Tuesday, July 08, 2025

A Dream Deferred

My fondness for Porsches is well documented, so much so that I won't bother linking to some of my Porsche-related G:TB posts.  It will not surprise you that I like to peruse Porsche's finder website to look at cars I will never be able to afford with the hope that I will someday stumble across a hidden gem in the center of my ideal Porsche Venn diagram (manual, roofless, air-cooled, green on the outside, tan-and-pepita on the inside, mechanically sound, affordable).  A boy's gotta dream.

Today I found an achingly perfect 911, a 1977 911S Targa in Oak Green over beige-and-pepita with a 5-speed manual transmission and in preposterously crispy condition at Rusnak Porsche in Pasadena, CA.  


Smack dab in the middle of my Venn diagram!!  Except it's a little too mechanically sound--it has only 437 miles so it's literally a museum quality car.  Which means the most critical aspect of the Venn diagram, price, is waaaaay out of wack.  Rusnak wants [double-checks notes] $896,488.  That's American dollars, not yen or baht.

Alas.  I'll keep on dreaming.

9 comments:

  1. This is one year older than the 911 that exposed 16 year old Rootsy's lack of talent. That one was brown, with a sunroof and aftermarket "whale tale" that someone put on it before it was imported on the grey market from Germany.

    Zporsche is out there, just keep looking.

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  2. That's a lovely car. Would it fit me?

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  3. get the car Z, you deserve it. and did you guys see that Tony Shaver is getting inducted into the W&M athletic hall of fame?

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  4. Barry Parkhill 43–68 (.387)
    Chuck Swenson: 62–134 (.316)
    Charlie Woollum: 69–94 (.423)
    Rick Boyages: 33–52 (.388)
    Tony Shaver: 226–268 (.457)
    Dane Fischer: 56–91 (.381)

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  5. shaver's 223-166 (.573) after his first three seasons is goddamn heroic. four 20-win seasons, seven winning seasons.

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  6. prior to tony, w&m had recorded one 20-win season since 1952. one goddamn season.

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