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I just thought I would get the ball rolling and register for an account here, as I plan to pick up my first 968 this week.
I'm Charlie, and I'm in Kingston, Ontario. Are there any other Canadians here?
Oh, and the car is a red '92. More details as I verify them.
Charlie
1992 968 (Now Road + Track)
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Welcome to a great resource site for our cars. Where's Kingston located; used to live in Ohio, and sometimes got up to Canada for vac./business.
'92 Midnight Blue 968 Coupe
'94 ProbeGT, Eaton SC@9psi, Quaife, TecGT ECU, 300+HP, body sold, parting out
'98 3000GT VR-4, 400+HP AWD beast, didn't fit w/race helmet, Sold
'93 Bone Stock MX-6 Sold (in '05) sadly to the crusher in 2010
'61 Triumph TR-3, White with red leather interior; My First Car
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Thanks, everyone!
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Welcome to a great resource site for our cars. Where's Kingston located; used to live in Ohio, and sometimes got up to Canada for vac./business.
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Kingston is between Toronto and Montreal -- Northeast of Ohio.
I picked the car up today (actually, I managed to get it safety inspected, appraised, insured and plated in under three hours).
![[Image: 7606393802_f5b84ebe34_c.jpg]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7271/7606393802_f5b84ebe34_c.jpg)
It's far from perfect: for example, parts of the paint have been fixed with a spray can, and the lower plastic cladding is sealed to the body with caulk (not a bad job, in truth, but not exactly OE-spec).
It's originally a Florida car, so the dash has cracks and the exterior rubber is all pretty bad, and it's been hastily fixed at the front (including new headlight buckets, so I'll see how that looks when I start to pull it apart).
Mileage is unknown (broken odometer gear) but it drives nicely and is complete, except for a tow hook and tool kit.
Oh, and there's also the graphics:
![[Image: 7606392714_84e029ca93_c.jpg]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8150/7606392714_84e029ca93_c.jpg)
They're likely coming off soon.
As for the good, though (still to be verified):
- New clutch
- New belts last year
- New rollers and water pump five years ago
- New cam chain tensioner pads (and chain?) when the <acronym title='previous owner'>PO</acronym> got it five years ago
- Fresh brakes
- <acronym title='Limited Slip Differential'>LSD</acronym>
- Good ride, though a little soft for what I'm used to
- Seems generally healthy, though I'll do a compression test next week before pulling the valve cover to check those tensioner pads
Sorry for the poorly-formatted post. I guess I'm not allowed to use BBcode yet.
Charlie
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Noted. Sorry for the bad markup above, and thanks for all the welcomes!
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Welcome to the club!
Looks like your car used to have the optional headlight washer nozzles, that someone has inexplicably filled in and spraypainted over. If you can get that paint off, order up some new nozzles (sunsetimports.com should have the lowest prices) and you'll be good to go.
Also, your side cladding is a-ok. That's a rubber gasket, not caulking :-)
And yeah, go ahead and remove those decals!
-Austin
'94 Black/Tan Coupe
6sp. LSD, 18" Carrera Lightweights, M030 struts and sways, Racer-X chip, airbox mod
Sold
