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Originally Posted by pecivil
I gotta see a picture of a 928 towing a boat.
there is just something wrong with that. I wonder if the earth slightly spins off its axis when he does that.  |
Hi,
Not at all. It uses a
Porsche Towing Hook attached to the Frame members, designed for the car. Dave specifically got the car for this purpose and specifically got the Automatic because it has a Transmission Cooler, and the V8 has the power to pull the trailer. It's the only thing he uses this car for.
Dave is a pretty interesting guy. He's a GunSmith by trade and made a bundle patenting some sort of specialized Skeet Shooting Barrel (apparently it's the only thing the Pros and Serious Amateurs use).
He has quite a few cars to choose from. His daily driver is an Audi S4, he also has a 1978 Lotus Esprit, an '89 Lotus Esprit SE, an '05 Lotus Elise S2, and a 1917 Ford Model T, at least at last count.
I met Dave through his older brother, Bill, who used to race Datsun 240Zs with me back in the late '70s and was a former Air Force Pilot. Unfortunately, Bill was killed last year when his Beechcraft Baron crashed in a field in Kentucky, apparently out of fuel. You may remember this story because it made the national news. Bill left from Sioux Falls, SD to return to Mpls. from a business trip. Flying alone, with the Auto-Pilot set, Bill apparently suffered a massive stroke and was unable to move. The plane flew past Mpls., over Madison, WI where two Air Guard F-16s were dispatched to it and they followed it to Detroit, where a 2nd pair of F-16s took over and followed it all the way to Kentucky where the plane suddenly lost altitude and crashed in a remote field, apparently when the fuel was exhausted. Pretty sad...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99