It’s not every day you find a Porsche Carrera 3.2 from 1989 (that’s the one with the more user-friendly G50 gearbox) in a barn, not seen since 2011. Well, I found this one in an on-line auction catalogue whilst idly browsing, with the auction due in five days time.
It’s old and it’s dirty and it won’t run; so it won’t be expensive because every knowledgeable punter will know better. But just think of the romance of it – and the photographic opportunity – in nursing it back to former glories.
So I went to the auction with a firmly set budget. But things went a little bit crazy, even the auctioneer was bemused. I’m still not the owner of a 911, with or without a G50 gearbox.
So the moral of this story… if you have an old car you don’t really need, stick it away where pigeons roost, before you stick it in an auction. If today is anything to go by, that pigeon shit is worth an extra ten grand, at least.
