I was waiting to see if someone would make the connection (I suppose it was inevitable).
For those not already in the loop, here is the backstory to the published story:
986 Forum - I Bought My 996 Back Today.html
Yoav and I were pretty good friends. We met through fellow 986 Forum member, writer, and fellow racer Alexander Bermudez and hung out together fairly often. We talked about starting a car-related business together and I wrote a draft of a business plan.
When he told me that he was going to write a story about his short experience owning the 996, I asked him not to do so. I thought it was a bad idea and I didn't see or understand the supposed "lesson" that he was trying to make in the story.
When I saw the story last week, I was pretty upset that a "friend" who had screwed me around on the car, had went ahead and written what I felt was an unfair and single-sided story. I called Yoav and we talked (well, mostly I talked). Without going into details, that call ended our friendship as far as I am concerned.
I won't go into a blow-by-blow response to the story but I will say that anyone who thinks that I bought the car back so I could make more money from selling it doesn't know the truth and doesn't know me. I told Yoav that if he didn't want the car, then he should sell it himself and make the profit. He did not want to do that and asked for me to buy the car back from him - which I graciously did. As for the $3,000 profit in re-selling, I burned through that in one weekend racing at Laguna Seca last month.
I'll let the story stand for what it is - one persons view of a two-sided series of events that were blown out of proportion to create a "story" that the author felt needed to be done in order to be published. As is said, never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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