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Originally posted by dd74
So that leaves the "purist" aspect, though at some point, being a purist who drives an low tech, inefficient car compared to readily available newer models, has to at some point get old hat.
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I wonder about that. Will it get to be old? Or are most of us bonded for life to the cars we lusted after when we were in our teens and 20s?
I keep waiting for my tastes to update. I try to be open to that. But it's just not happening.
I was at a big Porsche gathering recently, there were rows and rows of Caymen (Caymen? Caymans?), Boxsters, 996, 997. Sure they are nice cars. But they just don't catch my interest, really at all. I'd look at the inside of one Cayman for 10 seconds just to see what's currently going on, but then pretty much just pass all of them.
Even the 997. Nice car, for sure. But doesn't get my heart pumping even a beat faster. Even the vaunted 997RS. Looks nice in pictures, but kind of a big, bloated cartoon caricature in real life. (It does have some neat touches, though). An 80s Carrera next to it looks tiny.
But a really nice clean 80s Turbo, or even nice clean SC or Carrera, always catches my eye. Any MFI 911, too.
Wonder if it will ever change.