Seems to be Porsche Week on Jalopnik

[sobamaflyer]

For $19,500, quoth the raven, never lift

This blog is a guilty pleasure, I pass along the 911 content for everyone here. This is a daily entry but never fails to crack me up in their descriptions:

"A whale tail may refer to a Cetacea's flukes, an insouciant woman's exposed underwear, or as in the case of this 1977 Porsche, a 930 turbo. All of those may be splendid sights to behold, but there is a certain graduated scale of pleasure involved with being inside of each."

[IROC]

That's a great write-up.

Me and a friend of mine actually test drove a 1977 930 years ago (probably around 1987). He was a muscle car guy who viewed 911s as "hopped up Volkswagens". We drove this 930 and he was speechless. He walked away mumbling something like "no disappointments". That car was brutally fast, but only above 4000 rpm. Below that it was very docile but once the tach went past 4k, it shoved you back in the seat and the scenery started to blur. I think the car was good for a 0-60 of about 5.5 seconds, but I think it took about 4 seconds to get to 20 mph and then it took 1.5 to get from 20-60. Brutal car.