10 Years Ago Today...

[JayG]

March 2014. My wife and I were picking up one of our Passats from service at the local VW dealer and our 04 Boxster S was sitting on the used car lot. Next thing you know, doing a test drive. Back from the test drive, its late on Sat and they suggest we take it home for the night. (I know that game). Bring it back Sunday late morning and negotiate a deal. It came with a carfax that was 3 pages of service at the local Porsche dealer with all maintenance done, oils changes every 5k, etc. I felt pretty good about the care without doing a PPI

Now the funny part is was supposed to be a car for my Wife, on;y I must have frightened he a little in telling her that she shouldn't drive it like her old Celica, downshifting to slow the car down as it wears the clutch faster and brakes are a whole lot less $$$ than a clutch and I can do them as well. Also that it needs to be "driven", not just puttering around below 3000 RPM. Next thing I know she says "I'm not driving it, you drive it", so I was stuck withe the 986S we just bought. What a great husband I am! On top of all that we traded in HER Pas sat that was nicer than mine and now she was driving mine.

Fast forward to Oct 2014 and little did I know that she had been looking at used 996's and found one she really liked, a 2004 996 Targa tip black on black in near perfect condition. next thing I know we have 2 Porsche in the driveway.

Fricking heroin these cars are....

[j.fro]

November 2004, Guards red 1999. Earlier that year I had bought a 2004 Dodge dakota 2WD and I hated it. A few years earlier I had a Miata and loved it. I started looking around at the Z3, miatas, etc and thought I'd look at the Boxster for kicks. I couldn't believe it was in my price range. I thought the insurance would be the deal killer, but it turned out to be less than on the truck! (Ins. person said I'd do a lot more damage to someone else with the big truck vs. the little Porsche).