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djomlas · 12-28-2006, 04:06 PM

i told my dads friends wife that i have no motor, she wouldnt believe me and asked me to open uip the hood(s), she was amazed. i ended up telling her it only runs on a battery and showed her the battery up front. to this day she believes that a boxster runs only on a battery

jeffsquire · 12-28-2006, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by djomlas

i told my dads friends wife that i have no motor, she wouldnt believe me and asked me to open uip the hood(s), she was amazed. i ended up telling her it only runs on a battery and showed her the battery up front. to this day she believes that a boxster runs only on a battery

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THis is hysterical. I'll have to tell this to all my enviromental friends. It runs on batteries. . . . I love it!!

C5150 · 12-28-2006, 04:56 PM

DJ - that is just too funny. I can't beat that...

RandallNeighbour · 12-28-2006, 07:39 PM

My 50 year old friend's dad, who must be in his 70's, got up after dinner one night, went out to the boxster, came in and said, "Am I going blind, or does your Porsche really redline at 6500 rpm?" Evidently, he thought that was really, really high. He's an old school American car guy for sure.

Then, just last night, someone at a dinner party said, "Is it really true your oil changes cost something like $150?" After I explained that it's really about the same amount as he pays on his SUV, but I do them every third time he does his at $40 a pop, I told him about wearing out $200+ tires in 7500 miles. Everyone in the room freaked.

MNBoxster · 12-28-2006, 08:54 PM

Hi,

I got my '99 in April of '05. On a sunny Sunday a few weeks later in the middle of May, I dropped by my parents house to show my Dad (who had no idea I was going to buy it).

My Dad, 82, who had owned a couple Porsches back in the day ('54 Pre-'A' and a '63 'C'), was amazed, and thoroughly impressed, at how refined the car was compared to the 356's he'd owned.

We drove around the Mpls. Lakes and I pulled over and told him to drive. He beamed a look at me like that of a kid who just realized that everything on his Xmas Wish List was waiting for him under the tree. He drove for more than an hour that day before I brought him back to his house. My mother later told me how much Dad had talked repeatedly about that drive, and how amazing the car was.

Dad died somewhat suddenly and unexpectedly less than 5 weeks later. That drive was really the last quality time I ever had with him. The car will always be special to me for that reason...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

ohioboxster · 12-28-2006, 09:04 PM

Ok heres mine, I was in training one day and for lunch I ran to Taco Bell in the Boxster. Now this Taco Bell is placed right in front of a popular set of projects in the beautiful city of Akron. I was walking to my car and keep this in mind. I was wearing all black BDU'S with a side arm strapped to my side and this guy who was WALKING with two really nasty girls says to them and I quote "Only Pussi*$'s drive those cars." Now you need to just imagine a scrawny white guy with no teeth and really dirty saying this as he was walking by. I didn't pay him any attention, people like that dont even deserve my attention.

z12358 · 12-29-2006, 04:30 AM

The Box was just a couple of months old on a perfect sunny weekend early this summer. We were hanging out with our friends at their house. My fiance (driving) and the wife took the Box to pick up some wine for dinner. They had just pulled out onto the road (top down) as my friend and I were standing at the end of the driveway watching. About 100 yards down the road a pick-up truck comes from the other direction and as he passed the girls in the freshly waxed black Box, he leans out the window, honks a few times, and yells "woooohooooo!!". My friend then tells me that the guy's their friend and that the guy also knows his wife but must have not recognized her in the Box (perhaps not expecting her there with another girl). As the truck passes by us, the guy says hi to us and gets redder in his face as he realized what he did. I was trying not to crack myself up, and we both exploded laughing later.

drburton · 12-28-2006, 04:53 PM

I had a couple high school kids ringing my doorbell this summer and figured they were probably selling magazines or something so I wasn't planning on going to the door, but randomly did. They asked if they could take pictures of each other by my Boxster. I thought that was funny, nice of them to ask.

Adam · 12-28-2006, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by djomlas

i told my dads friends wife that i have no motor, she wouldnt believe me and asked me to open uip the hood(s), she was amazed. i ended up telling her it only runs on a battery and showed her the battery up front. to this day she believes that a boxster runs only on a battery

LOL, that reminds me of going to local car shows here down in the sticks. When I have both decklids raised they walk around the car a few times wondering where the enigine is. I tell them it is gerble powered.