The Thrill of Driving your Box/Cayman
 

This thread (which I am sticking) is all about fun. Here, I invite you to post any and all thoughts on how you feel when you are behind the wheel of your Box/Cayman. Come to think of it. You don't even have to be behind the wheel.

Call me crazy but I love detailing a Box. Did one this past Saturday and it looked really great when I was done. That was a hoot!

So, please participate as often as you would like. Blown engines be damned. Lets have some fun! :D

1st one in :) :cheers:
taking turns with no brakes :dance:

I agree. These cars are too fun
 

And mine has been rock solid reliable, knock, knock knock on wood.

Short story about me NOT being behind the wheel:

This past weekend my wife and I took a much needed short trip to Hermann MO for the Octoberfest celebration. We stayed at a beautiful little b&b, Les Lavandes, owned by a wonderful Swiss woman, Myrta, and her husband, Richard. On Sunday morning we were all in the kitchen, where else?, and Myrta was looking out the window at my car. "What a great looking car, what is it?" I told her a Porsche Boxster and she said oooooo there are lots of them in Europe. I've always wanted to drive one. hmmmmmmmmm. Richard looked up from the stove and rolled his eyes, knowing what was going to happen. It did.

I asked her if she would like to drive it. She giggled like a little girl and said Of COURSE. She threw on her shoes and bolted out the door. But once outside she was having second thoughts. I told her I'd drive it for a while and then she could take over. For about ten minutes we wandered through the back roads, up and down the hills and around some pretty tight corners. All the time Myrta is obviously having a blast. We come to a remote intersection and I ask her to take over. She gets in, adjusts all the mirrors, puts on the seat belt, adjusts the seat and asks...are you ready? WHAT??? lol. For the next twenty minutes or so she drives the car like a pro...downshifting, matching revs, taking corners faster than i really expected her to. ooooooo this car really accelerates great doesn't it, she says? :eek: All the while she's commenting on how smooth the ride was, how well it handled, and all the other things we all bought our cars for. She was having a ball and so was I just watching her.

We get back to the B&B and Richard just looks at me with that "What the heck did you just do" look! lol. Myrta reminds him that next year is her BIG birthday (I can't guess her age but I'd imagine it to be 65,,,maybe more) and not so subtly hints that a new car would certainly be a good birthday present. When we left Myrta was still grinning. It reminded me of my first drive in a Porsche many years ago. I think we have a convert.

Bob

We have this great road along the Batiquitos Lagoon here in Carlsbad. There is NOTHING like dropping the top and doing the nice long sweeps along this road. The view is incredible and the sound of the Box slidding along the road is pure magic.

:D

Damn, I am going to miss California.

Heh, cool story. I live in Columbia, MO, and have plans to hit up a B&B in Hermann soon (usually go to the Southmoreland in KC, but time for a change). Maybe we'll end up at Les Lavendes. If we do, I'll be sure to take the Boxster...

My best Boxster experience, other than the day-to-day fun of the damn thing, is a road trip from MO to MD that I took last summer. Tossed the bike in the trunk (well, both trunks), loaded up a weeks worth of riding stuff, and headed out. Great highway car, and especially fun tearing through the Appalachians.

When it comes to non-driving enjoyment, I like to go out in the garage and replace whatever it is that needs replacing. Working on cars is fun, and it's more fun (or is that frustrating?) when it's the Boxster.

Do that. You'll have a great time. Hot tub, beautiful countryside, some really good roads to let out the Box. And Myrta's cooking is second to none. It's actually in Starkenburg, about 8 miles from Hermann.

Bob

I've also been to the Southmoreland...
 

Is it still owned by two ladies? My sister lives in Fairway near the plaza now, so I don't stay there anymore.

My boxster: I love just staring at it in the garage! Owned it about a year now. No problems! I read all the threads about the problems people where having... bought one anyway. I have an uncle in Overland Park with a my'00 He's had it 9 years and the only thing he's done is replace the serp. belt and change the oil. Once again, no problems!

Absolutely love it!

sean

Mosport. Nuff said.

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I hate to admit this but since we are posting confessions after three months of ownership of a 1999 986 I still wake up in the morning thinking about excuses to drive my car. I've really put forth an effort to conserve resources by doing most of my errands on my bicycle but since I've owned my Boxster the bike has been gathering a little dust and the tires are getting flat spots on the bottom. It's hard to describe the feeling of driving anywhere in it especially with the top down because there are so many senses at work. Then there's that wail from the exhaust when I'm on a road where I can open it up. I have to admit I still wasn't satisfied just driving it around so a few weeks ago I tracked it at Infineon and oh boy is that another level of pure enjoyment. It made AX seem tame. Well enough I guess you can tell I'm in love. :cheers:

I think I just wrote my first poem...haiku maybe
 

deep in the country
long sweeper, top down
hard on the throttle; stars above
the glow of the head lights in the mist
flat six growl.........nothing like it

I love this...
http://bluboxster.com/Boxster/Autocr...ocross%201.jpg

And the fact that the Boxster makes getting from Point A to Point B an experience instead of a chore. :cheers:

If I recall correctly, it's owned by a husband and wife these days. Great, great breakfasts. Mmmm. Pancakes.

It's a senryu, 5 lines.
Haiku is 3 lines 17 syllables 5-7-5.
Nice senryu, reminds me of driving at Point Reyes at night with the top down.

thanks....it just came out of after going through the thread. they are actual things i experience.....thanks for the poetry lesson

+1 Very concise

for me, it's the daily transition between being called "bro" and "sir"
and top-down driving in the Texas hill country!!

track days at Barber and any twisty roads on the weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk4g-85ZQpM

Be sure and wait for the lap where I pass the Carrera S in the straight.

Where are you going?
One trip I like is, go north on I 15 to 79 south (just before you get to temecula), you'll take that all the way to Santa Ysabel. Then take 78 towards and through Ramona. Now take Highland Valley road down to the 15 again. You'll end up just north of RB. Don't forget to stop for apple pie in Santa Ysebel.
I'm on the north end of Escondido.
Ken

While I do not promote or condone reckless driving, I believe that each of us has had at least one moment where we said, "Crap, if I'd been driving any other car, THAT would have turned out differently."

In my case, I was flying up a mountain road very, very early one morning and drastically underestimated my speed heading into a very sharp 30mph right-hand curve - I was going more than double that. In my previous car - and any other car I've ever owned, I would have understeered across the opposing lane of traffic and off the side of the road. The Boxster may have left a chunk of rubber or two on my side of the road that day, but damned if it was going to let me kill myself on its watch.

It was one of those moments when you realize just how much the Boxster can give, and forgive, before you really get in trouble.

I do a 100 mile round trip commute 5 days a week. when I bought my 50,000 mile 02 boxster a few moths ago I thought I would try and keep the miles down and enjoy it on weekends etc.
this car is such a joy, that I have decided the heck with miles. I'm going to wear this thing out. I can't wait to get up up and ride to work. runnin 75, quick accel to 90 pass all the traffic,seconds later right back to 75.

killin the exit and entrance ramps :)

my high school age daughter has let me know that on the days I pick her up I must drive the porsche. the kids all comment. I told her it was 8 years old but she said ... they don't know that.

I'm going to put as many miles on this baby as I can.

and the gas mileage ain't half bad!!

01 5 speed, purchased it 3 years ago with 57k, now at 96K and used as daily drive.
looked at Miata, Z3, Z4 and S2000 - no power, too tight, no trunk and way too tight- then a seal gray Boxster >>> Just right!
Dealer gave us OK to drive it for couple of days but it it only took a short drive; out of the lot, around a corner and half way down a freeway onramp to make our minds up. Got off the next exit and back to the dealer and purchased it.
This car satisfied my 2nd mid life crisis, it replaced another open top vehicle - motorcycle.
The top is always down, only up to stretch the fabric and to clean it. even drove it in light rain. When it really rains (in Southern Cal??) I drive a hard top. Hard top vehicle is 330 ZHP and is a great car but its been in the garage with a battery tender attached and has seen all of 400 miles in 3 years since the Boxster came into the picture.
only mod = 987 shifter. great car without any mods (for me).

That Moment
 

The main artery to the area where I live is I-15 through the Virgin River Gorge, a twisty banking black ribbon that cuts through a canyon where the river doesn't, begging more right foot.

Just last Sunday I was bringing my just bought 2000 Boxster home from Santa Barbara, first time carving this canyon in it. It's a familiar place for me were I ride a Blackbird and drive a spec Miata, and a few years ago my 914. I don't condone recklessness either and try to keep my skills where they need to be. My wife and step son were following me in our Yukon.

I lost them in the first series of turns and accelerated through the gorge, justifying every dollar spent on this ride, unbelievable agility, adhesion and handling, a wonderful initiation to this car.

Out the other side is an offramp where I waited for my spouse to catch up. When she zipped by me unaware I mounted the onramp and in seconds was quickly on her tail flashing and peeling back the speed. While she caught me in her mirrors she didn't see debris in the road, plywood about 3X4 feet. The Yukon went right over it and its wash flipped it up about as high as the windscreen on the Boxster - not even time to think, just react. The 986 flicked to the right, the plywood flying by my driver side window.

Any other car? I hate to even think what may have happened.

I thought I might share a little Boxster love for Valentine's Day!
This morning I had one of those, I love my Boxster moments. I had to go buy a narrow 4' folding card table. I was nervous it wouldn't fit in my Boxster without the roof rack on. Not surprisingly ;) , it fit perfectly fine in the passenger seat.

My Boxster has yet to be defeated by any challenge I throw at it, from daily errands to autocross's. There really is no other car quite like the Boxster! I hope everyone on this forum is as happy with their Porsche as I am.

(Older picture, but still looking great!) :cheers:

I was going more than double that. In my previous car - and any other car I've ever owned, I would have understeered across the opposing lane of traffic and off the side of the road. The Boxster may have left a chunk of rubber or two on my side of the road that day, but damned if it was going to let me kill myself on its watch.

Every time I drive it there is a moment when I have a huge smile on my face I can't control.

Daily Drive - Top Down Everyday
at the century mark today and going strong fun fun fun

There's no better way to get a smile on your face when you are down. I just put the top down and have a drive through the mountain road behind my house.

It sticks to the road like glue, everything feels disconnected and lazy after it.

I just gave the car a nice thorough cleaning last night... and inevitably got the itch to take a short cruise. Passed a group of 8-10, mixed with good looking 20-something girls; one girl yelled out "I want to ride in THAT" when I drove by. Unfortunately I was already half a block away before she finished her statement bc I drive it for fun not for show :D

Did an autocross today up in Milwaukeee. Had a blast sliding my boxster through corners and driving on the ragged edge of control.

I woke up feelin' down one Sunday morning...(happens once every year or two)
 

Got in the Boxster S, dropped the top, drove a few miles down to Hwy 1 Big Sur, and in no time the twisties, amazing views, tremendous handling of the vehicle, and the wind brought a huge smile to my face...

By the time I got home I was downright happy to be alive!!!!!!!!!

I could not have said it any better.

The wife and I just got back from a 550 mi trip to Watkins Glen.

WOW !!

What a great trip. After much angst about taking the Boxster on such a trip, in the end it was much ado about nothing.

Took the car to the dealer to check the brakes and do a flush and an oil change, (out with the Mobil 1, in with the Redline 5W40) brought it home and packed for 4 days of IndyCar fun. We left Friday morning with the top down and the sunscreen on.

If you ever have a chance to drive Rt. 14 between Trout Run, Pa. and Watkins Glen, NY. do it. The scenery in north central Pa. is spectacular, and Rt.14 winds through valleys and small towns. It's a mostly 2 lane road that is in very good condition and very little traffic.

The Boxster was made for this kind of road. And I am so happy to report that the car ran like a champ. Not a single glitch. The trip home was even better, even though we left NY at 6:30 am in temps of 70 degrees and arrived in Maryland to temps of over 100 degrees the water temp never went above 185 the entire trip.

I. Love. This. Car. And better yet, so does the wife. I'm sorry I waited this long to own a Porsche.

you just said my words....indeed a superb experience to ride this super car....

i would be lying if i said i didnt . i guess the trick is is not to so as to lead a good example for the kids but holy **** i do love to race ~!

I spent most of Saturday in my toasty garage waxing, cleaning and loving my Boxster so I could go for a drive on Sunday morning. The next day, after a few hours driving through some twisty mountain roads, I was in a pretty great place. I came home espousing the wonders of my base 986 to my wife. It really is a great car and in many ways I am really happy with the basic un-modified tossable car that I have. In the greatest Porsche design tradition, it's incredible in its simplicity. It's why I always loved my first Porsche, a 1974 914.

My wife, with perfect timing and in a deadpan voice informed me the only reason I'm happy with my basic Boxster is because I can't afford the faster one.

Good moment gone.

Going on sat morning drives with about a dozen other porsche owners (PCA) thru the country side. Then spending some time cleaning her afterwards. Priceless

Driving panacea
 

I get comatose when I am behind the wheel of my Boxster. The sweet noise from the engine, quick acceleration the air messing up my hair. The best was driving into the Indian reservation and buying a carton of cigarettes for less than half the price at the stores. Oh government how I love to stick it up your culo!
Yes the benefits of living in the Empire State " land of taxes" or there is not a tax that we dislike. :cool:

Your wife sounds like my wife. Man do I love my wife. She also would let me spend alot of time on the weekend cleaning my car. More time than most husbands spend
on their mode of transport. But then she would also lovenly burst my happiness bubble with a comment like the one above.

After 5 years of ownership my car has been transformed into a Time Trial weapon and doesn't see as many joy rides as it used to. Still the best times in my Boxster are knocking the top down and shooting the canyons and Glendora Ridge Road with my brother in his matching car. A quick stop at the lookout to view the channel islands on a clear day and a cold beer in Mt. Baldy village to top off the day. I believe this pure driving pleasure adds 5 years onto ones life. :cheers:

Hey, look...

Another spammer.

Can someone get rid of this person, and prevent them from ever gracing our website ever again?

Every weekend this guy shows up with a new alias.
Can't this end?

BC.