I think I might have to move to CA...
 

I flew into San Fran yesterday for business and in short round trip between San Fran and Watsonville (hwy 17 is a fun little stretch of road), I saw 1 SC Targa, 1 Carrera Coupe, 2 993s and 2 Carrera cabs. I am sitting in a Starbucks right now in San Bruno and outside is a nice 944 ( I realize not air-cooled, but from the right era)and as I was pulling into the parking a lot, I passed another SC. This place is covered in air-cooled cars!

go further south of San Bruno Palo Alto Stanford University area you'll see a lot. I probably saw 7 air-cooled P-cars ranging from coupes, targas and convertibles..you name it and of course water-cooled 911 a dime a dozen :D

what was up in wastsonville? agriculture business trip? my folks live just south of there, if you hit prunedale you've gone too far.

West Marine's HQ is there - they are one of my clients.

Are those the guys who make "west systems epoxy"? If so cool stuff, we've used them for years for custom fish tanks..........

Bell - I dont think so. They are the US's largest boating supplies retailer.

Hwy 17 is a blast, but also try Hecker Pass from Watsonville to Gilroy sometime

The west system epoxy is for marine (boats) applications......it just happens to be the perfect potable resin out there which is why we use it in tanks......

The grass is always greener on the other side of the country... The full length of Highway 17 from Highway 1 to I-280 has been my daily commute for the past 27 years (usually in various 3-pedal Sport Pkg BMW's and not my Carrera)... Night and day, rain or shine... Drove it this morning... Will drive it again later today...

We are all ghey, commie, drug addicts... run away... RUN AWAY! SmileWavy

don't be a dousche nozzle

My sis - in - law does research at Moss Landing.

My (admittedly minimal) experience with 17 is that it can be a blast - or a long skinny parking lot.

phil's in moss landing rules. great fish at low cost.

This is why I can never live there. Love to visit, but love being able to leave too. Watsonville is home to BMW of Santa Cruz, a killer dealership. CA is paradise if you like classic cars.

First thing I thought of when I read "Moss Landing."

When I was in Malibu this summer, me and a friend had a game where we counted how many Porsches and Priuses we saw in the 5 miles of PCH we were skipping up and down.

Over that stretch over the course of 4 hours we spotted over 24 996 or 997 Carreras, two 997 Turbos, a 993, a 964 cab, an SC, a 928GTS (!), and a 951.

My mind was blown.

Oh... we also counted 34 Priuses. Or Priii. Whatever.

isn't Gilroy garlic central?

Yes there are allot of Porsches in California, but that's only because we have a bazillion cars on the road!
Traffic sucks here and 1/10 of em don't have driver's licences or insurance.

My Mom and Dad were just out there and I had them stop on the way back from Carmel to Los Altos and pick me up a couple strings of garlic for me here.
One for me and one as a present.
Gilroy Garlic is Great.
So are the strawberries and the artichokes down the road.

Wish I could live out there.
There are gheys commies and drug addicts everywhere - I'll bet you gott'em in a town near you too Rick.
Probably not a a few right wing wacko's too.

I want to as well, it is paradise in terms of Porsches, good mechanics, good food, scenery, climate, etc... but I am a little concerned by the state's financial situation... I want to make sure the local gov't doesn't ream residents (more than they already do) to fill in the budget gaps...

Yes, but the commies don't run the state here and our rug munching ex-governor went to greener rugs....er pastures....as the new sec. of DHS.

And do NOT settle in Arizona... keep going East! :)

Colorado is full as well.

Plus it snows, a lot.

You don't want to live here.

As I was saying - takes all kinds.

Peace

Sorry, we're full.

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I told my parents they should sell our lake place in Wisconsin and move to Colorado. We could get something on a lake and maybe something else at the base of one of the mountains. Then I'd have perfect 6 month seasons for both water and snow skiing.

The one on the upper left looks like a communist and the one in the second box bottom from left is probably ghey.
Quite a few of the others look like they're from Santa Cruz.

back to the subject

leaving work on Thursday

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If you want to see the sun, come over to AZ for a visit.

Yeah, I saw it in October when I was there. All 111 degrees of it. I don't think I could take the summer heat. More power to you.

Shhhhh. AZ sucks. Don't anyone ever come here. Now, while listening to my co-workers on a conf. call talk about building snowmen and shoveling their driveways, I'm about to hop on the bike in shorts and a t-shirt to run some errands.

Yo!
my mama is wayyyy so-cal, mo-so-cal than yo mama!

Cali is all over the place. No where else like it. Plus they (we) have the Terminator! lolo, for how much longer?

Agree. Forgot to tell him about the scorpions and snakes, not to mention 140 degree heat in the summer. Its cloudy all the time and you do not want to ever visit here.

Excuse me while I go for a ride on the motorcycle... oh yea, in the snow and -40 temps that is! :)

...And stop at Indiana.

Nice road trip Farrell.

Plenty in the Raleigh NC area

I usually spot about 3-4 Porsches a day.

The thing to remember is that there are plenty of people riving around california in 997's that will undoubtedly not recognize an 80's 911 as a Porsche just as much as they wouldn't recognize a 944.

a 944 is a Porsche :confused:

So why would you want to live somewhere where your "exclusive" porsche is as common as a Ford Taurus?

When people see my 928 here, it's an event. I get waves, super enthusiastic thumbs ups, smiling babies, laughing children, the whole nine yards.

In Kali? No one would even notice.

Yes. A porsche that properly prepared would probably wipe most 911's right off the road.

Given the choice i'd much rather have a 944 turbo than a 911.

Thank god for that.

Dude, you have one seriously distorted sense of reality. Get over yourself. WTF are you from, anyway?