Not like McArthur, but I have returned

I'm not really a newby. I have been afflicted with the 928 strain of Porsche disease for longer than I care to admit. I was a member of this august organization some years ago and left when I sold my last 928, thinking I was going on to other things. It was a learning experience and here are a couple of things I have learned.

First of all, there are three cars of the many that I have owned in my lifetime that I never was able to quite get beyond. Now they are all old, but remain floating on the top of my bucket list. One I have, an Audi V8 Quattro. The other I don't current, and that is a 928...ANY 928. I have owned two 928's, both S4's and now I am growing restless for another one. Worse still, my wife has joined with me in this, and sooner rather than latter we will again have one.

Secondly, I have learned that all the best cars have been built. Sure, there are faster ones, smarter ones, cheaper ones (a lot of those, in every sense of the word), but the best cars have already been built. Why is this? Well, the cost of building, designing and ownership has escalated to the point that only cheap, mass produced cars are now saleable. The mass mechanical workforce has deterriorated in quality and knowledge (MY opinion!) to the point where the "unplug module A and replace by module B" method of mechanical maintenance is all that can be afford and for the most part, all that most mechanical training programs teach. Thus cars like the 928 are very, very difficult to build and sell, then to afford for all except the most wealthy.

But the best cars....let's say, those with any sort of "soul" have already been built. They are the cars one can love and hate at the same time. Tell me truthfully: do you LOVE your Camry? I didn't think so.

So anyway, I have looked at this website frequently thinking about rejoining. And I have also looked often at all the used car on-line websites pondering 928's. Seldom do I see one that I really, really want, but occasionally, and I show it to my wife for her input. Some day we'll pull the plug and buy another one.

I also have something else to talk to you about this morning. I want to tell you about "The Mists of Adriana", just now available on Amazon Kindle.

Some of you may remember me as a writer who used to post all sorts of things here. For those who don't I am indeed a writer and now that the Air Force has taken away my keys to the F-22 and since the NASA recruiter never returned my phone calls, writing is what I do all the time. All my other careers are finished and now I pound away at the keyboard.

Anyway, years and years ago I began to write a story about a woman by the name of Adriana Barrows. She owned a Porsche 944 Turbo S and was found by the person writing along side the road with a flat tire. That preamble, or first chapter of a longer story was originally published in the 928 newsletter that never really took off.

But the idea of writing about a liason of a beautiful woman who understood how to say the word Porsche stuck with me, and now, finally Adriana Barrows has become a real person and the story of her and a writer who lives on the coast of Maine has been finished in novel form. The story isn't really about 928's, but about two people of varied backgrounds who come together because of a 928. There are some twists and turns, a little romance and some intrigue, mystery and danger, plus an ending that asks more questions than provides answers as one gets dragged into "The Mists of Adriana".

Best of all today, it's available FREE for download on Amazon Kindle, and will be FREE for download from the Kindle Select (lending library) for the next ninety days.

Take a look. I'd love some feedback from REAL 928 owners! Who knows? I might write about these cars and the folks who love them again. Meantime, I will lurk here watching and reading and waiting for that perfect 928 to return to my garage!

Roger

Welcome back, Roger! I hope you find the right 928 soon.

With your background and writing skills, I am sure you would be a welcome candidate on a couple of 928 OC projects.

Thank you for joining!!

Hi Roger.

I should say "welcome Back" but I don't think I was here before when you were; so I guess I'll just say Welcome.

I guess you have probably seen that we are going to be doing a new kind of newsletter for the OC, and I am going to try to be the Editor. Maybe when you get your next 928 you will be having some project or travel or other interesting 928 kinds of things to write about that we can publish in the Newsletter.

Did you get a link to the Newsletter when you rejoined? If not, let me know and I will send it to you, I think.

There is a place on the coast of Maine that I have read about in the past with great interest that I might like to ask you about whether or not you too have read about it. I think it is named Arundel, but I can't remember if that is the correct spelling. If you have heard of it I would be interested to know; and if not I will be interested to tell you something about it that might very well interest you, since, as a writer I would guess that you are also an avid reader.

Good to have you and your Porsche (two sylable word) Lady.

Jerry Feather

P.S. I too have an Air Force "carreer" in my past as a Navigator on C-141, C-121. and C-130, in that order. Shorter career than yours most likely.

Welcome Roger. I home the 928 owners club can help you regain your 928 enthusiasm.

If you like ideas outside the box, i'm your guy.

Brad

Roger,

Welcome back! We need your skills BIG TIME! We are going to start the NEW 928 Journal. We need CONTENT! I will be web base and all about 928's...ANYTHING about 928's. It will be full content articles. Unlike the Newsletter which is smaller articles and excerpts from Journal articles I hope.

I am looking for an editor and someone with the knowledge of posting it to the web as both and article that can be read here on the forum as well as downloaded as a pdf from here so you can take all the articles that you like when you are on the run and don't have connectivity. I think there is a friend over on the volunteer thread who can handle this but I have not asked him yet...

Actually when I paid dues I received very little as a result. I figured I was probably a member when I did get an email acknowledgment, but I was very much preoccupied and may have missed something.

So the newsletter link is something I have not yet received and would appreciate having it. I did read the first issues pre-announcement that is on the forums already but I assume there are further issues.

I thinnk the newsletter is a great idea but I wonder how difficult it will be to keep up a publication rate of every two months...I would have thought quarterly would have been difficult enough.

But one comment I will make is about the name...."Shark Vibes"....really? That makes me uncomfortable because the only vibrations that I am aware of in the 928 might be a harbinger of thrust bearing failure.....ooops!

Roger

Feather;12034 wrote: Hi Roger.

I should say "welcome Back" but I don't think I was here before when you were; so I guess I'll just say Welcome.

I guess you have probably seen that we are going to be doing a new kind of newsletter for the OC, and I am going to try to be the Editor. Maybe when you get your next 928 you will be having some project or travel or other interesting 928 kinds of things to write about that we can publish in the Newsletter.

Did you get a link to the Newsletter when you rejoined? If not, let me know and I will send it to you, I think.

There is a place on the coast of Maine that I have read about in the past with great interest that I might like to ask you about whether or not you too have read about it. I think it is named Arundel, but I can't remember if that is the correct spelling. If you have heard of it I would be interested to know; and if not I will be interested to tell you something about it that might very well interest you, since, as a writer I would guess that you are also an avid reader.

Good to have you and your Porsche (two sylable word) Lady.

Jerry Feather

P.S. I too have an Air Force "carreer" in my past as a Navigator on C-141, C-121. and C-130, in that order. Shorter career than yours most likely.