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This is a story about my very first Porsche: a Boxster S. I bought it in California with the idea to have a road trip from San Francisco to Montreal in Canada! Shot much of it with my old iPhone so it's vintage stock. Took the long way, old route 66, Texas, Okie, up through the Blue Ridge mountains, imported the car and cruised on home!
Being towed by a Triumph Stag? That's very brave or very foolish..
From Time Magazine's list 50 Worst Cars List:
1970 Triumph Stag
You could put all the names of all the British Leyland cars of the late '60s in a hat and you'd be guaranteed to pull out a despicable, rotten-to-the-core mockery of a car. So consider the Triumph Stag merely representative. Like its classmates, it had great style (penned by Giovanni Michelotti) ruined by some half-hearted, half-witted, utterly temporized engineering: To give the body structure greater stiffness, a T-bar connected the roll hoop to the windscreen, and the windows were framed in eye-catching chrome. The effect was to put the driver in a shiny aquarium. The Stag was lively and fun to drive, as long as it ran. The 3.0-liter Triumph V8 was a monumental failure, an engine that utterly refused to confine its combustion to the internal side. The timing chains broke, the aluminum heads warped like mad, the main bearings would seize and the water pump would poop the bed ka-POW! Oh, that piston through the bonnet, that is a spot of bother. We'll not hear the last of Triumph on this list.
Drove it to Rotterdam and out on a boat to port Newark . Somewhere in the middle of Germany needed a rear Main seal, pulled into a VW dealership and they fixed it and we were on our way.
2008 Carrera S. Ordered from dealer in another city as they had earlier allocations than local dealers. Short flight to pick up and took a long way home. Great memory.
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My first car I ever purchased is the Cayman I currently have. I still remember and drive it!
Remember your first?
Great photo!
