Porsche 924+Audi(LAC)

[Paul Heneghan]

> From: "Muhammad Sohaib Bukhari" <xsohaib at hotmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:58:40 -0900
>
> I am probably going to buy a Porsche 924 white color 1979, with a 120000
> miles on it and a recently rebuilt engine. I know the person selling the
> car. It looks really clean with no rust and a clean interior, and he is
> selling it for $2500. I have heard that the 4 cylinder 2.0(1994 cc to be
> exact) is the same as that in an Audi. Is that true. What should I check
> particularly when buying a 21 year old porsche 924. Thanks
>
> Sohaib
> 84 4ksq

I had a 1979 924 briefly (I bought it in England for a friend who lived in
Ireland) in 1992 and it was a beautiful car.  I regretted handing it on and
my friend was devastated when he totalled it about four years later hitting
a tyre that fell off the back of a lorry.  It is the type of car that gets
the same loyalty as a quattro.  The advantages it has over the 924S. Turbo
and 944 is cheap insurance and easy and relatively cheap to fix.

My 924 gave virtually no trouble in the four years except for a blown head
gasket (check for mayonnaise in the oil filler).  It had this when I bought
it and I used it to bargain the price down by a few hundred pounds.  There
was also a phantom overheating problem that occurred in the St Bernard Pass
in Switzerland - probably due to the air intake to the radiator getting
clogged with Snow - never did get to the bottom of that.

I think the engine was a VW/Audi designed engine (1984cc) - used in the
European VW LT Van and the Audi 100 series.  Great engine!

Gear shifts are a bit notchy, but that's what you get when the gear box is
so far from the lever.  Hope you get the later conventional shift instead of
the old dog-leg first - very strange, but I'm sure people get used to it.

Useful web page on http://you.genie.co.uk/cheeky/buy924.html

Paul