Holiday Observations about Porsche Ownership
12-28-2010, 04:55 PM
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1. The looks I get when driving around are almost all from younger boys. But my 7 year old granddaughter has figured out that boys like the car - so she likes riding in it with me.
2. Difference between a Porcupine and a Porsche? The Porcupine has the ****** on the outside
3. In one of John Gresham's novels (great writer), the protagonist's girlfriend (a police officer in Homocide) when she sees some macho male driving some exotic or muscle car says to him: "sorry about your small equipment (she used another word in the book - starting with "p"".
4. Fact is none of us really needs a Porsche - it is virtually impossible to drive it as the designers intended it to be (perhaps other than at a track day). Of course driving through Montana (my suggestion for the license plate expression is "the there's nothing there state") at 100 mph (unfortunately in a BMW 3 series - on the way to visit friends in Jackson Hole - the wife refused to take a 1000 mile trip in the 993) did remind me of my youth and driving Autobahns in Germany at speeds approaching 200 kph.
5. The machismo among owners of many high performance cars is unlimited. One "nameless" friend drove his 993 Cup Car off the track at New Hampshire International Raceway - on one of the Porsche club track days. This over $100k car, was a "total" with no insurance because he was using it on the track (this car was and is illegal as a road car - it can't be registered for use on the street). What did this person do? - arranged to ship the car back to Porsche Germany - by air no less, where it was rebuilt (cost over $100k) and flown back to the US in time for the next track day. Conclusion: nice to have more money than brains.
6. The drunk Swede who totalled a borrowed Ferrari Enzo on Pacific Coast Highway in the general area of Malibu - in the middle of the night and simply disappeared into the night. Somehow, Police were able to establish he was driving over 150 mph on this road.
7. Having said all of this, there is something about 911 steering. I liked the non-power assisted cars better than the ones with PS. It's as if your fingertips are skimming across the road surface - with direct and instaneous feedback through your hands. BMW's (some of them) come close. No American car I've ever driven comes close (even Corvettes). Mercedes are numb feeling to me. When I worked in Germany as a student guest worker engineer, I became familiar with their "practicum" and apprenticeship programs. Those going into the metal trades first had to "hand work" the specific material they had chosen for about 6 months - until they knew all the characteristics about the material. It gave them proper prepartion to work with it for the rest of their lives.
Happy New Year everyone.
2. Difference between a Porcupine and a Porsche? The Porcupine has the ****** on the outside
3. In one of John Gresham's novels (great writer), the protagonist's girlfriend (a police officer in Homocide) when she sees some macho male driving some exotic or muscle car says to him: "sorry about your small equipment (she used another word in the book - starting with "p"".
4. Fact is none of us really needs a Porsche - it is virtually impossible to drive it as the designers intended it to be (perhaps other than at a track day). Of course driving through Montana (my suggestion for the license plate expression is "the there's nothing there state") at 100 mph (unfortunately in a BMW 3 series - on the way to visit friends in Jackson Hole - the wife refused to take a 1000 mile trip in the 993) did remind me of my youth and driving Autobahns in Germany at speeds approaching 200 kph.
5. The machismo among owners of many high performance cars is unlimited. One "nameless" friend drove his 993 Cup Car off the track at New Hampshire International Raceway - on one of the Porsche club track days. This over $100k car, was a "total" with no insurance because he was using it on the track (this car was and is illegal as a road car - it can't be registered for use on the street). What did this person do? - arranged to ship the car back to Porsche Germany - by air no less, where it was rebuilt (cost over $100k) and flown back to the US in time for the next track day. Conclusion: nice to have more money than brains.
6. The drunk Swede who totalled a borrowed Ferrari Enzo on Pacific Coast Highway in the general area of Malibu - in the middle of the night and simply disappeared into the night. Somehow, Police were able to establish he was driving over 150 mph on this road.
7. Having said all of this, there is something about 911 steering. I liked the non-power assisted cars better than the ones with PS. It's as if your fingertips are skimming across the road surface - with direct and instaneous feedback through your hands. BMW's (some of them) come close. No American car I've ever driven comes close (even Corvettes). Mercedes are numb feeling to me. When I worked in Germany as a student guest worker engineer, I became familiar with their "practicum" and apprenticeship programs. Those going into the metal trades first had to "hand work" the specific material they had chosen for about 6 months - until they knew all the characteristics about the material. It gave them proper prepartion to work with it for the rest of their lives.
Happy New Year everyone.
12-28-2010, 05:35 PM
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FYI, I live not too far from the Enzo crash on PCH. It was early morning and they were able to estimate the speed of the crash due to skid marks and the area and size of the debris field, among other factors.
I think that Porsche/porcupine joke is one of the oldest ones around; I think it was first told as the original pre-356 design was still on paper.
I think that Porsche/porcupine joke is one of the oldest ones around; I think it was first told as the original pre-356 design was still on paper.
12-28-2010, 06:20 PM
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6. The drunk Swede who totalled a borrowed Ferrari Enzo on Pacific Coast Highway in the general area of Malibu - in the middle of the night and simply disappeared into the night. Somehow, Police were able to establish he was driving over 150 mph on this road.
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12-28-2010, 08:58 PM
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Oh, and the Mustang thing, too. Double 
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12-28-2010, 09:38 PM
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"One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics."
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For Mark in Baltimore,Mr. Bonus and Andreas:
There is the 3 body problem in Physics. It is directly related to the 3 duck theory in Psychology and Philsophy:
Physics: When you describe the gravitational attaction between two heavenly bodies, that is not "n" (where "n" is any integer larger than 2). When you describe the gravitational attraction between three heavenly bodies, that also covers the case of "n" (where "n" is any integer larger than 2).
3 duck theory: When one person tells you you're a duck, you can ignore them or choose to listen. When two people tell you you're a duck, you can still ignore them, or you can choose to believe them. When three or more people tell you you're a duck, it does not matter whether you know (inside) you're a swan, ballerina or astranaut. To the world you're a duck. So it's time to learn to swim and quack.
Since all three of you don't seem to understand what I've written or why, I guess it's time for me to re-examine whether I should continue to bother trying.
And Sam N - I suggest serious and non-stop intense analysis - maybe even in Vienna.
There is the 3 body problem in Physics. It is directly related to the 3 duck theory in Psychology and Philsophy:
Physics: When you describe the gravitational attaction between two heavenly bodies, that is not "n" (where "n" is any integer larger than 2). When you describe the gravitational attraction between three heavenly bodies, that also covers the case of "n" (where "n" is any integer larger than 2).
3 duck theory: When one person tells you you're a duck, you can ignore them or choose to listen. When two people tell you you're a duck, you can still ignore them, or you can choose to believe them. When three or more people tell you you're a duck, it does not matter whether you know (inside) you're a swan, ballerina or astranaut. To the world you're a duck. So it's time to learn to swim and quack.
Since all three of you don't seem to understand what I've written or why, I guess it's time for me to re-examine whether I should continue to bother trying.
And Sam N - I suggest serious and non-stop intense analysis - maybe even in Vienna.
12-28-2010, 10:05 PM
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"One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics."
12-28-2010, 10:45 PM
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huh?????
12-29-2010, 02:20 AM
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#1 (When three people tell you you need a DUCKTAIL...)
...Mike-- (who's not Mike)-- I'm telling you: You need a ducktail.
12-29-2010, 03:40 AM
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