This Rennlist thread from 2016 represents one of the earliest and most emphatic public endorsements of my work. The thread title itself—"Jimmy Repasi at Fairfield Porsche is a GOD"—captures the relief CGT owners feel when they finally find someone who truly understands their car.
While I'd never describe myself that way, this kind of testimonial reflects years of building trust through demonstrated capability. When owners have struggled to find qualified service and finally discover someone who can diagnose and fix their issues, the relief is palpable.
This thread appeared during my time at Fairfield Porsche, before I opened Repasi Motorwerks. Even then, word was spreading through the CGT community that there was a technician in Connecticut who specialized in these cars.
The owner who started this thread had likely experienced the frustration that many CGT owners know too well: taking their car to shops that didn't understand it, receiving incorrect diagnoses, or watching mechanics struggle with straightforward procedures. When they finally found someone who could handle their car confidently, the contrast was stark.
The simple recommendation—"anyone with a CGT should go to him and only him"—became one of many similar endorsements that would accumulate over the years. Each one represented a relationship built, a problem solved, and trust earned.
Thank you Jimmy and anyone with a CGT should go to him and only him.
— As featured in Rennlist Forums
Forum testimonials like this one carry weight precisely because they're unsolicited. Nobody asked this owner to post a recommendation—they felt compelled to share their experience because the contrast with previous service experiences was so significant.
The CGT community is tight-knit. Owners talk to each other constantly about service experiences, maintenance decisions, and the specialists they trust. A single enthusiastic recommendation on Rennlist reaches exactly the audience that needs to hear it: other CGT owners facing the same challenge of finding qualified service.
By 2016, I had already accumulated years of CGT experience. But endorsements like this one helped spread awareness beyond my immediate network to the broader community of owners who might not yet know where to turn.
For CGT owners researching service options, threads like this one provide peer validation that no marketing can replicate. When another owner—someone who faces the same challenges and shares the same concerns—makes an emphatic recommendation, that carries credibility.
The thread also illustrates how reputation builds in the collector car world. Each positive experience creates an advocate who shares their recommendation with others. Over years, those individual testimonials accumulate into the kind of community consensus that defines where serious owners take their cars.
I'm grateful to every owner who has taken the time to share their experience publicly. Those recommendations have introduced Repasi Motorwerks to countless owners who might otherwise never have found us.
Being called "a GOD" in a Rennlist thread title is humbling. What that language really reflects is the relief of finding someone who understands the Carrera GT deeply—someone who can diagnose problems confidently and perform work correctly. I'm grateful for the trust this owner placed in me and for their willingness to share that experience with the community.