I’ve always loved the RX7, but never enough to own/maintain one. ;)

People love to project today's reliability and longevity onto cars from their youth and conveniently and nostalgically forget the tinkering that was required to keep them going back in the day. It used to be we'd get rid of a car at 75K mi b/c they'd be shot at 100K mi. Today, 75K mi is just broken in and parts are designed to go 150K mi before needing replacement. Not true with cars from the 60s, 70s, or 80s plus your dealing with electrical parts among others that are 30 to 50 yrs old. You certainly have back-up vehicles available, but you want a reliable daily driver.

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HEY!!!
It's the flannel shirt/duct tape guy! Welcome back, dude!
I've missed your on-the-road travel photos!

Same here, good to see you back! Lots of great advice but I am guessing in the long run you will be happier and less costly if you just give in and get another Boxster :D

Hey guys! Thank you! Good to see you again, been quite awhile. :D
I do agree with your rant huxter! One does tend to forget, but I remember the cars I drove in high school and college, and they were always getting unreliable by 90,000 to 100,000 miles, and were usually towed to the scrapyard by 130,000 miles. If I sit down and think, I remember clogged jets, stuck chokes, burned points, leaky vacuum lines on distributors, cracked distributor caps, bad coils, water pumps, master cylinders and alternators that only lasted 25,000 miles between replacements, A/C systems that went dead by the car’s 3rd year, frequent tune ups needed or they would run like garbage, 2,500 mile oil change and lube intervals, etc, etc...
By comparison, the 176,000 relatively hassle free miles I got out of the last Boxster begins to look like a miracle... all that time and not one legitimate breakdown. ;)
My 240,000 mile Toyota that flat refuses to ever need anything and I can still drive to Canada tomorrow, or my 74,000 mile 911 that still drives like brand new. We can definitely get spoiled. :)