Rock

Yeah thats one of my favorites. People who dont know about something or jealous of it have to try and put it down to make themselves feel better.

MPD47

And that comment is when I love showing 911 owners the tail pipe

SD Porsche Fan

Yeah, I've gotten that one a lot as well. I just tell them that it had a sticker price of $50k in '89 and is faster than the Testerossa of that same year! That's probably close to $100k in today's dollars and I can drive mine daily!

streckfu's

I had a crank position sensor fail and while diagnosing in the parking lot (as I didn't know the problem yet) I asked a woman if I could get a jump as I had cables...

Her response: "I guess I can help out the poor little Porsche." It was dripping with sarcasm and would have told to fu*k off were it not for her very young son.....

That was right before the BMW X5 driver offered to jump my car if I could find his battery for him.
Seriously.

allergic2milk

the worst one to date is from my friend,"that's quite an expensive VW you got there!" He knowes better when i kill him and his 325i in the twists.

ZPmadA

I had a dumbass make my day when he said "nice honda"... he was in the passenger seat of his girlfriends acura. I think he caught his mistake because he stopped laughing, and I started laughing at him. They sped off switching lanes in the traffic. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

hacker-pschorr

Well, to be honest - I'm not 100% sure where the battery is on the Audi 100S I bought my wife last fall for winter driving

KuHL 951

Driving 'Ol Pokey' a guy at the gas station 'informed' me that my 944 was called a Karmann Ghia in Germany. I corrected him of course and 'informed' him that the 914 was the car he must have 'forgot' he owned. He shut up quick. LOL

mnypit944

I think I still have the best one. It is not about the Porsche though. It was about my TR8. Which, if you are not familiar, has a Buick designed, Rover 3.5l aluminum V8. Early 60s Buick Special, Olds Rocket 88, and a Pontiac something or other.

I was having issues with the carb at the time. When I bought it the car had a Holley on it. It would get a vapor lock every so often when hot and shut down and restarted(or tried to) after shutting it down breifly, like to get gas or run up to an ATM.

So here I am sitting in a gas station pissed off beyond all belief because of this stupid Holley because it wont start. Some moron in a REBEL RIDER lifted rusty hunk of junk with no exhaust etc etc. walks up and says "Shoulda bought an American car, yeehaa".

So I proceded to tell him the reason the car would not start was because of an American part on my American designed engine and the reason the engine will no longer turn over is because of a defective American made starter and that the American made water pump, that I bought brand new had a leak straight from the factory.

Not that I am at all against American made, in fact I try to buy mostly American made. But it just really rubbed me the wrong way when it was completely the fault of an American made part and this redneck moron is standing here telling me I should have bought American because they are more reliable??????? How about you help instead of saying something so stupid. Especially without knowing the facts. Get back in your rusty $300 junk and go back to your American made trailer!!!!! Like Jimmy Buffet so wonderfully put, "they look a lot better as beer cans".

You have no idea how many stupid things I have heard, while owning Triumph automobiles.. I dont get it so much with the Porshe. The other one I get regularly is the auto parts workers asking "who makes Triumph?" The proper reply is of course, "the British". That always invokes a very puzzled look and typically another really stupid question.

But remember, it is not leaking oil, it is simply marking it terrotory.

Sorry so long, but dumb statements always get to me.

yellowline

When one is advertised as "rust-free," does that mean the rust comes free of charge?

hacker-pschorr

"Nice car until you can afford a real Porsche"

Said to a 914 owner at my first PCA event by the wife of a 930 owner. I was only 15 (along with my father who had a 928). I said to her, "Like a 928!"

mnypit944

You got it. That is another one I always liked. Rust free. I have seen rust free cars that Fred Flinstones car had more floorboards. I once looked at a car that the ower told me had been stored since 1971, but had University Of Central Florida parking stickers on from 88, 89 and 90. How does that work???

dmn23

Years ago when I was at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, I was driving an '83 Saab 900 Turbo and I took it to the shop down the street for a sevice. The wrench on duty took a look, scratched his head and said, "Well, I don't know too much about these German cars."

I promptly thanked him for his time, got in the car, and looked for another shop.

Lorax

The employee at autozone who mumbles constantly once got frustrated with me when I tried to explain to him that porsche was a make, not a model.

There is the all-too-familiar high school parking lot "WHOAAA DO YOU GOT NITROUS IN THAT PUPPY?", and then the begging plees asking for me to "Burn 'em off"
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Tossers

hacker-pschorr

Funny slightly related story - while living in Madison I needed at least 2 CV joints for my 944S. Kelly-Moss quoted me $1,000 to do the job and I was afraid of the dealer (long story) so I called this place called CV-Pros. After a 5 minute argument over the phone as the guy insisted no car has rear CV-Joints I asked if he ever worked on a Porsche before - dead silence - and I took the car to Green Bay to my original mechanic.