mastiffdog

Its been pretty calm around here lately, so I thought I'd share this one with you. Wife and I decide to take a nice ride in the 997TT yesterday and we pull into Chevron to fill up.

I start filling the tank and a guy pulls in with a 06 black MB SL600. He checks out the turbo as he pulls up to the pump ahead of my car. He walks around and then when he is about 10 feet from the car he stops and stares at me and the car for a couple seconds and then says:

"Are those the ceramic brakes on your car, aren't those a $9000 option?"

Nice way to start the conversation.

atomic80

Sounds like that guy has done his homework!

mastiffdog

If he had, he would have known that the Calipers are painted yellow, not red!

atomic80

Oh I just noticed that you have red calipers therefore no PCCB. Sorry, I completely overlooked that!

mastiffdog

No problem. This guy almost seemed like a "live" or in-person forum troll who wanted to start a banter about the car.

I just shrugged it off by saying that the car seems to stop pretty well with the stock brakes the way I drive...

Edgy01

I can't tell you how many men in Germany came up to my car and just stared at the PCCBs, and then asked about them. Apparently a lot of people know about them. I had no clue that there was such a 'following' on Porsche brakes...

mastiffdog

Dan, could this be "braking" news?

Edgy01

Perhaps it's "late breaking news" or "apex braking news."

cableguy

Mastiffdog. I actually had a guy ask me if the red calipers were air shocks because of teh valve on them. Crazy!!

Ken89911T

Cable,

That is funny. My next door neighbor, a pretty sophisticated, yuppie, country club kinda guy (but obviously not a car guy) came over one day when I was detailing my '89 930, a car that I think most people would recognize at least somewhat. He said: "So, what do ya got there, a Jag?"

wross996tt

So you say that's a Porsche...and he says...I was talking to the Porsche.