Project 2000 Porsche Boxster - SOLD and GONE! 😥

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Best effort at uploading without giving me too much hassle. Each post has accompanying pictures, just not in the correct order in each as Tapatalk mucks the order around. Forum uploader doesn't want to deal with more than three or four photos.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Bloody good museum, that.

[barefoot]

I'd like to see & hear that Magnette do 0-60 in 8.5!

Cracking pictures Simon, I was unaware of the museum & will try to pop in next time I head down to the English River Area.

[SiC]

14 minutes ago, barefoot said:

I'd like to see & hear that Magnette do 0-60 in 8.5!

Glad someone mentioned that as I was going to Google it. I thought it was a bit on the optimistic side for 64bhp in something that isn't super light. Perhaps it should be 18s to 60mph?

Edit: Wikipedia says 18.5. To be honest that info card looks like it was a copy paste job from Wikipedia.

[dave j]

Good pics, I went there a few years ago and it doesn't look like it's changed much! Some nice roads around there to be in a Porsche! 

[Jenson Velcro]

Nice photos. I’ve been meaning to go for years and never got around to it. No excuse really as it’s only about 30 miles away. Must pull finger out next year.

[Quintus]

I went to that museum last year. It really is a great place and they've packed so much into a small building.

[stuboy]

great museum pictures

[SiC]

On 3/23/2019 at 12:07 PM, SiC said:

Just over 3 years I've owned this now! I'm a fair bit fatter now too thanks to lack of exercise over lockdowns. 🙈

MOT booked for week after next. Will need another service too but want to get a few suspension bits done as well. Top mounts creak and I suspect the wheel alignment is out. Plan to get all that done separately. Might use the Porsche specialist down in Honiton that my mum uses - even if it's going to be a bit on the pricey side.

Would need to check but reckon I've probably done around 10k in these 3 years. Not bad going considering we had lockdown during that. 

[SiC]

In for its MOT today 😬🤞

[SiC]

Passed with no advisories! That was easy.

Looks like in 3 years I've pretty much done 10k miles. Not bad going considering some of that was during lockdown and it wasn't going anywhere.

[SiC]

I was thinking today that around now must be another year's ownership of this soon.

Checked the dates and I've owned it for 4 years today! That makes it a few months more than when it was under @Peter C tenure.

I did ponder getting it out this weekend but the weather is looking generally shite. But I did pop past storage on the way back from the Post Office at lunch to check on it.


Absolutely filthy where there is no cover on it and detritus falls down from above. But that's better than the elements beating down it over winter.




Every so often I go through the mental motions of considering to sell it. Then I sit in it today, realising how special it feels to sit there and think that is a stupid idea.


After being serviced last year by Panhard65, it's pretty much ready to go for this spring/summer. Wheel alignment needs doing, so I'll have to find time to take that to my local alignment place. MOT is being done week after next. I don't envisage any major issues but I do need to give it a run to get some heat and movement back through the car.

Air con was making an awful racket last year so I had it regassed. However it doesn't work at all now. Either it was too cold at the time (sub 3c) or the compressor has kacked it. You can hear and feel the compressor engaging but there is no fluid circulation sounds nor any change in air temperature from the vents. Now the weather is warming up, it'll be a good time to check again. I'd rather not have to spend out on a compressor but I also want it working again.

While there is no immediate intention to sell it, I may reconsider at the end of this season. I'm still pandering to the idea of reducing the fleet and consolidating to one really nice, special (classic) car. I need to finish off a few big bodywork projects before I am at the point though.
 

[SiC]

On 3/23/2023 at 3:23 PM, SiC said:

While there is no immediate intention to sell it, I may reconsider at the end of this season. I'm still pandering to the idea of reducing the fleet and consolidating to one really nice, special (classic) car.

Having done about 1300 miles this year, I'm thinking of doing exactly this and putting it up for sale. No point owning something that doesn't get used. I've had it 4 and half years now, having plenty of fun. Likewise my BGT is almost certainly getting the chop, but that might wait till next year if this sells sooner.

Not sure what interest I'll get on here, but I'll type up an advert anyway.

Trying to figure a price, but currently £4500 is rolling around in my mind?
The fact it has a Cat D marker in 2012 won't let it reach top value and will always be in the lower end of price brackets - despite being in pretty good condition and low miles for the age.

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[SiC]

After four and half years its sold and now gone! 👋

End of an era.

 

Next up will be having this on my drive as a custodian for a year... (One day I'll be allowed to buy this off my mum!)

After sending her links to cars that I fancy, she's already said that I need to get it soon and not keep spending all my money.