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[Scrounger]

Crikey Ralph, you've done well. I was told that once it reaches CP8 your dealer should expect it 2 weeks after that. As a side note if you get your VIN from your SA you'll know if its Stuttgart or Osnabrück built.

I'm hoping mine is halfway through production now but some of my expected dates have changed significantly by as much as 2 weeks to the right!

Dan

 

[AndrewCS]

First track day April 25 Castle Combe, Center Gravity 29th, then Goodwood May 4 and Thruxton May 5, I have another 9 booked.

Most active member of the year then , looking forward to the feedback - reports

 

[Motorhead]

That’s an ambitious track day programme Ralph! It looks as though the car’s at Emden awaiting shipment and with handover to you mid-March, so you should have plenty of time to run it in for Castle Combe.

Fingers crossed the shipment goes without incident and to time.

Jeff

 

[ralphmusic]

Jeff,

It's going on an EV-free ship. I always knew EVs were the spawn of the devil. []

Ralph

 

[Motorhead]

Ha,ha! Those were my thoughts too Ralph … we don’t want to see another “Felicity Ace” incident, especially in the very busy North Sea shipping lanes.

On a more serious note, it should be a serious wake-up call to those responsible for vehicle shipments because EV demand is only heading one way.

Jeff

 

[ralphmusic]

On a more serious note, it should be a serious wake-up call to those responsible for vehicle shipments because EV demand is only heading one way.

Jeff

To the bottom?

 

[ralphmusic]

Car arrived at Exeter today, a week ahead of schedule. With prep, Topaz, business and Modified Register RPM meetings I hope to collect it on March 21st. The JCR noise reduction tips have arrived and hopefully I can test these out at Thruxton on Javelin's trackday on the 22nd (just visiting).

 

[ralphmusic]

 

[AndrewT]

Looks great

 

[Scrounger]

Nice Ralph. Good to see she arrived safe and sound.

That’s a quick turnaround from the logistics company. They normally sit at the docks for over a week!

Dan

 

[ralphmusic]

Feb 11 Into Production

Feb 18 Production Completed

Feb 21 Into Emden

Feb 28 Left Emden

Mar 1 Arrived Sheerness

Mar 8 Arrived Exeter

It was a week for each logistics stage and a month overall from production start to delivery to dealer.

 

[Motorhead]

Looking good Ralph … an excellent colour choice I can assure you seeing as I think you mentioned that you’re colour blind! []

Hope all the prep work and handover goes without incident.

Jeff

 

[ralphmusic]

Now for insurance...

I got quotes mid-January as I like to be prepared:

Porsche Insurance Services

7k miles no track cover £1,478

Locktons

7k miles PCGB track days £1,310

ClassicLine

5k miles (their max) with track days £1,182

APlan

7k miles with track days premium over £2k (we don't think you'll be interested Sir..)

Manning

7k miles no track days £1,560 but when I expressed "some surprise" they re-quoted with another insurer £1,285. Manning wrote to me on Feb 15th saying they had agreed track day cover policy wording and expected to have pricing in two weeks - as of this morning the story was exactly the same

In November my GT3 quotes with Manning and ClassicLine GT3 were £960 (no track cover) and £932 (track cover), respectively. When I cancelled the GT3 cover with ClassicLine in January they quoted a premium refund £250 lower than the policy and had to be pushed to apply the policy terms - they said that they have lots of insurers with different terms.

I have just taken out ClassicLine cover for £1,182 with mandatory endorsements of garaged if within 0.5 mile of home address and their standard 5k annual mileage limit. The latter will be a bit of a stress and maybe I'll self insure track days next year - I've been lucky 84 times so far.

 

[Twinfan]

Thanks for the insurance info Ralph, mine is due for renewal next year. ClassicLine are out of the picture for me as my car isn't garaged, so I think I'll be heading to Lockton which I can just squeeze in before my Club membership expires.

Aviva is another on my 'possible' list but I don't think they do track cover...

 

[rodneyhj]

Thanks for the insurance info Ralph, mine is due for renewal next year. ClassicLine are out of the picture for me as my car isn't garaged, so I think I'll be heading to Lockton which I can just squeeze in before my Club membership expires.

Aviva is another on my 'possible' list but I don't think they do track cover...

 

[rodneyhj]

As a matter of interest I just renewed the insurance on my 981 GTS through the Lockton/Porsche scheme and that is now done with Aviva including track day cover

 

[ralphmusic]

As a matter of interest I just renewed the insurance on my 981 GTS through the Lockton/Porsche scheme and that is now done with Aviva including track day cover

Is that with any track day organisers or just PCGB days?

 

[Twinfan]

Pretty sure Lockton will only cover PCGB days. They've stated in the past they don't want to be known as a track day insurer, the cover they give for Club days is based on the risk assessment assumption that other drivers of Porsches will be well behaved. On a general day that assumption is obviously invalid.

 

[rodneyhj]

Yes it was only PCGB Track Days

 

[Motorhead]

I have just taken out ClassicLine cover for £1,182 with mandatory endorsements of garaged if within 0.5 mile of home address and their standard 5k annual mileage limit. The latter will be a bit of a stress and maybe I'll self insure track days next year - I've been lucky 84 times so far.

Ralph,

I suspect that if you contact ClassicLine if/when you’re approaching your mileage limit it’ll be possible to extend the cover by paying an additional premium.

Jeff