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lol... we're just not coming from the same place on this one. I would definitely go with the narrow body... The wide body looks nice, but you end up with too much grip in the ass end, especially with the C4S... How am I going to destroy my rear tires if I can't get past the understeer? I know, I know...Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
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I will keep this to myself the next time I see my dad. He'd cry I think, to know that his car is still worth over 100k.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinFromSA
That would just about make me cry too. But, I suppose tis better to have owned a Porsche and lost than to have never owned one at all. My condolences to your father.Quote:
Originally Posted by guroo270
It's okay. He sold it for good coin and figured that it would be worth a lot forever. Bought it on margin, that sort of thing. He got hit a lot harder when gas went to $5 in CA a couple years after buying a 745Li and he got a new job 40 miles from home. He went and got one of the first jetta diesels (Think dealer mark up), and they asked him for $5k to trade in his 745. You can buy a lot of gas with all that depreciation. Oh well.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinFromSA
I am pretty sure those prices are for a TURBO 993. Dad could get his 993 S back for $30k-$40kQuote:
Originally Posted by guroo270
And even then, you'd have to have a pretty extraordinary example on your hands to fetch that kind of money... Your run of the mill 993 Turbo S is going for 65-75...Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
Whew…. I feel better.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
So, I think I have to get the 964... If I get the 993, I'm just going to wake up the next am, look out the window, and be kicking myself for it... I figure I can take the $15K difference between the two and just get the engine rebuilt before I even take delivery...
This looks cool:
http://www.automobile-sportive.com/g...-ouverture.jpg
But not as cool as this:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XVTo0C8DyK...orsche-964.jpg
Odd on the mileage stfu puts on this? I got 2k a year.
Well, it'll be my 4th car, and not really worth driving in the snow... But I love to drive, and there are a million awesome roads around here... I don't exactly feel like I need to immediately drive the thing into the ground either... I'd guess I'll put about 5K/year on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
not enough room for a chainsaw and wood gathering.
Plenty of room for a chainsaw...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
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And you could hitch a trailer to it...
Have you priced penis enlargement surgery as an alternative?
lol... was it the pic next to the grocery cart that made you think of that? never really thought of a 911 as a compensation thing... hardly a monster truck or a muscle car... what do you drive BIG STEVE?Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Steve
^^^^ A Lesbaru. No penis enhancement required:fmicon:
If I was going to get any porsche, I'd get something more in the 70's for the purity. My buddy got one in High School, just a joy to drive and lots of those fun mechanical sounds and actions you want from a fun car.
Seriously? I figured everyone already figured out that guys who drive Porsches are making up for dick size and/or loss of hair. Also, over the past 26 years of law practice my fellow members of the bar and I have tracked an uncannily consistent pattern of men undergoing middle-age crises to: (a) dump the fat wife for a trophy wife; (b) buy a Porsche; and (c) get a toupee or hair tranplant.Quote:
Originally Posted by stfu&gbtw
Honda Insight : )Quote:
Originally Posted by stfu&gbtw
So true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Steve
Thank God I started off with a trophy wife right from the git-go.
With your general attitude around here, figures you'd be a lawyer. :rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Steve
Yup. Not knocking the Insight or anything, but I'm guessing that when it comes to Porsches, you just plain don't get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Steve
It's about 2k miles/year and bragging on the 'web? seriously, porsche prices have gone nuts in the past 5-10 years because they are the new crisis/trophy car. Those Singer's BobbyStupid's blowing are $350-500k. That's retarded money.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinFromSA
2k miles a year of fun miles...why inflate it with junk commuting miles or putzing around town? Seems like a waste. A commute is a commute, whether you have a Camry or a Cayman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
Those Singers look to be incredible, but it's beyond me how you could spend that kind of money on a 911... People do obviously, and there's a whole part of it that I just don't get. The gt2/3 thing for instance... There's nothing about the 911's that I love that makes me wish I could do 200mph in one... The good part is between 40 and 100. And I can't see tying so much money up in one that I couldn't just drive it whenever I want... People talk about driving a certain car as an 'occasion'. I could see enjoying a car like that, but why own one? I can go rent one for my 'occasion' and bring it back when I'm done. Older porsche 911s are like the perfect sports cars... Reliable enough to use all the time, great fun to drive, not too expensive to own or maintain...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
I'd drive the piss out of it. While it will be garage kept, it'd be a second car for the wife and I....
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Has anyone used the "good investment" angle yet?
For all those $$$ do porsche come with the rear hook for the kiddy seats?
I supose I could afford a porsche ... if I got a job instead of playing
I think a huge part of the price inflation is the PCA circlejerk in Connecticut and i-bank circles.
Lol... I'm sure many wives have heard the 'good investment' argument... I'm pretty sure my wife knows there won't be anything left when I'm done with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Been looking hard at the 2002-2003 996 TT. Lots of bang for the buck. I hit up a Porsche mechanic in line at a restaurant the other day and kicked his brain a bit. He said to stay away from non turbo 996's in general, mostly for the the reasons already stated here. He said the TT's were pretty much bombproof though.
The other option is a 997 C4S. 2005-2006 seem to be almost in the price range.
My wife's ex boss had a black 1997 C4S. Holy shit was that a cool car. Gave him a ride to the airport in it and got to keep it for the weekend. I remember every second in that car. The Porsche mechanics tried to buy it from him every time he got it serviced. Never driven a 993 Turbo. The way things are looking now it's not likely I'll get the chance.
I don't have to talk my wife into getting a 911. She's the one that wants it. :biggrin:
Any idea what that guy's story is? It's like he turned up out of nowhere with this ridiculous porsche collection...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFignJ62RMQuote:
Originally Posted by stfu&gbtw
Awesome... Somehow I'd managed to find an 8 minute version of that somewhere. I was wondering what all the fuss was about over some 8 minute "movie"... That's way better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless
Dude comes off as a bit of a goofball in this, where in other interviews I've seen, he seems really down to earth and easy to hang out with. Either way, dude's got some serious taste in cars...
Maybe the size of my cock has something to do with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinFromSA
Actually, I driven hundreds of miles in several Porsches owned by clients. (Porsche owners and other conspicuous consumers like to flaunt their purchases; imagine that.) They are indeed fun to drive. If I had $20million liquid/no debt I might get one.
^^
Damn dude. You'd wait till you had $20MM in the bank before springing for a rolling toupee? That's like Hugh taking the $60 paycheck from his shift at Arby's and springing for a 50 cent tug job from the homeless retard that lives in the alley next to his apt. building. In other words, you could stand to be a little freer with your money.
I give you .50 cents for a tuggie because I'm a nice guy. Yours are worth a penny, the extra .49 is charity.Quote:
Originally Posted by huckbucket
So generous.
I approve of the direction this thread has taken
Wow, you're a freaking tightwad! You'd really wait til you had $20 million liquid with no debt to MAYBE buy a car that's anywhere from mid $10Ks to $100K depending on preference? And in the meanwhile you look down on others who choose to spend their money in different ways than you? So now we know that Big Steve is (A) an attorney, and (B) Jewish. I'm half Jew myself, which is probably why it just kills me to spend money on anything unnecessary (I always have to try really hard to justify fun things to myself), and why I negotiate on everything, but damn, you take the cake Mr. Goldstein.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Steve
Big Steve projects his insecurities in an Insight :tongue:
I come from a long line of Porschephiles and have/do own a couple 911s myself most recent being my fathers old 997 when he got his new 991. Little surprised at the amount of hyperbole in this thread but hey, it's the internets.
That 993 as pretty as I think they are are just as easily replaced with a higher mileage 997 in your search (or 996 if you are ok with the looks)
As someone also mentioned the 996 is the best bang for your buck. I also think the seal issue brought up, as legitimate as it may be, is a little overblown here. These things aren't guaranteed to fail as some have alluded to here. That and not everyone is looking for the TT (which I agree is awesome).
The 964 is so pretty but as someone touched on, those things are almost guaranteed to put you backwards in a turn if you're on it and get cold feet.
Either way sounds like you know what you want and may have some options. Post up what you're seeing and let us Porsche dorks enjoy your process! Good luck!
It's not about being a tightwad, which I'm not. It's about the marginal value of money, i.e., I'd buy a Porsche only if the price represented some miniscule fraction of my wealth. You might want to research the concept of marginal value of money, a concept that Tea Baggers are incapable of grasping.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinFromSA
Nope, I'm a goy. Wrong againQuote:
Originally Posted by AustinFromSA
I'm not looking down on anyone. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that I look down on everyone, including myself. Anyway, people who buy Porsches invite being laughed at. If that needs to be explained to you, you'll never get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinFromSA
Which proves that my insecurities are minor, especially compared to a guy who would spend a significant portion of his wealth on a late model Poser Porsche.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
That's some strong smug there Steve, even for TGR - coming to a thread about some guy buying something to tell us how your automotive financial decisions are morally superior. Keep it up though I think this thread has legs now.