skpyle

Bwahahahaha!!!

Good points, all.
Love the videos!
I know its 'just a car.' Wait...no. Its not. This is my hobby and my choice of being.
I am a gearhead for me, noone else. However, its been awhile since I have been looked down upon for it.

I'm still getting a 928.

Seth K. Pyle

flynt

"Of course you won't be racing a 928"
Different horses for different courses. You won't be driving your aircooled 911 long distances in comfort with an awesome V8 soundtrack, either!

Personally, I like the fact that these cars are still widely unloved. When I meet somebody with a 928 I instantly know that they get it.. The 928 isn't a 911.. it's not lesser, in many ways it's a much better car. And it looks funky and 70s and at the same time still fresh and futuristic.

This is coming from an aircooled guy, but I guess more just a car guy. People like your co-worker just play themselves as narrow-minded as to what a Porsche should be. Dudes like that won't get it until it's established that every self-respecting collector needs a 928 - a point I think we're quickly approaching.

Fogey1

+928

NoVector

I love the wave at 2:10. It's like "Hi honey, I'll be done here in a minute. Just a couple more cars to pass."

To the OP, I think I would have told the guy "Buy 'em? I can download them for free."

Crumpler

Go tell Judge Smails that your car stickered out for more then his entry level 911 did back in the day...

Donster

I'm a 993 owner who loves pretty much every Porsche ever built, except perhaps the 912. I even like the 914 and 924 (kind of), but I especially like the 928. Ok, the SUV's do nothing for me, but that's a different matter. If I was a rich dude with lots of garage space, my 2nd Porsche would definitely be a 928.
Reading the comments here is therefore quite a disappointment. On the 993 board, where I usually live, nobody ever has anything much to say at all about the 928, good or bad. There are a fair number of negative comments about the 996, and a few about the newer 911's, but the older water cooled cars just don't really come up very often, and most of the negative comments on water-cooled 911's are centered around reliability. Air-cooled owners can sometimes be arrogant about the "authenticity" (for lack of a better term) of their cars, I get that. But most of us are not, and many of us, me included, think 928's are really cool cars.
The thing is, this thread reads like a litany of your own inferiority complexes. It doesn't seem to me like the race driver/instructor said or did anything particularly snotty, more like the OP was on the defensive already and was expecting him to. Many of the other comments are in the same vein.
So get over those silly presumptions and stop projecting that arrogance onto air-cooled owners, because in most cases it's not valid. And if I ever get a chance, I would love to trade a drive in my 993 for one in a 928.

MainePorsche

And widely unknown. It gives the car an aire of mystique. When another looks at the lines of this car, on the inside or the outside, they can see it is quite the Porsche. For those fortunate enough to go for a ride, it usually ends with something like 'wow, this is an 87 ?' For the subset that knows cars, and asks questions, they are even more impressed with the answers they get regarding the engineering.
It's kind of like the old Speed Racer cartoon. Speed's uncle Racer X figuratively drove the 928. If you remember this cartoon, you know what I mean.

SteveG

Guilt is related to shame. Shame is a self inflicted wound.

dr bob

Met a guy at the local golf club during a tournament. Walking through the parking lot, he mentions that he had a 928 but sold it for a '84 Carrera. I told him that was funny, because my previous Porsche was a similar vintage 911, and I'd upgraded to the 928. He said the 928 was too expensive to own, and I had no argument for that. If he was taking it to Air-Cooled Heaven, where they charge based on the original cost of the car plus earn-to-learn on your non-air-cooled Porsche, ownership costs could easily lead one to his conclusion.

In the end, different folks buy cars for different reasons. I enjoyed my 356 and my 911 cars. I currently enjoy the 928. I don't dare drive a new 911, because I'd quite likely enjoy owning one of each of them too. Ditto Cayenne Turbo, Pana Turbo, etc. There are certainly plenty of cars available now that are "better" than my 928. We see them all the time. And that's kinda the rub... We see them all the time.

polecat702

I've never had a bad experience with a 911 owner, regarding my 928.

I used to hear all kinds of crap about my Pantera, from the real "Italian" car owners. So what!

Crumpler

Does this mean that i shouldn't have pooped on the guy's desk?

RKD in OKC

RMB roared into a Cars and Coffee and parked with the other PCA members reveling the the VE sound. Got several thumbs up from others already there; Guy that had recently traded his Cayenne in on a new Boxster asked me when I was going to grow up. I just smiled and shrugged my shoulders.

SMTCapeCod

Pigeonholed by a turtlehumper hmm notagood day....

Donster

If two you want to pigeonhole 911 owners and thus display your neurotic feelings of insecurity, that's up to you. At least get your terms and English comprehension correct. Your supervisor buttonholed you this morning. (Note it's the supervisor and not the 911 guy.) It's likely your boss pigeonholed you as a wannabe gearhead some time ago.

SMTCapeCod

Two who? Two you? English what?
At least get your English syntax correct....

In the Porsche-- and broader enthusiast community- I think the majority of us enjoy a little rivalry among the different models, appreciate the high points of most or all of them, and occasionally take umbridge when criticism is heaped on our own favorite.

For further reading, there is a more comprehensive thread on this topic, that (IIRC) I had no part of:

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...s-or-what.html

Or, for that matter https://rennlist.com/forums/944-turb...f-a-928-a.html