Greetings!
After recently returning back to the US, I thought to reconnect with my fellow Primers. We've been living overseas for the last 5 years, on and off. This time, we decided not to move back to South Florida (sorry Armando), but found a small two-bedroom bungalow in downtown Palo Alto. I figured that with both my boys out of the house (NYC, Borneo), I have one last start-up left in me. But, this 4th venture is a big departure from my past IT experiences in hardware/software.
This time it's biotech. Pinch Bio develops a prescription pill for the reduction of belly-fat in middle-age men and women. Yeah, for real. I'm tackling "the plague of the 21st Century" — obesity. Silicon Valley is the perfect place to do this work.
Anyway, almost immediately after landing up here, I connected with Ben Lin and some great NSX/car folks here at the downtown Gordon Biersch brewpub. Norcal seems to be a more active place as compared to South Florida. Down there, it's more bling, even though we have some nice exotic cars running the streets of South Beach. Here in Northern California, it's much more about cars. I fully expect SoCal folks to tell me how much better it is, down there way.
As some of you may already know, I had previously shipped my NSX-RR from South Florida to be housed with Shad in Sacramento. Long Vu, another fellow NSXer, helped me bring the car down from Sacramento, and now it's parked at my place in Palo Alto. I've been running it for a few days, but...
…over the last few months, I've considered whether I want to keep the car, or possibly sell it.
Frankly, I'm looking for some serious track time, now that I'm close to Laguna Seca and Sears Point. Drive only 1.5h south of me to Monterey, and I get to drive on a world-class track. It would be a shame to turn this NSX-RR into a track rat.
Thus, I'm going to list the car for sale in the for-sale section of this forum. Those of you who also know ebay really well, can you please email me the best way to list there (I'm a newbie to ebay).
There is one car I would trade+cash as part of any deal—a Porsche 997 GT3 RS. Its one of the few dual-purpose road/track cars out there. I've had amazing experiences with both my modern 911 road car which had ROW suspension plus some tasty GT3 RSR bits installed. That setup really did make a very nice road car. I tracked it often. And, I also tracked my 996 GT3 Cup Car around most of the circuits on the eastern seaboard. I gotta tell you, even though I'll always be an NSX guy, Porsche doesn't disappoint (well, maybe the Panorama). Yes yes, we can argue about the pros and cons of 911 v. NSX, but let's not. However, you guys that actually own both a GT3 RS and an NSX, I'd welcome you talking me in or out of this sale.
For my near term track-oriented needs (i.e. wants) from life, I would rather not trash this NSX-RR on a track. It's more reasonable for the car to now move to its new owner, maybe a fellow Primer.
In my NSX-RR post, I share what was spent on the car (a tad over $163,000). Last time I spoke of a possible sale, I received a serious offer of $113,250 (73K GBP, 83K EU, 8.6M JPY, 882K HKD). YMMV.
I'm actually chasing a private GT3 RS as we speak, if it does come up for sale. I would easily buy it, even before monetizing the NSX-RR.
If you folks out there know of someone who'd be interested in my car, or a possible trade towards their GT3 RS, please keep me posted. Listen, thanks guys, really.
PM is a horrible way to reach me. Better if you e-mail or call me at:
anil DOT sethi AT xlipstream DOT com
+1 410.599.1529 (GMT-8) in Silicon Valley
If you're serious, so am I.
After recently returning back to the US, I thought to reconnect with my fellow Primers. We've been living overseas for the last 5 years, on and off. This time, we decided not to move back to South Florida (sorry Armando), but found a small two-bedroom bungalow in downtown Palo Alto. I figured that with both my boys out of the house (NYC, Borneo), I have one last start-up left in me. But, this 4th venture is a big departure from my past IT experiences in hardware/software.
This time it's biotech. Pinch Bio develops a prescription pill for the reduction of belly-fat in middle-age men and women. Yeah, for real. I'm tackling "the plague of the 21st Century" — obesity. Silicon Valley is the perfect place to do this work.
Anyway, almost immediately after landing up here, I connected with Ben Lin and some great NSX/car folks here at the downtown Gordon Biersch brewpub. Norcal seems to be a more active place as compared to South Florida. Down there, it's more bling, even though we have some nice exotic cars running the streets of South Beach. Here in Northern California, it's much more about cars. I fully expect SoCal folks to tell me how much better it is, down there way.
As some of you may already know, I had previously shipped my NSX-RR from South Florida to be housed with Shad in Sacramento. Long Vu, another fellow NSXer, helped me bring the car down from Sacramento, and now it's parked at my place in Palo Alto. I've been running it for a few days, but...
…over the last few months, I've considered whether I want to keep the car, or possibly sell it.
Frankly, I'm looking for some serious track time, now that I'm close to Laguna Seca and Sears Point. Drive only 1.5h south of me to Monterey, and I get to drive on a world-class track. It would be a shame to turn this NSX-RR into a track rat.
Thus, I'm going to list the car for sale in the for-sale section of this forum. Those of you who also know ebay really well, can you please email me the best way to list there (I'm a newbie to ebay).
There is one car I would trade+cash as part of any deal—a Porsche 997 GT3 RS. Its one of the few dual-purpose road/track cars out there. I've had amazing experiences with both my modern 911 road car which had ROW suspension plus some tasty GT3 RSR bits installed. That setup really did make a very nice road car. I tracked it often. And, I also tracked my 996 GT3 Cup Car around most of the circuits on the eastern seaboard. I gotta tell you, even though I'll always be an NSX guy, Porsche doesn't disappoint (well, maybe the Panorama). Yes yes, we can argue about the pros and cons of 911 v. NSX, but let's not. However, you guys that actually own both a GT3 RS and an NSX, I'd welcome you talking me in or out of this sale.
For my near term track-oriented needs (i.e. wants) from life, I would rather not trash this NSX-RR on a track. It's more reasonable for the car to now move to its new owner, maybe a fellow Primer.
In my NSX-RR post, I share what was spent on the car (a tad over $163,000). Last time I spoke of a possible sale, I received a serious offer of $113,250 (73K GBP, 83K EU, 8.6M JPY, 882K HKD). YMMV.
I'm actually chasing a private GT3 RS as we speak, if it does come up for sale. I would easily buy it, even before monetizing the NSX-RR.
If you folks out there know of someone who'd be interested in my car, or a possible trade towards their GT3 RS, please keep me posted. Listen, thanks guys, really.
PM is a horrible way to reach me. Better if you e-mail or call me at:
anil DOT sethi AT xlipstream DOT com
+1 410.599.1529 (GMT-8) in Silicon Valley
If you're serious, so am I.
