Official Porsche Crew Thread

[Bob Sandvagene]

Say what you will, but the Dakar is everything I want in a 911. Fuck. My perfect daily.

I agree

I'm big mad they did a limited run on them. Make it a regular production run Porsche

 

[Section8]

Porsche Friends,
I never feel worthy of posting in this Porsche thread because so much of the discussion is on modern cars. Items that I am not in the financial strata to personally discuss.
The closest I've become is the very strange and unexpected purchase by by older Sister and her Husband of a 968 Convertible earlier this year.
With their unexpected move back to San Diego, the car is still residing with me. A Porsche mechanic friend and I are sorting some small issues and I have driven the car quite a bit. The 968 was never something I had much of any interest in. The convertible, even less.
But, I must say, if you twist the life out of that 3 liter engine and be a little impolite to it, the damn thing does go fairly quick. If you've not driven one, you're missing out.
I figure I'll have it here in WV until late spring or summer. You're welcome to try it out if you're passing through.

Anyway, onto the reason for this post.
20 years ago when I was first posting on OT, with a few of you, I didn't have a lot to talk about. Most us were young and had no money then, so our bragging threads were mostly shit that people made up or people were actually bragging about their friend that owned a cool car.

As I never was much for lying to impress people, I slowly revealed to OT that I was very close friends with a guy that owned some neat cars. Over the years, a couple of OT people visited, either here in WV, or at Daytona and they were able to see these toys for themselves.

The friend was a much older man, a real adult, who was famous in his own right for engineering. A story too much to tell here, he made his money honestly and he got into cars in the 60's and spent a portion of his money in that hobby.
He basically brought the SCCA to WV solely so he could compete in his own cars.

His purchases were widely varied, but his main focus was the "Plastic Porsches". He owned one of each, barring the 917 which he claimed he waited too long to buy. The prices went north decades before the others and he just never saw the need to spend that amount of money.

Instead, he built his business in WV and in Florida. He held patents and had a booming business until his untimely death in the early 2000's. He got to enjoy his competition cars on his own private testing tracks that he built on his plant property in WV and in Florida.

He was a hero to me and a mentor of sorts. His knowledge of that era of Porsche was unequaled. He was consulted in the completion of the definitive book on Porsche. Excellence was Expected.

We connected through our being neighbors and then my being involved in the SCCA. We would see each other at events and I would always study my books and try and come up with questions about the marque that would impress him. Much like meeting a rock star back stage, there were always a lot of people that wanted his time. I had to make my move and make me interesting. It worked.

In his later years, he had a small group that he trusted to be around the cars and I ended up being a bit of a historian on the cars and I, to this day, maintain a folder on each of the Plastic Porsches.

I could type paragraphs after paragraphs but would certainly bore the masses reviewing this thread. For the few still listening, the Youtube video below is a "documentary" that was produced in 1999 (but filmed much earlier).
This documents each of the Plastic Porsches that lived decades in, of all places, Charleston West Virginia.

904 Carrera GTS
906E
907LH
908/02
910

He bought each of these cars likely at the point of their lowest price. They were unloved, elderly, racecars and back then, nobody really cared. He took advantage.

He was such a peculiar man that after purchase in the late 1960's of the 904, he was a young engineer working on crazy military and aviation stuff. The 904 became his daily driver.
He used it for decades and only quit driving it in the wet because he finally felt it was too risky.
The heel of his wing tip on his throttle foot WORE A HOLE in the floor.
The floor in a 904 is hardly larger than a lunch tray and he flew to Europe and was able to get his hands on a couple (or few) NOS 904 floor panels from the factory. He may have the only ones in existence. I once helped him pop-rivet a small piece of plastic on the floor hole to get a few more months out of the second floor.
He, of course, replaced the very complex and problematic original 4 cylinder and over the decades drove it on the street with raging 6 cylinder factory racing engines. Thereby, making one of the fastest 904s in existence while being used in daily traffic throughout the 1970s through the 1990's.

Each of the cars have outstanding stories, but I will only share one more here. The white longtail is the most famous 907, it won Daytona in 1968 and is now owned by Jerry Seinfeld.
I have documentation, photographs and "stuff" regarding that car that Jerry does not have.
Believe me, if I ever run into him, I will have some great opening lines. My bet is that he would talk to me and want my number.

Anyway, I've always enjoyed my OT friends and while it is certainly different and far less fun now, I figure only the people in this thread would have any interest in this information.

Henry is the man speaking in this documentary. He is being filmed, and the cars are being driven, on his private test track that is minutes from my home and is situated just off I-64.

Hope it's worth your time.

Very grateful to have been able to spend time out there with you and the gang and see a bunch of those cars in person and see them running on that track. Wish i could find the video i had of you guys firing up the 908 in that garage. The sound was insane.

 

[Epik High]

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I’m gonna retrofit these into my gt4

You can buy cheap knockoffs on eBay for $10

 

[Buzz Killington]

Woman wants a used Boxster. $30k budget. Tip instead of manual because of traffic around here. Silver or white unless the price is excellent.

What years should I look for, avoid, and where should I look? I already started poking around on CL and FB.

 

[ZACKMORRIS]

Woman wants a used Boxster. $30k budget. Tip instead of manual because of traffic around here. Silver or white unless the price is excellent.

What years should I look for, avoid, and where should I look? I already started poking around on CL and FB.

2009-2012 with a PDK would be ideal.. even better if you can nab one with the Sport Chrono Package. With prices coming down, you might even be able to find a Boxster S.

(I've been wanting to buy an 987.2 Cayman S with PDK & Sport Chrono for a few years now)

 

[MrBonus]

Should be ready to fire up tomorrow.

 

[Bob Sandvagene]

2009-2012 with a PDK would be ideal.. even better if you can nab one with the Sport Chrono Package. With prices coming down, you might even be able to find a Boxster S.

(I've been wanting to buy an 987.2 Cayman S with PDK & Sport Chrono for a few years now)

Listen to this man

 

[rockstar b]

Woman wants a used Boxster. $30k budget. Tip instead of manual because of traffic around here. Silver or white unless the price is excellent.

What years should I look for, avoid, and where should I look? I already started poking around on CL and FB.

NO TIP ONLY PDK

 

[Section8]

2009-2012 with a PDK would be ideal.. even better if you can nab one with the Sport Chrono Package. With prices coming down, you might even be able to find a Boxster S.

(I've been wanting to buy an 987.2 Cayman S with PDK & Sport Chrono for a few years now)

I had a student / friend that had an 06 Cayman S he let me run it around the track at Summit Point. Thing was stock except the exhaust. Man that thing was a blast to drive.

 

[MrBonus]

Running now.

 

[Bob Sandvagene]

I have my 911 T allocation. I want to keep it around $130-135k. I want Ruby Star Neo, the extended tank, and rear steer. Everything else could change. What would you do in these parameters?

Current build that Porsche has:

PPPH9AC5
www.porsche-code.com/PPPH9AC5

 

[The Grand Inquisitor]

I have my 911 T allocation. I want to keep it around $130-135k. I want Ruby Star Neo, the extended tank, and rear steer. Everything else could change. What would you do in these parameters?

Current build that Porsche has:

PPPH9AC5
www.porsche-code.com/PPPH9AC5

Smokers package ftw

 

[Bob Sandvagene]

Smokers package ftw

Free cup for my desk so everyone who walks in knows I have a Porsche

 

[Sirius]

What you guys do for jobs

 

[Bob Sandvagene]

What you guys do for jobs

lolyer

 

[GonadWarrior]

I have my 911 T allocation. I want to keep it around $130-135k. I want Ruby Star Neo, the extended tank, and rear steer. Everything else could change. What would you do in these parameters?

Current build that Porsche has:

PPPH9AC5
www.porsche-code.com/PPPH9AC5

In FL? Ventilated seats. Keep them balls cool fam

 

[pacent]

Carbon buckets if they ever become available for the T
If you are going with the standard roof, consider the alcantara headliner
Burmester is pricey, sucks you can’t get the Bose

 

[Bob Sandvagene]

Carbon buckets if they ever become available for the T
If you are going with the standard roof, consider the alcantara headliner
Burmester is pricey, sucks you can’t get the Bose

I don't think buckets are coming before my freeze date or this model year unfortunately. Sucks because I have the perfect inserts for them.

Why the headliner? Anything special about it? Gets expensive doing the headliner + belt outlets + visors

I have the base audio in my 718 and it's not great. Would have done Bose but not an option here despite being standard in Mexico and other countries. Big spend for the Burmester but it is nice

 

[pacent]

I don't think buckets are coming before my freeze date or this model year unfortunately. Sucks because I have the perfect inserts for them.

Why the headliner? Anything special about it? Gets expensive doing the headliner + belt outlets + visors

I have the base audio in my 718 and it's not great. Would have done Bose but not an option here despite being standard in Mexico and other countries. Big spend for the Burmester but it is nice

A buddy of mine has the headliner in his standard roof 911 and I thought it was a nice touch if you don’t opt for the moonroof. It would also match your seats.

 

[Bob Sandvagene]

A buddy of mine has the headliner in his standard roof 911 and I thought it was a nice touch if you don’t opt for the moonroof. It would also match your seats.

The seats aren't racetex in the T

 

[pacent]

The seats aren't racetex in the T

Ah, i saw sport-tex and thought it was race-tex. Leave it up to porsche to make things needlessly confusing

 

[Jeebus]

I don't think buckets are coming before my freeze date or this model year unfortunately. Sucks because I have the perfect inserts for them.

Why the headliner? Anything special about it? Gets expensive doing the headliner + belt outlets + visors

I have the base audio in my 718 and it's not great. Would have done Bose but not an option here despite being standard in Mexico and other countries. Big spend for the Burmester but it is nice

You have to be absolutely sure on the buckets. As comfortable as theyare still bucket seats and the he regular Porsche seats are excellent.

 

[Burmonster]

If you drive it infrequently buckets work. After having buckets in the 991.1 gt3 I am 50/50 that I would do it again.

 

[Bob Sandvagene]

If you drive it infrequently buckets work. After having buckets in the 991.1 gt3 I am 50/50 that I would do it again.

I've been daily driving the buckets in my 718 and I've been loving them. Longest trip was 6 hours in them and had no issues and they are fantastic on track.

I'm going to keep asking about them until my lock date but for now it seems internal directive is no buckets for 2023 for anything other than the GT cars, Dakar, etc.

Which is annoying because the two biggest hype parts of the Carrera T release was the availability of PTS and LWBS and now both are unavailable.

 

[NOR*CAL]

Spotted this beautiful specimen on another forum. I'm not in need of a paint job, but damn those flares and wheels are absolutely beautiful.