Roll the calendar forward 16 years. During that interim, there were dalliances with a 1993 Twin-Turbo Supra which was really a Japanese 928 in so many measures. Heck, the 928S4's car cover fit on the Supra with absolute precision! The Supra was replaced by a 1993 Mazda RX7/ 3rd gen which provided a lot of entertainment. My now 21 year-old son, Matt, is fully-fledged car-obsessed young man and hasn't forgiven me for selling that car.

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In 2008, we elected to move from our home in Garden City, NY to our home in Williamsburg, Virginia.  With the windfall profit from our real estate sale, I took the plunge and bought a 1996 Ferrari F355 Berlinetta...a car I had dreamed of owning. The F355 was, arguably, one of the best looking Ferrari coupes of all time in my mind, however ownership (though affordable at the time as a used vehicle) was expensive.  I had a cooling fan seize it's bearing; the Ferrari fan was $500...through discovery, I found that SPAL manufactured the fan and it could be had from a street rod supply for $130, needing only a slight modification to the electrical plug.  An $8,000 timing belt/water pump/tensioner was needed every 3 years.  As much as I could expertly perform the work, subsequent owners would want documents to accompany the car. I elected to sell the F355 after 5 glorious years of ownership.

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The week that I consummated the sale, while awaiting pick-up of the car, my wife and were running errands in town, when a 928 pulled out from a side road and accelerated away. I said "that is our Porsche". How did I know?...every car guy knows his cars is how I knew!  I caught-up to the car at a traffic light and signaled to the driver (Will David) to lower his passenger window. "You are driving a car that I sold in New York 16 years ago!"  Will took my cell phone number, and later called me wanting to learn about the car that he had owned for the past 13 years.

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Will invited me to his home, an improbable 2 1/2 miles from our home! The car was all there, just as it was 16 years earlier when I sold what Paul Resnick had termed 'the nicest 928 he had ever come across'. The car had covered less than 2,000 miles per year, for a total of 71,547 miles on the odometer.  The car had not been abused, but it had been driven.  Will was in the process of moving to Alexandria, Virginia and needed to sell the 928 and a BMW Z3.

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I bought my car back 16 years later and 4 States away. My 1997 vehicle registration was still in the glove box!!Serendipity!