5CHN3LL

I really miss having the 986 on days when work has been brutal. It sounds cheesey, but getting in the cab, firing it up, and retracting the top was very often cathartic...the worries of the day were blown away during the drive home.

Woodman71

My brother and I did this in high school in my Dad's GTO convertible. Great excuse to get cozy under a blanket with the girls we'd give rides to school with.

Slakker

Pictures? :P

Woodman71

Ask, and ye shall receive! 1970, residing happily in my garage in the Bay Area, not far from her birthplace of Fremont.

The nice new top on her is why I can't immediately put a new one on the 996...

Slakker

That is AWESOME!

Woodman71

Thanks, Slak!

The kids have finally stopped asking me if the GTO or the Porsche is faster...

FRUNKenstein

Fun thread.
John - the car looks great.

Barn996

Nice cab purchase John. Looks very well kept. Which model Rolex did you trade-in towards your Porsche?

JimmyB

That GTO is beautiful. And cool that it was your dad's. How long's it been in the family? Coincidentally (and not to thread hijack), I just finished fixing up my '74 Charger, which I then sold to buy the 996.

I'm also very much with the "top down whatever the weather" school of thought. My wife's "fun car" is an old Saab convertible which almost never has the roof up, even in the winter.

Woodman71

Pops bought it in 1970 in Phoenix, AZ. So - 46 years! Some of my earliest childhood memories are riding in the back of that car. Also, my parents had a rule of always rolling down the windows when the top was down - windows up and top down was "tacky."

Anyway, sorry for the detour. Beauty of a 996 John.

5CHN3LL

A buck says the fifty-four-year-old non-date Rolex Oyster Perpetual from the Caracas store of Serpico Y Laino is still safely ensconced in the Sherman Oaks vaults of Ireland and Co...quite possibly wrapped in a wrinkled oxford cloth button down collar shirt and tucked into a worn out Converse sneaker for safekeeping (most likely the left one, since the right one has a little-toe-sized hole in the canvas).

Theoretically.

johnireland

You have it right. I sold my twin 1013s with the white silver dials to a collector in Washington DC. He immediately took them to Paris and sold at least one of them there. So the crusty old Serpico Y Laino and a simple steel version (reference number 1018) are the last two and keepers and I rotate them every day or so.

Today was so nice I couldn't stay in the house. Dropped the top and cruised through the back roads and canyons of the Hollywood Hills. Some of the views were wonderful, and the tiptronic was the perfect match for the dream like pace I was driving. I ended up at a home in Beverly Hills the owners bought in the early mid 1950s. I heard it was still in the family and so I knocked on the door...no answer. I left my card in the door and drove home. This evening the 92 year old woman, mother of the kids I played with, gave me a call. We'll meet for drinks next week.

The car ran beautifully. Even without my hearing aids the motor was always there keeping me company. Time to go downstairs to the garage and put the cover on it.

Gonzo911

I was more interested in pics of the girls under them blankets...