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I imagine some of the stories of how people acquired their cars are interesting enough for a little story telling. There are the "bought it new from the dealer" stories, "had to sell it, but bought it back" stories, "finally found one and nearly died of exuberant hope during the compression test because so many others had failed" stories, "didn't know about compression testing and this car sucks" stories, etc.
Here's mine.
I was looking at Boxsters and RX-8s (really wanted an R3) as candidates to be my next weekend sports and track day car. Having done several months of research and having driven both several times, I had decided that whichever one I was able to find in the right condition at the right price would be my choice. This was in 2012.
A very nice Boxster showed up at the right price near me as a lease return, but upon close inspection, it had the scary engine.
A 2011 RX-8 Grand Touring made an appearance at one of the local Porsche dealerships. I went down to check it out and found it only had 4,000 miles on it, and it was absolutely flawless. It turns out Nick Saban (head coach of the Crimson Tide) had special ordered it in 2011, and it was supposedly on the last boat (one of the last 6 cars) from Japan. He had decided he was a Porsche guy and traded it for a very nice specimen. I tried to cut a deal on it, but they wanted way too much for it and would not budge on the price ($33K I think it was). I walked away figuring they would call me back, but they sold it to a local school teacher turned private tutor the next day.
Fast forward about 5 months. I looked at a lot of cars and did not find anything that flipped my lid. I even took a detour toward the new-at-that-time Subaru BRZ, but could not make myself like it. A very familiar looking 2011 RX-8 appeared on AutoTrader. I contacted the seller and met him to check it out. It was the same car that now had 9,000 miles on the odo. His story was that his new business was struggling and he had another baby on the way, so he had to get rid of it. He was also mildly afraid of the engine after spending time on rx8club.com. :evil_laug
He previously had a couple of RX-7s, and this RX-8 was pretty much his dream car, so he waffled on me for a couple of weeks about selling it. I had thrown him a low offer of $20K as a place to start negotiating and expected to pay $25-27K. He emailed me after going dark for a week and accepted my original offer. We worked out the deal, and it was mine a week later. I felt like I stole the car from him, and I have been driving it like I stole it ever since.
I imagine some of the stories of how people acquired their cars are interesting enough for a little story telling. There are the "bought it new from the dealer" stories, "had to sell it, but bought it back" stories, "finally found one and nearly died of exuberant hope during the compression test because so many others had failed" stories, "didn't know about compression testing and this car sucks" stories, etc.
Here's mine.
I was looking at Boxsters and RX-8s (really wanted an R3) as candidates to be my next weekend sports and track day car. Having done several months of research and having driven both several times, I had decided that whichever one I was able to find in the right condition at the right price would be my choice. This was in 2012.
A very nice Boxster showed up at the right price near me as a lease return, but upon close inspection, it had the scary engine.
A 2011 RX-8 Grand Touring made an appearance at one of the local Porsche dealerships. I went down to check it out and found it only had 4,000 miles on it, and it was absolutely flawless. It turns out Nick Saban (head coach of the Crimson Tide) had special ordered it in 2011, and it was supposedly on the last boat (one of the last 6 cars) from Japan. He had decided he was a Porsche guy and traded it for a very nice specimen. I tried to cut a deal on it, but they wanted way too much for it and would not budge on the price ($33K I think it was). I walked away figuring they would call me back, but they sold it to a local school teacher turned private tutor the next day.
Fast forward about 5 months. I looked at a lot of cars and did not find anything that flipped my lid. I even took a detour toward the new-at-that-time Subaru BRZ, but could not make myself like it. A very familiar looking 2011 RX-8 appeared on AutoTrader. I contacted the seller and met him to check it out. It was the same car that now had 9,000 miles on the odo. His story was that his new business was struggling and he had another baby on the way, so he had to get rid of it. He was also mildly afraid of the engine after spending time on rx8club.com. :evil_laug
He previously had a couple of RX-7s, and this RX-8 was pretty much his dream car, so he waffled on me for a couple of weeks about selling it. I had thrown him a low offer of $20K as a place to start negotiating and expected to pay $25-27K. He emailed me after going dark for a week and accepted my original offer. We worked out the deal, and it was mine a week later. I felt like I stole the car from him, and I have been driving it like I stole it ever since.
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