23K Silver Rose SOLD at Raby Castle Show on the 28th June.

stepa1007 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:40 pm

Hey Guys

Sunday there was a show at Raby Castle.
I was at Moffat but my friend Trevor who has a V12 XJS related this tale.

A 72 year old turned up with a 23k LHD Silver Rose looking like it was straight out of the box!
A friend had bought t over from Germany , kept it 6 months and sold it to him.
That was 10 years ok.
He could no longer push the clutch properly and mentioned wanting to sell the car for 6K
Imediately a crowd of perspective owners formed around the car.

The driver of a Purple 968 Club Sport (Trevor noted it was the exactly the same colour as my GTS) walked back to his car.
He returned with 8K cash, slapped it in the old boys hand and exited with the Rose.
The other perspective buyers were left with open mouths like Goldfish...

Trevor also reported that he'd spoke to the Rose owner before the sale and remarked about Roses being quick cars.
The Guy said he had it up to 85MPH a few times in the time he had owned the car but he did not like to speed!

Trevor spoke the new owner of the Rose who also said he had a 928 GTS.

A number of years ago I heard of a Barrister who owned both a Purple 968 and a Purple 928 GTS
This is surely the same guy?

Around 11 or 12 years years ago I was in Germany toring the Porsche Centrums looking for a 968. There was an incredibly low mileage ROSE in Wuppental that had just ben sold for a song. I wonder if it was the same car as the dates are about right?

Was any forum member at the show??

Stephen

pauly · **Posted:** Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:51 pm

Perhaps it's heading abroad at a hefty mark up.

rav · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:54 am

Thats a nice car for not a lot of money.
These LHD cars (especially the Rose) are fetching big bucks when in good condition over in the Fatherland now.

Here is one i found on Mobile.de.

http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?id=106149663&__lp=1&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCENDING&makeModelVariant1.makeId=20100&makeModelVariant1.modelId=12&makeModelVariant1.modelDescription=turbo+s&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=false&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&export=NO_EXPORT&customerIdsAsString=&lang=en&pageNumber=1

All for 32 000 Euros.

ben944 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:38 am

I wish I had £8k in the door pocket of my '44!

Ben :bounce:

David924S · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:27 am

Why did the guy pay 8K for a car up for sale at 6K?

stepa1007 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:18 am

To make sure he got the car.
It was a steal for 8K and robbery at 6K.
As you pointed out their is a Rose in Germany with a similar mileage is up for sale at 32500 EURO.
That is one fat profit to be made!!

Of course he 'may' keep the car....

Stephen
Green with Envy

rav · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:00 pm

David924S wrote:

Why did the guy pay 8K for a car up for sale at 6K?

Good point though !!! :!:

stepa1007 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:31 pm

If I had been there I'd have swapped him a 95 928 GTS for it....

Stephen

pauly · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:02 pm

Not in the same league I know but years ago I bought a Scirocco GTX from a pensioner, low miles and mint, the oil buzzer sounded on the way home and on investigation the engine was full of sludge, low miles and low revs aren't always a good thing.

J.J. · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:49 pm

If I bought it the engine would go bang as soon as I took it up the road. Never buy a car thats been driven so gently unless you drive the same. The first time you take it to the red line the rods will stretch a bit more & the rings will hit a step in the bores & the rings will break & fly out the exhaust & wreck the engine. Give me a well maintained car with 100K on it any day! 8k or not it could still need big money spending on it to make it useable. I'm sure that Richys turbo would be a better buy. It was tried & tested. Not a garage queen.

stepa1007 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:08 pm

The 30000 euro it would fetch in Germany who buy you a good GTS and a good 944 Turbo here.

Stephen

frenchy · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:47 pm

My Alpina will be on PH for sale soon and if soldand Richy still has his i will be taking a trip to Northants,still trying to contact him re his wheels.

ben944 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:43 pm

Hi,

The Silver Rose that was bought for £8k looks positively a bargain when compared to this 944 S2 I've seen for sale...

http://www.pauldevyea.co.uk/cars/944s2c ... visual.htm

Regards, Ben :bounce:

lindsayhbrown · **Posted:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:48 pm

ben944 wrote:

Hi,

The Silver Rose that was bought for £8k looks positively a bargain when compared to this 944 S2 I've seen for sale...

http://www.pauldevyea.co.uk/cars/944s2c ... visual.htm

Regards, Ben :bounce:

its got a write up in the back of augusts 911 world mag

ben944 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:40 am

lindsayhbrown wrote:

ben944 wrote:

Hi,

The Silver Rose that was bought for £8k looks positively a bargain when compared to this 944 S2 I've seen for sale...

http://www.pauldevyea.co.uk/cars/944s2c ... visual.htm

Regards, Ben :bounce:

its got a write up in the back of augusts 911 world mag

Yep. It's in the tried and tested section of 911 and Porsche World mag. I think it's a lot of money though for what it is though IMO.

Regards, Ben :bounce:

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