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Originally Posted by coreseller
You have to keep in mind, these guys are co-owners of Classic Car Club Manhattan ( Classic Car Club Manhattan) where members spend stupid money to drive cool exotics, like it or not the Boxster isn't quite in that category. |
That excuse has nothing to do with their turning their noses up at Boxsters. Many used Boxsters sell for as much as air-cooled 911's. And at the end of the day, the overwhelming majority of air-cooled 911, unless it's a 73 RS or similar, have not recouped their original sticker prices, especially when you consider how incredibly expensive they were in eras of steep interest rates. So most of the 911's these guys are talking about are still firmly in the used car category and not at all in the exotic car category. They turn their noses up at Boxsters because they don't know the full Porsche history. If these guys did, namely that it goes further than 1964, they would know that the Boxster is
the quintessential Porsche. The very first 356A (#1 circa 1948) that rolled off assembly for Ferry Porsche, who was dissatisfied with what he'd driven at the time and wanted a one-off Porsche for his own personal use, had only two seats, had no top, and the engine sat in the middle.
The very first Porsche ever... was essentially a Boxster by design. These guys in the video you posted have a vested interest in pushing the post 1964 era of Porsche... or maybe they started drinking the Boxster-dissing kool-aide straight away.
Porsche 356A #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTcEB3h0cgQ