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This is normally my daily driver aside from the 944. But with a vacuum leak under the intake and stop and go LA traffic the 944 now gets driven more. Not too shabby for having 205K miles.
Wow! Had no idea so many use Porsches as daily drivers.
For 10 years, I owned a gorgeous fully restored 1960 VW Beetle. 90% of the time, it sat in my garage. Time took its toll on the car and the owner, and when life won a hand, I decided to sell. Soon after, I picked up my 951.
I swore I’d never again “save it for the next guy”; I’d enjoy it till it could be enjoyed no more. This year marks its own 10 yr point & nearly 100,000 US miles.
Funny thing... it’s better maintained than that VW
Currently the S2 shares garage space with a 97 NA Miata. Fun, reliable, cheap, great in the city, and unlike the 944 I don't care if anything happens to it. But every time I drive it I'm reminded of why I bought the 944....it's just a 944 but worse in every way. Too much overlap between the two so trying to find something different and more practical. Going to look at a W124 500E tomorrow. Should be fun, right?
Wow! Had no idea so many use Porsches as daily drivers.
I don't have a choice. Well, I can (and do) take my motorcycle or bicycle various places, but I don't have any car that isn't a Porsche.
Seriously, look at my profile pic.
05 Cayenne CTT. Back and forth to work and all the time in the winter.
85 928 Euro. 3 season fun and ~120 miles back and forth to the DZ every other weekend.
83 944. Also 3 season. Mostly around town, there's a shake that I'm still sorting out. "As soon as that's fixed"* I'd use it for longer stuff, including the trip to Racine & back on weekends. Technically 'For Sale', but it spent an entire summer sitting in a very good location with no serious bites a few years back when I got my 928 and I've decided to keep it for now.
I do have to say:
When the question isn't "How do I get to the store?" or "What car do I take?", but "Which of my three Porsches do I take today?" then life isn't half bad.
*It's had a shake in it forever. It was in an accident and had a bent stub axle. That's been fixed and it 's significantly better, but not completely gone. I have a suspicion of what it is and a plan of attack, but stuff keeps getting in the way. Right now, it's sitting with a dead starter. Have to address that before anything else.
Here's my daily. E34 535iM with lots of enthusiast goodies in addition to my '86 951. I know. I'm an idiot for having not one, but two 25+ year old cars, but I love this era. The idea is supposed to be that while one is in the shop the other can be driven and just tag team it, but there have been a few times where both are in the shop at the same time and I'm stuck driving my wife's Honda Accord which never breaks down. I'm pretty sure that driving excitement and reliability are on opposite ends of a linear scale- the closer you get to one end the further you get from the other.
You people seriously disappoint me. I have been driving my gold 944 EVERY DAY for the last 12 years, and the red one 3 years before that. Except when it snows, in which case, I stay home.
You people seriously disappoint me. I have been driving my gold 944 EVERY DAY for the last 12 years, and the red one 3 years before that. Except when it snows, in which case, I stay home.
Sorry to be a disappointment. May i ask for forgiveness. 600 square feet of laminate flooring @ 1100 pounds is a little tough to fit in the back of my 944 even with the back seat folded down.
08-25-2018 | 02:51 AM
