Does anyone care about spyders in OPC's

[MartinRS2K]

Best non Porsches I've owned....

Black E30 M3 genuine RHD from Sytner Nottingham before I got married. Was sold to pay towards our first house []

Other one was probably my first RS Sapphire Cosworth in Crystal Blue. At the time it was so quick yet being 4 doors was comfortable and practical.

 

[VanhireBoys]

Best non Porsche eh ?

Had to be my "Burgandy Dog" a Cavalier SRi that I had for 9 years. I had it so far modified that she ended up like a BTCC ! She ended up returning to mother earth .. literally as her back chassis was rotton and she was beyond saving so she got stripped and buried when my parents were building their house

It was a bit like Adam Ant "Ive spent my cash on looking flash and grabbin your attention" []

She ended up with 238,000 miles - What a car...!

 

[Eldavo]

Ok, how about nomenclature and pronunciation?

912 - nine one two

914 - nine one four

968 - nine six eight

BUT

911 - nine eleven

919 - nine nineteen

SO:

944 - nine ????? (four four or forty four)

Personally I'm a "four-four"er.

 

[Monkeythree]

I suspect that nine forty-four is more common amongst our brothers on the other side of the pond but it's nine four four all the way for me!

 

[Ex Skyline]

Erm.....[8|] YOBO.....[8D]

 

[colin944]

ORIGINAL: Eldavo

Ok, how about nomenclature and pronunciation?

912 - nine one two

914 - nine one four

968 - nine six eight

BUT

911 - nine eleven

919 - nine nineteen

SO:

944 - nine ????? (four four or forty four)

Personally I'm a "four-four"er.

I'd say "nine four four", and the only exception to that approach would be "nine eleven" - maybe because "nine one one" is the US equivalent of "nine nine nine" for calling the emergency services. However all the beetle varieties, e.g." nine three oh", "nine six four", "nine nine three" etc. return to the rule. (This is just a way to generate posts, right? we're not taking this seriously?).

Spyders don't bother me, but I'm worried that pandameras might go extinct.

Best non Porsche: Sensible head says my Skoda Fabia deisel - actually more fun than it sounds. Other head says my 1972 Triumph Vitesse Mk. II 2-litre convertible. RIP. [] Or maybe my Jeep Cherokee. HUGE fun in the wet, the back wheels took no notice of where the front wheels were pointed, it was like driving a week-old puppy.

 

[vitesse]

I'd say nine four four- nine twentyfour S would be ridiculous -so it's got to be nine two four S

Best personally owned car for everyday use ,fun & travel at the time was my Rover Vitesse (single plenum-changed it before the double plenum) with road /rally cam,HD lifters,Janspeed exhaust bi-pass,Jaguar air intake system,tweaked airflow meter,petrol filter instead of foam engine breather,some slight suspension setting adjustments & the later front airdam.
Some hipocrisy in the spyder camp-what with moves to Cayman[]

 

[Monkeythree]

ORIGINAL: Ex Skyline

Erm.....[8|] YOBO.....[8D]

Please translate for those of us that don't speak Internet.

 

[Mike_Pollock]

YOBO - raucous Japanese based coupe.....

Lancia HPE 2000 ie decent performance, rare had it 7 years and loved it. 13 year old when I sold it - no rust! - 120k miles buyer wrote it off inside 6 weeks!

 

[pauljmcnulty]

YOBO - raucous Japanese based coupe.....

Raucous VW split-screen camper beast?? [8|]

 

[andy watson]

ORIGINAL: Eldavo

Ok, how about nomenclature and pronunciation?

912 - nine one two

914 - nine one four

968 - nine six eight

BUT

911 - nine eleven

919 - nine nineteen

SO:

944 - nine ????? (four four or forty four)

Personally I'm a "four-four"er.

+1 mine is a '44

 

[Hilux]

ORIGINAL: MarkK

E36 M3s were ace back in the day,321bhp made you king of the road and on a track day you could really pester 911s.
Car that most recently got to me was my 205 gti fitted with KWs,light mods to engine,was such good fun,it had to go because it cost more than a Porsche to run as I kept breaking it,fix it,break it,fix it.....call AA... And repeat....

BMW E39`s (M Power) on slicks are still a phenominal car - still chasing 911`s and bettering them - still amazes me how they go so well with leather seats and aircon etc

 

[andy watson]

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

YOBO - raucous Japanese based coupe.....

Raucous VW split-screen camper beast?? [8|]

Honestly Pete is not that bad ..... [][][][][]

 

[zcacogp]

1. When did Andy Watson become a moderator? Do we have to start being nice to him now?
2. It's nice in France, thanks for your good wishes chaps. Wonderful weather, great beaches, smooth and open roads! []
3. Mk2 Golf GTi 8v. Late, so a Digifant. My previous car history looked like this;

- Mk1 Golf 1300
- Mk1 Golf 1800 GTi (8v, as standard, later converted by me to 16v, which ruined it).
- Mk3 Golf 8v GTi
- Mk1 Golf Driver (automatic)
- Mk 1 Golf 1800 GTi
- Mk2 Golf 8v

The Mk2 was probably the best car I ever owned in the roundest sense of the word; it was hugely practical, brisk, fun to drive and cheap to run. The 944 is a better car, but in a different league of both performance and costs and not as practical. Should anyone care, I reckoned the K-Jet GTi's (i.e. Mk1 and early Mk2) were more responsive and possibly a little brisker but the Digi cars were more reliable and didn't go out of tune as easily. Those flap-in-a-cone K-Jet metering heads actually lost their metering precision quite quickly and hence the engine didn't run quite right. However they still ran tolerably well and hence people didn't notice, so didn't do anything about it.


Oli.

 

[Neil Haughey]

I keep changing my mind so I will say our current 207 GT. Typically French it has the worst gearbox of any modern car I have driven, hard plastics that scratch far to easily and the turbo engine can bog down way to easy at junctions, OTOH I think either of our old 944 S2 or 968 would struggle to get away from it cross country. The mk3 MX-5 we had would be dust after 2 or 3 corners. Bonkers how good the handling is on these modern French hatchbacks, absolutely bonkers.

Don't spend to long pondering the meaning of life, do that and your life is used up with nothing to say about the time used other than I had a think about the meaning of all that time used up on idle speculation. This fast becomes a paradox a bit like those shots they sometimes do on TV where the presenter is sat behind a TV screen showing him sat in front of a TV screen. (...and you all thought I wouldn't answer that question and break into some existential nonsense []).

Oli what was so bad about the Golf you ended up buying 6 different ones?

 

[pauljmcnulty]

When did Andy Watson become a moderator? Do we have to start being nice to him now?

He very kindly stepped up to take over from Sims as my ARS, along with Jon "Suffolk".

The 944 register is too large to deal with without a couple of good ARSs. [&:]

Andy has also become our "ARS at large", as he gets to more events than me. His reports in Porsche Post are fantastic, well worth joining just to read them.

No Register Secretary can function without Assistant Register Secretaries, or ARSs. Thanks for the help, and I never understand why discussing this raises so many giggles..... []

 

[Andy97]

ORIGINAL: MarkK

E36 M3s were ace back in the day,321bhp made you king of the road and on a track day you could really pester 911s.

E36M3s are still kicking arse in CSCC Modern Classics.....sadly

 

[rob.kellock]

ORIGINAL: VITESSE

Some hipocrisy in the spyder camp-what with moves to Cayman[]

That's your card marked sonny...

 

[924nutter]

Citroen AX gti non cat 100 bhp in an oxo tin weighing 750 kg 119 or 39 mpg on cooking fuel. The answer to the meaning of life and everything else is 42. Had it not been for the citroen it would have been the mk 1 three wheel cornering, needs another gear at 90 VW gti face lift model, i.e, post Aug 80 iirc.

 

[GPF]

Best Non Porsche I've owned........

Noble M12 with a few, er, minor mods []