New Executive, New Ideas, New Agenda

[Brian Minkin]

ccm911 wrote:

Brian Minkin wrote:

In fact in 1978 i owned a 924 (brand spanking new) and although many members of PCA gave me a hard time about its roots, it was accepted as a Porsche and was even a concours winner.

Brian, did you have the Martini and Rossi edition? I always liked that color scheme. My buddy had a Maroon 924. Handled great, but was really slow. And so was the turbo for that matter. Nonetheless, they were not that bad a car.

It was a daqrk metallic red 924 with tan leather interior. The only Porsche marking was the hood badge. If I remember right a gold pinstrip. Not fast but once off the line it would zip along at a pretty good clip. Had a sort of hum to it when you cruised. Handled very well. The end of the car was when my father was driving it and when leaving his development a car that was parked up on a hill in a driveway (some kind of big station wagon) jumped out of gear and rolled down and broad sided the passenger side of the car. Insurance company totalled it. This was about 1983.