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Must be car-spotting time of year!!!
Yesterday I was driving through Portland when a Porsche 959 pulled out in front of me......
Yeah, I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking it was a 911 with a body kit (as I first assumed, knowing how there's only a couple 959's in the entire US).
When I pulled up behind at a signal, I saw the bodywork was just too good to be a kit, and the motor sounded nothing at all like a 911 motor.
Well, I followed this car for awhile, ignoring the meeting I already had planned, until the driver parked.
I asked him about the car....he confirmed it was a real 959. Then he could sense my enthusiasm & unhealthy knowledge of any Group B car from the 1980's, so he let me crawl all over & under it, just admiring one of the world's most advanced & valuable machines ever conceived. I'm still on a high from seeing that car!
The driver operates a Marina in the area (must be a mighty lucrative industry .....time for a career change for me!!!!)
-Don Swier
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