http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=260072018770

 

A buy it now price of US $399.00...

You know how many 924s (with mirrors!) you could buy with that?

 

Just because you *can* doesn't mean you would want to. $399 would probably buy me a lot of weed but since I don't smoke it and don't intend to it is irrelevant.

 

Or you could call Sunset Imports in Oregon and get the same thing, brand new from Porsche, for $320.00... um, mirrors that is, you're on your own is you want weed... lol

Regards,

 

Eh - I actually prefer the "flag" mirrors on the 944, the aero ones look out of place........

 

Ouch.

 

lol about an ounce of the good ****

 

To each his own. I rather like my 968 mirrors. (Need to update avatar pic)

 

BS. Do your homework before running your mouth. I called Sunset last night and the bases alone were $48 each, the "ears" around $85 each, the glass is $65 each. And that's before all the mounting hardware and electric motors. You also need a special tool to assemble them, which can be very painstaking according to posts on this board.

Oh and BTW, click on the link to the auction again. They're sold.

 

Aw come on wheres the love here?

Maybe we do need to buy some of that weed

 

Copy and pasted from an email from SunSet when i bought my mirrors in September.

"944-731-901-00 auto style for electric mirrors 318.91 in stock
Add $15-18 for shipping. Figure 336.91 shipped"

The mirrors were also not that hard to put together. Plenty of instructions online floating around.

Dont want to get on anyones bad side, just thought id add my 2 cents.

 

Perhaps you should heed your own advice. I just talked to Bob @ Sunset, and the price hasn't changed since I bought mine - $318.91 for the kit, complete.



Try being a little more respectful, and you'll discover who on this board knows their ****, and who doesn't. In case you still can't figure it out, Scott knows his ****. You do not.

 

Ebay postings, rude remarks, 924's and banter back and forth aside...............

I do think the price on the 968 mirors has fluctuated back and forth some over the last couple of years. I seem to recall at one point they jumped to around $400 from Sunset and availability was scarce (might have had something to do with that supply and demand thing my economics professor always talked about while I was napping in class, I dunno). The price seems to have come down again to a more realistic figure. I'd still take a set of 968 mirrors at $320 anyday over a ratty 924 or a bag of weed. But that's just me.

Oh, and Scott does know his ****. And by **** I mean 944 stuff. Not weed.

 

What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?
By Gary Taubes
Eat less fat and more carbohydrates may be the cause of the rampaging epidemic of obesity in America. When Atkins first published his ''Diet Revolution'' in 1972, Americans were just coming to terms with the proposition that fat -- particularly the saturated fat of meat and dairy products -- was the primary nutritional evil in the American diet. Atkins managed to sell millions of copies of a book promising that we would lose weight eating steak, eggs and butter to our heart's desire, because it was the carbohydrates, the pasta, rice, bagels and sugar, that caused obesity and even heart disease. Fat, he said, was harmless. Atkins allowed his readers to eat ''truly luxurious foods without limit,'' as he put it, ''lobster with butter sauce, steak with bearnaise sauce . . . bacon cheeseburgers,'' but allowed no starches or refined carbohydrates, which means no sugars or anything made from flour. Atkins banned even fruit juices, and permitted only a modicum of
vegetables, although the latter were negotiable as the diet progressed. Atkins was by no means the first to get rich pushing a high-fat diet that restricted carbohydrates, but he popularized it to an extent that the American Medical Association considered it a potential threat to our health. The A.M.A. attacked Atkins's diet as a ''bizarre regimen'' that advocated ''an unlimited intake of saturated fats and cholesterol-rich foods,'' and Atkins even had to defend his diet in
Congressional hearings. Thirty years later, America has become weirdly polarized on the
subject of weight. On the one hand, we've been told with almost religious certainty by everyone from the surgeon general on down, and we have come to believe with almost religious certainty, that obesity is caused by the excessive consumption of fat, and that if we eat less fat we will lose weight and live longer. On the other, we have the ever-resilient message of Atkins and
decades' worth of best-selling diet books, including ''The Zone,'' ''Sugar Busters'' and ''Protein Power'' to name a few. All push some variation of what scientists would call the alternative hypothesis: it's not the fat that makes us fat, but the carbohydrates, and if we eat less carbohydrates we will lose weight and live longer. The perversity of this alternative hypothesis is that it identifies the cause of obesity as precisely those refined carbohydrates at the
base of the famous Food Guide Pyramid -- the pasta, rice and bread -- that we are told should be the staple of our healthy low-fat diet, and then on the sugar or corn syrup in the soft drinks, fruit juices and sports drinks that we have taken to consuming in quantity if for no other reason than that they are fat free and so appear intrinsically healthy. While the low-fat-is-good-health dogma represents reality as we have come to know it, and the government has spent hundreds of
millions of dollars in research trying to prove its worth, the low carbohydrate message has been relegated to the realm of unscientific fantasy. Over the past five years, however, there has been a subtle shift in the scientific consensus. It used to be that even considering the possibility of the alternative hypothesis, let alone researching it, was tantamount to quackery by association.
Now a small but growing minority of establishment researchers have come to take seriously what the low-carb-diet doctors have been saying all along....

 

Sniff, sniff. I just shed a tear. You like me, you really really like me.