Re: New Member Check-In
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2021 7:48 pm
Hi, I learned about this forum chasing rear license plate attachments from Tom. Looks like fun to be at the beginning!
I've had a 1984 Carrera 3.2 Targa for almost 20 years. Done a bunch of maintenance and some suspension refresh over the years, used it as a daily for about five years (roughly 70k miles) then it's been more like 5k per year since. Got serious about driving it again a couple years ago when I rejoined the local PCA chapter and started doing arrive and drives with them. Over the years getting to know the car and learning from a bunch of folks on Pelican I kept thinking of how it would have been great to have actually ordered that car the way I wanted it back in '84.
When the 992 came out in early 2019, I noticed they completely revised the interior and I really liked the changes and the throwback to the earlier cars. Every time I visited the configurator previously, I really didn't care for the interior. Anyway, I really liked both the inside and exterior of the 992 so I started considering ordering one, spent a bunch of time on the configurator and worked through a ton of variations, landing on a C2S in Miami Blue with Black/Bordeaux interior.
Shortly after the cars started showing up at dealers (remember when dealers had cars?) I went to the Porsche store locally and discussed timing and and the ordering process. My goal was to order for delivery spring of 2021 to coincide with retirement and also to get it at the beginning if the driving season. I'm in Portland and wanted to get it at PEC Atlanta then drive across country. The SA told me to make that happen, I'd need to order November/December of 2020. Late summer of 2020 I start hearing Porsche will be discontinuing Miami Blue so I reach out to the SA in August 2020 and he tells me I'm too late, missed the opportunity for that color. My first question is can you reach out to PCNA and make sure because I'd called them and they said they'd be building Miami blue through December of 2020. He wasn't interested.
I dug around in the various forums and heard good things about the Las Vegas dealership. A guy on RL from Alaska ordered through them for a pickup at PECATL and raved about them. Late August, I cold called the SA the guy from Alaska recommended and got a call back in about an hour. He spent a good hour and a half going over options and told me he thought he might be able to rangle an allocation in time to get a MB car. I gave them a deposit and off we went. About a month later he comes up with a configurable build out of Maryland and the did a trade for it. The next day, I get a Track Your Dream invite and it looks like I'm in business. Two days later, they call and say PCNA just told them that PAG just painted the last MB car (in mid-September).
We discuss a bunch of color options from the standard list and frankly, none of them really spoke to me. They then come back and tell me they can work with me on mitigating the cost of a custom color. I spent the next month working with the SA on ideas and looking at a bunch of photos on line. He calls one day and says he's got a customer that did a GT3T in Oslo blue with Black/Bordeaux interior and it looked great. I ask if there's any chance i could come to LV to see it. He calls the next day and tells me the owner would be happy to bring it in if I want to come to town. o
So almost a year to the day from giving him my deposit, i collected my Oslo blue 992 from PECLA. it could be said that I added too much weight of picked the wrong options but the best part about this endeavor is I got my car exactly the way I wanted it. Then I had full PPF and tint done and I also have had a bunch of additional leather items done that I couldn't get (or more correctly didn't want to pay for) by Porsche Exclusive Manufactur and those really make the interior special to me, since that's where I spend all my time. I've loved all 3300 miles so far and looking forward to trying to get to 100k. This will be my last car.
Thanks for making it this far!
Best,
Karl
I've had a 1984 Carrera 3.2 Targa for almost 20 years. Done a bunch of maintenance and some suspension refresh over the years, used it as a daily for about five years (roughly 70k miles) then it's been more like 5k per year since. Got serious about driving it again a couple years ago when I rejoined the local PCA chapter and started doing arrive and drives with them. Over the years getting to know the car and learning from a bunch of folks on Pelican I kept thinking of how it would have been great to have actually ordered that car the way I wanted it back in '84.
When the 992 came out in early 2019, I noticed they completely revised the interior and I really liked the changes and the throwback to the earlier cars. Every time I visited the configurator previously, I really didn't care for the interior. Anyway, I really liked both the inside and exterior of the 992 so I started considering ordering one, spent a bunch of time on the configurator and worked through a ton of variations, landing on a C2S in Miami Blue with Black/Bordeaux interior.
Shortly after the cars started showing up at dealers (remember when dealers had cars?) I went to the Porsche store locally and discussed timing and and the ordering process. My goal was to order for delivery spring of 2021 to coincide with retirement and also to get it at the beginning if the driving season. I'm in Portland and wanted to get it at PEC Atlanta then drive across country. The SA told me to make that happen, I'd need to order November/December of 2020. Late summer of 2020 I start hearing Porsche will be discontinuing Miami Blue so I reach out to the SA in August 2020 and he tells me I'm too late, missed the opportunity for that color. My first question is can you reach out to PCNA and make sure because I'd called them and they said they'd be building Miami blue through December of 2020. He wasn't interested.
I dug around in the various forums and heard good things about the Las Vegas dealership. A guy on RL from Alaska ordered through them for a pickup at PECATL and raved about them. Late August, I cold called the SA the guy from Alaska recommended and got a call back in about an hour. He spent a good hour and a half going over options and told me he thought he might be able to rangle an allocation in time to get a MB car. I gave them a deposit and off we went. About a month later he comes up with a configurable build out of Maryland and the did a trade for it. The next day, I get a Track Your Dream invite and it looks like I'm in business. Two days later, they call and say PCNA just told them that PAG just painted the last MB car (in mid-September).
We discuss a bunch of color options from the standard list and frankly, none of them really spoke to me. They then come back and tell me they can work with me on mitigating the cost of a custom color. I spent the next month working with the SA on ideas and looking at a bunch of photos on line. He calls one day and says he's got a customer that did a GT3T in Oslo blue with Black/Bordeaux interior and it looked great. I ask if there's any chance i could come to LV to see it. He calls the next day and tells me the owner would be happy to bring it in if I want to come to town. o
So almost a year to the day from giving him my deposit, i collected my Oslo blue 992 from PECLA. it could be said that I added too much weight of picked the wrong options but the best part about this endeavor is I got my car exactly the way I wanted it. Then I had full PPF and tint done and I also have had a bunch of additional leather items done that I couldn't get (or more correctly didn't want to pay for) by Porsche Exclusive Manufactur and those really make the interior special to me, since that's where I spend all my time. I've loved all 3300 miles so far and looking forward to trying to get to 100k. This will be my last car.
Thanks for making it this far!
Best,
Karl
Welcome aboard. Hope you are a Porsche fan and stick around on Carpokes!