New thread based on a quote from RWebb (my custom bumper project)

[KFC911]

Randy dawged my mutt thread ! Milt....don't give up on us man....seriously ...

[450knotOffice]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Where did this come from? Jerking chains?

I took that car to the So Cal All-Porsche Swap & Car Display in Anaheim circa 2014 and listened to the comments as folks walked by. Understand that this was a hard core Porsche gathering with a heavy R Gruppe presence.

All negative. Gruppenmeister wouldn't even go look at it. I was an R Gruppe member at the time. Took it over to a party at Techweenie's house and he thought it sucked. I realized then that my thoughts about the Porsche world were not very well supported.

Then, suddenly, after my wife was injured in a rear-ender in that Carrera with 'those' bumpers, I removed them, sold the car and said "adios" to 911 ownership.

Within months the prices or air cooled Porsches went out of my reach confirming my disassociation with the cars. Oh, we still have a 2000 Boxster that we've owned for 18 years, but people make fun of those (too).

Not a fun group of car enthusiasts for me. Why am I still around? Beats the fook out of me.

(subscript: why do we gather at meets? Why do we gather here? We want others to see our participation in the hobby or whatever you want to call it. We want to be proud of what we bring no matter how humble. When people tell you your car sucks, that's not something that makes one want to continue — — it was time.)

Milt, all of my small gang of guys who used to occasionally meet and drive with you over Ortega have always had great admiration for you! You may remember I came to your home once so you could re-weld a short shifter for my '84 Carrera Cab, a car I still have. On a personal note, I'm a lover of all of the generations of Porsche "911" - air and water cooled - and own not only the '84, but also a 2000, 2009, and 2015. Love them all. None of us in our little gang of friends is a Porsche snob of any sort. We just love all of them, but we especially love the friendships we've built over the years. Just a bunch of normal dudes who'll talk to anyone about any Porsche.

We consider you one of us, Milt, even though we haven't seen you in years.