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Old 01-25-2008, 05:20 AM   #1
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Middle of the summer and I'm driving home from work on the beautiful winding road I take every day. 99% of the time I'm just tootaling along behind whatever car enjoying the ride. Before you get on the last leg of the road there's a light and I pull up behind a new Corvette, top down, with an older guy like me (except he has grey hair haha). Anyway off we go, nothing to fast or crazy just a little more lively through the turns because there is no one in front of us and we're not nuts or jerks, I'm no where near his rear bumper. We go through almost the entire 3 miles of the road just loving the day. Just before the end of the section before there's another light we come around a corner and low and behold a beautiful 997S is just tootaling along all alone. The guy in the Corvette cracks a smile, I laugh we each give a thumbs up and come to a stop at the light. He yells out "That's perfect, just perfect." I yell back "I know, we caught a Carrera!" Good times.
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Old 01-30-2008, 05:14 AM   #2
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Being a Boxster owner, I will commonly wave to an oncoming Boxster as they are easy to distinguish from other Porsches at a glance. I might also wave at vintage Pcars.
But somehow, I feel funny about waving at the $100K plus guys in the rich-guy Porsches. I drive a car worth $24K. That's less than a new Altima!!! I don't want to give the big bucks guys the idea that I think that I'm in their league.
Perhaps my views are odd, but it's a comfort thing...........
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Old 01-30-2008, 06:31 AM   #3
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I don't know....IMHO, I just don't think that waving to a fellow Porsche owner (re: who just happens to be driving a more expensive car than yours) should give the impression that you're somehow thinking that you're in their league---although this is subjective anyway,...because, who's to say that you're not?? It's just being friendly and courteous. And if the person driving that $100K + car (whether Porsche or not) thinks that they're better than you just because of their car, then they are probably just full of themselves anyway....not even worth waving at.

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Old 01-30-2008, 02:27 PM   #4
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I've given up initiating the "wave"... If someone here in NJ waves first I'll wave back but that doesn't seem to happen very often. Maybe 1 in 10 P-cars that I pass will wave. It's just not worth the effort and disappointment anymore...
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