too many cars. not enough women.

My sc is a GQ and my T after completion will be too Im a contractor and I do alot of estimates.Showing up in a porsche aint cool. I do most of my estimates in a 92 dodge spirit.[3.0] On weekends ill take out the bike or take out the other toys. P-cars are toys for big boys. I dont have alot of time to play.Or maybe i have to many toys. I will say when i do get into the sc, Theres feeling of uphoria. Its something i dont want to lose and always look forward to when theres time.

Just one other thought - given that my car doesn't let me down and never complains there's not much feminine about it - shouldn't it be a Garage King!

When I owned my construction products company I had to go visit a superintendant to see about some unpaid bills. The subdivision was in an area with great roads so I couldn't resist taking the 911. After the reaction I got from the builders and superintendants I never did it again! They weren't too sympathetic about my collections efforts!

Boats and cars are women. You have to pay both lots of attention or they start acting up on you...

I have an '87 with 66,500 miles on it of which I have put 8,000 on in about four years. The reasons for the low miles are: I live in Cleveland (salt), am married with three kids, work downtown
and have an unlimited use lease on an Exploder.

Weekends are about it for driving the 911. I'm envious of the So CA guys who get to use their cars year round.

My car hasn't been a garage queen with its prior owners (based on the mileage), but I don't drive it all that much.

This is purely for practical reasons - I take the bus to work almost all days, rather than pay $17/day to cross the bridge and park in the open. When I take BART (our light rail mass transit) I take the beater, rather than drive the Porsche for <2 miles and get a lot of door dings.

But when I do drive to work or meetings or on errands, I almost always take the Porsche. It carries kids, gets groceries, sits in freeway traffic, even sits in long-term airport parking for a week at a time (under a cover, of course). Why not? The miles don't bother me, the motor is strong, and I can ignore the stone chips.

Mine's a daily driver, which is the main reason why I got an older one. I've put 10k on it almost to the mile this past year. I do some driving related to work, and its great to drive it a couple of times during the course of the day, even short trips. I can usually let it out a couple times a week going to courts in rural jurisdictions. I wouldn't mind having a garage queen too, but I don't have the garage space.

I walk to the commuter train, and ride my bike to the 7-11/hardware store for little errands around the house. I only put about 4,000 miles a year on my previous car - a Buick I inherited from my father. During those fearful, dramamine drives, I realized I could buy just about any classic car I wanted and keep it forever, without worrying about commuting miles (I'm under long-term contract at work).

So I bought my 87 with 23,800 miles on it almost 2 years ago to enjoy a "nearly new car" experience. On the few trips I need to take for work, I'll take the car if I can get there in a day or two - I took it to Kansas City last year, and hope to go to Toronto this year. But I have 3 kids so I don't like to be away too long.

I like using the car as an extra/special car, but live for longer road trips on 2 lanes. Can't justify a 45-90minute trip into the city when the train takes 25! And can't bring myself to take the car into the salt. No concours stuff for me, though the car is garaged and usually pretty clean.

Some days I wish I were a travelling salesman though!

I wish I could put electrical tape over the odometer.

This mileage issue presents a real conundrum: how much concern to exercise over preservation of my purpose-built dream machine? Like a previous poster, I finally found a nice low-mileage car and, thinking I'd drive it everyday, brought it home. But I had not thought through the fact that my wife also assumed I'd drive it everyday. Now I hear: "Why aren't you driving your car?"

"Uhmmm, there's nowhere to park," or "because I'm going to___ and I know that there is a lot of gravel on the road there." As I'm saying this, I realize how ridiculous it is, so my response decays to a mumble.

BTW, what's the best tape to cover the front of the car before doing a DE?

Have Stoneguard applied, and get out and enjoy your car on the open road!

I always use that "Blue Masking Tape" available at Home Depot. It is designed to be an easy release on walls. It works very well on auto paint, plastic, and glass.

My daily driver is a motorcycle, even in the winter and most rain, because I love to ride and it doesn't hurt that I get close to fifty miles per gallon. I have a beater 75 chevy 4wd pickup for real bad weather. My 85 911 targa has 65k miles and is for pure pleasure driving. I just can't justify using th 911 for stop and go driving and the rest when I have the other vehicles.

-Jeff

Saying a 911 is "just transportation" is like the alcoholic that says he drinks "just for the taste". Why anyone would drive a 911 for any reason other that setting one's hair on fire with speed is beyond me. I use my 911 strictly to "unwind". As much as I love to unwind, and I do it 3 or 4 times a week in the summer, there's got to be some balance, for me anyway. 33,000 mi on my '89

I looked at my average not to long ago.
 

I initially put about 16k miles a year on the car for the first five or six years. Now with two kids, soccer, karate, basketball, scouts, etc. etc. its down to less than 2k per year. But, I've gone from doing about 5% of my own maintenance to probably 90%, and actually I am more familiar with my car now than when I drove it a lot.

5 months of the year I deal with salt, snow, slush, ice... For me, I see no reason to put a turbo cab through that torture. I also have a 3 mile drive to work. I have seen it written and have been told many times, the worse thing for a car are frequent short trips. The car never gets warmed up. Also, it doesn't make sense, in my opinion, for me to drive a car for 5 minutes at 25 miles per hour only to then let it sit in the sun, rain, hail, bird crap... for 9 hours. I also don't take the car to run errands around town. I live in a small rural town and can drive anywhere in under 5 minutes. So again I don't drive it for the short trip reason and I also don't like to let the car sit in a grocery store, hardware store... parking lot. I use to take my SC on these trips because it made me feel so cool. After a few door dings and having the car keyed twice, I figured it just isn't worth it for a 5 minute drive to get milk. That leaves me 7 months of weekends and PCA events which adds up to 4,000 miles per year. I guess you could say I pick my spots that make sense to me. I also feel my Honda Civic does a better job on these short trips. It's just the better tool for 80% of my driving.

Seat TIME
 

I am in Michgan, the winter roads have more salt than McDonald's French Frys! Thus, must wait until a couple of good rains in spring then off to the public races. I have a 99 ML 320 with 130,000 miles 3 yes 3 front hood bumper paint jobs due to the sand/salt blast on the highway:mad: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1071872048.jpg

Unless you daily drive your P-cars it's hard to put on alot of miles. The weekend is the only real time to drive the car and then some times it's just easier to drive the lexus.

-Steve

I know what you mean. Out in Ahwatukee there are 5 of everything and it would take longer to warm up the car then to drive to the store

Maybe the answer for everyone that's afraid to drive their car is that they are simply too nice. I'm 911 shopping right now, and due to my limited budget, it will be my daily driver. Fortunately, the car I get won't be a concours contender, it'll probably have a little rust, some stone chips, a few headliner tears, you know the type. I say fortunately because I want something to make the 20 miles of country road to and from work fun, no matter how *****ty of a day I have. I know that when I get a 911, by the time I get home I'll somehow feel better, even if it means taking the long way home. I want something to tinker with, little problems to fix, to occupy my spare time, and maybe in a year when I can save up the money I'll give a restoration a shot, get a beater for those bad weather days. All I hope is that when I do, I don't lose what I bought a Porsche for in the first place, because I think that when driving a car becomes a fearful experience, it's no longer worth having. Just the opinion of someone who doesn't even have a Porsche, so disregard at will.