Let the pictures speak part two

[nieuwhzn]

Originally Posted by tonycarreon

video on top operation: Porsche Boxster Spyder - soft top operation - YouTube

Yawn, fell asleep during the first half of the video. That's a royal pain in ze butt!

Beautiful good weather car....

[Ghostrider 310]

six years with the 986 and maybe two downpours, just have to pull over when it clouds up instead of pressing on, besides, I'm sure after you do it 100 times you get better at it. I agree its cumbersome but it's a lot easier than a camper canvass on a 26 sundancer, just need to keep a beach towel in the trunk!

[97 Boxster]

Dont let anybody rain on your parade GR. Its super SICK and we all want it. LOL

Great job and congrats. Someday I would love to have that car.

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by Ghostrider 310

six years with the 986 and maybe two downpours, just have to pull over when it clouds up instead of pressing on, besides, I'm sure after you do it 100 times you get better at it. I agree its cumbersome but it's a lot easier than a camper canvass on a 26 sundancer, just need to keep a beach towel in the trunk!

same here. I think I've been caught out twice in all these years. If its on the highway I just lay on the throttle and and I stay dry in the cockpit.

The one downer to the bikini top is the ruffling at highway speed. But that simply encourages you to drive top down with the heat up. I have a rule if the ambient temp is above 55 the top is down. But in retrospect a simple Miata style manual top made of ultra light materials running on a simplified ball bearing track would have been a far more practical engineering exercise and increased sales. But to their credit a motorized soft top(lazy convenience) on any sports car really is contradictory.

[MileHighBoxster]

Originally Posted by tonycarreon

the top is my only sticking point. though i don't mind the manual operation, YouTube[/url]

Reports from every Spyder owner that I've seen, here and other places, report no speed limits due to the top. That's a great looking car Ghost. One everyone here would be proud to own. I love the speedster rear cover.

[gomarlins3]

Wow, nice choice.

[Brockmeister]

Try putting that top up in the pouring rain! All in all though, that car is gorgeous.

[jaykay]

Wow looking at your pics.....I can hear McCartney singing the words!

[skota]

bravo, awesome car. congrats

[madmods]

man... is this a joke or what... a 685 steps removal and install roof design that eventually need to slam on your bonnet's paint job? and stretches using A10 Warthog jet alike emergency release 'red' handles? You got to be kidding me... NO, I would never buy this car but instead move up in the Porsche food chain right away. Disgusting.... can't imagine one minute my wife, my girlfriend and both sisters together to be able to bear removing that thing... or even less putting it back.

Try to picture the onlookers' face when you do those amazingly complicated and methodical procedures. Real potential for being hilarious....

Besides, the guy in the vid, yea that's right.... that was too much btw. Spooky looking dude

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by madmods

NO, I would never buy this car but instead move up in the Porsche food chain right away. Disgusting.... can't imagine one minute my wife, my girlfriend and both sisters together to be able to bear removing that thing... or even less putting it back.

There is no moving up in the roadster food chain. You'd have to go into another category of Porsche and those don't handle as well as the Boxster Spyder...unless you go full on GT3 and there's no top down driving in that scenario. Oh and you're not doing much of many other types of year round driving in the GT3 either. Improper alignment in the wet on a nervous car? No thanks. Also, the Boxsteer Spyder was quicker than the Cayman R in one test with an ALMS driver on a karting track, every last lap was easier and faster.

Also, this car wasn't designed with your ball and chain (female passenger) in mind.
Which makes it all the more brilliant. If you want to keep the female unit happy buy a Cayenne. This is a sports car.

[jdiba]

The best part about it is I can tell how important it is to you and how good it makes you feel owning
it. That's what this is all about anyway, ain't it ?

Enjoy the Livin ******************** out of it Ghostrider.

[Ghostrider 310]

Thanks you guys I will tell you true I came very close to backing out, man P cars are a hard signature.

Regarding the top, the handle with the screw hook tensioner looks very UN Porsche like..

[thstone]

Awesome car! I rode along in my friends Spyder that looks exactly like yours and it was incredible. Actually, watch this video from the track last weekend and you'll see his Spyder out on the track in front of me at about 2:40 into the video: http://986forum.com/forums/video-center/33857-racing-around-willow-springs.html

[Ghostrider 310]

Gotta love P-lap, I was thinking the same thing, I don't want anyone else driving it anyway. As for the top which flusters everyone, all I can say is there must be a big fanclub for the spyders because they sell in 7-10 days used. My 986 had the top down so much I only raised it to prevent the window from getting a line in it.

PS I'll bet good money a Ducati owner would find that top Sweeeet in the rain.

[WhipE350]

Ya they had two of em over here in Charlotte both low miles. Folks buy them and decide quickly they don't want em. They sell fast once traded in though. I'd take one in a second, was looking the other night and there aren't that many in the whole country. I hate driving my 986 with the top up anyway, I'd be just fine with this beauty. Only time black rims look good is on a white car...they look sweet.

[986_c6]

Only other Boxster that would replace my 986 would be the Spyder. Either I missed it or late at night, but is this one a manny or PDK unit?

[Ghostrider 310]

986 I have L leg disability, the car is a PDK, ironically, the manual is less expensive and if my heath was perfect I would have bought one. On the truly positive side, if I travel to high traffic areas I don't have to cluch and re-clutch in a highway back up.

[2003S]

Just saw your doppelgänger on LSD, Ghostrider; you are a lucky man :-)
Sa-weet.

[Ghostrider 310]

Thanks man, it's not for everyone but I like it a lot.