WTF wouldn't you just say, "nice car, buddy"...? Some kind of on-the-spot knowledge test to see if some total stranger is a real, internet board OCD car nut?
I'm sorry, but some of you guys don't realise what a bunch of geeks we are. Or what absolute geeks all hobbiests are. Some people have lives and really don't give 2 schits about cars. A lot of them are people who can afford new Porsches. It was
exactly the same when I sold them new in the '80s. Lots of guys who made 6+ figures running entertainment companies, doctors/lawyers/other professionals.
Then of course there were the drug dealers, euro-trash nobodies+ toupee-wearing, dick-challenged posers who lived on credit cards and lifted weights at the gym who bought most of the "pre-owned" 911s on the used car lot.
Whoops, that was a terrible stereotype and generalisation. Forgot that we don't do that here.
Next time you see some poor bastard driving an old hooptie 911, pull up next to him/her/shim and ask how they like their "964". Huh?? If it's a long-hood, ask them whether it's a B/C/D/etc. car. Huh? You guys don't know the difference? Posers if you don't. Ask people whether their 911SCs have Nikasil or Alusil cylinder liners and expect them to quote the production date at the gas pump. Then argue with them and prove they are wrong, using the pocket tech guide that you keep for each model in your glove box at all times.
If only geeks who cared about this schit were allowed to buy Porsches, the company would have gone under long before PWD's beloved 911S was built. You'd be walking with your little kid and see a 356, he'd ask what it was and you would have to explain that it was a long-extinct brand of car from immediately after WW2 when there were hundreds of car companies in the world that no longer exist, like Packard, Studebaker, Allard, DeSoto, Borgward and Porsche in Germany, etc...
I've been a gearhead for 40+ years and a Porsche nut for 30+, I know WAY too much about the production cars and I've owned half a dozen from '60s/'70s/'80s/'90s. I've never enjoyed one half as much as my modded 996. It's the best car I've ever owned, hands down. All drivey/no workey on, and the handling is sick. It would shed any of my earlier 911s or 914s on a twisty road like they were rocks on the end of a string.
Some of you guys need to quit worrying about what strangers know about their cars and get busy making $$ so that you can buy a new 911 and improve the average. And for some strange reason, people on this board manage to find the biggest douche Porsche-owners on a regular basis. I have about a half-dozen friends w/ 997s and they are all long-time Porsche-owners or at least really nice guys.
From my other thread, here's a *poser* in his brand new 997 S:
