jakroo

The other side of this is that a museum's collection can (& most will) evolve over time and this will require sales of existing stock and purchasing of new stock. There are operating expenses as well, and they'd need a source of funds from somewhere How they go about doing this could be the issue. Everything is for sale but I'd rather be free to wander around one and not see a sales sticker.

Being a guy who does a lot of kilometres and isn't afraid of a high mileage car, it's great to see an article like this. Of course, circa 975k KMs in 16 years is amazing (approx 61k pa) and well beyond my 35k pa and my wife's 45k pa driving. I'd suggest that at any sales price (including sub $10k), the car owes them nothing. It does cost a lot of money to drive a car any distance but when you multiply it to these sorts of miles, the many many tyres it's had is just one dimension. At 10 l per 100km and $1.50 per l, it's still almost $150k in fuel. LOL.

My Evo which I bought new in July 2007 had just turned 302,500. Every 5,000km it has been to the selling dealer for it's service. I've just about run out of service coupons in the book. Impeccable service history should I ever sell it. There's no reason why a car of the calibre of the Porsche should not hit very very high mileage with good service history.

And that is a very nice vehicle....great example of colour variation of the era before we got in to black, midnight black, dark black, late night black, eerie black, double black and so on, same with the whites.....

I don't like the dickhead exhaust tip nor the clear glass in one of the fog/driving lights

I'd suggest they floated in to Byron Bong, along with most of the other people there. No car traffic when you're flying high........... man.

Bent 'this and that' to be measured, replaced and fitted, concrete and brick demo material to get rid of, weird angles to be remedied.... Why bother with all that mullarky when you're already busy getting on with other stuff in your own life. They can cash deal with their own suppliers and you can simply oversee it to make sure it's returned to previous status. Leave it for some other fool to muck around with while you do your normal stuff.

Nicely done with the new number plate letters and numbers Steve.

- Forgot to tighten the wheel nuts on my VW beetle.....heard a weird wobbling noise from the car after about 3 kms - Used aluminium foil for a fuse in my VW beetle - fuse box caught fire while I was checking whether the fix made the the tail lights work again - Miswrote order of removal of ignition leads on VW beetle.....lots of backfiring and then tears as I was convinced I had broken the engine when it wouldn't start or only 'just' run - Forgot the sump plug after draining oil of Jackaroo - Didn't drain oil from car before proceeding to remove oil cannister of Jackaroo - Didn't drain oil from car before proceeding to fill with oil (can't remember what car)

Do we want to give this any serious thought? Some planning will be needed if we want to go and given our inertia on getting a simple dinner arranged, this could become weeks and weeks of stuff and complexity beyond us with less than weeks to go....

and don't use any water when washing the car....

I didn't realise that the air-cooled Porsches were sooooo water phobic that they retract from it. Good grief.

I think this highlights what driving on a track is all about..... Having fun, driving within the confines of vehicle, track condition and driver ability. You could have fun in a 900cc Diahatsu without too much effort! The tiptronic box is a lot of fun. Point and shoot. Anyone driving a PDK will be doing about the same with their vehicle....pick a gear or select auto and then concentrate on steering. A manual requires the left foot for clutch, that's about the only difference.... Whether this is "really" driving or simply driving obsolete technology is up for a circular debate, and I don't really care either way. Get in and drive is the proper message. Nice story Simon.

We had a number of trees and branches down on our property. We lost power for about 24 hours. Our main fridge along with a TV and PVR died. No cars were injured. Relatively unscathed compared to the ridge to the east of us which is Dural, Glenorie and into the Sydney northwestern suburbs who copped it again from the prior weekend.

You know what, that could be a genuine possibility. Let me look in to it and I'll get back to you. We might need a second car to haul everything down there....the 968 only carries so much....And of course on the boring highway down there, the auto box will be a waste of lazy gear changes and it's water cooled, and air conditioned to boot. It's almost bearable!