andy-gts

did any daytona's really get driven and miles put on them....seems everyone worshiped them but were mostly bought for investment purposes. It would be cool to be able to afford to drive the **** out of that car routinely.

blitz928

I've driven a Daytona, might have been a great car in the 70s. Doesn't really hold up to modern standards. 928 is a much better car by today's standards. Like with so many cars rarity and mystique play a factor in it's desirability. The Daytona has that.

Vilhuer

Biggest problem for using Daytona as daily driver is that they didn't have power steering. Some have had them installed using for example 365 GTC/4 parts, which had it as standard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBBy-4tnWoM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7On1rNo3w

William A

One of my favorite car pics of all time, thanks for that Mako shot! Any idea what became of that car?

curt_928

[QUOTE=FBIII;8103806]Exactly. I love my 928 and I have no intention to ever sell her.. but the 360 is in the garage now, and the porsches are outside. I suspect that this would happen in many instances.

Green Goblin

I love the 288, kind of has a OB 928 look in the front and a 308 on the rest of the car, bad as motor vary rare. One of my dreams

Nightfly

Daytona.....Mako Shark. Two of my favorite cars, in one thread. Yes, I consider both of them more beautiful than my 928. But overall better cars? Nope. Daytona has the Ferrari sound, the looks. I never needed power steering, but really good a/c and a nice auto box is quite nice in the traffic ridden area in which I live. Mako Shark? Basically a Corvette in different clothing, I bet they still rattled their screws loose just like the rest of the early vette's did. If I were rich, sure I'd want them both in my garage. But one car? 928. Like the ad says, there is no substitute.

William A

No vintage car will ever stand up to "modern" standards. But try driving a Daytona and then drive other performance cars of that era. It blows you away!

Anyone who buys, and more importantly drives, a vintage car does so because they appreciate what they offer. It is just a setup for disappointment to assume that even the most advanced car of 20 years ago can hold a candle performance-wise to even a middle-of-the-road sports coupe of today.

Of course they feel different; some like it, some don't.

And as it relates to Ferrari's, just look at the car below and tell me that it is not magnificent to look at. Driving it's not bad either, heheheheh!

To address the original post, I would fall into the same category as his friend's father. With the exception of the 928, most iconic Porsches I have gotten used and appreciate, rather than look at thinking "wow!" The 356, the 911, just about all of them don't give me that feeling that I am looking at art, but rather function.

Not every Ferrari is good looking, but to my eye some of the best looking cars of all time came from that one marque. Plus they sound brilliant and give you the feeling that the only reason it was created was to thrill you from the driver's seat as well as the curb.

BTW, I don't think that Ferrari's are like that today.

Lastly, I wasn't in Tony Lapine's head, but just visually I have to believe that there is much Daytona inspiration in the 928. I don't see any problem with that, most car design is evolution rather than revolution.

FBIII

Bill, Well said.

mpesik

No fancy friend.

Had a 260 Z -uggh. That's the ticket.
No 928 similarities there unless the wine was running graciously.