Trip back home from Texas with new 996
#34
Larry
you will learn over time how rare our color - metallic teal - is. third level special order or something like that. I have a 03 C2 with the same external paint but a different interior color. whenever i go to porsche events or to races at Lime Rock or NHMS, there's a crowd around the car commenting on the color. yours is the second metallic teal i have seen.
you will learn over time how rare our color - metallic teal - is. third level special order or something like that. I have a 03 C2 with the same external paint but a different interior color. whenever i go to porsche events or to races at Lime Rock or NHMS, there's a crowd around the car commenting on the color. yours is the second metallic teal i have seen.
#35
I was really looking for a car that was in a "different" color. Sooo many silver and black. The dark Teal is hard to get a picture of that shows off the color. But, I will try. To me, the contrast of the light brown interior with the dark green exterior makes for a very striking car. As I was arranging for the PPI I saw a couple of posts from at least one other Pcar guy that said he was interested in the car, but his wife didn't like the color combination. "Thanks, Honey; If you hadn't said NO, I wouldn't be driving a dream car." Like I said before, wish I had a longer commute.
larry
larry
#38
She looks brand new, and I like the wood trim on the tan interior. It's looks classy. Enjoy your trip and be safe... (If you listen closely, you can almost here him gigglin' as he drives)
#39
It's been three weeks since I brought my 996 home from Houston. I park it at the other end of any parking lot, and walk backwards all the way to the store, keeping my eye on it, so that it doesn't disappear in a cloud of smoke. I get into the car and smile all the time that I'm in it. I love hearing the engine howl as I put my foot in it at 3K RPM, and get pushed back into my seat as the car launches forward.
I don't mind filling it up twice a week at the gas station. Several times a day I look out my office window to see that Dark Teal Porsche in the parking lot - amazed that it's still there. I look out the bedroom window before I go to bed, just making sure that that car is still there - proving that it IS really mine. I have automatically allocated two hours every Sunday morning, so that I can take the time to give it the weekly bath, so it continues to look the part.
I have to keep my mouth shut to keep from blurting out Porsche drivel to everyone I work with or meet about the tires I bought, the oil change I'm doing, the challenge from some dude at the stoplight of this morning, the . . . . . Porsche stuff that no one else cares about, but me (or any other Porsche nut.)
Ahhhhh, but it's really mine, and I LOVE IT - but anyone that I talk to who hasn't had a Porsche just doesn't get it, they just don't.
Larry
I don't mind filling it up twice a week at the gas station. Several times a day I look out my office window to see that Dark Teal Porsche in the parking lot - amazed that it's still there. I look out the bedroom window before I go to bed, just making sure that that car is still there - proving that it IS really mine. I have automatically allocated two hours every Sunday morning, so that I can take the time to give it the weekly bath, so it continues to look the part.
I have to keep my mouth shut to keep from blurting out Porsche drivel to everyone I work with or meet about the tires I bought, the oil change I'm doing, the challenge from some dude at the stoplight of this morning, the . . . . . Porsche stuff that no one else cares about, but me (or any other Porsche nut.)
Ahhhhh, but it's really mine, and I LOVE IT - but anyone that I talk to who hasn't had a Porsche just doesn't get it, they just don't.
Larry
#40
Hey Larry,
I know exactly what you are feeling. I picked my car up the same way. You are a few weeks ahead of me. I have it in the shop getting all the fluids fixed and a few of the PPI problems fixed. It feels so good to get in and drive the car. I feel a little naked with out it. Everyone is sick of hearing me talk about it.
Pete
I know exactly what you are feeling. I picked my car up the same way. You are a few weeks ahead of me. I have it in the shop getting all the fluids fixed and a few of the PPI problems fixed. It feels so good to get in and drive the car. I feel a little naked with out it. Everyone is sick of hearing me talk about it.
Pete