new use for sunroof

billyboy · 04-04-2007, 06:41 PM

This is not me btw. Taken by a local police officer.

legion · 04-04-2007, 06:50 PM

This is exactly why my MIL cannot ever have a Porsche. (She uses her Sebring like a pickup truck.)

Aerkuld · Aerkuld's Garage

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Originally posted by legion
This is exactly why my MIL cannot ever have a Porsche. (She uses her Sebring like a pickup truck.)

What's wrong with that? That's how we used to get the Christmas tree home when I had a Sebring. Pull up, soft top down, tree in back seat.

Dantilla · 04-04-2007, 07:54 PM

I used to frame houses out of a 1969 Corvette.

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

It's a Targa.

gchappel · 04-05-2007, 03:33 AM

I had a grandfather clock in my fiat 124 many many years ago.
Lots of headroom- we could carry anything small and tall as we called it.
When there is a will there is a way

gary

DaveE · 04-05-2007, 03:56 AM

I hauled a complete 912 engine in back of my Beetle many years ago, rear seat folded down. It was a b!itch to get in and out, but I was much younger and more flexible.

lisa_spyder · 04-05-2007, 04:31 AM

Put a complete Holden (GMH) front end fully assembled in the cabin of my 911 more than once. Had to take the passenger seat out and it was a bit of an art to get it all in and out...but when all the workshop utes were out delivering and a good customer needed his suspension bits back my car was called into commission

. I was VERY picky which panel shops I would deliver to though, as the unloading was usually more tricky than loading. Never marked the car...lots of newspaper and patience!

Used to cause a riot in the panel shops I would visit

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billyboy · 04-05-2007, 04:55 AM

It must be something in the air around here, I once saw a boxster pulling a small utility trailer down the same street.

legion · 04-05-2007, 05:17 AM

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Originally posted by Aerkuld
What's wrong with that? That's how we used to get the Christmas tree home when I had a Sebring. Pull up, soft top down, tree in back seat.

One word: gravel.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

I used to tow a 16' boat (including putting it in the water and pulling it out at the end of the day) using a 1986 Dodge Daytona hatchback. Pretty funny now, looking back on it. Worked fine, although you obviously had to give extra stopping distance and rev it up and use the clutch quite aggressively in order to yank the sucker up the ramp.

4x4 is so overrated.

id10t · 04-05-2007, 05:53 AM

Mike Robbins (a long time Porsche owner, he & his 57 speedster have just over 1,000,000 miles together...) once drove to a Holiday with a spare transmission in the passenger seat...

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

We had my son's bass guitar in it's case sticking out of the backseat of the Targa a few years ago, as well as his amp and it looked funny in the Porsche!

Racerbvd · Racerbvd's Garage

I once strapped a huge bird cage (for an African Gray) on the bike rack of my 911, boy did I get some looks. That cage was bigger than roof section

many944s · 04-05-2007, 06:48 AM

Well, this kinda follows suit...
When I drove to Phoenix to pick up the Indy car, we loaded the ENTIRE Indy car (less engine) disassembled in the back of a Chevy Tahoe. We rode all the way back to Indiana with the seats as far forward as they would go, knees on the dash

Entire round trip was 101 hours... Now that was fun.

Aerkuld · Aerkuld's Garage

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Originally posted by legion
One word: gravel.

Eh?

I carried a transmission for the 944 home on the passenger seat of the 911 the other Sunday evening. I did go a little over the top covering everything in layers of cardboard and garbage sacks before putting it in there. It was a case of 'needs must' though and I wouldn't normally do that. Did quite well really, arrived at the guy's house to collect it at about 7pm, got it in the car, drove home, dropped the old transaxle out, put the new on in, and lowered the car back onto the ground at 2:30am Monday morning.

Best I ever saw was a very new looking M3 soft top with the roof down and a muddy mountain bike on the back seat.

stomachmonkey · 04-05-2007, 07:43 AM

Friends father took his XJS to a lumber yard. Put the fence posts in thru the open passenger window. One end resting on the rear parcel tray the other end sticking out the window.

He saw an accident and immediately pulled over to help. Parked the forward end of the fence posts against a telephone pole.

Tore out the rear window and the drivers side B pillar.

svandamme · svandamme's Garage

i've hauled a complete 911 to and from my house in parts
twice. 73 targa in the 924, 85 3.2 in the 944, body panels and all

fully assembled shortblock from the rebuilder in the back of my 924

half the time , in my previous 944, i didn't have the passenger seat mounted, or not very secured, because it came out for hauling 915 tranny's and what not around...

IKEA flat packs in the 944 as well, with the lid open, and tied down over the flatpacks that stick out....

Aerkuld · Aerkuld's Garage

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Originally posted by svandamme
i've hauled a complete 911 to and from my house in parts
twice. 73 targa in the 924, 85 3.2 in the 944, body panels and all

fully assembled shortblock from the rebuilder in the back of my 924

half the time , in my previous 944, i didn't have the passenger seat mounted, or not very secured, because it came out for hauling 915 tranny's and what not around...

IKEA flat packs in the 944 as well, with the lid open, and tied down over the flatpacks that stick out....

The 944 series has an incredible amount of space. I think it deserves "The World's most Practical Sportscar" title.

svandamme · svandamme's Garage

the thing that makes a 44 a hauler is the doors and the lid,
both enable me to stuff huge things in there...

a 911 hood , will not fit in some of the more recent Volvo station wagons... i know, because a dude came to pick one up at my place... and it wouldn't fit, not via the door, not via the back ...

yet i had brought it there by 44