We exchanged emails with the owner through the week and met again as soon as the check cleared in the same parking lot of Home Depot in Foster City California. Weyman and Karen took it out driving so that Karen could get used to the car. After a turn or two around Foster City and a few more pieces of paperwork it was time to take the car home to its new home north of San Francisco. Karen drove it up Highway 101 into some nasty San Francisco traffic and north out of the City.
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Buying our Sporto
Patrick was looking through Traderonline’s classic car section and noticed a few older Porsches seemed to be going for some pretty good prices. We talked about it and Karen decided that she would be OK with this. Kept watching the ad’s and called on a few. We arranged to see two cars one Saturday, one up in Santa Rosa, an older Targa, owned by a young kid living at home, paint was supposed to be ‘faded’, he did not know how many miles it had on it, his dad was a mechanic and had ‘fixed it up’ for him. The other was down in Foster City and I had only exchanged emails with the seller.
Our Intro To Sportomatics
We purchased the car in late 1999 from the original owner in Foster City in the SF Bay Area. Since that time the only real change we have made was to install a set of Weber Carburetors. As the old carbs needed rebuilding, the significant performance boost may have only been partially due to the Webers. Things done to the car are:
* Webers w/ fuel bars (whee-e-e-e-e !!!)
* Lower front end back down to factory defaults
* Replace leaking oil return sleeves
* Carrera chain tensioners (just because)
* New tires and batteries (Pilot GT 'junior' racers on S fuchs, lovely!)
