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Old 09-10-2013, 05:17 AM   #1
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Any users from Poland?

Hi All! Tomorrow, I will proudly become an owner of a '98 Boxster. While not new to Porsches - '86 944 was my first car - I'm glad to be moving on to something a tiny bit newer.

The issue at hand, though, is getting community support. Living in Poland, I don't know too many other Porsche owners. So, any of them around on this board?

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There is a member here that goes by the name "Johnny Danger", he has been a lifelong resident of Poland and you couldn't find a better / more proud representative of the polish community. On weekends he has been known to cruise the urban areas in a yellow Skoda.
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I have 2000 S, and I'm Polish but living in Chicago ....
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There is a member here that goes by the name "Johnny Danger", he has been a lifelong resident of Poland and you couldn't find a better / more proud representative of the polish community. On weekends he has been known to cruise the urban areas in a yellow Skoda.
No, no its not a Skoda, JD' car is an ex taxi yellow Trabant - you can see when he last posted piccies of his beloved 18 hp beast....

This is the car that gave Communism a bad name. Powered by a two-stroke pollution generator that maxed out at an ear-splitting 18 hp, the Trabant was a hollow lie of a car constructed of recycled worthlessness (actually, the body was made of a fiberglass-like Duroplast, reinforced with recycled fibers like cotton and wood). A virtual antique when it was designed in the 1950s, the Trabant was East Germany's answer to the VW Beetle — a "people's car," as if the people didn't have enough to worry about. Trabants smoked like an Iraqi oil fire, when they ran at all, and often lacked even the most basic of amenities, like brake lights or turn signals. But history has been kind to the Trabi. Thousands of East Germans drove their Trabants over the border when the Wall fell, which made it a kind of automotive liberator. Once across the border, the none-too-sentimental Ostdeutschlanders immediately abandoned their cars. Ich bin Junk!
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Your title for this thread is interesting and thought provoking.

I always thought of us enthusiasts as Owners and Drivers never as Users, which in the American culture implies it is an addictice substance.

But perhaps this is correct afterall and we enthusiasts are Users
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pewnie ze jestesmy tu
i tez jestem z krakowa ale tak jak peterek mieszkam w Chicago
powodzenia

btw. I didn't know that JD is polish
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... I always thought of us enthusiasts as Owners and Drivers never as Users
Guess I said 'users' as the plan for this ride (Bought today. Yay!) is to pass it on to someone else in a year or so. And upgrade.

@golonaus: Pozdrawiam! If my parents hadn't yanked me out of high school, I'd be driving my Porsche around the Tri-state area.

@coreseller: Thanks. I just wrote to Johnny Danger.

Anyone else around?

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There is a member here that goes by the name "Johnny Danger", he has been a lifelong resident of Poland and you couldn't find a better / more proud representative of the polish community. On weekends he has been known to cruise the urban areas in a yellow Skoda.

Witam miło cię poznać !

Johnny Danger !!
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pewnie ze jestesmy tu
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powodzenia

btw. I didn't know that JD is polish
I worked a few assignments in Kraków over the years. Nazywają mnie niebezpieczeństwo Johnny !!!!!
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No, no its not a Skoda, JD' car is an ex taxi yellow Trabant - you can see when he last posted piccies of his beloved 18 hp beast....

This is the car that gave Communism a bad name. Powered by a two-stroke pollution generator that maxed out at an ear-splitting 18 hp, the Trabant was a hollow lie of a car constructed of recycled worthlessness (actually, the body was made of a fiberglass-like Duroplast, reinforced with recycled fibers like cotton and wood). A virtual antique when it was designed in the 1950s, the Trabant was East Germany's answer to the VW Beetle — a "people's car," as if the people didn't have enough to worry about. Trabants smoked like an Iraqi oil fire, when they ran at all, and often lacked even the most basic of amenities, like brake lights or turn signals. But history has been kind to the Trabi. Thousands of East Germans drove their Trabants over the border when the Wall fell, which made it a kind of automotive liberator. Once across the border, the none-too-sentimental Ostdeutschlanders immediately abandoned their cars. Ich bin Junk!
Uwielbiam jeździć moim Porsche Boxster !!!
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I worked a few assignments in Kraków over the years. Nazywają mnie niebezpieczeństwo Johnny !!!!!
small world prawda??
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To anyone who ends up in or near Krakow: an invitation for some tea, coffee, wine (if you're not driving) and Porsche stories.
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small world prawda??

Tak mały świat !!
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strzec się

jesteś wysadzenie wpływ IMS bani być tobą

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jesteś wysadzenie wpływ IMS bani być tobą
Moje łożysko ims jest ok !!
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Ja mieszkalem w Lodzi i chetnie bym wpadl do krakowa boxsterem jak by sie dalo...

Niech dobre lozyska beda z wami!!


Wondering who is using google translator here... Hmm...
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Old 10-04-2013, 01:26 PM   #18
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Some pictures as proof.


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Old 10-04-2013, 07:32 PM   #19
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Some pictures as proof.


Now show it from the angle where we can see polish plates

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