New Addition To The Family

[husker boxster]

I should probably wait to announce the new arrival until I pick it up in 2 wks but I'm too excited, so here goes:

I bought a 2007 Cayman S! It's in my favorite color combination - Carmon Red w/ beige int. It will be replacing my "bad weather" PT Cruiser, not Punkin. While it's probably too nice to be an all season car, it will fit nicely as a DE car - something I didn't feel comfortable doing with Punkin. It has 17K mi and the only significant option is memory seats.

The car is in Houston (there's a glut of Caymans for sale there) and I hope to fly down in 2 wks and drive it home. Until then, Randall, please keep an eye out for burgondy flashes zooming by on the interstate. The owner said he's parking it in the garage until I get there, hopefully he does just that and isn't tempted to go out for one last banzai run.

Here's a pic

[ddb]

Carmon is beautiful! That picture doesn't do it justice. I'm looking forward to seeing more pictures. Driving it back home should be a blast!

[Evan528]

Best of luck with it! I have an 08 Cayman S...... I can not find another car that even comes close........

[Evan528]

BTW- That is the first "Carmon Red" Cayman I have seen. Its a nice color combo.

[WhipE350]

Nice! Perfect color combo. I want one too

[husker boxster]

Got her home Fri night. Been busy with a million things since. Wanted to get her claybarred and waxed, which I did yesterday. Now she's ready for her photo shoot.

It took several rounds of the "safety dance" to get the transaction all set. My bank wanted to be absolutely, positively sure he was legit and I'm glad they were so thorough. It's kind of sad we need to triple check to be sure it's not an elaborate scam.

The seller was great. He picked me up at the airport. I drove the car to his nearby business. I looked it over (more later) and then we started the wire transfers, faxings, and FedExings. Hit the road and headed to Dallas to spend the night at my sister's and then made the rest of the trip to Omaha on Fri. It's a blast to drive and a 1000 mi trip is a good way to get to know a car.

The car had a few scratches and dings, but nothing major. In some ways I'm glad it's not pristine since I want to use it year round and at DEs. I may have been a bit disappointed if it was my first or only Porsche. But it fits the bill perfectly.

I mentioned in my first post that it only had memory seats. I should mention that it also has heated seats, which was a "must have" for me since it will see winter duty. My Boxster's heated seats spoiled me. I was surprised that there are so many Caymans that don't have heated seats. Granted, they were in FL, TX, and CA, but I figured most of them had this option. Would have liked Sport Chrono, but didn't find many with this option and even fewer that were reasonably priced. I did see a few with Sport Chrono on base models. Found that interesting.

So she's home and acclimating nicely to her new location. Here are a few pics.