thstone Made jalopnik and thetruthaboutcars?

[911monty]

Originally Posted by Retroman1969

Even though it shouldn't, this whole story blows my mind. I still can't imagine someone buying any car that age for a steal of a price and not expect it to need at least a few things. Parts wear out, and a used car isn't a new car. It's amazing that distinction has to be made to some people.

What really amazes me and I wondered about while reading the original articles was, How could anyone not make the connection of what a deal they got when they say something like, Yeah I think he bought it back because he was going to sell it to someone else and make more money??? Even with minor issues.

[M1NDCRlME]

I commented on the jalopnik article last week. I thought it sounded familiar but I never connected the dots. Some joker tried spewing the old "a Porsche is only a second car and can't be daily'd" BS. I had to correct him and he wanted to keep debating it. I'm quattrouberalles on there.

[tommy583]

How dare you thstone!! How could you sell someone a 996 for less than I bought my 986 base for? And to think it only needed $5000 in upgrades and repairs. I'm sure I've spent double that SMH

[Burg Boxster]

thstone - excellent job taking high road, again.

You're fortunate losing Yoav Gilad as a 'friend' and luckier doing so at virtually $0 expense as most of us learned similar lessons harder and at greater expense.

A good friend of mine still occasionally ribs me for not informing him when one of my Porsches was for sale years ago... and thus we're still friends.

Yoav Gilad's suspect "journalism" credentials shine relative to his "car guy" ones. "Car Buying" article linked by Jake above does excellent job dissecting Yoav's inner hormonal teenage girl whiny-ness. Also came across a self-penned article by Yoav from 2013:

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2013/05/14/bumps-in-the-road

Couple exemplary points why the world would be better served if Yoav Gilad continued playing with Barbies instead of cars:

• doing donuts on golf course at Amelia Island - nice job jack@ss giving real car guys a bad name
• continues to drive and push hard a vehicle which knowingly is not running smoothly -
  dumbs#it to the Nth degree
• doesn't know how to check or change points - AYFKM? Surprised he knows how to fill w/ gas

Again Tom, great job keeping it classy unlike the putz, Yoav Gilad. Be glad you're no longer associated.