I think that I must have thread-hijacking desease. I keep seeing these really interesting tidbits that are totally tangent to the topic at hand, and probably not worth a thread of their own. But I can't help myself .. I just have explore them.frank81 wrote:One year I was struggling to find a Spring project locally, and settled on an 83 Porsche 944 which is the absolute cheapest, most wannabe Porsche ever made.
So I got a graduate engineering degree from Ohio State in 1982, and immediately landed a fun and good-paying research job at OSU. I was a freshly-minted yuppie, to be perfectly frank. I had been subscribing to Car & Driver for a few years, and was lusting after a Porsche 944. (Hey, I still find them prettier than 911's). By 1984, my old car was dying. And still being single, not to mention childless, I had sufficient disposable income to make payments on anything much short of a super-car.
But my modest rural upbringing and generally conservative nature told me that spending $18k on a brand-new 944 would be an unwise, extravagant expenditure. So instead, I bought a brand-new 1984 VW Scirrocco for a bit under $12K -- the cheapest "real" sports car on the market at the time, according to Car & Driver. It was indeed a good car, and I enjoyed it well. In 1998, 14 years and 150k miles later, I donated it to The Nature Conservancy.
And what were 1984 Porsche 944's selling for in 1998? Yep, $18k -- same as they sold for brand new.
