Porsche Talk - Events and New Cars!

Get over and welcome back to Porsche Talk Radio Show.

Like the last episode, I'm Mark from Mark & Cars,

and, as always, joined by Ajmal, flight-cap driver.

Ajmal, it's been a few weeks.

We've had a bit going on in our lives.

Can't seem to coordinate getting together to crap on

about all things cars, and particularly Porsche.

How you been?

Yeah, not bad.

I was just about to say I've been a bit frunky recently.

I don't know what it is.

I think I've been travelling for work and also the little things

that you're trying to do throughout the day.

And I think my little brother puts it really well.

And he puts it where I feel like people make a choice,

like it's hard mode.

Why has everybody chosen hard mode when there's an easier option?

And I get that a lot.

Why didn't you just make it easy?

But anyway, how are you?

Yeah, all going very well at mine.

Thank you.

For the first time in a long time,

I've had a big weekend of car activities.

Ooh, tell us more.

Yeah, OK.

So on Saturday here in Australia, oh,

Saturday just gone, here in Australia, Porsche had the whole

sports car together day, which is a thing.

I'm pretty sure they do it around the world.

But anyway, the local Porsche centre has put it on.

So they put on the food and drink, and anyone that's got a

Porsche can turn up and look at the latest and greatest.

And people bring in some pretty nice cars that the dealers

know are out there.

So they put on some nice displays.

And it's a great opportunity to catch up with fellow enthusiasts.

And there's some pretty unique cars, some great cars, and some

choices that are questionable by most standards in cars.

Oh.

Yeah, so at the extreme ends as well of the spectrum of

Porsche enthusiasm, there's an amazing bog stock.

Looks like it never had a dollar spent on it, 924, straight out

of a paddock somewhere.

And there's also a 918 Spider.

So and there was a lot in between as well.

And there was an amazing display there in the entrance of it.

They had maybe eight or nine 964s lined up.

And it was like each iteration of the car, like they had

Cabriolet, Turbo, Turbo Cab, and RS.

And they had wide body, narrow bodies, C4, C2.

So it was all in all the colours as well.

So it was pretty, like, you're a 964 empathiser, which we know

you are.

The it was here was quite nice to see.

But in an absolute demonstration that no amount of money can

buy taste.

Yeah, someone has fit what can I can only imagine must be a

Gimbala body kit to a Carrera GT.

What?

Yes.

Well, why would anybody do that?

Look, like it was.

Look, everyone out there has got their own tastes and what they

like is what they like.

And yeah, it was very unique.

Had like two roof scoops on it or something.

It was yeah, it was it was in navy metallic blue.

But the colour was lovely.

And the car's overall condition was very impressive.

However, the body kit on it wasn't my cup of tea.

But it did have me asking, what is my cup of tea with a Carrera

GT?

Because soon they're all silver, aren't they?

Pretty much all the ones you see are silver.

If you ever see in the real life and, you know, nine out of ten

photos you ever see a silver unless someone's gone out wide

and wrapped one in bright pink like the other one here in Perth is.

And or if it's or it's one of the speed yellow ones that seems

to rear its head on social media pretty regularly.

But otherwise, yeah, looking at the Carrera GTs and looking at

this one going, man, you must, you know, you must have

really wanted this outcome.

Because I can't. Yeah, I mean, that is one of those where

you could take something really good and go, I'm only devaluing it.

And at some point in the future, someone's going to be putting this back to stock.

Yeah. And you know, that's how you know you can afford a car.

Just destroy it, you mean.

Look, will you do it?

Make it as the way you want it, not worrying about the next person.

Yeah, I always.

Yeah, I'm not always a fan of that.

Some I mean, if you've got all the money in the world, yes, do that.

Do what you want to do.

But most of the time, I always do think when people are doing that to cars,

and I think someone's going to be undoing that at some point.

And especially when people start putting, yeah, especially when people start putting

on aero and suspension and all of this stuff and just go, you know,

what, like Porsche in this instance?

Would have spent millions and of pounds and dollars

and euros developing that.

And you've got no, I'm just going to go and get something off the shelf and stick it on.

I'm going to go and put like, I don't know, a ski on the back.

It's going to increase downforce that I never go fast enough to get the benefit of.

The brand isn't unique in that front.

Let's face it, how many BMWs and V-Dub Golfs have you seen that have

suffered from a similar sort of fate?

That is true.

Yes.

So, you know, to that end.

Anyway, so that was pretty, it was good morning.

You know, it's been a couple of hours here catching up with, you know,

some people and just crapping on about their cars and that sort of thing.

And then I, we had classic cars and coffee the following day, the following morning.

And yeah, there's some like really, what was really eye opening about that event

is it's not just all us old guys hanging around with their arms crossed,

crapping on about some car that drives past.

It was absolutely heaving.

We had a lovely day here on Sunday.

It was, you know, for this time of year, we're about two weeks away from the Solstice.

So the, you're right in the middle of the year and it would have been, I guess,

low 20s, to mid 20s, that type of temperature.

No, no.

So yeah, it was pretty nice, no?

Pretty nice day.

And yeah, there are, it was heaving with young people, heaving.

When I say young people, I'm talking, you know, under 30,

a lot of people brought their car and, you know, it was, yeah, it was just packed.

And it was, yeah, really great day.

And it was nice to see so many people coming into the enthusiasm of the cars

and being passionate about it.

Look, there's an abnormally number of abnormal number of mid-engine supercars there.

You know, Ferraris, McLaren's, C8 Corvette, seen before and into that category nowadays.

You know, all that sort of stuff took up a lot of space and a lot of the young kids

love that stuff, of course.

However, you know, like you no doubt, I love it when you see something that you just don't ever see.

Yeah.

You get in driven and there's plenty of examples of that.

There's some an unbelievable Capri 3000 GT.

OK, so that's like a Mark I Capri V6.

Yeah.

I don't know if you guys got that particular model in the UK.

Obviously you've got Capris, right?

But the.

Yeah, we did.

Yeah, I think we did.

I'm pretty sure we did.

And it's a pretty lumpy sounding V6.

It sounds like a mini V8.

And it's probably one of the only V6's that actually I've ever thought sounded

muscly, if you know what I mean.

So anyway, this car was in a plumb condition, absolute stunner it was.

And there's a big rack up of type one Beatles that were just, you know, all of them were there,

mandatory polished, fruxed wheels with Porsche badges on the wheel centers.

But other than that, you know, that just beautifully presented and, you know,

prides and joys, obviously, which is great to see that type of stuff.

And, you know, E-type Jags.

You just cars, you don't see driving every day.

It was just nice to see one of these types of cars out about some amazing like this

is run of Renault, what are they called?

Renault 10S or whatever they are.

You know, there's Gordini type things really.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, just and Citroens and just stuff you don't see each day.

You know, I love seeing this stuff and these types of events, you know,

not often forgets that they get rolled out, you know.

Yeah, you should see that because I went to a.

Little classic car show and it's at the local college.

Yeah. So it started off, I can't remember, maybe seven or eight years ago

or four or maybe five years ago, ago.

And it was just a little thing, few cars turning up and it's gotten quite big.

And it was exactly those type of cars.

You go in at the front and, you know, just new Lamborghinis and all sorts of stuff

like that, then you're into the E-types, then you're into the Citroens,

DS is, then you're into the old Fiat 500, then you're into the classic minis.

A lot of Porsches, you know, from 356 years to all the way to 992s.

There were a lot of sort of 80s stuff that you don't see that you said.

There was a Capri 280 Brooklyn.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There was the 2.8 injection.

There was there was a Ford Cortina Crusader.

Do you remember those?

Like we didn't get those here.

I'm not familiar with what it is.

It's probably in the UK.

So it would have been from about 1982.

So it would have been a precursor to the Ford Sierra.

There was a ton of that stuff.

Now, the problem was I went down there with my daughter.

Sure.

And I didn't exhibit.

I think you could have, I could have exhibited on the Porsche stand.

But yeah, I didn't register early enough and you literally just paid.

If you walked in, you didn't have to pay.

You just come in and wander around.

But if you drive in and use the car park, then it's 10 pounds per car.

So it wasn't too bad.

But it was 30 degrees that day.

Sure.

So I take my daughter and it's just baking hot.

And you can't hide from the heat.

The cues for like any cold drink or ice cream are massive.

And she's getting grumpy as soon as you walk in.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm not there for very long.

But just the sheer volume of cars, the different types of where there was a

band playing, you could get a pizza, you could, you know, it was a great event.

And at the previous, not the previous year, the year before that, I went with my

then she would have been five then my younger daughter.

And it was great because we sat around eating ice cream, looking at cars,

show eating pizzas.

And she loves that.

So she would have been happy.

But it was just a bit too hot and not to go back to being the weather channel.

But it's rained ever since.

Since that day.

Yeah.

And the rain's going to end at the end of this week.

And then it's 30 degrees again.

Yeah, OK.

It's barmy.

Yeah, nice.

It's just baking hot.

It's just like either boiling hot.

And I love spring.

I love the changing of the, you know, greenery, everything that you see,

the renewal of everything.

And when the temperature hits like low 20s, like you were saying it was,

I love that part because it's kind of T-shirt weather, but you're not baking hot.

It's out. You're wondering around.

It's all just comfortable and nice to be out.

But we've had none of that.

It's just been teens, 30 degrees, teens, 30 degrees.

Well, you know, you're 30 degrees.

Yeah, that's our change.

Well, the thing is, my brothers,

yeah, because my brothers have lived in.

They're in Queens, right?

Are they?

Well, they lived in sort of my younger brothers in Queensland now,

probably for about the last six years.

But before that, for about 20 years, he was in Sydney.

And my older brother was in Sydney for about 25 years.

And obviously it's hot in the summer.

It's hot like 45 or whatever it is.

But when they're here in the summer and it goes to like 27, 28 degrees,

they are instantly go, oh, my God, it's so hot here.

Is that right?

It's just a difference.

Yeah, it's a different type of heat.

And also we're not built as in nothing's built to handle that heat.

Well, it is on air condition.

Yeah. Yeah.

Whereas whereas my brother lived in Sydney, he said,

he said, I've never been so cold as in my apartment in the winter in Sydney.

Yeah.

The building isn't made to combat the cold.

It's made to combat the hot.

Yeah.

So it's so in the winter here, everyone's, you know, toasty inside.

But in the summer, we can't handle the 30 degrees all the time.

So that was that's been a bit disappointing.

So it's going to go back to that.

And, you know, even when I go out in the target with the no top,

it's just a bit baking hot.

And then you always got to look for a shady bit to part.

Yeah.

I've started taking the top off and folding it.

OK, well done.

Plapsing it.

Because I was too scared.

I think I told you before.

I think, oh, my God, it's going to crack.

Is that whatever?

But I did look through the service history.

So it has been changed probably in the last 10 years.

And it gets a few sort of creases in it, but then they just even out.

Stretch out.

But annoyingly, a bit of like it's the tree sap stuff, not tree sap.

What do you call it?

The stuff like sea stuff that comes out of wood.

That's sep, isn't it?

That's sep.

Well, out of our garage, it's fallen from the top and landed on the top, on the target top.

Really?

Yeah.

The thick, gooey kind of resin almost like stuff has landed on there.

I don't know.

Let's take it off.

Break cleaner.

Break cleaner gets everything off.

Not on the vinyl, surely.

Yeah, that bit I don't know about.

I don't know about the volume, but you asked how to get this gooey stuff off.

I'm telling you, break cleaner gets everything off.

Even the skin off your body.

Yeah, I think I'd probably try a wet wipe or something.

I've tried cleaner and stuff like that.

Sounds like, well, yeah, since I was my suggestion.

The I did spend a bit of time in the garage

trying to seal up some oil leaks in the 356 as well, since we've last spoken.

Getting there.

I'm isn't that like a really close task?

Yeah, yeah, it is.

Look, I'm really close at the moment, which means I'm a long way away.

The.

But yeah, look, the house running pretty well.

Overall on that front, I do have.

Something going through customs clearance at the moment that was made in the states

is a bit of a one off trial from a mainstream company, which I'll give you

a bit of an update on to see how that goes in the car.

It's a little bit exciting for me anyway.

So I look forward to coming back here on that one.

I'll wait till I've actually got it and it's in the car before I go out

and do any big talking on that front.

I do.

I did find I did discover.

You know, I'm I'm sure you're the same as me on your phone or whatever.

When you turn it on and it's been off for a bit, it comes up with, you know,

here are reminders of photos from your history that just pop up from three

years ago or eight two one month ago.

Why'd one come up on the day that my Cayman GD for was collected by its

new owner two years ago already?

Oh, wow.

I know.

Oh, my God, that's been two years already.

But I guess I mean, I can believe it because I mean, we went six months without speaking.

So, you know, yeah, yeah.

So it's like, I know what you mean, Seth comes up and it's, I guess when you have

small children, you can equate it really quickly because they change so much as

they're growing up.

Yeah.

Because you think of nothing.

It's just a short amount of time and then you're, oh, hang on, my child was tiny

and now they're like a fully formed human.

So it's, but time is passing really quickly.

And I was thinking about when my, I sold that Boxster.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

That was years ago.

And I bought my, I think I bought my 912 six years ago.

How crazy is that?

Yeah.

My 356 is coming up to 14 years.

Whoa.

Yeah, I know.

It blows my mind.

Which, you know, seeing the, seeing the campmen's been out of the garage this long,

I think we both know it's time for a 911 in the garage.

You need to do that.

Have you got one?

I haven't, but let me get you up to speed.

Go on, hit me.

So, the situation is really, really bad.

The students actually thrown out by in a moment of goodwill by my wife, I suggest,

saying, hmm, maybe we should get a 911.

And of course, any grown male that hears that from their partner immediately ceases

all conversation, leaves the room and opens up what I try to.

This, this reminds me of that meme when Michael Keaton is Bruce Wayne and the

bat signal goes over to you.

The bat signal goes over to you.

It's really, really, really bad.

You heard that one.

What?

Anyway, um, now I'm at a bit of a, I don't know, I'd say conundrum.

And I'm going to outline it all and let's see where we get to on this room, your input.

And from the listeners, I'd love to hear from the listeners on this one.

I, my heart is with getting an air-cooled car.

Okay.

I drove one again recently and that reminded me of why I think I need an air-cooled 911.

When my budget's sitting, means it's going to be a G-series car.

Okay, they're the only ones that fall into that category because 96 fours and 99

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You know, the Longwood obviously range in varying qualities

and engine sizes from 2.7 through to 3.2,

but I wanna come back to that part of it shortly.

The other thing is after driving the, having the Cayman,

I was looking at water cooled cars as well,

which led me down the path of 997 manuals.

And I don't, I've driven a couple

and I don't think I would like to,

I wouldn't buy a 997 C2.

I'd buy a C2S or a C4S, okay?

Now, I'd prefer a C2S,

I prefer the driving feel and the steering of the C2S,

but finding one that doesn't have the string of challenges

that go with 997 ownership,

or at least a well-documented history

of what's been looked at, slash replaced and maintained.

That's been.

So you're looking, so you're saying,

so you're saying dot one there, right?

You know, that's a dot one.

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Dot one.

Yeah.

Dot two gets blurry

and that's gonna become quite apparent shortly

when I tell you where I've very come close to ending up to.

And the dot two cars,

they are held in obviously in a lot of esteem by Porsche owners

as is reflected by their market value at the moment,

which right like a well-maintained C2S,

dot two manual,

is in the same crossover point as a high kilometer,

but well-maintained 991.2

in a PD case, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So I've been in that where I've thought about that.

And you know, when you go, let's say you're buying a,

so if you're buying a well-sorted,

decent mileage 997,

and you're towards, obviously you're towards the top of the market

for that particular car because you want a good one.

Yeah.

But then when you-

Well, you know what, you can buy a cheap one,

but you're gonna end up at the same money as the good one.

Exactly.

But if you look at the good one

and then you cast your eye a little bit further up

and you start looking at these no-no-ones,

you're going from the best 997 you can get

to the worst 991 you can get.

No, that's not the case.

That's not the case here.

For what?

Yeah, yeah.

The, look at same level,

and look, I've been fortunate to drive both 991,

point ones and point twos,

and I'll be very upfront

and almost be stoned in public to come out of the state

when I actually prefer the driver of the turbocharged cars

over the naturally aspirated 991.

Oh.

Right?

It's the talk is very addictive, I would say,

it would be the best way to describe it.

And the difference in,

when I'm comparing apples with apples with the 997.2

and the 991s, the biggest difference is the 997

is a manual and the 991s are PDKs.

Okay, that's, if you go to a 991.2 manual,

that's a whole different stratosphere.

That's thrown another 50 to $60,000

into the equation and get a third pedal, right?

Yeah.

So that's where the big difference is,

but when it comes to kilometers driven

and service history, those two cars,

the crossover points very close, like within thousands.

Now, the single biggest challenge of God

is if I was to go to a water-cooled car,

is getting one that's a color.

How do you mean, like, that's not white or black or gray?

Yes.

Right now, in Australia, on car sales,

there are three cars that are not white, black or gray.

For sale, across both, 997.1, 0.2, 991.1 and 991.2.

Wow.

Across 108 cars that are currently for sale,

there are three that aren't that kind.

It's nuts.

And like I'm talking 19 out of 20 cars are actually white.

But this obsession with white 911s

in that space is just incredible.

Wow.

And as a result, you have to pay a premium for the color.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, that's shame.

So how seriously have you looked?

I've had one vehicle I had inspected.

That's pretty serious.

But it's not the car.

Oh.

I'm not happy with the interior condition of the car

for how much money it is to me.

Now, I know it's, that's the value of the car in the market

at the moment for that.

But yeah, if I'm spending that much money,

which is a lot of money to me, that's not the car for me.

Because of the wear marks and stuff like that in the car.

Yeah.

But it put things in.

That's been quite expensive.

Put things in.

Yeah, look, it's, I couldn't imagine myself getting it fixed.

Hmm.

And I'll always have to live with that compromise.

You know what I mean?

So, yeah, which brings me back to the air cooled cars.

Which are about 30% cheaper than those,

than those cars I was just talking about,

than the water cooled ones.

OK, so the air cooled in the temperatures

that you're looking at where you'd be driving.

I don't care about that.

You're OK for a short journey.

That'd be fine.

But what are you talking about?

I drove my 356 in 40 degree days for like four or five hours.

OK.

I don't understand why people are worried

about air temperature, but air cooled cars.

So I've got all these fans.

No, I just thought if you got stuck in traffic,

if you're not moving,

then you're stuck in traffic.

Those are the fans for, isn't it?

Um.

No, I don't know if it does.

I don't know.

I'm not even.

I've never remotely been concerned about this.

And I don't know.

You're not going to instill this fear in me now.

OK.

All right.

OK.

So anyway, have you had a look at it?

No, look.

No, haven't been any good ones yet.

No.

You know, and.

Oh, OK.

This I really should have bought that ultraviolet color car.

About 12 months ago when I wasn't in the financial position to do so.

That I really, I look back.

There's always one that got away.

That was the one I really looked back

and regretted that because it had all the boxes checked except one.

It was a UK car.

Mm.

It was priced.

It was priced accordingly, right?

But, you know, anyway, now, I want to talk about the air cooled engines for a second.

Mm.

But there's loads of three-letter cars over here.

And I'm sure it's probably similar over your next to the woods.

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah.

You pay a premium to go to three point two.

OK, over the three leaders.

But I'm telling you, no one wants to touch the two point sevens.

Why is that?

I don't know.

I want to say the same thing.

Look, one of the most storied and revered 9 11s ever made is two point seven

RS, isn't it?

Yep, absolutely.

Like you talk to anyone who knows anything about these cars, even people

that like more that were journals.

Henry Cashville said it was the best case ever driven on this very podcast.

You know, he's so he's 27 R S's are absolutely gold plated

when it comes to driving experience.

But when it comes to two point 79 11s, people.

A very standoffish.

Now, I know this talk about like, I think there's a magnesium case version of it.

People talk about the head bolts or something like that.

I'm sure this is the answer.

Oh, yeah, they're the shittiest.

They don't want everything you touch for those is no good.

But I think that my soul someone must have fixed all that stuff.

So I think and I think they were just potentially.

Of an age at a certain time when they weren't worth enough to fix.

So there's a lot of, you know, maintenance.

It wasn't done when it was supposed to be done or repairs done when it's

based on because the cost to do so at that time.

So I wonder I'd like to drive a nice example of a two point seven because I haven't.

Anyone's got that in the person got one out there.

Yeah, give me a little chat.

I'd love to have a spin in mine, especially if you want to get rid of it.

Even better is not white, gray or black.

That's true.

I got to say, I'm not going to buy a red car when I keep ending up with red cars.

Oh, look, I'm a I am a soft touch on a guards red 911

Yeah, I didn't want red.

If I was given the choice, I wouldn't have gone for red.

What color would you go for in a 964

If you had the choice.

Black or green.

Yeah, OK.

There's a lot of green cars get out of the moment though, isn't there?

Like every every three I see is green.

Yeah, what about a deep blue one as well?

Oh, yeah.

There's that nice blue.

What do you call these blacks?

It's like really dark navy blue that the career RS came in.

It was quite there's one in that color here in person.

It is.

Yeah, pretty stunning.

Yeah.

So so are you actively now looking then?

Yeah, for a G body or the right car.

Yeah.

So one is a road.

Yeah, but a road market.

But I think I would go for a G body.

But a road market.

But I think I want to do think I want to make a car.

I like driving the 964

Really like being out and about in it.

I sometimes feel like I'm not paying enough attention to the multitude of

dials and gauges, oil pressure, oil volume, oil temperature.

And you know, you're driving in, you just go, I should glance down and

I'm like, what's happening?

Look at everything.

But I do.

I really like it.

I like the noise, like everything about it.

I do miss my 96 a lot.

Is any updates?

What's going on?

Yes.

So I need to call Jack.

I spoke to him last week.

He was waiting to hear about a new head being delivered or secondhand one.

Yeah.

He has to get pressure tested and then that will mean it can go back together.

There's been some sort of aluminium welding where bolts have broken and stuff like that.

So he's had that done.

The staff is going to get rebuilt and the accelerator cable needs replacing

brake pipe over the top.

I want a little bit of work done on the air conditioning to make sure it's not leaking.

But I want it back as soon as possible.

But there has been a change in our.

In our garage makeup.

Okay.

Let's talk about that.

That's it.

Yeah.

So not this weekend, God, the weekend before my wife woke up and just went,

I've had enough of that Audi.

Now, you know, our Audi A3 with the 211,000 miles is a 1.6 tow of these like

anything to run.

When you use a man that was going to send it to 300.

I was totally on board with that.

And we were going to go on holiday to France and drive in it this year.

Really?

Yeah.

It's booked.

We were booked on a ferry and everything.

And she just woke up and went, I've just had enough of that car.

And I went, what, what are you going to do?

And then she went on by a golf.

She's, she's all about the golf.

She wants a golf.

She wants a golf back, doesn't she?

She does.

Yeah.

So that was on the Saturday morning.

By Sunday, she bought golf GTI.

Oh, nice.

Manual or a DSG.

DSG.

Yeah, yeah.

Nice one.

Now that was more driven by the fact that she basically went and bought the

first one she saw and it was closest to our house.

Yeah.

Did that.

Listen, you can be critical of that.

That's how you bought your 912.

That is true.

But I think that's how I find most of my guys.

The thing is, I mean, it's lovely.

It's a lovely thing.

It's kind of a silver crayon, kind of color crayon silver.

Yeah.

It's got the check seats.

And but it's one of those things where he's lovely to drive.

Goes great.

I see everything works.

She was, she was adamant that she wanted the winter pack.

She wanted heated seats.

Yeah.

I'm not blaming her.

Is it, what is it a seven, a 7.5 and eight?

What are we talking here?

7.5.

Yep.

Good.

You say same year as you.

Go far.

Yeah.

So yeah.

So same model year, but it was, sorry, it's a year newer than

our golf hours.

Okay.

And she's, so she loves it, which is great.

And then, you know, when you drive it around and you start

thinking, oh, feel me, it was a manual because our golf hours

are the SG as well.

So you've not got the flappy pedals that you can sort of ring

in.

It has got the panels, but yeah.

But anyway, it's, and it's one of those things, you know, the

buying experience, we went down, test drove it.

She went, yeah, I'm having it.

And she looked at me and said, is there anything you're worried

about?

And I didn't like, because I didn't have time to kind of sit on

the idea and think about it and all the checks to make.

I was literally like caught in headlights and I went, well, yeah,

it's gone through all the checks.

Hasn't been written off.

Hasn't had any damage.

It's got a service history.

And then we got it home.

We got dropped off and I thought I didn't check it.

Hasn't had the cam belt change.

How many cases?

Well, there's nothing.

81,000 miles.

Oh, really?

Which is kind of bog standard.

It's eight years old.

Okay.

Which is kind of bang on average.

Yeah.

And I'm not a car that new or not really bothered about miles.

If it's got service history.

Is it, what's the cam belt?

60,000, some of that?

What are you going to do?

Five years or 70,000.

Right, okay.

It's supposed to be.

So if it hasn't been done, then it's 10,000 miles and three

years overdue.

The cat is rather...

So I've got to go back to the dealership because the screen

wash is just leaking out when you pour it and it's leaking out

at the bottom.

Sure.

And one of the floor mats is missing.

Okay.

And you know when you go, you know, it was there when I

test drove it.

It was in there.

And so, phoned them and they just dropped around today, a

couple of mats and I wasn't there.

So the guys, you know, I was on the ring camera and I said,

just leave them under the car.

I went out and looked and the wrong mats.

They fit the car, but they're not for that car.

Sure.

Does that make sense?

Yeah.

They've got like a trim and then aftermarket, they're not the

original one.

Yeah.

And it's just, I just need the one.

And you know when you just go, don't ruin, don't ruin it.

The mat got taken out when they were cleaning detail in the

car and not come back in.

That's what would happen, right?

It was, that was it.

Yeah.

Cause it'd been, when we first drove it, it'd obviously been

parked there for maybe a few weeks.

Still.

Cause they haven't had it long.

I did check.

And so it had a bit, it was covered in dust and obviously a

few people had sat in it and got out when it was being

test driven.

So they said to have to be cleaned and someone's taken a mat

out and just not put it back in.

So that's really annoying.

You know, when you just go, it's the little things now, I don't

want to keep going back to the dealership to get, I've got to

pick up the mat.

Oh no, you've sent me the wrong mat.

Now I've got to get this done.

And then you go, hang on.

Now that we've bought this car and paid a significant amount

of money.

Yeah.

And then you go, well, now I've got to get the cam belt done.

That's the first thing cause I'm driving to France today in two

months.

Yeah.

Okay.

But I've got to, I've got to sell the Audi.

So what's that even worth 2000 pounds?

No, probably, probably 1500 pounds.

Yeah.

Okay.

On a good day.

And I mean, it's, it's for 211,000 miles.

It's in really good nick.

Everything works.

It probably needs tires.

And that's Africa's value.

Exactly.

Cause I've got to go to the tip cause you know, I use it for that to go and dump

stuff at the local dump.

So now I don't know.

I don't even know.

So I've got, I've got three weeks.

So I've added it on back onto the insurance as an extra car temporary car till the end

of the month.

So I've got to get as many journeys.

I've got to manage this on Thursday.

So I'm just going to take that.

But, but the flip on the flip side, I'm like, well, actually while we're under that return

period of the golf, I should take the golf just to see what it does, how it runs.

Cause we haven't been anywhere in it since it arrived.

It's just literally been delivered and it's just parked on the driveway.

I would suggest that your Audi might be worth more to you if you're only going to get 1500

pounds for it as a tip car and trash car.

And the reality is in another five or six years when your daughter's learning to drive,

this should be the car that she learns to drive in.

Well, yeah, there's that because, cause my wife said to me and I said, I really wanted to get to 300,000

miles.

She went, yeah, but you could still do that.

And I'm like, well, I can't cause it's just my miles.

You were never going to drive it again.

So drive it to France.

And she'll leave it at the airport and fly home.

It is that.

But I did, but I thought about, cause I don't want it on the driveway either.

Cause when my 911 comes back, that's three cars on the driveway.

And so she's, she's coming up with all sorts of ideas, but so she doesn't have to look at it even.

Yeah.

She's like, just park it somewhere in the village and just go and get it when you need to go to the tip.

Someone's going to know it's our car.

Yeah, you're right.

You're right.

That's classic.

The, um, yeah, I think.

Yeah, you're in a bit of a strike.

So you got, in fact, you might have more cars now than the yard that you bought it from.

So tell me what is going on with the 912.

Did I see some footage of you starting it up or something like that on social media?

Yeah, I did.

I've not been very good on social media or I don't know what good on social media is.

I've just not been on it.

Yeah.

Yes.

So I did fire it up and it did splatter into life quite quickly.

It didn't, I didn't have to crank it perhaps the ages.

Um, but you can tell it needs a bit of fettling the, the valve clearances need doing a little bit of adjustment on the carbs.

Um, but I am.

I literally just took it for a lot of spin up the road just to make sure the brakes weren't seized and stuff like that.

Um, it was kind of okay, but I think it just needs a longer run just to give it a bit of a clear out.

Drive it up the main chest.

And then, uh, I don't know if that's a good idea.

Uh, and, uh, I'm, um, but yeah, I've, I'm now definitely set as of like two days ago, it's going to go.

I'm going to sell it.

I'm going to, uh, advertise it.

The worst case, I'm going to put it through an auction and it's just going to go.

Okay.

Um, I need it gone.

I need my loan paid off.

That's paid for the 964

And it just be nice to have the space back in the garage.

Sure.

Now tell me, um, auction.

What do you do there?

You auction the car?

Um, well, first, uh, there's a couple of other things that I'm exploring, but I've pretty put it in the garage.

I've probably put it through the same auction I bought it through.

Okay.

Um, and I'd say values on long-term are quite soft at the moment.

I think you're Sophia.

Um, so, but you know, when I look at some of this stuff that's due for rest, full restoration that's being sold.

Um, you know, high twenties, for example.

I think mine as a running driving example that you could easily just fed a little bit and use every day, even for the summer.

I think I'd be able to get sort of a reasonable price for it, but I need, I need a certain amount.

I can't sell it and slow loads of money on the 964

Um, I'd just be better off just keeping it.

Okay.

Next year.

Which is inevitably what you're going to do.

Okay.

Got it.

Um, well, there is that.

It's just, um, it's, yeah, the garage space.

I mean, the garage is our garage is, I think I talked about this.

You can, you can board the upstairs of it and, and turn it into a full on room.

Yeah.

So you could, um, but you know, I wouldn't, I don't think I'd need any planning permission just to create a space to sit or, or my wife wants to work out.

You, that's okay.

Um, if it's anything more than I have to go through planning and stuff like that, which is, uh, more, um, involved.

So, um, if I was to do it, I don't think I would just do that, board it up and use it as a space, which would fix the problem.

Um, but, um, I think I'll do it properly.

I'll go through the planning.

Yeah.

Okay.

Get it done.

So, um, just in case.

What's the, uh, what, what are the plan?

Is any of the work being done on the 964 since you've taken delivery?

Like, you know, there's a few odds and sides you've wanted to address.

Has any of that been done yet?

Um, well, I've only done the six.

I've done the struts for the hood.

Every, every Porsche I've ever bought the struts for the hood still work.

Like the nine 12 had the missing on front and back.

So I put those in, they work.

Um, the nine and six have to change them because they were done in.

Um, and with this, it's been the same.

So the front ones I changed and I think I told you they were just a complete pig.

You can't get your hands in there.

So I've not put the pins in to lock the struts in onto the ball.

Yeah.

But they work fine.

Uh, on the back, it's, I haven't done it because you've got to take the intake off.

You've got to put a sheet down so the pins and stuff don't go down into the engine.

And you're just like, Oh my God.

So I haven't done that.

Um, I did change, um, uh, electric window switch.

Which was easy.

Just prize that out.

Um, and it was like 30 or 40 quid.

Um, and then, um, I thought the, I did use the, uh, phone holder.

Yeah.

The, is it run line?

Yeah.

I think it was a run line.

Yeah.

Cause cause you know, we talked about it was for a left-hand drive.

So it went on the other side and it's contoured to only fit that side.

So, but I did flip it over and it doesn't sit quite right, but it does the job perfectly.

Yeah.

So that's fine.

Um, I do need to, I would like, I haven't got the money to spend at the moment.

So I would like to change the stereo.

It's got like a pioneer stereo from the nineties or probably even the eighties with a front

flip software.

It's a CD player.

Um, it doesn't work very well.

The CD player works fine.

The radio doesn't work great.

And I can see a ton of wires underneath that are just a bit of a mess.

So I would like to get the blah punked, you know, I can't remember which one it is, uh,

SQ, whatever is 30 that looks and, and it looks like it's made for a 964

Yeah.

And when I've seen it in 964 it just looks so flush.

I want to get one of those tidy up the wiring, uh, just so my children can play music when

they're in there.

Um, and, uh,

And, um, those are the kind of things that I want to sort out.

I did sort out the earth cable to the battery.

Yeah, because that was preventing it charging.

Um, and also the cutoff didn't do anything because it would still kill the battery in the batteries brand new.

I bought that.

Uh, so those things need doing, but the big, big one that I haven't done, and it's probably

the one of the easier things I need to change the rear brake pads.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

They are so close to the limit.

And I know if they touch them, if the metal touches the discs, they're ruined.

Yes.

Yeah.

You can barely see anything now.

I'm, so you can't have a sensor.

I've bought the pads.

I've bought sensors because it might have sensors, but the sensors don't cost very much.

Sure.

Um, and so I just need to whip the wheel off and do it.

It's, it's like an hour's job.

Yeah.

The consequences are not doing it quite great.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So I just need to get on with it because every time, because for a while I stopped thinking

about it and I only ever thought about it when I got in the car to go somewhere and I'll

be like, oh crap, I haven't done the pads.

Yeah.

Whereas now I've put the pads next to the rear wheel.

So when I walk in, I see it.

Um, so I just need to, I need to just need to spare maybe an hour.

I'll probably do it at the weekend.

Okay.

Let's, let's hope that's a job that has been ticked off the list before we next catch

up.

Yes, definitely.

Definitely.

And I'll hopefully have that, um, an update on a little treat that I've got hopefully,

uh, installed in the 356 by then.

I'm quite excited and looking forward to talking to you about.

Excellent.

I can't wait to hear about it.

Okay.

Then so, um, listeners, you've heard my conundrum with regards to a 9-11.

I'd like to hear your feedback.

What do you think I should do?

I'm sitting here chuckling.

I can see him, but you can't.

And, um, we'll see.

Get a 9-9 six.

That's the answer.

Oh, look, that is by far and away the, uh, most sensible option with regards to the

budget.

I can assure you of that.

However, the, uh, finding a good one with their age and because they've been at a low

value for so long now, how poorly maintained they generally are, all the ones I've seen

are less or unbind enthusiasts, in which case they're actually not good value because of

how expensive they are.

And they're getting pretty close to 9-9-7 numbers when they're in good nick.

So it's just that whole balance thing for me.

It's, I just don't see that car unless it was, unless I absolutely nicked a 9-9-6

GD3.

Ah, yes, there's that.

They were so reasonably priced three years ago.

I know, but they're gone ballistic.

Are they?

They've gone ballistic.

They've gone 50% since then.

At least 50.

Well, I mean, I saw a really nice yellow one for sale with like decent miles, well looked

after, I don't remember how much it was four years ago now, and it was 39-9-9-9.

What are they now?

They don't have over a hundred now, wouldn't they?

Yeah.

And you know when you go, you know, when you go, oh, I've had all the money then, but,

you know, you could say that about anything, couldn't you?

Yeah, of course you could.

And it was, but we were all looking at them going, it's inevitable that's going to happen.

They could double-tip them.

Yeah, yeah.

And it's happened.

Anyway, Alices, if you've got any comments, feedback, reach out to Ajmal, who is at Flatcap

Driver on Instagram, you can catch me at markandcars, that's markwithac.

And we look forward to catching up with you next episode.

Ajmal, as always, it's been a pleasure.

See you next time.

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