Re: 959 Sighting Doubtful

[spowers@spdg.COM (Steve Powers)]

another Steve adds:
> From: steveb@newkla.kla.com (Steven Buchholz)
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 95 08:46:53 PST
> Subject: Re: 959 Sighting Doubtful
> 
> > I highly doubt that people REALLY saw a 959 in California.  You're right,
> > there were two that were impounded in San Francisco, and one of them was for
> > Bill Gates.  However, Bill Gates doesn't work for Apple and Microsoft is in
> > in Redmond, Washington.  Unless someone saw him driving it up to Washington
> > (if it was even released), it's doubtful people saw it much in California.
> > 
> > BTW, it's not that the 959 wouldn't pass the crash test test, it's that
> > Porsche didn't want to waste/total a very expensive 959 on the crash test in
> > order to sell a very limited number of 959s.
> > 
> > -DMR.
> > 
> I missed the earlier part of this thread, but I do recall that someone wrote 
> a letter to AutoWeek a few years ago about a 959 sighting on the Golden Gate 
> Bridge.  The EPA (or whichever Nazis they are that are protecting us) put 
> together quite an investigation as a result.  They probably knew that there 
> was a real possibility that one of these three digit mosters was endangering 
> the safety of the public, and needed to make sure that the perpetrators 
> filled the coffers.

If you can believe a near FOAF story.

My brother John plays volleyball with a Washington State Patrol detective. 
John, who's an afficianado of speed and all things fast, asked him about
Bill Gates' and Paul Allen's 959s. When asked what would happen to Bill's
car _if_ they found it, the detective replied "crush it".

It was said that Bill (and perhaps Paul) brought it (them) over in a
plane carrying containers of software from Germany. I've heard that Paul
Allen's was released so that it could be raced (or run at a track) but
could not be licensed in any state unless full federalization occurred.
They had one at the Seattle Auto Show a couple of years ago, maybe it
was Paul's.

The detective also claimed that the person who initially reported a 959
zooming around the area was a Microsoft employee. I guess he didn't get
enough stock options.

too bad...

- steve powers                            stratos product development group
spowers@spdg.com                          seattle, washington