car arrived on the flat bed last week, its a 1980 924 Turbo (931) 87,000 on ODO

This is the report of the first time I attempted to start the vehicle since I owned it. The previous owner said it would take a few attempts each time to start it. He also said that the he put 91 octane in the tank in April of this year.

1st - Car starts immediately, runs for around 2 seconds and then dies. ( a steady decline of RPM and then dies)

2nd - I started again, and it ran for 2 seconds and died,

3rd - I repeated this a third and forth time and it the same thing happened.

4th & 5th - On the forth I gave it some gas and it died even more quickly. On the fifth try I gave it gas again and it died.

6th - it started and ran. stayed running.

Once it was running it ran nicely, no knocking and no misfiring, accelerated to 3000rpm and it was smooth.