Love 912s, affordable, easy to work on and just about the best looking of all the many 911s IMHO. That's a great car, Bill!
I've had a dozen sportscars, 13 if you count a '68 Vette, which I don't. The first one, a 1960 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite, had an 875 CC 4 banger, about 35 horsepower when new and no floor when I got it. I rebuilt the trans on my kitchen table out of parts from 2 gearboxes. Drove it from Florida to L.A. in 1976 stuffed with about everything I owned including my '55 Precision and '60 EBO. Outside of Tucson it sucked a valve and my buddy and I did an impromptu valve job at a DIY garage. Same guy I'll be sending my B-15N to rehab. Here I am doing brake work on the streets of Silverlake 2 years later right before the top and side curtains were stolen. At the time I owned 3 SVT cabs and 3 Coliseums. It was a practical car.
"Graduated" to Alfas and a Porsche. Had kids, moved to Louisiana and bought an F-250. The day my wife told me she was divorcing me I bought this. Not much to choose from in Natchitoches, LA. Everybody slags Fieros but this was the last year, with Lotus suspension and no self immolation option. Had around 90K on the clock when I bought it. I drove it coast to coast 3 times with no problems, great handling car. Slow but 35 Mpg at 80.
Moved to Alameda, CA. Bought this, definitely NOT slow. The 2 happiest days of a Vette owner are the day you buy it and the day you sell it...but it does have a certain appeal to a certain type of woman.
One of my 2 Z cars, 425 twin turbo horses or approximately 12 times the Sprite's. Stick shift as is everything I own. This will probably be my last car. Mostly I drive an S-10.
