kilodawg

Not emotional about my car? Nope not me...
I'm a Porsche guy through and through. Give me any non P-car, you pick and I'll trade it for the most Porsche I can buy. My first car was a Porsche back in '73 and for me there is no other car that I have ever wanted.

nile13

Yep, no different from a Saab

A boat is a wooden hole in water where you throw money. A Saab is a metal hole on a road used for the same purpose.

mjsporsche

Amen! I had my 1984 Black 900 Turbo for about a year (purchased privately as a 1 year old preowned). Looked cool. Very yuppie and that was important back then. But it drove like crap. The shifter felt like jello, the spooling of the turbo took forever. And you needed to let the turbo cool down after a "spirited" drive or let the coking begin (not the white line stuff).

But it was a car I had to own.

Mark

Ed Hughes

Actually, the saying is "a boat is a hole in the water...", makes no difference what material it is made of.

JPP

But what about the 9000 Turbo ... I've heard they were awesome drivers cars ...

95_993

OT- I had a '91 9000 Turbo with SPG wheels, etc....eventually called the Aero. It was a great car...virtually bullet proof. I drove to 182k miles and then sold it when I bought my Audi. Aside from the understeer and torque steer from that you might expect from a 225HP front wheel drive car, it drove great. 0-60 in 6 sec., 30+ MPG on highway, and I could fit full sheets of dry wall and a refrigerator in the back. It was awesome on road trips.

nile13

Yeah.... But how can you love a fiberglass hole?

Ed Hughes

I've had a few I've loved. I've also crewed extensively for many races on a buddy's Swan 57....that is FG with a zillion acres of teak deck. About 60,000lbs worth of boat to LOVE!

nile13

I actually live _in_ the water (old warehouse surrounded by water on three sides) and see people clean and polish their boats all summer long. Interesting thing to observe. Some of them actually live on the boats. Things like Eos park here to0. I can see how people can actually love their boats.

Ed Hughes

I lived on a couple of my boats-one for 2 years in Sausalito, and another stint for 2 years at the San Diego Yacht Club. My life sure seemed a lot simpler in those days....

Edward

And therein lays the answer: no passion for cars. So clearly your misunderstanding others' passion is entirely that: your misunderstanding. Kind of like my trying to understand that golf is actually a "sport"...

Ok, so that may have been insensitive to several here. No offense; just me not getting it. We all choose what we're passionate about. And lets face it, that leaves everyone else who is "on the outside" shrugging their shoulders in wonder.


Edward

Franklin229

Golf is not a sport-so I am with you there-

CorrdoBrit

But it can be a VERY lucrative pastime

Leon993

Ive had mine for three years and just a few weeks ago at around midnight I went to the garage in the dark, got in, lit up the instrument panel without fully turning on the lights so that the nice glow would permeate the garage. I put my hands on the cold steering wheel, I smell the leather and the feeling of the first night I had it in my garage has never gone away. I feeling of accomplishment takes over me, from the fabulous drives I've taken, the ones I look forward to, to all the labor of love I've put into it, all the sweet upgrades and how I have tailored it to exactly the way I want it.

I have a 95, and I was a junior in high school when my car came out of Stuttgart. It was the hottest car in the world, it was THE car to have, and now I have it. Whenever I park at a restaurant I like to sit where I can have direct eye-line to my car, not just to guard it, but to admire it...its curves, its freshly washed body and how it looks different from every angle. I like to look at the faces of people when they walk by and stare at it, you know...the kind of people that are "too cool to stare" and if they knew I was watching them look at my car they would totally keep a straight face and look away. But I see them! And its fun! But the best is when a little boy gives you props. Its amazing whats in the male DNA when a 3 year boy, not a girl they could care less, a BOY and with their tiny, underdeveloped finger they point at the car and look, they don't know what they are looking at, all they know its cool to look at and voila! Just like that....a car lover is born! Thats the best feeling.

And then of course there's the chicks at a stop light, especially the gold-diggin cougars, who ironically, admire the character of a well aged machine. Getting out of the car at a coffee shop and literally feeling the eyes of women on you, seeing the wheels turning in their heads about your availability and what it would feel like to have you remove their panties in the passenger seat of your 993...whether this is true or not, at least thats what I think.

The camaraderie, the pals, all the fellas at rennlist, the brotherhood, the free sharing of information and the passion for these cars. Tending to them with care and nurture. They say that you can tell alot about a man's character by the way he treats his car.

And lastly, going fast! Shifting the tail or your rear-engine car at will, steering the car with the throttle! There is nothing like it! It is a special feeling of being powerful yet at the same time basking in the innocence that reminds of you playing with cars when you where a kid. Its imagination that fuels our passion, and yes its passion. Some people collect stamps, other's lift weights. Us? we pilot our 993s and develop a stewardship with our machines like the blue creatures in the movie Avatar develop a stewardship with their flying banshees.

If by now you don't feel anything, don't worry, its not really a big deal. If you could look into the future, most of us will still have our 993s decades from today, we will be stubborn old men like the ones you still see today at PCA events who have had their 901s and their 356s and their 912s since forever, and with every new wrinkle in our leather and every mile in our engine we grow more and more into our cars, giving them character and respecting their history and contribution to the long line of automotive racing that came before us. For those who believe in this lifestyle no explanation is necessary, and for those who don't, no explanation is possible.

Unkle

Thanks for a great thread, I have really enjoyed all sides of the discussion. especially the comment about driving over people to save the car. I tend to agree with a lot of the orignal idea from Quadcammer, never considered it has gender or a name, although I probably have said (on rennlist) that i love the 964, but i don't. I think its a great car, and the 911 I always wanted as personally i think its the best looking. I don't buy into the marketing "passion in making a car", but thats another issue. I drive it cause i enjoy it, not on a normal drive along a motorway (i could be in anything to do that and in more comfort) I have it for the occasional shot in the arm, the track day or other, the drive across Europe and up mountain passses in Switzerland.

I am not interested in standing in carparks discussing them, on going to shows about them. But personally driving my own car? Yes i get pleasure from it, but if i needed to part with it, i wouldn't worry.