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Once again, my antique 85 911 is a blast to drive. Reliable and fun. The best part is is now worth 5 times MORE than what I paid for it. I have to keep raising the agreed value appraisal on it. I just finished a valve adjustment and oil change. I can do 95% of the work on it myself.
Personally (not counting my wife's cars) since 1974 I have owned three cars. I still own two of them.
At the Porsche driving experience I spent two days driving a lot of the new cars. A new 911 GTS is just an astonishing vehicle. I was hitting 125 on at Barber. In my antique analog car I was just getting to 90 before I had to modulate the brake pedal to slow down for the turns. The GTS is just point and shoot. The PDK reads your mind and shifts in micro seconds instead on seconds like my 915 transmission. In the end, I would not swap my antique for a new 911 GTS. The 911 Turbo S is beyond description fast. Wow, but for that money, no way.
A new Boxster GTS got through an autocross course with amazing speed. It was fun, but the car was doing most of the work. I was mostly a passenger and not really the driver.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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