145/15 was an exaggerated guess of what they really were.

If you feel the need to talk to me more, please PM me.

By the way, I'm not debating anything. I'm just telling you. I would know, I do OWN the truck, and have it sitting in my driveway.

 

I get nice Ferrari and nice RX-7 all the time. One question i get asked probably every time i fill up on gas by someone is "What year is that, like a '95?". I tell them its an '87 and they are all mystified. I also get asked 'So how fast is this thing?', i tell them i can beat minivans. Kids at my highschool thought my car was one of the fastest in the parking lot, i let them believe that. Even the kid in the Camaro SS thought it was faster. Stupid kids.

The worse is people asking me how much i paid for it. I tell him 'Thirty five'. And they go "Wow, thirty five thousand?" and i tell them "....no, thirty five hundred".

One time i needed to stop at a gas station just outside of the Holland Tunnel on the Jersey side. My headlight linkage was caught on the hose clamp for the upper radiator hose, had no headlights. Anyway im stopped and i must have had 4 homeless guys coming up asking if i needed help. One of these guys asked me if i had any spare change to give him. I told him no. Not because i didnt want to give him money, but because i literally had no money except for $5 to get dinner on my way back to school (another hour ride or so). He walked off very angry, saying "Son of a $^%#$@, driving a $50,000 car and cant even spare some money". Now i dont remember if he said it was $50k, but he did say a very large sum of money. I was almost hurt that the guy didnt believe me, but i was kind of flattered he thought my 17 year old 924S was worth $50,000. I should of asked him if he wanted to buy it.

One guy who works the drive through at a Wendy's by me loves it. Asks me to tell him if i ever want to sell it, even gave me his phone number on a napkin. Its a shame i cant get girls phone numbers that easy. Hes a cool guy, tells me he also wants a 928 S4, so i take it he knows the marque pretty well.

 

so what's new

 

Getting back to the "nice Ferrari" theme...

A while back I got an invite to the Ferrari 360 Challenge at Sears Point.

As I roll up to the gate in my '82 928, I pull out a $20 to pay my admission. As I hand my money to the ticket taker, she says "that's OK, Ferraris get in free today." Uhh - OK. When I get up to the entrance where they ask you to sign a release, the guy asks me if I'm "running on the track today?" "Uhh - no - just spectating today." "OK, just follow the red car (a 355i) up the hill." As I follow the "red car" they wave me into the Ferrari/Maserati parking corral!

Most fun I've had in my "Ferrari" in years!

James

 

I get it backwards..When Im in my Conquest,people always tell me what a nice 944 I have.

 

thats cause you have the stock tall gearing tranny.

ive got some kind of freaky close ratio box and my car LOOOOOOVES 5th gear.

 

yeah and you probally have a top end of 120

 

Because we are all crusing around on US DOT regulated roads at 120mph...

Maybe he turns a few more RPM's at 60mph, so we get better gas mileage...HAH!

 

You guys with cars that are being mistaken for '95 model years must have some clean specimens! My car is WAY too rough on the outside to be mistaken for anything newer than an '88...lol!

 

My ex-GF's father felt the need to inform me that a 944 had a Subaru-type engine.

The best line ever is when a girl admires the size of the sunroof. Then you respond that some things are better topless.

The guy at a sketchy car audio place asked me if the car "could screw." I didn't go back there.

One kid proudly reminded me about how he poured cereal crumbs on the windshield of my "Ferrari." That's about the only time it's been called that.

 

yellowline, every person i have met that was into cars has thought my car had a boxer engine. It does sort of have a distinct sound to it with the SFR exhaust i have, especially at certain RPM ranges and whiel crusing next to buildings, barriers or in parking garages.. They are amazed when i tell them its a run of the mill inline-4.

 

Hmm, mine just sounds closest to a wheezing sewing machine at 3-4k. The T-belt is properly adjusted. My uncle's 996 sounds totally different, I'm in love with that sound.

Time to get an exhaust with bite!

 

whats more fun is when people say to you, oh thats not a porsche. Then i reply that not every porsche is a 911, see look at the hood crest...

thats the one sad thing, everyone thinks a porsche is a 911 Turbo

 

nice!

 

i never get the "nice ferrari" comments. Usually its "isnt that thing like 500hp?" or the usual " you ever get pulled over with that euro plate on the front?- yeah i guess YOU wouldnt"