15 Apr 2014

I've watched the electro-hydraulic roof panel open and close about 73 times in the past hour, but its fascinatingly complicated operation still has me mesmerized. I've concluded that only a German automaker - Porsche, to be more specific - would go through the trouble of engineering a roof system that essentially lifts the entire greenhouse off a vehicle, rearranges its components like a sliding-tile puzzle, and then reassembles all of them seamlessly (sans roof panel) to accurately recreate one of its most famed bodystyles.
The 2014 Porsche 911 Targa is a near-perfect modern interpretation of the automaker's 1965 911 Targa, a semi-convertible bodystyle that represents nearly 13 percent of all 911 models sold since production started 50 years ago. While the early car's roof was purely manual in operation - that's the period-correct way of saying that the driver did all of the muscle work - today's Targa is a completely automated transformation that requires only that the driver hold down a cabin-mounted switch for a mere 19 seconds to let the captivating show run its course.
After studying the Targa's elaborate roof operation at its launch at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year, I was sufficiently intrigued. To that end, I traveled one-third of the way around the planet to southern Italy, hoping that the Mediterranean climate would reveal a bit more about the reintroduction of the automaker's iconic sports car.