My buddy just bought a rare Porsche

[speeder]

What's rare about this, you may be asking?

[reverie]

It was owned by John Voight?

[slodave]

Back up camera?

[Bill Douglas]

Ah, it has a permanently open drivers door.

[Don Ro]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Ah, it has a permanently open drivers door.

Was going to say, handles remarkably well with doors open.

[Arizona_928]

30 air bags?

[speeder]

Nope. It's a manual transmission 991. I've only seen two, including this one. He had to buy it from Connecticut, (I think), slightly used. They just aren't making them.

[slodave]

How in the hell were we supposed to know that from two exterior pix??

[speeder]

He had an absolute cream puff G50 Carrera coupe that was stolen off the street in L.A. Pretty much everyone I know with an air-cooled car in L.A. that drives it regularly has had it stolen. It's an epidemic.

He paid $20-something for the 3.2 Carrera a few short years ago and insurance had to give him something like $50 large using current values so he threw $30k on top of that and bought this. It's slightly faster than his old 911.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by slodave

How in the hell were we supposed to know that from two exterior pix??

Ahhh, you were supposed to guess?

[slodave]

And some of us did! You should have let this ride a little longer.

[speeder]

Yeah, I spoiled the surprise too quickly.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by speeder

Nope. It's a manual transmission 991. I've only seen two, including this one. He had to buy it from Connecticut, (I think), slightly used. They just aren't making them.

SWEET! The perfect daily for me.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by speeder

He had an absolute cream puff G50 Carrera coupe that was stolen off the street in L.A. Pretty much everyone I know with an air-cooled car in L.A. that drives it regularly has had it stolen. It's an epidemic.

Is that what Charlie's doing now that his show got canned? lol

[Scuba Steve]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Ah, it has a permanently open drivers door.

That's the driver auto-eject feature after it's been activated.

[Jim Richards]

Nice looker.

[kach22i]

I read a while ago that only ten percent of the new cars sold are manual transmission.

[enzo1]

Have you driven it?

[herr_oberst]

Fifty grand?

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by kach22i

I read a while ago that only ten percent of the new cars sold are manual transmission.

Go to Carmax, set the search for some very large distance, then look at the number of automatics vs manual. Last time I checked it was at least 10-1.

Hell, I just did it, the entire Carmax inventory has over 43,000 automatics, and 2,200 manuals.