Kiwi Carguy

Funny he just so happens to have one if those too

996tnz

Nice. Saw one in for servicing at Contis a few months back and it's in that minority of 70s cars that still look great today. Like the earlier AC Cobra, I've always thought of it more as a sports car though since its mid-engined (AC is front-mid) and can take corners without needing too much advance planning. With that big american lump in a relatively small 2-door I can see it making its case, but it might still be seen as a second cousin at a beach hop.

I sometimes thought of my old '79 928 as a german muscle car though, so it's all relative.

KiwiCarGuy - that Pantera in your pics looks out of this world!

Kiwi Carguy

Its coming back to live in NZ shortly so you'll no doubt get to see it in person.

PHG

I've been to that Marina..Nice car..

mjg

This GT3 review is brilliant:



DeMuro's channel is worth checking out, he has been reviewing daily life with a Ferrari 360 for Jalopnik. His latest video on that topic:

996tnz

Checked via Google, we seem to have the longest thread on Rennlist with 'Any Rennlisters from New Zealand'. Some stats:

1st post: 5th Jan, 2006
10th page completed: 16th December 2009 (grew 10 pages in about four years)
110th page completed: 14th March 2013 (grew by another 100 pages in a bit over 3 years)
1110th page completed: 14th August 2014 (grew by 1000 pages in about 1.5 years)

Anyone noticing a pattern? If we're going to go supercritical, maybe we should get some public liability insurance for killing the internet:

11110th page in another 9 months from now?
111110th page in about (9+5) 14 months from now?
1111110th page in about (9+5+3) 17 months from now (past the million mark)?
11111110th page in about (9+5+3+2) 19 months from now?
111111110th page in about (9+5+3+2+1) 20 months from now?
and so on for 20.6, 21, 21.25, 21.4, 21.5, 21.56, 21.6 months etc.

Evidently, by Christmas 2016, all the world's storage will belong to us. The only responsible thing for world powers to do of course is to nuke us from orbit before it's too late...

BTW: if you're reading this while sitting in a bunker with far too much time on your hands and just the one button: just kidding mate - please put that finger back where it came from.

Macca

Love it Walt. We will no doubt receive a message from RL administrators in due course :-)

TRAKCAR

This thread and NZ will endorsed and visited by TCN

;-)

gt38088

Honorary Kiwis always welcome on this thread Trakcar. You prolific postings may contribute to the exponential trend!! and besides we may all learn something from your experience and knowledge!!

TRAKCAR

It may help exponential growth.
Learning something I doubt it, but hope to run into some Rennlisters in Kiwiland in December to help drink beer

peterC2S

Love the geeky stats Walter but there are a few that are longer running over in OT. Random Picture and Trivia both date to 2004 .... though neither are in danger of killing the interweb!

996tnz

Well found. Off Topic (OT) is a member only area so Google probably can't index those pages - we still look to be the longest public thread by page count. Trivia is only 54 pages long, but I see Random pics is at page 1705, so we're still playing catch up there. It's only had about 130 pages added this year versus 750 odd here though, so we're closing fast.

I wouldn't be rushing to sell off technology shares just yet...

peterC2S

And don't forget the word association thread which is approaching 4500 pages - we need some exponential action to catch that one.

gt38088

definitely look me up if you are in Wellington Trakcar. Aucklanders outnumber us Wellingtonians 10:1 on this thread but plenty of beer (n wine) consumed here in December for sure

O2GO

I'm with you Paul. I miss my Boxster 986 which is the closest I've had to owning a 996. I'm sure their day will come too. Personally I don't like the tear drop headlights but the 996.2 headlights? like Chris' turbo are a lot more attractive. Believe it or not but the 996 shape is growing on me as time goes on too.

The engine issues are well known and the IMS sorted for $2k although by all accounts most that will blow do so early in their lives. Just don't buy a one lady owner one that's not been driven hard.

996 buying value sure is getting better all the time.