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Well, well. The seller collected me from the station, he seemed a nice enough chap, and then we headed off to his place for a cuppa as the 944 wasn't ready to be collected yet. It turns out he lives in a small village and the chap whose doing the MOT has absconded with my Porsche - which meant a bit of sitting around and waiting before I could hit the open road. At this point I hadn't even laid eyes on my new baby. In the meantime I had a chance to view the extensive history, original owners manual and other sundry documents. It was certainly reasurring to see all those invoices and it was clear that each owner had taken good car of this car. In amongst all the bits was the actual pre-delivery invoice for this car from December 1985! The first owner kept this car for almost fifteen years, and it had done less than 1000 miles in the last couple years. I handed over the cash before heading off to the garage. After what felt like another eternity waiting for the garage-owner-come-...