adrial

I get looks...never had any notes left on the car in 2 years of ownership though...

The people I most often notice looking at the car are young ricers...lately I just staring staring right back at them....hehe...I dont know why...it just seemed like something to do.

--Adrial

turbo944

I have had lots of kids drooling on the windows of their parents blobmobiles as they go by... Notice lots of other people staring as they go by as well. Not a huge number of people have asked anything about it around here, but a few have....invariably when I say it's a Porsche they proceed to pick up their jaw off the ground and think that it's new (although with all the rock chips in it I can't figure that one out!).

I hadn't owned the car a month (sat at the house waiting for a ball joint change most of that) when I had an offer to buy it.

And yes, I do look back at my car EVERY time I walk away from it. Sometimes almost enough to run into something else..hehe

lutz

I dont drive mine everyday but everytime i have it out someone will say something about it. Most think its a 93 or 95. I have only had it for a few months but i have had two cards lets on it asking if it is for sale with there number.

jjmson20

i like the...it must be nice to be rich remark...if they only knew.

Red1

Little kids in the back seat of mom's car with their noses pressed against the window. Watching them scramble over one another in their backseats to get a better look. That makes me feel good.

I like it even better when I'm paying for gas inside the station, and I look out and see guys bending around the pumps to get a look when they think nobody is watching.

qoncept944

I read yet-another-tacky-car-magazine a couple years ago and ran in to the nicest, cleanest old Camaro I've ever seen. The first line of the review was, "It's hard to make a car that turns heads without sticking out like a sore thumb." I'll say.

iloveporsches

I get some looks, and I've had an older guy ask me about it once at a gas station. Most of my friends though it was mid-early 90's when they first saw it. From about 10 ft. away, my dad's friend who's been a mechanic for a good 30 years said it "looks brand new!" <img border="0" alt="[thumbsup]" title="" src="graemlins/bigok.gif" />

I also get the ricers being retarded. I had a guy in a riced out KIA chasing me around the other day. I've had many people feel the need to burn out/ drive really fast when they see my car. My favorite is revving my engine back at the ricers, and then driving off normally while they look like an ***. <img border="0" alt="[hiha]" title="" src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" />

pete944

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by iloveporsches:
[QB]I had a guy in a riced out KIA chasing me around the other day. I've had many people feel the need to burn out/ drive really fast when they see my car.[QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">What's up with that anyway? Why would anybody driving a Kia think they could impress anybody. Maybe they could impress a Yugo driver.

Oh wait, are there even any running Yugos around anymore?

oi-punx

I've owned my car for 14 months and have had an old man tell me it was "a pretty car" at the Gas Station.

However, when driving around town it's as if i'm invisible...nobody looks at all and nobody ever tries to race me which is fine as far as i'm concerned. I'd blame it on the fact that i've only put 4k miles on the car in 14 months, but the same thing happened in my old N/A as well and that was my daily driver for 3 years or so. Maybe it's a Nor-Cal thing.

I did get a nice note one time with plenty of compliments and a couple of questions complete with an email address

....but that was on my 1980 Vespa P200

iloveporsches

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">What's up with that anyway? Why would anybody driving a Kia think they could impress anybody. Maybe they could impress a Yugo driver. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Couldn't tell ya. They do the same thing when my friend has his Chevelle SS out. Had a guy in a Trans Am almost rearend the person in front of him one time, and I guy almost wiped out doing a wheelie on his bike...man, the intelligence of people.....

Ag951

I'm the only one who drools over mine. It has the original stereo, complete with cracked paper speakers, and the sunroof motors don't work, so the top pops up and down, so I don't drive it much. But I do stare whenever I'm in the garage.
At non-PCA autocrosses, I get lots of "nice car", "ooh I bet it's a demon on the track", and "beautiful" comments. Coming from true auto enthusiasts, it means more than a kid staring.

One time on the freeway, Another car and I were passing a sedan with two teenage boys in the back. One saw my car and pointed it out to the other, and they looked as I drove past. When the other car moved in front of the sedan, opening up the lane ahead of me, I dropped it to third gear and gave the two boys a nice display of boost.

I need a stereo...and the sunroof fixed...Anybody want to buy my Acura?

slinky

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by 944pete:
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Oh wait, are there even any running Yugos around anymore?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Haven't seen any of those, but I DID see a "Le Car" the other day!

951Porschiste

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by badass951:
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How many of you can not help but to look back at your car when you are walking away from it?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Guilty as charged!

The second time I went to the gas station for a fill-up, I had a guy walk up to me and ask about the car...never happens when I fill up the Passat or the Odyssey.

The day I bought the car, I had one guy in a Jeep Cherokee who actually slammed on the brakes as he was passing me on the highway just to take a look at the car and give me a <img border="0" alt="[thumbsup]" title="" src="graemlins/bigok.gif" /> !!!

iloveporsches

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by badass951:

How many of you can not help but to look back at your car when you are walking away from it?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Guilty! If I'm parked in front of a friend's house and we're outside, I'm always taking quick glances at it! I think my friends are starting to notice....

Mark Parker

Even though it needs paint, it still gets looks. A lot of folks seem a little mystified as to what kind of car it is, but they know it ain't your average grocery hauler. Strangely enough, I've found that more young boys,,I mean 12ish,,seem to actually know WHAT it is than any other group. They also seem to appreciate it more. I can't remember the number of times I've passed one of the local bicycle posses to have the whole group stop and turn to watch me go by. We got some future 944 owners there. And as far as what YEAR it is. Even the SCCA folks don't recognize it as an eighties model car. Last Sunday as she was giving me my second place trophy, the lady started to say "a ninety-five" but saw her error and commented "nice work in an older car". Yeah,,but it's an older PORSCHE after all.