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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
I miss mine too!
However, they have become so valuable that we have just become curators rather than sports car enthusiasts.
Long trips are just not doable, as leaving these out in a hotell / motel parking lot is not a great idea.
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Bullschitt.
It's all about what we "value" about these cars. There are those of us that continue to drive them as God and Ferry Porsche intended, their monetary value be damned.
Our Pac West chapter of R Gruppe is a great example. We have driven to our annual Treffen, as a chapter, every year it has been held, regardless of where it has been held. I have personally not missed one since 2006. From the Seattle area to Monterey, the Palm Desert, St George Utah, Sante Fe New Mexico, and many locations in-between. We drive our cars on the racetrack when we get there, my car having been on Thunder Hill, Buttonwillow, Streets of Willow, Chuckwalla, Laguna Seca, and others. Driven there and driven back to Seattle. Every year.
In addition, we conduct our own Spring Tour and Fall Tour on a more "local" level. Several days on the road in the loneliest parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. We stay in motels and leave our cars parked in front. No security...
Here are a few shots from our last Fall Tour, last September over to Missoula. Somewhere in central Oregon, at some fleabag motel:
Leaving Lewiston, ID before we dropped down onto the highway over Lolo Pass. Yes, that's a gravel road. About fifty miles of it:
And we drive on the last Sunday of every month, come hell or high water, regardless of weather. Every Friday after Thanksgiving is our Turkey Hangover Run, every New Years Day is our Resolution Run. Here was this year's New Years Day gathering:
So, yeah, I get that view out my windshield any time I want. Like this, at over 10,000 ft elevation, on our way to Sante Fe:
I've owned the car for 26 years and have put an honest quarter million miles on it. There is literally not a single part on it that I have not held separately in my own two hands during that time. I've built and subsequently rebuilt my twin plugged 3.0 MFI motor three times to get me here. Over 100 days on race tracks (mostly our own Pacific Raceways and Ridge Motorsports Park) at DE events.
It's all about attitude, and what we "value".