...the 1976 -only 1976- special made-for-USA 912 E, my brother-in-law had bought via eBay in Sunnyvale, California. By that way, because it's rather unknown in Europe and due that, it was to get for a good price. "Real" 911 are incredible expensive over here, not justified 
He recently got the news, that the whole paperwork was done by the transport-company, so yesterday afternoon we rented a trailer, and tomorrow morning, shortly after 5:00, we went direction Roosendaal, a Dutch town, halfway between Rotterdam and Antwerpen (after we needed 20 minutes to dig out the back axle of my Omega out of 30cm-thick snow, where it was slightly slippered in.
The trip was okay, except the narrow neighbourhood-roads all streets were cleaned and salted. After 2 1/2 hours driving (the last 5km on terrible icy neighbourhood-roads), we reached the company. http://www.marlog-car-handling.eu/en/index.html It makes a good, professional and reliable impression to us. After short paperwork we loaded the car up.
It's in the expected condition, the seller hasn't concealed any bigger defects. The rust at the front A-pillar he told before, but it's so big, that you should do something with it. During the shipping in the container the air was so wet and salty, that some plastic parts of the interior got some mould on the surface. Not a big thing, it's cleanable with vinegar. The tires should have been good, but one is total defect, the tread broke off from the tire. It still holds the air, but it will blast after a few meters of driving. Anyways, it was expectable, as the car was standing since several years (if I understood the US-title correctly, since 1993).
I only made these pics for today, because we'd been in hurry. I wanted to be back in office at Noon nd the weather forecast said something about new snow and iced rain...
As nice details we've found these metal-plate on the back lid. Also nnother one from Nürnberg.
Sorry for the bad quality, but I was hasty nd it was cold (due that, and the waiting yesterday, in the wet snow of the trailer-rental-company -the light-cable was torn and had to be repaired by the guys there- a cold is coming. I feel it. I just took my cold-medicine with two glasses of red wine. Some people will scream bout that combination, but it will give you a deep sleep
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Due this plate, I think the first owner (1976-1979) has picked up the new car in Stuttgart, made vacations in Germany and took it back home. Maybe we can find out more about this trip in 1976
Back home after, we had two problems:
a) how to get this car in the garage? One garage at my mother-in-law's house was cleared, but the street to it is very narrow, not clened and salted, so full with much snow. Have you ever tried to push a car with 225-tires on a snowy street with ice underneath?
The Porsche is not driveable right now. The battery still has power, but not enough to start the engine.
b) The worse problem was: the ignition-lock was blocked!
We tried it several times, but then I had really to go home to my office-work. We thought: "F.ck! Does Porsche has similar idiotic ideas as Saab?"
Later on, Kay gave me a call: simple solution. Just spraying some WD40-oil into the lock and everthing was fine. No the car stands in front of the house (very surely for the first time in its life in snow and ice), the battery will be loaded overnight, so tomorrow it could be driven into the garage. If not, we'll push it with 4 persons.
So we had an interesting forenoon today
He recently got the news, that the whole paperwork was done by the transport-company, so yesterday afternoon we rented a trailer, and tomorrow morning, shortly after 5:00, we went direction Roosendaal, a Dutch town, halfway between Rotterdam and Antwerpen (after we needed 20 minutes to dig out the back axle of my Omega out of 30cm-thick snow, where it was slightly slippered in.
The trip was okay, except the narrow neighbourhood-roads all streets were cleaned and salted. After 2 1/2 hours driving (the last 5km on terrible icy neighbourhood-roads), we reached the company. http://www.marlog-car-handling.eu/en/index.html It makes a good, professional and reliable impression to us. After short paperwork we loaded the car up.
It's in the expected condition, the seller hasn't concealed any bigger defects. The rust at the front A-pillar he told before, but it's so big, that you should do something with it. During the shipping in the container the air was so wet and salty, that some plastic parts of the interior got some mould on the surface. Not a big thing, it's cleanable with vinegar. The tires should have been good, but one is total defect, the tread broke off from the tire. It still holds the air, but it will blast after a few meters of driving. Anyways, it was expectable, as the car was standing since several years (if I understood the US-title correctly, since 1993).
I only made these pics for today, because we'd been in hurry. I wanted to be back in office at Noon nd the weather forecast said something about new snow and iced rain...
As nice details we've found these metal-plate on the back lid. Also nnother one from Nürnberg.
Sorry for the bad quality, but I was hasty nd it was cold (due that, and the waiting yesterday, in the wet snow of the trailer-rental-company -the light-cable was torn and had to be repaired by the guys there- a cold is coming. I feel it. I just took my cold-medicine with two glasses of red wine. Some people will scream bout that combination, but it will give you a deep sleep
)Due this plate, I think the first owner (1976-1979) has picked up the new car in Stuttgart, made vacations in Germany and took it back home. Maybe we can find out more about this trip in 1976
Back home after, we had two problems:
a) how to get this car in the garage? One garage at my mother-in-law's house was cleared, but the street to it is very narrow, not clened and salted, so full with much snow. Have you ever tried to push a car with 225-tires on a snowy street with ice underneath?
The Porsche is not driveable right now. The battery still has power, but not enough to start the engine.
b) The worse problem was: the ignition-lock was blocked!
We tried it several times, but then I had really to go home to my office-work. We thought: "F.ck! Does Porsche has similar idiotic ideas as Saab?"Later on, Kay gave me a call: simple solution. Just spraying some WD40-oil into the lock and everthing was fine. No the car stands in front of the house (very surely for the first time in its life in snow and ice), the battery will be loaded overnight, so tomorrow it could be driven into the garage. If not, we'll push it with 4 persons.
So we had an interesting forenoon today
I hate Ford since the mid-90ies, when Ford Deutschland has created a kind of "Abwrackprämie", resp. "Cash for Clunkers". The used cars, they took for selling new Fords, were all crushed, without exceptions - and there were some nice classic among them.