The wife and I took a 3,558 mile road trip from deep South Texas to Indianapolis to see her family – and the Indianapolis 500 – and then headed to Charleston. S.C. to see our son who is stationed at the Navy base at Goose Creek.

A few observations: We left Victoria, TX with 24,695 on the odometer and a new set of Michelin PS4s tires.

Our launch year 997.2 C4S has the lightweight GT2 bucket seats. Frankly they are the most comfortable driving seats I’ve ever driven with and proved to be no problem at all for the entire trip. We got to Indianapolis on the second day and had no problem driving more than 600 miles a day in those seats (on the Interstate highways).


My wife had no problem sleeping in the LWBS seat. Naturally you look anything but graceful getting out of them because you sit so low in the car.To help protect the seats, I ordered a set of bolster protectors from Crazie Eddy. He shipped them to Indianapolis where it took all of 20 minutes to install. All it took was a 17mm ratchet to temporarily remove the seat belt bolt. The photo above shows the bolster protectors installed.

We also took our Uniden R3 radar detector that served us well. Lots of hits - even a laser detection that didn't get me - but we didn't get stopped at all.

My wife’s cousin, who lives in Indianapolis, owns a nice ’05 Lotus and we followed he and his wife in that car on a beautiful, twisty drive to a small town called Story, Indiana. The road cuts though some Indiana forests and was both beautiful and a lot of fun keeping the revs up in the curves. When we got to Story we were asked to pose our cars for two kids dressed in 70s dresses, who needed some unique shots for some high school magazine shots. Then we had a great brunch at the Story Inn before heading back to Indianapolis. In the photo below that is my wife getting ready to drive her cousin's Lotus (we also let him drive the 911 - he was impressed!).




We left Indianapolis for South Carolina but stopped at Marysville, North Carolina to drive the Tail of the Dragon. That stretch of road features 318 curves in 11 miles. That was lots of fun and there was a photographer at Deals Gap who got one snap of the car. It had rained the night before so traffic on the Tail was very light.



My wife and I packed lightly knowing we had access to a washing machine and dryer at her cousin’s home and at the Air BnB we stayed at near Charleston. We each threw a duffle bag in the back of the 911 and that left plenty of room up front for tools and cleaning supplies.



My son is stationed near Charleston so we had dinner with our son for four nights and toured Patriots Point where the USS Yorktown in anchored as a floating museum. Hard to imagine there were thousands of sailors fighting aboard that carrier during WWII.

The engine bay got a little dusty but other than that nothing significant to note. I checked the oil use regularly and only added 1/3 qt of oil to the car when we got back home.

Drove into the garage at home with 28,253 miles.

Our car has an Exel wrap on the front of it and other than a road scrape on the bottom side of the front bumper, I could not find any other "road scars" from the trip.

I did a deep car wash and the car seems ready to go for the next road trip.

Great story. I also wouldn't own a 911 without the GT2 bucket seats. Thanks for sharing.