Talk me out of it!

sammyg2 · 12-02-2005, 12:53 PM

I have the turbo system off my car and I am taking it back to stock so I can get it smogged this month.

For some reason I got this idea that I could sell the turbo system and sell the SC, and pay cash for a low mileage boxster.

I found one that is an extremely good deal, about $5000 under kelly blue book.
I probably won't do it but the voices in my head are driving me crazy! I was thinking that if I go test drive it I would change my mind, but what if I decide I really like it? AAARRRGGGHH!

I can't have both, my garage isn't big enough and I don't want to park one of the cars on the street.

Any BTDT stories?

bigrubberjeep · 12-02-2005, 12:57 PM

Nothing wrong with a Boxter (IMO)

B D · 12-02-2005, 12:58 PM

Just go sit in one and drive it, while I enjoyed it I would never buy one. The seats and overall cabin space feels cramped compared to the 911.

Do I try to convince the wife to get one? The answer is yes!

naparsei · 12-02-2005, 01:07 PM

Boxster is a better car. Will YOU enjoy it more? That is the question, and I've repeatedly found that the better car "on paper" is not the better car for me. I have a Boxster, but I'm selling it to pour more $ into my 951 race car and into the restoration of my '71T.

johncarlos2003 · 12-02-2005, 01:29 PM

I don't know- wait, i do. I would not get the boxster- value depriciates like crazy! nice car? yes- kinda light in the pants though- don't like the styling either- just my opinion- (oh yeah, they are so small and look like a corporate woman's car- nothing wrong with that though- i think-

juanbenae · juanbenae's Garage

go spend so time on the boxster board, you'll snap out of it.

sammyg2 · 12-02-2005, 02:25 PM

One thing I forgot to mention, I'm the type who can't deal with natural aspiration.
If I do get a boxster it will end up supercharged in no time.

I don't really care about the chick car image, that doesn't matter to me at all. I might have issues driving a miata but not a boxster.

As far as depreciation goes, the price I can buy this car is so low it can't go down much further.

The idea of the cabin being cramped is a big issue tho (pun intended), I'm 6'2" and 235 lbs-ish.
If the interior or head room is much smaller than in the SC that will be a deal killer.

Rick V · 12-02-2005, 02:26 PM

Boxters have water in them........Yuck!
Seriously drive one you may find it ain't for you. Or you could buy the boxter sell the SC and donate your turbo setup to me for my SC and at least you will know it's being used. I don't have to smog

Joe Bob · Joe Bob's Garage

Is it a masculine version?

B D · 12-02-2005, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by sammyg2
The idea of the cabin being cramped is a big issue tho (pun intended), I'm 6'2" and 235 lbs-ish.
If the interior or head room is much smaller than in the SC that will be a deal killer.

Same size minus a few pounds and it feels small. Go drive it though so you have no regrets.

sammyg2 · 12-02-2005, 02:47 PM

Tanks guys, as usual very good advise. I will go drive one and see. I hate feeling cramped in a car, that is somethng that surprised me the first time I drove a 911. I actually fit (as long as I wasn't wearing my helmet). Of course it was Mikez's cab so I had plenty of head room

Hopefully I'll walk away thinking there is nothing that can compare to an SC, especially one that is boosted

RSBob · RSBob's Garage

If its a great deal, it may be very hard to pass up.

One thing I know about newer eye-candy versus 'the classics'... there will always be faster, better, newer, shinyer eye candy, but the classics are timeless and never grow old. Another thing I know is that it takes a certain maturity to come to that realization. No implications, implied. Good luck with your decision.

Joe Bob · Joe Bob's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by sammyg2

Of course it was Mikez's cab so I had plenty of head room

Yeah....it's that tilt steering wheel.....

Jubbie · 12-02-2005, 03:41 PM

Don't trust a car with no engine hood.

SLO-BOB · 12-02-2005, 03:42 PM

Dibs on the turbo system!

Rick V · 12-02-2005, 03:47 PM

I already called it Bob

ischmitz · ischmitz's Garage

Aren't those boxter engines blowing up even without supercharging them...

addictionMS · addictionMS's Garage

buy a boxter and even 996 owners will look down there noses at you....think about it.

Jim

Brillo · Brillo's Garage

Enlarge the garage.

69T3.2LRacer · 69T3.2LRacer's Garage

Just think, in what, 5 more years, your car is off the smog required list?

Leave the turbo in, rig a nice bellow system with some funky bellow system and a friggen tailpipe, and your in business.