Boston911fan

I was leaving my friend's house near the Bonnet Shores in Narragansett, RI, when I passed a black 993 C2S around 7PM Sunday. It was turning off of I think Rt. 1 (the main street with the grocery store and new CVS) near the Shell gas station heading toward Rt 1A. I was in my navy blue New Beetle Convertible and maybe you even caught a glimpse of the 993 TT hollow spoke wheels or the 993 TT Big Reds (yes there is a kit to fit those brakes onto a VW). I would have flashed my high beams, but you would have wondered why the hell a VW was flashing its high beams at you. Any idea who's car this is? In any case, I will be at the Rolex Vintage Festival at Limerock and at Porsche Day at the Lars Anderson car museum during the next two weekends, so if you're there, look for a Guards red 993 Cabriolet with an Asian driver and introduce yourself.

-Evan

DAVISRILEY

Sounds like franklin229. Do a search under his user name, he has a picture of the car on his avatar. The road you were on was Rt. 1A

Robin 993DX

AH! RI, brings back old childhood memories where I used to live. (Portsmouth, RI)

I worked one summer at Island Nursery on the corner of Main and Turpike pinched 5000 mum plants all summer.

CarreraX

Pics of the beetle with the twists and big reds please!

Boston911fan

Sorry, these are the best pics I have. I still haven't mastered the art of shrinking picture file sizes without shrinking the dimensions...The hollow spoke twists are real--I got them from Wheel Enhancement. The Big Reds are from ECS Tuning, and are for a 993 TT, not repainted 993 C2 brakes. They replace the 993 rotor hat with a hat that has the VW 5x100 bolt pattern, so I have to run H&R 5x130 bolt adaptors to fit the wheels. I guess I could have just used 993TT rotors and hats thus negating the need for the adapters for the front, but the adapted rotors came with the kit.

The second pic is of my new Garrett GT2871. The car came with the 1.8 Liter 20-valve turbo and Borg-Warner K03 turbo that was ubiquitous throughout the VW/Audi range. It originally had 150 crank hp and now has 275.4 wheel hp. I understand that the GT28 series turbos are often used as an upgrade by 993 Turbo owners.

DAVISRILEY

My first job was at a nursery in Scituate, RI tending about 5000 mums also. Still don't like mums to this day. My wife thinks I have an irrational fear of them now....

Franklin229

Evan-
Replied to your PM-don't think it was me-unless you were further north towards Mass border-my car has black wheels as well-I will be at Lars for sure-

rome

I'll probably be at the Lars Anderson event as well.

Boston911fan

Cool, I'll see you there. I took my Beetle last year as I did not own a whole Porsche at the time. It got many strange looks.

jhardman

it's a small world. spent winters in greenville (next to scituate) and summers at the shore (westerly). ahh yes cruzin' down to be beach in my 1980 capri...(with the sunroof out). these days i'm in the san jose area and a couple years older>

Franklin229

I moved to Rhode Island from Long Island about 23 years ago-one summer out of college to take a full time job. I was into the job but not the area-Providence was pretty dead at the time. New York and Boston were the only cultural fix within reasonable traveling distance. Different story now-Providence has gone through some great changes within the last 8 years or so. Great restaurants, art scene-still easy to get around, still affordable relative to Boston and NY.

KMASS993

Robin,

You are from Portsmouth? I am Portsmouth born and raised. What a small world!

Kevin M.
1996 C2

Robin 993DX

Hummm.. maybe we were school mates.

I lived in Portsmouth, RI went to Middle town middle school and Portsmouth high school. Moved to CA after 9th grade in 1985.

KMASS993

Robin,

You were a little before my time! I graduated PHS in 2002! Haha, Portsmouth has changed a lot since 1985! Have you been back anytime recently?

Robin 993DX

Oh man, yeah I am an old man. LOL!

I've never been back to RI since I left, however several of my close childhood friends are still there. One guy that I used to rock Van Halen with became a minister.... Go figure.

When I lived in GA I always had thoughts about driving up the RI just to see all of my mates again and to show off my Porsche (Porsche content in this post)... But the thought never materialized.

Actually, I sort of miss RI. Just couldn't handle the brutal winter!!!