From: Pitman [pitman@naseej.com.sa]
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 12:17 PM
To: 928
Subject: [928] FW: Car & driver Article July 96 - if you have seen it,
pass on by

Just found this one, hope you like it ??

CAR & DRIVER July 1996
"PORSCHE 928
Jeez, you don't see many Perlglanz Porsche 928s anymore, huh?

Almost 19 years after it first appeared on the sports-car scene, the final
US-Legal Porsche 928 rolled off the line and found its way not so promptly
to an American showroom. At $184,938 with luxury tax, it's somewhat
expensive. Option-wise, it's somewhat weird.

For starters, there's the metal-flake "Perlglanz" green paint ($2664), plus
20 additional liters of the stuff in case you suffer a shopping-cart ding at
Kroger.  Inside, you will likely notice the green leather seats ($24,817),
not to mention (and we'd rather not) the custom-matched violet leather trim.
Thr latter is extensive, covering the steering wheel ($1315), the instrument
pod ($1899), the door handles ($408), various air-vent surrounds ($1477),
the seat-adjustment switches and ring plates ($1074), the loudspeaker trim
rings ($832), the ashtray covers ($272), and, well, about 16 other items
that you don't usually see slathered in violet and lavender and lilac cow
skins.

If the would-be owner wants to replace the custom deep-pile plum carpet,
there's an extra 20 meters in the trunk, plus six spare green-and-light-blue
leather hides in case Billy Gibbons rudely stubs out a cigarette on a seat
bolster (spare cow skins are part of a $22,410 option).
Finally, there are the, ah, purple seatbelts. These are costly ($9095),
because the seatbelt supplier had to dye one entire roll of webbing.
Go ahead and describe it as gaudy, but remember that the very first 928s
that came to America were fitted with psychedelic-checkerboard upholstery.
As we write this, the car depicted here is still for sale at one of this
country's most interesting (and maybe bravest) dealerships:
Champion Porsche in Pompano Beach, Florida."

Anybody know what the option codes are for some of the above items?

JP



From: CZach928@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 9:04 PM
To: 928
Subject: [928] Lime Green GTS - Was: Car & driver Article July 96

Jim & all,

When the Lime Green GTS was originally sold by Champion, it went to a guy who 
bought it for his mother.  I talked to him after he had come to his senses 
and bought her another car to drive as everyday transportation.  He said he 
bought the car for around $110k if memory serves me correctly and after his 
mother stopped driving it he said he was going to hold it as an investment.

Fast forward a couple years.

About six months ago, I was in Pompano Beach, FL and stopped by Champion to 
look at a 1995 GTS they had in stock.  As it turns out, they had taken the 
Lime Green GTS back in on a consignment basis and sold it to a guy from 
France six months prior to my visit.  Evidently, this guy invented the lens 
filters photographers use or something like that.  He walked in to the 
dealership one day and fell in love with the color saying it was the most 
beautiful car he had ever seen.  It was sold for $74,900 (asking price was 
$110k) and according to the salesman who sold the car, was promptly exported 
to France.  That's the last I heard about this very unique car.

Regards,

Chuck Zachman
Carolinas Region PCA
928 OC - Charter Member
1995 928 GTS, 5-speed