OT - Dating and Porsches...

[Drago]

My wife and I scheduled a date for last Friday night. She met me at my parents place as it's about half way between my work place and home. Dropped the lil' monster off with the parents and hopped into the P-Car and headed out. Having only had the car for a couple of months she hadn't ridden in it yet....and after the drive to and from the theatre/dinner she said she'll never ride in it again!!! Is this good or bad??? I can't decide.

Love the smiley's Wayne.


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1986 944 NA

[Clark Griswald]

I know I am not alone in observing that the passenger seat reclines to accomodate two very comfortably.

This must have been part of the seat design criteria.

[This message has been edited by Clark Griswald (edited 07-18-2001).]

[83 sc euro cab]

i dont date

i'm asexual

[Adam]

Well, during a lull (split) in my current long-term relationship, I went on a date with a girl I met through a friend.

I studiously refrained from mentioning the P-car, as I feel it puts a spin on a situation that you can no longer control. Hell, I must be loaded if I'm 24 and drive a 911! How else could I possibly afford it?

I figured that it's better to simply let her find out about it later on in proceedings. Unfortunately, I had to take the 911 on the first date as I'd loaned my daily driver to a friend. (He has an MG)

Well, the reaction was as I had feared. She did nothing about babble about the car and how cool it would be if her friends saw her dating a guy in a Porsche etc etc...

The date didn't really work out all that well and we only dated once more. Another mutual friend told me that she was spreading the word about her new date "..and he's got a Porsche 911!".

I think when you're concerning yourself with airhead bimbos, then the P-car is more trouble that it is worth. Girls parents' eye you suspiciously and complain that you drive too fast and that you make too much noise late at night.

They just don't understand it the way my girlfriend does. That's why, like the car, I think she might be a keeper...




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Adam Chaplin
1976 911 2.7 Euro-spec Coupe (175bhp)
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[motion]

I've got a few... but you'll pull em if I put em here Wayne

One of my favorites: I dated a wild blonde for a while about 5 years ago. One of those types that makes men do stupid things. We were driving around Balboa Island off Newport Beach and she had had.... ahem.. a few glasses of champagne and was feeling a little wild. The top was down on the Cabriolet, and we were treated to lots of "WooooHoooos" from the folks walking around town (my license plate says "Woowhoo". What a great afternoon. And I didn't even get put in jail.

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-Richard
'84 Carrera Cabriolet
'74 911 Widebody 3.6 Project

[pwd72s]

Wayne...HOW long ago was that wedding? And already, you want dating yarns?

[pacmyster]

Porsche came into my possesion a week before I proposed to my wife... Sadly there were no wild dates at that point in my life...



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'77 Carrera3.0
Citrus Region PCA
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[5axis]

Adam did you get any?

I also have had the "he has a 911" story spread around. Playing trophy is quite shallow but can be entertaining in the "All the worlds a stage" sense.
Have any of you been followed by drunk sorority girls, or is it just me?

david 89 turbo cab (topless fun machine)

[twin plugged targa]

I sadly do not have any dating stories involving the Porsche as have owned one under 2 years and married over 3 years!.
But..... owned a Jag. XJS with chrome cat on the hood!!!!!!!!(cannot elaborate)




On the Moyen Corniche (road) over looking Monaco at night.....
Ahhh.... memories
wife better not see this!!!


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[Rod Walter]

Au contraire, Wayne - the 914 can be a chick magnet. Many years ago when I had my first 914 ('74, 2.0 liter) as my daily driver a girl who worked near me came over to my store one day and said that her car had died. She asked for a ride home and I obliged. One thing led to another, we dated for awhile and several months into the relationship she confessed that her car had not really conked out. She just wanted a ride in the 914 and to get to know better the guy who owned it. She got her dad to take her back to work to pick up her car a little bit later. As in many relationships begun with a lie this one eventually petered out (no pun intended ).

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Rod Walter
'88 911 coupe

[BRAINIAC]

Well I have way too many to tell, so I won't. But have you guys ever REALLY wished the 911 had tilt-steering? He He, I know you're with me on this one, right guys? Kinda makes driving with a cell phone seem safe.


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Tyson Schmidt
72 911 Cabriolet
92 C-2 Cabriolet

[89911]

I just turned 40. I have a Porsche. Jee, maybe I'll start dating. (This message was quickly deleted as my wife entered the room!!)

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[Greg-slant/cab]

You guys let your wives and girlfriends ride in your cars?

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Greg-slant/cab
http://www.geocities.com/gregslantcab/

[jsmarcus]

Noah, I agree, I used to get that when I bought the car. My '84 always gets a few extra looks and most people think it's newer. I've even had to show a few the stamp to prove the car's age. They also think that it must have cost way more than they do. Try explaining that one: New rice, or slightly broken in P-car for the same price? No contest.

Now, as for the date thing.... I tried not to say anything to my now fiance on our first date. We had met at the restaurant for dinner and had a great time. I offered to walk her to her car, which happened to be parked right next to mine. So much for that. Needless to say, she's been bugging me about "breaking" it in. I'll just stop there and let her go on believing what she wants!

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Josh
Black on Black '84 Carrera

[Greg S]

Well, there was this one time a few years ago. I went to dinner w/ this one young lady and was driving home on a nice, early fall evening with the top off the Targa. It was a rather dark, lightly traveled road, so little chance of observation. Let's just say that I was very, very relaxed by the time we got back to my apartment. The downside is that my now-wife was just-friend back then & I shared the story w/ her. Sadly, the event has been repeated in the Porsche. But I AM picking up an A6 tonight, so there's always hope, right?

Greg
de-flowered Targa

[RarlyL8]

You banished my post about an auto related car movie to the off topic zone, never to be seen again. And now this?
What kind of crap is this? Have we fixed all the old 911s out there so there's nothing left to talk about?

Yes, I had my first P-car when single.
Yes, I hid it from my dates until I saw that they weren't in it for superficial reasons.

Lets leave this teenage crap for the chat room and the 944 board and get back to man stuff - turbos, superchargers, 7:31 gears, and quaifs (not queefs). I'm a bitter old man who doesn't need reminding that he's been married far too long to the same nagging broad.

[atr911]

LOL Rarly, you grumpy old fart!

As for me, I only had the car for 4 days before I crashed it. My girlfriend did get to ride in it one day when I picked her up for lunch, she didn't like it, made nasty comments about it...

Although the things that have happened in her rather small and restrictive Tiburon make me believe that the P-car may have some interesting stories in its furtre.

Adam Roseneck


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1978 911SC 3.0
roseneck@cyberbeach.net

[Mike Feinstein]

Well, it wasn't a Porsche, but I have some fond memories of some first experiences in the reclining seats of a 1974 brown Capri. . . remember those? One particular time was on a snowy Thanksgiving day in Southfield, Michigan. It was in the back of a church parking lot of all places.

Imagine my shock when, with my eyes rolling into the back of my head, I noticed a shadow pass the car's back window. It's tough to act composed when you're staring up at a police officer with your pants around your ankles and your girlfriend is, er, face down.

After checking our ID's to confirm that we were both minors. . .he was kind enough to send us on our way, red-faced and with a humorous story to tell. Even though I haven't seen her in 20 years, I'll bet she'll never forget it either.




Regards,
Mike 94 C2 cab

PS. Hey Wayne. . .it's amazing how well some of these smileys fit the message content!

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[JayJ]

Originally posted by Mike Feinstein:
Well, it wasn't a Porsche, but I have some fond memories of some first experiences in the reclining seats of a 1974 brown Capri. . . remember those? One particular time was on a snowy Thanksgiving day in Southfield, Michigan. It was in the back of a church parking lot of all places.

Imagine my shock when, with my eyes rolling into the back of my head, I noticed a shadow pass the car's back window. It's tough to act composed when you're staring up at a police officer with your pants around your ankles and your girlfriend is, er, face down.

After checking our ID's to confirm that we were both minors. . .he was kind enough to send us on our way, red-faced and with a humorous story to tell. Even though I haven't seen her in 20 years, I'll bet she'll never forget it either.




Regards,
Mike 94 C2 cab

PS. Hey Wayne. . .it's amazing how well some of these smileys fit the message content!

[This message has been edited by Mike Feinstein (edited 07-19-2001).]

Know thats my kind of girl!!!

[Roland Kunz]

Hello

Well not direct dating storys ( a gentleman never talks about that, he writes a book ).

But some other interessting man & women & Porsche stuff:

One is very similar to Waynes thing, maybe comes later.


In my younger years I shared travels with others at the Mitfahrzentrale.
This is something like safe Hitchhiking on appointment.
I made it for the money and to meet some other people. Mostly you had to do with students.

I drove past Cologne and had to pick up someone in the Waiblingen suburbs.
As I arrived there a female pädagoge ( sorry no term on hand, those people learn to become teachers ) was standing there and made big eyes disbelieving that a Porsche driver picked her up. I showed her the papers and she just stomped back into the house the ring the guys up there.

She then came back and told me

1.) She donīt like Porsches neither there drivers
2.) she gets sick when people drive fast and will vomit into the car
3.) she had no choice and if I would be so kind to drive her just down to the main station to pick a train.

Par le problem

She jumped in and sat on the outher edge with the hand ready to open the door. She actually cheked if the door will open and where the doorlock is.
I needed 1 minute to explain her that she has to buckle up before I move on.
Then I drove down to stuttgart and coming into Cannstadt on the B14 was a special enovirment friendly signal light.
They had a blue light that showed you to stop the engine and restart it in time to go on.
I drove up there joined the stop & go, shut off the engine and she made big eyes the jawn droped and looked like a world broke apart. I later restartet twice and moved on and she get some air and startet talking.

The point was she is a very "green" person and thinks that Sportcars are bad for the enoviroment and that sportcarsdriver are the fuel wasters and uncontroled burners themself.
But she allready made many trips with lots off people down exact that road.
Some off them claimed to safe the world but not one from them stoped the engine on the blue light.

Only the damn snobby, stupid or whatever Porsche driver turned the key !!

After several minutes we had a interessting dicussion about how resorcefriendly it is to drive a old car and when we reached the train station she said she feels better and she will join the journey if I respect her and will not speed.
But she also will prove my claims to run at very low consumption and we get to the next gas station toped up the tank and headed on to the highway.

Somwhere behind Sinsheim she became very silence again and had the strange look again then she pointet to the speedo and asked if this is the actuall speed. Sure Isaid this is the normal speed at part throttle when the engine pulls the car on the most effective load somwhere to 3500 revs. Going slower will not safe much fuel but cost time and the sense of a sportcar is to make higher average speeds then a bus.

Her problem was that she didnīt realize that we where cruising at 160 km/h as the car is silent and feels normal. I never had to accelerate hard or brake down fast as most people move if they see a Porsche or get a bit faster to make the pace. And I have no problem to roll at 100 km/h for several minutes. But she had a problem, she allways got sick if the speed is to high and didnīt feel anything at doing 160 + while talking about life and politics. If she had been with other drivers they had allways to change lanes and accelerate hard and all that hassle, plus the car gets lod and feels like the wind will blow it away ( She must have made many trips with 2CV, R4 or 1200 beetles )

Must have been a strange expierience for her. She then grabed her heart and said when she is not sick at 160 with was maybe the hughest speed she traveled ever, what will happen at higher speeds, she has no fear to test it right now but if she gets sick I have to bear the consequences.

I said I will push nothing and maybe we get onto a less crowded area becourse when you have not so much cars flying by on here side the speed looks not so dangerous.

After some minutes it happend that a Buiseness express came by on the left lane. This is normally a big Mercedes or BMW punching a 250 km/h hole in the air.
Best pacemakers
I just hanged on and we where strolling down with sometimes close to 230 and she had no problems as she īfocused onto the rearend of the car and you donīt realize the zoomeffect. Well at Frankfurt the speed limits cut in and I let off the pace maker to collect his points in Flensburg. She sat there with big eyes and said she has no problem with speed I still should go an fast so I had to explain here that Iīm not interesstet to loose my licence in the frankfurt radar triangle. When we had been past frankfurt on the unrestrictet area again I just let it out to a comfortable 5000 revs in 5th gear untill she said she has hunger and needs something to fill her stomac.

Strange reaction but i think she just wantet to head to the next restroom, so I grabed back and handed the guide michelin over and told her to look for a 1 or 2 star restaurant somewehere off the higway, and she made it up to find that thing ( Sometimes you have not enough scaled road maps ) and made a good guide. She called her parents or friend ( Donīt know ) that she is still alive and fells good and that she will not come with the train and needs no pick up then.

Well after dining we had been a bit on delay and I pushed a bit more then usuall and canīt talk while concentrating, after a while i realized she dozed off and awakend in the time we hit on the usuall stop and go. She then knew a way trough the secoundary streets and we filled up the 944 and we calculatet a average from 11L / 100 km witch wasnīt a very good number for me. but she was impressed as on other trips she joined Vans that used much more at the half speed and even if 4 people sat in the bus the average fuelconsumption per head would be the same. Also some off her co studends wastet the same fuel for a small car. I then explained her that small cars could be more effective but that would cost to much money and the the Fiats where constructet to last 5 years and most old small cars didnīt get maintained like they should.

Today she is in the consumer relation buisiness and the last time we met she had replaced the Opel Calibra Turbo by an Mercedes E 290 CDI T with child seats and a foldable sportscar in the trunk.

@Drago

Just from a other list

> Women's Vocabulary
>
> "Fine"
> This is the word we use at the end of any argument that we feel we are
> right about but need to shut you up. NEVER use "fine" to describe how a
> woman looks. This will cause you to have one of those arguments.
>
> "Five minutes"
> This is half an hour. It is equivalent to the five minutes that your
> football game is going to last before you take out the trash, so I feel
> that it's an even trade.
>
> "Nothing"
> This means something and you should be on your toes. "Nothing" is usually
> used to describe the feeling a woman has of wanting to turn you inside
> out, upside down, and backwards. "Nothing" usually signifies an argument
> that will last "Five Minutes" and end with the word "Fine".
>
> "Go Ahead" (with raised eyebrows)
> This is a dare. One that will result in a woman getting upset over
> "Nothing" and will end with the word "Fine".
>
> "Go Ahead" (normal eyebrows)
> This means "I give up" or "do what you want because I don't care". You
> will get a raised eyebrow "Go Ahead" in just a few minutes, followed by
> "Nothing" and "Fine" and she will talk to you in about "Five Minutes" when
> she cools off.
>
> "Loud Sigh"
> This is not actually a word, but is still often a verbal statement very
> misunderstood by men. A "Loud Sigh" means she thinks you are an idiot at
> that moment and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and
> arguing with you over "Nothing".
>
> "Soft Sigh"
> Again, not a word, but a verbal statement. "Soft Sighs" are one of the few
> things that some men actually understand. She is content. Your best bet
> is to not move or breathe and she will stay content.
>
> "Oh"
> This word followed by any statement is trouble. Example; "Oh, let me get
> that". Or, "Oh, I talked to him about what you were doing last night".
> If she says "Oh" before a statement, run, do not walk, to the nearest
> exit. She will tell you that she is "Fine" when she is done tossing your
> clothes out the window, but do not expect her to talk to you for at least
> 2 days. "Oh" as the lead to a sentence usually signifies that you are
> caught in a lie. Do not try to lie more to get out of it, or you will get
> raised eyebrows "Go ahead" followed by acts so unspeakable that I can't
> bring myself to write about them.
>
> "That's Okay"
> This is one of the most dangerous statements that a woman can say to a
> man. "That's Okay" means that she wants to think long and hard before
> paying you back for what ever it is that you have done. "That's Okay" is
> often used with the word "Fine" and used in conjunction with a raised
> eyebrow "Go Ahead". At some point in the near future when she has plotted
> and planned, you are going to be in some mighty big trouble.
>
> "Please Do"
> This is not a statement, it is an offer. A woman is giving you the chance
> to come up with whatever excuse or reason you have for doing whatever it
> is that you have done. You have a fair chance to tell the truth, so be
> careful and you shouldn't get a "That's Okay".
>
> "Thanks"
> A woman is thanking you. Do not faint, just say "you're welcome".
>
> "Thanks A Lot"
> This is much different than "Thanks". A woman will say, "Thanks A Lot"
> when she is really ticked off at you. It signifies that you have hurt her
> in some callous way, and will be followed by the "Loud Sigh". Be careful
> not to ask what is wrong after the "Loud Sigh", as she will only tell you
> "Nothing".
>


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