[htron435]

As a past owner of many classic and latemodel Corvettes and a past and current owner of a few Porsche 911's, I'll attempt to give an unbiased opinion. I think that in our country you can see a hundred corvettes being driven on any given day of the week. However, it is rare that you see a clean, sharp Porsche on the road. Because of that, I think that people tend to notice them more because they are less common. Add to that the perceived value of your car -- most people seem to think that our Porsche SC and Carreras cost mega bucks, even though they in fact cost less than our neighbors' new Civic. For these reasons I believe that the average person in your neighborhood will be much more impressed by your '87 than by an '03 Z06 for example. I don't think that answers which car is "cooler", but I believe it to be the cause for the reactions that you've seen. To me, cool is in the eye of the beholder (and can be created/enhanced by marketing). I'm sure that if you cruised through a middle class town in Germany in a spotless '88 Corvette convertible, you'd be treated the same way. Cruise through the streets of Maranello in a mid sixties big block corvette with side exhaust and you be looked at in the same manner that we'd look at a guy in a Ferrari GTO. My opinion for what it's worth. And to me, they're all fun to drive -- each has it's own appeal.