I went to visit a girlfriend of mine at the weekend and offered to clean and polish her car so I could take the opportunity to do the same to my 911.
Well, I've met the guy across the street from her a couple of times and he has a very tidy garage and a new Corvette, latest in a line of several that he's owned. He's most definitely a 'Car Guy' and he'd been asking for a while when I was going to be bringing my 911 over. Anyhow, there I was Saturday afternoon washing my girlfriends car and he comes over to look at my Porsche in the garage. He seemed quite impressed and suggested that if I washed the Porsche next he'd come over Sunday and help me wax it as he had a tin of Carnuba wax that he doesn't use on his plastic car.
So Sunday - good to his word - he came over and we talked cars for a hour or two while we gave the Porsche a top-notch shine. I thought it was only fair to let him take it out for a drive after that so he could experience the car we'd been working on. I'm guessing that it was probably his first time driving a 911 from some of his comments and observations. He thought he could easily get used to it after a while and I think he really enjoyed it.
When we got back he suggested I took his 'Vette out. Now, my parents always told me it was rude to refuse an invitation - so I had to do it, but was that thing FAST! He has a aftermarket exhaust on it with straight through cats and a few little tweaks that he reckons pushes it over 450bhp. I'd guess he's being a little conservative there as I reckon I probably only used about 3/4 of them and it still went like stink and made all the right noises. I couldn't stop grinning, it was awesome.
So, thanks to Frank for giving me my first drive in a Corvette, and I hope I did a reasonable job of giving him an appreciation of the 911 in return. Now about those extra mods you were talking about...I think there may be a few fun weekends ahead.
We made a pretty good job of this too...
