eastendr
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Yes, WUF is now owned by the sideways one [
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I had owned WUF for 10 years and several tens of thousands of pounds. I realised a few weeks ago that I had only done under 700 miles since the last MOT in June last year so I let logic get the better of my heart and decided that WUF should be passed on.
As a 4th car it just didn't get used - most of my milage over the last 3 years has been in the Range Rover commuting to various racing circuits. Rather than let WUF sit in the garage and rot I had a good think about a number of options;
Carry on development to even more power. Lots of money with the liklihood that I wouldn't get to drive any more miles than last year so very hard to justify. WUF had been 100% reliable in the current 400BHP state of tune and since Weltmeister had ceased trading a couple of years ago it would have cost me a lot of money in renting another dyno for the power mapping and a lot odf time tweaking the road manners if I made any significant changes. The current tune opf the cars was about as good as it was possible to get so the law of diminishing returns came heavily in to play.
Sell through a site like pistonheads - really far too much hassle with every wannabe asking for test drives.
Sell to someone who already knew the car and had always wanted it.
Having decided on the latter choice I had several options. The first person that I spoke to was Ben and a deal in principle was reached in about 2 minutes flat!!
Having just had baby-WUF serviced (cambelts etc) and put through the MOT I had swapped over WUF a couple of days previously to have the cam belts changed and a service / preparation for MOT etc.
I curently use and highly recommend NineX Motorsport in Maidenhead. They really know the 944/986 inside out, being experienced racers in the Porsche Club race series over the last few years and looking after a number of the leading cars. They have a cracking workshop in Maidenhead and work on all kinds of other Porsche exotica.
Ninex pulled out all the stops despite being in the middle of the race calendar and a race meeting to make time to get WUF prepared for the new owner to collect the car from me in time to make the journey to the LeMans classic this week. My thanks to James and Andy at Ninex for all the hours thay put in and Andy for trailoring WUF back to me so that I could get the new MOT and tax disk on Wednesday so that Ben could collect WUF on Wednedsay night. I can only imagine the stress that Ben was going through when the M1 was shut on his way down due to an accident[][]
WUF finally passed out of my ownership at about 10 O'clock on Wednesday night along with a huge box of paperwork. I really didn't want to look at all the parts invoices that have made Dave Lindsey's retirement fund what it is today (reference to Lindsey Racing in Oklahoma)! []
So it was with great sadness that I watched the sideways one drive off in to the distance and the passing of ownership of a car that I had greatly enjoyed for ten years. I know that he will get real enjoyment out of WUF as I had, and will certainly get far more use than I have over the last few years.
Unfortunately this racing game takes up far too many weekends at race circuits and leaves very little to spare for the more social events like some of the major club events and small 944 meets. However I'm not deserting the fold and hope to have more time very soon when I've finished a number of concurrent projects of a far less exciting nature!
Good luck to Ben and I know that you'll all still hear WUF coming but, from a different direction.
]I had owned WUF for 10 years and several tens of thousands of pounds. I realised a few weeks ago that I had only done under 700 miles since the last MOT in June last year so I let logic get the better of my heart and decided that WUF should be passed on.
As a 4th car it just didn't get used - most of my milage over the last 3 years has been in the Range Rover commuting to various racing circuits. Rather than let WUF sit in the garage and rot I had a good think about a number of options;
Carry on development to even more power. Lots of money with the liklihood that I wouldn't get to drive any more miles than last year so very hard to justify. WUF had been 100% reliable in the current 400BHP state of tune and since Weltmeister had ceased trading a couple of years ago it would have cost me a lot of money in renting another dyno for the power mapping and a lot odf time tweaking the road manners if I made any significant changes. The current tune opf the cars was about as good as it was possible to get so the law of diminishing returns came heavily in to play.
Sell through a site like pistonheads - really far too much hassle with every wannabe asking for test drives.
Sell to someone who already knew the car and had always wanted it.
Having decided on the latter choice I had several options. The first person that I spoke to was Ben and a deal in principle was reached in about 2 minutes flat!!
Having just had baby-WUF serviced (cambelts etc) and put through the MOT I had swapped over WUF a couple of days previously to have the cam belts changed and a service / preparation for MOT etc.
I curently use and highly recommend NineX Motorsport in Maidenhead. They really know the 944/986 inside out, being experienced racers in the Porsche Club race series over the last few years and looking after a number of the leading cars. They have a cracking workshop in Maidenhead and work on all kinds of other Porsche exotica.
Ninex pulled out all the stops despite being in the middle of the race calendar and a race meeting to make time to get WUF prepared for the new owner to collect the car from me in time to make the journey to the LeMans classic this week. My thanks to James and Andy at Ninex for all the hours thay put in and Andy for trailoring WUF back to me so that I could get the new MOT and tax disk on Wednesday so that Ben could collect WUF on Wednedsay night. I can only imagine the stress that Ben was going through when the M1 was shut on his way down due to an accident[
][]WUF finally passed out of my ownership at about 10 O'clock on Wednesday night along with a huge box of paperwork. I really didn't want to look at all the parts invoices that have made Dave Lindsey's retirement fund what it is today (reference to Lindsey Racing in Oklahoma)! [
]So it was with great sadness that I watched the sideways one drive off in to the distance and the passing of ownership of a car that I had greatly enjoyed for ten years. I know that he will get real enjoyment out of WUF as I had, and will certainly get far more use than I have over the last few years.
Unfortunately this racing game takes up far too many weekends at race circuits and leaves very little to spare for the more social events like some of the major club events and small 944 meets. However I'm not deserting the fold and hope to have more time very soon when I've finished a number of concurrent projects of a far less exciting nature!
Good luck to Ben and I know that you'll all still hear WUF coming but, from a different direction.
