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I love boats, my wife loves boats, we love being on boats, we have friends with boats. We've always wanted our own boat but just never got around to it. Now that our son is getting older we want our own boat for doing family trips. This is the "test" boat. We'll keep it for a year or two and see if we actually use it as much as we think we will. If we do, we'll upgrade. If we don't, I'm not out a lot of money.
On the down side, there goes the money I had set aside for bigger turbos and more fuel. Maybe next year...
Last edited by Capt. Obvious; 09-25-2020 at 03:28 PM.
When I was a kid and at boarding school, the school had a boat and I took absolutely every opportunity to go on said boat - your son will love it, some of my best childhood memories.
05 Cayenne Turbo and 14 Diesel, 02 C4S with a 3.9l engine rebuild and my dependable track buddy.
Then the winter beater which gets driven 5-6 months of the year.
My '78 280Z, still a beautiful car. I used to draw these in class when I was in elementary school in the 70's.
It's an original survivor car still in original paint on most panels, with all the nicks and scratches of 40+ years. The driver's seat is worn, the carpet is faded. And it's staying this way.
As one Z restorer told me, "it's only original once."
I bought a '77 280Z (an "early 77" with the tilted up rear parcel deck) when I was in high school, in the early 80's, the first car I ever bought. Even though it was only 6 or 7 years old it was a total rustbucket. It ran fabulously. I replaced the floors and frame rails, did a lot of bodywork, bought a new gas tank, hatch lid, and rear bumper from Nissan. Those parts were still available from the dealer.
I had a friend paint it '84 Corvette Metallic Blue. It was a 4-speed and I bought a 5-speed gearbox from a junkyard called Grady's Auto Parts in Seekonk, MA. 280Z's were quite plentiful in junkyards then! I drove that car until the mid 90's when it really started to disintegrate again from rust then stuck it in the woods behind my Dad's house.
When I bought this Red Wine '78 about 12 years ago I pulled the very decrepit '77 out of the woods and pulled the 5-speed gearbox out, transplanting it into the '78. So a little of that long gone '77 is still with me. I have owned an S30 of some sort for my entire driving career.
09-25-2020, 01:55 PM
