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The Gen'l Sherman

sh944

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Join Date: Sep 2008

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Vehicle #1 Information

Vehicle Name	The Gen'l Sherman
Year	1987
Make	Porsche
Model	951
Color	Ocean Blue
Packages	LSD, ABS, Sport Suspension, Sport Seats,
History	Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I was driving an '86 951 that I had purchased from Don Istook. It performed wonderfully, but was a little rough cosmetically (typical racers car! lol). A friend of mine wanted to buy it, and when a "too cheap to pass up" 951 came up for sale in California, I let him buy it from me and purchased the replacement. Unfortunately, I made arrangements to have the car shipped by a company that misrepresented their services. Three weeks after the car was supposed to be picked up, I got a call from the seller, saying "good news/bad news"... The good news was that they had indeed picked it up, the bad news was that they had apparently tried to recreate the opening scene of the TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard" while loading it and had done substantial damage to the car in the process. I won't go into all the details except to say that State Farm took good care of me on the deal and a friend, upon hearing the story, nicknamed the car the "Gen'l Lee". Once I had the car in my possession (another long story), I started working through the damage to see what could be salvaged and eventually came to the realization that the car would always carry the stigma of a "rebuilt" car, even if I did everything right, and that I would be money ahead by parting it and getting another car that didn't require all the work. I assumed that I could take all the good parts, along with the dixie flag sunroof insert that I painted up, and pass it on to the successor, keeping the Gen'l Lee name alive. The car I wound up finding was a "union blue" car from Maryland, a decidedly "yankee" state, and it would have been wrong to call it the Gen'l Lee. At the same time I was negotiating for the car, it was brought to my attention that a friend of mine from Altanta had been talking about buying it for a while, and while he was serious about it, he hadn't pulled the trigger yet as he was out of the country for a couple of week. In honor of burning my friend in Atlanta (and no worries, we still laugh about this as he had done the same thing to me previously), the car is named after the Union General, William Tecumseh Sherman, who burned down Atlanta in the Civil War.

General Images

The Gen'l Sherman, right after I brought him home (2005)

Vehicle #2 Information - OR - Vehicle #1 Extended information

Vehicle #2 Information - OR - Vehicle #1 Engine and Modifications

Vitesse Racing Stage II components (Turbo, MAF, 65# injectors, chips, piggyback tuning)
Vitesse Racing Stage II camshaft
Lindsey Racing Dual Port Wastegate
CEP Fuel rail system (awaiting install)
SFR Stage II exhaust system (321SS headers/crossover/downpipe, all ceramic coated, and 3" exhaust)
Zeitronix WB02
Kevin Gross built AOR LSD gearbox

Exterior/Interior

968 rear hatch
968 mirrors
CPR V1 front splitter
Redline rollbar

Stereo and/or Electronics

Factory, who listens to the radio anyway? lol

Suspension and/or Other Modifications

Factory M030 spindles/hubs/brakes
968 M030 front/rear swaybars
Bilstein Escort struts/shocks
KLA strut tower brace

Wheels and Tires

Fikse FM-10's 8.5"x17" front, 10.5"x17" rear
Kuhmo Ecstas 225frt/295rear

General comments

Other vehicles (waiting for more garage spots! lol):

1992 Porsche 968 cab (Horizon Blue) Garage Queen
1982 Porsche 928 (pewter) Wifes car
1991 Harley Davidson FLHTC highway cruiser
1958 Harley Davidson FLH in town cruiser
1956 I-H S100, chopped, bagged and sportin' a Hemi
2009 Mini Cooper S company car

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