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Conference terri::cars_uk

Title:	Cars in the UK
Notice:	Please read new conference charter 1.70
Moderator:	COMICS::SHELLEYELD

Created:	Sun Mar 06 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2584
Total number of notes:	63384

377.0. "PORSCHE'S from AMERICA??" by GIDDAY::KNEZEVIC () Thu Nov 03 1988 06:29

    This letter is projected to persons residing in the U.S, or anyone
    else who may know of the following information.
      Can anyone tell me the bye price of a 1975/76 Porsche 930 turbo,??
      in U.S dollars, thats all I require to know.










  Regards, Danny

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
377.3	seen in VNS	NCEIS1::CHEVAUX	Patrick Chevaux, Nice, 828-6995	`Sun Oct 28 1990 18:07`	9
	Bill Gates III - Microsoft co-founder's new house, car {Forbes, 22-Oct-90, pp. 358, 365} Last Christmas, after years of modest living, Gates spent over $500,000 to buy a rare Porsche 959. The car was delivered to San Francisco in January, and it is still sitting in a foreign trade zone (a warehouse in Oakland). Seems the U.S. Department of Transportation has never seen crash-test results for the 959, and won't allow it to be driven in the U.S. until the safety issue is resolved. As John Petrin, an inspector with the U.S. Customs Service has explained, "Nobody wants to crash a $500,000 car to provide the data."
377.4	25 x 959 for sale!	PLAYER::KENNEDY_C		`Mon Oct 29 1990 11:19`	8
	Patrick, There is one road legal 959 in the States, but there are 25 cars just sitting around waiting to find out what the various departments require before they can hit the road. Details are in this months Excellence, but they ran an article a few months back about the ones just sitting around, they may even come back to Europe.