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Turbo S project for sale

I put a £250 bid in , as I have a mint H Reg shell , so this would have been a very good donor car . I was then thinking of logistics and space to do the project .
Considering it had an LSD oil cooled gear box it sold for peanuts .
Then again there is a real nice late 944 Turbo on ebay selling now for 4K
Wrong time of year to sell
 
Seriously thinking of sticking in a bid, but storage issues put paid to that.

Buyer got a good price I think, good project over the longer term I reckon.
 
I think if the car had been sold with a lot of the unique Turbo S goodies still attached it would have made a lot more money.

Apart from the shell and V5 not a lot of Silver Rose left
 
Someone got a bargain.

I would have gone for it, but I have too many projects.

A customer was interested in it a couple of weeks ago, but when he added up what Alasdair wanted at the time, and the recovery truck costs, made it not make sense and I forgot to tell him to keep an eye on ebay.. However I had no idea it would go that cheap!

Was that Steve Cox's old one?

 
I believe you are correct re previous ownership. Was a shame it was stripped as it was a decent prospect for resto at that point.
 
If it was Steve Cox's one, I did the clutch on it around 2002 and sorted out some issues, but it was suffering a little from blistering back then, as a lot of the Silver Roses seemed to.

I remember that back 10 years ago, the Silver Roses seemed to be the only 944's which attracted rust, whereas the non Silver Rose Turbo-S models seemed to not get it, which always seemed curious, but there were rumours that the Silver Roses were painted at Stuttgart, whereas the other Turbo-S models were painted at Necka, so the silver rose shells came by train as shells with primer, whereas the others were transported all painted and ready to build. But that is not gospel!

Nice guy Steve Cox anyone know what happened to him?
 
Jon, i knew Steve Cox well he came to visit me up here in Cumbria in his Silverose, i believe he struggled for work and laid the car up, i nearly bought it but it was going to be too much work (£££) for me so i put Alasdair on to it, not heard from Steve for a while, he is a genuine "nice guy"
Hope the car gets fettled and lives again.
 
I swapped emails with Steve a few years ago but the last time I saw him must have been at Le Mans about 10 years ago.

His Rose was very poorly and kept breaking down, I remember him spending a lot of time on the phone with Jon trying to get it sorted.

It was sad he had to let it go [&o]
 
Thats it, I remember now Paul..

Either to, or from Le Mans it broke down and I was on an off the phone all day helping him diagnose what was wrong.. Turned out to be one of the crank sensors.

At which point he did get upset with me as it had the clutch replaced a few weeks previous, until I reminded him that I advised they were changed at the same time as the clutch, that they had made it from Bournemouth to Acton, then pootling around london and all the way to Le Mans... I think he was more embarrassed that he had a friend with him and was ok after that.

Last I heard he moved to Wales or something like that.

Hope the car gets what it deserves, a full bare shell rebuild.. I had a customer who was interested in it as track car shell, but that would have been a shame anyway.
 
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