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Old 27-01-12, 08:31 AM   #1
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well just had a look at it looks in decent nick just gota figure out were id keep it as ive already got the 180,v8 86 camaro and the gf's car gona ask my nan if i can keep it in her garage
I have spare room in my garage
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Old 27-01-12, 08:58 AM   #2
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Insurance is impressive £220 fully comp with maximum of 4000 miles
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Old 27-01-12, 12:23 PM   #3
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lucky git - i have always said i wanted to own a 944 at some point in my life.

Sorry you got your hands on it via unfortunant circumstances.

i am pretty sure some-one on .org (wayner007 i think his tag is) has one and runs it...
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look nice and its a porsche but not quick and dont really handle that well, parts could be expensive too.
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Old 27-01-12, 04:30 PM   #5
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They're 4 cylinder I think, it was one of the biggest displacement 4 cylinder engines produced, and used balancer shafts to smooth it out.

Later ones went out to 3.0 litre apparently
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Old 27-01-12, 04:41 PM   #6
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They're 4 cylinder I think, it was one of the biggest displacement 4 cylinder engines produced, and used balancer shafts to smooth it out.

Later ones went out to 3.0 litre apparently
Yes they were 4 cyl..... for some reason I thought they were a "6"
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Old 27-01-12, 04:52 PM   #7
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Bargain - no brainer.

What do you drive ?
Porsche.

Just got to be done at some point in your life.
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Old 27-01-12, 05:27 PM   #8
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result has said i can always keep it in the garage its currently in as it only round the corner awsum
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Old 27-01-12, 05:53 PM   #9
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They are awsome to drive the girlfriends dad has one that i rebuilt with him just don't mess with it in the wet coz it'll bite your bum if you try to boot it from lights had his side ways from messing with it.


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Old 13-02-12, 12:42 PM   #10
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Was very short lived ownership car was stolen of my friends driveway last Thursday as he was lazy and didn't fancy putting it in the garage and was found Friday morning in a ditch upside down complete wright off apparently my friend inquired into buying it back from the insurance but it's to heavily damaged sad day
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