Cars for sale

[Jamo]

Originally Posted by patrickt

When I had my car custom built for me at ERA, Peter told me I was never allowed to sell it -- I could only pass it down to my heirs. I took him seriously.

Pretty much the same here, except it was my wife that made that point very clear. Every now and then I'll see something like an Oscar India or some aging Italian with a many-holed motor in the front and start mumbling about how we could sell the arruminum beast and get something more suitable for touring...and then she gives me that look that gents that have been married for numerous decades know all too well.

With her, the car is only part of it. From meeting La Familia Kirkham and the trips in the snow to Provo, to loving that old flirt Boghosian, to cruising through rain and sun with strange people (middle eastern bus drivers, pygmy albino Africans, pilots who fly powered gliders with big cameras, etc.) that are now part of our family, to holding fort and making sure folks are fed and comfortable at open track events, to reading stuff over my shoulder from this place and the other place, she has enjoyed the whole damn thing and has threatened physical violence upon my sorry ass for even thinking about it.

NYG...I surely do hope that if and when you dip your toes into the water that your bed buddy is all in with you.

[NewYorkGuy]

Originally Posted by Jamo

Pretty much the same here, except it was my wife...

NYG...I surely do hope that if and when you dip your toes into the water that your bed buddy is all in with you.

copy that, Jamo!
After months of reading, researching, and kicking nostaglia, I have taken myself out of hot rod cobras... at least until year 2017.

My Nissan lease will be done next summer and frees up the parking space for a fake Porsche 550 Spyder. This toy will be a better match for the family.

[ERA Chas]

Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy

copy that, Jamo!
After months of reading, researching, and kicking nostaglia, I have taken myself out of hot rod cobras... at least until year 2017.

Great-come back in 2017 - or never.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy

My Nissan lease will be done next summer and frees up the parking space for a fake Porsche 550 Spyder. This toy will be a better match for the family.

Ohhh-Kay.

The bookies will love that. They'll get to keep all the Vette, Boxster and Miata money.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy

copy that, Jamo!
After months of reading, researching, and kicking nostaglia, I have taken myself out of hot rod cobras...

Smart choice... these cars just basically suck anyway.

[buddyg]

Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy

copy that, Jamo!
After months of reading, researching, and kicking nostaglia, I have taken myself out of hot rod cobras... at least until year 2017.

My Nissan lease will be done next summer and frees up the parking space for a fake Porsche 550 Spyder. This toy will be a better match for the family.

Here's your new forum!

www.spyderclub.com • Index page

See you in 2017!

[OnyxRider]

Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy

copy that, Jamo!
After months of reading, researching, and kicking nostaglia, I have taken myself out of hot rod cobras... at least until year 2017.

My Nissan lease will be done next summer and frees up the parking space for a fake Porsche 550 Spyder. This toy will be a better match for the family.

That's actually funny. Guess no rode warrior cobra for you. Maybe the movie will be good enough for you.

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[JoeT]

Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy

copy that, Jamo!
After months of reading, researching, and kicking nostaglia, I have taken myself out of hot rod cobras... at least until year 2017.

My Nissan lease will be done next summer and frees up the parking space for a fake Porsche 550 Spyder. This toy will be a better match for the family.

you should really drive one before you commit.

I "borrowed" one from a friend, we swapped cars for the weekend. It had the larger vw motor (I think 2200cc) and found it boring to drive. handled "ok" but seriously lacked in power. The porsche boxster is more fun, handles better, is faster/quicker, and has about the same used cost

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by JoeT

The porsche boxster is more fun, handles better, is faster/quicker, and has about the same used cost

The boxster is a "girl's car."

[NewYorkGuy]

Originally Posted by patrickt

The boxster is a "girl's car."

The boxster's success saved Porsche from bankruptcy. Porsche can thank the Miata (another girl car) for reinventing the convertible market.

If there were more female hot rod cobra owners, these "cobra" events wouldn't feel like a retirement get together for old white guys

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by patrickt

The boxster is a "girl's car."

Right around the time the last air-cooled Porsche rolled off the production line, circa 1997, Porsche went from low production handmade classic works of art to mass-produced "meh." And the proof of that is the fact that the 993's (911's made from 1995-1998) series of 911's are worth more than the vast majority of the newer generation of Porsche's.

[patrickt]

I would rather have an older VW Beetle, in decent condition, than a Boxster.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I would rather have an older VW Beetle, in decent condition, than a Boxster.

Because of the IMS Bearing failure, with an exception or two, I personally wouldn't buy any Porsche between 1999-2008. A lost generation.

As for a VW Beetle or Porsche 550 replica, I wouldn't own one of those either. But to each his own.

[JoeT]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I would rather have an older VW Beetle, in decent condition, than a Boxster.

my oldest daughter is 12....I recently started looking at early gen 1 beetle convertibles for a father/daughter project that should last about 4 years

[NewYorkGuy]

Originally Posted by JoeT

you should really drive one before you commit.

I "borrowed" one from a friend, we swapped cars for the weekend. It had the larger vw motor (I think 2200cc) and found it boring to drive. handled "ok" but seriously lacked in power. The porsche boxster is more fun, handles better, is faster/quicker, and has about the same used cost

I've driven a Beck spyder and it's fine for my purposes.

My goal is to get a toy car that is cheap to own and resell later for the next