Saying bye to Boxster :(

[xclusivecar]

Traded my Elise for a Box.

A couple of tips:

1) Wash the car with the nose pointing DOWN the driveway! Or lots of water will pool in the rear trunk.

2) Make sure you get some kind of paint protection like the 3M clear stuff. After ten minutes of driving the car will be specked with paint chips especially on the rear quarters from rocks from the front wheels.

3) The heat and AC suck so top off motoring on some of the cooler days will be out. Get handy with putting on the top quickly as it can be a pain in the ass in an unexpected downpour.

4) Be prepared to ALWAYS keep the car above 6500 rpm as the car seems to go nowhere under this. But once over 6500...watch out!!!!

5) Because it is a true track car you will hear EVERYTHING rattling and snapping and shaking, and you will FEEL everything. No...the car is not falling apart...it just sounds/feels like it.

Thats all I can think of now since having mine for just over a year. I had expected to use it as a car for the street and never on the track. Unfortunately I was dissapointed since I could never fully use the car as intended. Although the COOL factor was definitely there! Good luck and congrats!

I have my own web development company that is a partnership with my two friends. It is a registered partnership in Nassau county. www.activtecsolutions.com

lol, it looks like someone needs to help you out with your own website

[Bavarian Motorist]

Originally Posted by xclusivecar

Traded my Elise for a Box.

A couple of tips:

1) Wash the car with the nose pointing DOWN the driveway! Or lots of water will pool in the rear trunk.

2) Make sure you get some kind of paint protection like the 3M clear stuff. After ten minutes of driving the car will be specked with paint chips especially on the rear quarters from rocks from the front wheels.

3) The heat and AC suck so top off motoring on some of the cooler days will be out. Get handy with putting on the top quickly as it can be a pain in the ass in an unexpected downpour.

4) Be prepared to ALWAYS keep the car above 6500 rpm as the car seems to go nowhere under this. But once over 6500...watch out!!!!

5) Because it is a true track car you will hear EVERYTHING rattling and snapping and shaking, and you will FEEL everything. No...the car is not falling apart...it just sounds/feels like it.

Thats all I can think of now since having mine for just over a year. I had expected to use it as a car for the street and never on the track. Unfortunately I was dissapointed since I could never fully use the car as intended. Although the COOL factor was definitely there! Good luck and congrats!

Thanks for the tips. This example does have the starshield.



I have to be extra careful about how I drive it, how I park it, how I go over bumps, etc. I realize this and accept it fully.

[porsche986spyder]

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"That's because Daddy is helping him get it. Ask him how old he is and what he does for a living. Sorry, no offence Bavarian. "

Originally Posted by porsche986spyder




I'm sorry, but... how do you know this?


I have my own web development company that is a partnership with my two friends. It is a registered partnership in Nassau county. www.activtecsolutions.com

What do you do?


Hey, I have an idea! Why don't we all mind our personal business instead of caring about others' so as to not look like an ass wipe? Oh, how well that works...
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There is no need for name calling. Your right, but I was only making an observation. your profile says you are under 21 and you did not list any type of occupation. I'm a Senoir Art Director for a well known Nascar sponsor. Let me know if you want some help with that web site. You also mentioned that your dad was going to take the car off your hands until next year if you opted for an 08 Lotus, which led me to believe he was taking over your payments since you said that you were leasing the Boxster. I could only guess that the lease agreement does not end until some time next year.

[Bavarian Motorist]

Originally Posted by porsche986spyder

Quote:

"That's because Daddy is helping him get it. Ask him how old he is and what he does for a living. Sorry, no offence Bavarian. "

Originally Posted by porsche986spyder




I'm sorry, but... how do you know this?


I have my own web development company that is a partnership with my two friends. It is a registered partnership in Nassau county. www.activtecsolutions.com

What do you do?


Hey, I have an idea! Why don't we all mind our personal business instead of caring about others' so as to not look like an ass wipe? Oh, how well that works...
End Quote:

There is no need for name calling. Your right, but I was only making an observation. your profile says you are under 21 and you did not list any type of occupation. I'm a Senoir Art Director for a well known Nascar sponsor. Let me know if you want some help with that web site. You also mentioned that your dad was going to take the car off your hands until next year if you opted for an 08 Lotus, which led me to believe he was taking over your payments since you said that you were leasing the Boxster. I could only guess that the lease agreement does not end until some time next year.

1) I appreciate being asked as opposed to being accused


2) If you must know, my parents do help. That doesn't mean I don't do anything at all, which is what got me.


3) Why would I need help with my website? My programming expertise are far and beyond any of the lousy web-dev companies I've seen.

[Brucelee]

Guys, there is NO need for name calling.

Congrats on the new car, looks very very cool.

Enjoy!

[pteam]

Well I just changed my age from the category "21-26" to "27-37". I will be 27 in a few months and I don't want people to think I'm 21 or 22 and have daddy pay for my stuff. I've made every dollar I have and my dad worked a Heinens grocery store for 28 years and is retired now.

The funny thing is when I was 21 or 22 I had a Lamborghini Diablo Roadster and I look young for my age, so does my brother, and everywhere I went with that thing sadly people would ask me if it was my daddys car.

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by pteam

Well I just changed my age from the category "21-26" to "27-37". I will be 27 in a few months and I don't want people to think I'm 21 or 22 and have daddy pay for my stuff. I've made every dollar I have and my dad worked a Heinens grocery store for 28 years and is retired now.

The funny thing is when I was 21 or 22 I had a Lamborghini Diablo Roadster and I look young for my age, so does my brother, and everywhere I went with that thing sadly people would ask me if it was my daddys car.

good for you man. Wish I had half the knowledge/ambition that I have now back 10 years ago. but i'm on my way. Just received my social security statement. Says if I became disabled at the age of 33 I'd still get a nice $4K a month check! That means I've paid ALLOT of capital gains taxes!!

3) Why would I need help with my website? My programming expertise are far and beyond any of the lousy web-dev companies I've seen.[/QUOTE]


cuz, it looks like crap, LOL JK

[xxxalexxxx]

congrads on the car man, i love the Elise, its a really cool rare car. my uncle owns one and ive driven it but i wouldnt consider buying one cuz im 6'4 and its a tight ride for me haha ( the boxters not that much better) but i gotta have a conv't :-)

and dont worry about people being asses to u because ur young and u drive a nice car and might have money. theyre just jelaous. I'm 23 and i get the same thing all the time even though even tho i have a grad degree and i went to school and busted my ass for yrs to do the job i do and make the money i make. My gf is 21 and owns two business and she gets even more crap because people dont believe her that she could be so young and run two operations.
on the other hand even if ur parents help out who cares, they're family and when i have kids they wont be driving around in geo metros. (u give ur kids the best u can give them)

good luck with the car and enjoy it

[IowaS]

Originally Posted by blkboxster

3) Why would I need help with my website? My programming expertise are far and beyond any of the lousy web-dev companies I've seen.

cuz, it looks like crap, LOL JK[/QUOTE]


now that is funny...

[pteam]

thx guys. Glad to know theres some other young porsche owners on here! Congrats to you all!

But dont get me started on taxes, I dont even want to know how much stuff I could have bought over the years with the money I paid in taxes, and I try to write off everything under the sun! lol