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is a reverse Ebay story. I was getting a bagel in
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY when I noticed a parking lot full
of Peugeots. Across the street was a foreign car dealer.
I looked in the window, and there was a 911 cabriolet, a
Jaguar XKE, a 356 speedster, and this 3.0 CS. 25 Minutes
later, I had the owner extract it from the small
showroom and I took a test drive. It was strong and
seemed sound in the shock towers, rockers, door jambs,
etc. The owner said it was traded in on a Ferrari by a
Long Island collector. He also said that the original
owner had it converted to a stick (by the dealer) from
automatic at time of purchase, because he liked
everything about the car, except the tranny and a stick
could not be found or had at the time. An interesting
story that I will try to research at some point. As we
closed the deal, he mentioned that the car is on Ebay. I
looked at it once I got home and had to chuckle. As with
all Ebay purchases, a few good pictures can be
misleading. Although the car was in pretty good
structural shape, the interior is nowhere near as good
as it looks in the pictures. There were a few areas where
rust was bubbling under the paint on the exterior, and
the engine bay had layers of baked on grime.
None-the-less, a pretty original car with what feels
like a sound drive train. Obviously I thought it was a
good find for a car in the northeast.
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