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Old 11-06-2009, 05:08 PM   #1
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Old 11-07-2009, 12:41 AM   #2
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Does anyone know if you can remove the motor from the top and operate it manually?

If so, I'll just buy a 2006/7 ish 987, remove bits and sell on ebay and be 98% there (only better with a real top) and buy an FJ Cruiser I want with the $30k I saved.
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Old 11-07-2009, 05:48 AM   #3
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Well, that spyder looks great in pictures but as many people in this thread have said it is pointless for every day use, it has some similarities and look like a Pontiac solstice from the back, I have a boxster and I have the speedster humps that I can put and remove, those things you can remove them in like a minute, so if the rain strikes, just take them off and put the soft top and that´s it, very easy and fast, I prefer my boxter that this boxster spyder, also on the other hand I have a spyder replica in my garage and I like it very much !! but honestly I use that car once a month so it is an expensive toy, I had been thinking many times about selling it but I like it too much, I had so much time and effort invested on that car but honestly is useless, lets not forget that the originally spyder was desinged with one purpose in mind, to race, the new boxster spyder for me is not a race car, it will not defeat a GT3 or any Ferrari, and neither is an every day car, so it looks nice to have it in a garage stored but is useless, it will not sell very well like the boxster or the cayman so maybe is only a collector´s car, and with this crisis I think very few will buy it !!!

Honestly I prefer my spyder even do it is a replica, I will also keep my boxster with speedster humps, also I can add to that that I am putting a zeintop on it, so I can have for winter a cayman and for summer a boxster spyder !!! i will only need to get the emblem and the side strips !!

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