hacker-pschorr

I think your way too paranoid. Like I said before, when I was 16 I was allowed to take the 928 out by myself.
As for your wife - you need a weekend away with the car and her driving it. Seams silly that she is afraid to drive it (unless it's a 5-speed and she cannot drive stick).
I grew up with sports cars, so it seams silly not share and enjoy them with the entire family.

m21sniper

Sharkskin- "About Grant wheels... I haven't seen one I liked in decades"

All a matter of taste bro.

SharkSkin

Yup.

Mongo

There's only 1 Mongo in the world SharkSkin, and there is no substitute for him

mulik51

I heard that a start-up roughly equals the distance if you would drive the car of 500km. So, it is not very good to start the car up just to start it, from my point of view.

Klim

Porsche928fan

I had heard it was good to start it up and just let it idle in the garage for five minutes or so, but everyone seems to be telling me different. As long as I'm cleaning all my hoses, and rubbing them down with WD40, I shouldn't need to run fluid through the engine? Is that right? Is there a time limit here?? Whats everyone advise for an 18mo. stint to Iraq? Would I need to have someone drive her around every month?

SharkSkin

Hey, a Mongo by any other name...

SharkSkin

For that, I would say follow Dr Bob's advice for storage. Ideally, I think you'd want someone to actually drive it at least once in that 18 mo. period. If there really is nobody you would trust to do that for you, block it up with tires all the way off the ground without leaving the suspension hanging free. Use Sta-bil or drain the fuel.

T_MaX

Buy the kid (s) the cheapest entry level race car you can find, make him or her work on it between races.

After the first season of racing and fixing your problems should be over.

Mongo

You want him to buy them a Miata???

From what I've seen that would be a great beginner racer, next to a 944, but cheaper.

kary4th

When my wife and I had a son in 2002, my childhood friends all started telling her stories about me as a kid. I was a 'good' kid, but man, did I do some amazingly dumb things. My friends used to say, "You can break him, you just can't kill him."

It makes me think I should sell all my cars before my son turns three.

Trusting your kids doesn't mean you shouldn't go out of your way to protect them. You just need to balance that with letting them learn, right? How the hell do you do that? Didn't this kid come with a book???

yellowline

Well, I have a 944 to myself and I'm 17. Granted, it doesn't have the sheer power of the 928, but it's been said it's a lot of car for a teen. I think I tried 90 in it once when I needed to get home. That was on a long interstate stretch at 2 in the morning, when I knew there were no cops and traffic around...I've never hit triple digits in the car. Normally, I'll do about 70 on the same road during daytime. So, some kids are fairly trustworthy. In addition, I haven't done burnouts or really abused the car...I think I can count on one hand the number of times the engine's hit 6k RPM with me driving.

Take a look at his overall capabilities. Can he handle a car like the 928 in normal driving? Does he have fairly good judgment in terms of braking, entering intersections, etc? If he can handle a car well there, then you know he CAN drive the car well.

Then you'll have to evaluate how trustworthy he is. If he's generally a good kid, I'd say let him, under a couple conditions.

I'd OK a girlfriend in the car. I've seen studies showing men actually drive better with a girl in the car. I think the extent of my bad driving was flooring it on dry onramps, which is pretty forgivable, in the big scheme of things. But I'd probably be more inclined to show off the car with a guy in the car.

NEVER let him drive the 928 in a caravan with other cars driven by his friends. I got distracted and rear-ended another car at 5mph in traffic. That was an expensive mistake.

If you show him the time and care you put into your car, he may respect it. I'd appreciate it, and perhaps bond with my father more, if he worked on a 928 with me, had enthusiasm for showing me the joy of motoring, and trusted me with a nice car.

IcemanG17

I too was a "good kid" or so my parents thought....such a good kid that I'm a cop now (but thats another story)....I even conned my parents into buying me a turbocharged sports car for my 16th birthday (luckily they are more naive than me!)... Lets just say that wasn't the "parent of the year" award decision....I beat the crap out of that car for 7 years!! Unforunately for me my dad is not a car guy...so they never had any cool cars to "borrow"...but I took them anyway...I guarantee you that if my dad had a cool car like a 928 I would have "borrowed" it too & verified its official top speed!! My teenage list consisted of: My 88 Conquest Tsi..140...Moms 85 buick sedan...maybe 110 (but speedo stopped at 85)..sisters 86 Isuzu Imark 100 on a good day...dads 90 thunderbird...again maybe 110?

There are honestly good kids out there who could handle a 928 as a teenager...but all I ask is what would you have done behind the wheel of a 928 as a teenager? Chances are you son is alot like you!
Brian

SharkSkin

Not in a 928, it isn't!

yellowline

Oh, right. Lazy cars, you'd go right off the road on a cloverleaf...

No, perhaps a 928 is too quick for that. But sometimes you can hold down the pedal of a 944 NA and not expect big things for awhile.