The Dark Wob

My primary school headteacher had a blue 928. Would have been nearly new then. Her name was Mrs Devitt and the number plate simply said 'Devitt'

Not that any of that matters to anyone, just thought I would mention it ☺

It's the only Porsche I want, probably to do with it all being right. Big V8, RWD. I could live anything with that configuration I reckon.

christine wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:19 pm If you played top trumps as a kid, it was always good to have the 911 card though . Unless the other bloke had Lamborghini Countach...

Hehe! In the pack I had it was a bronze 911, the worst card was an NSU TT, would give me left bollock for a TT now....

Not sure why there is such an aversion towards 911s. I love them and once owned a heavily pineappled one.

Because everyone knows Hitler made them

Junkman wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 7:06 pm Not sure why there is such an aversion towards 911s. I love them and once owned a heavily pineappled one.

Here here!
I guess it is that Brit. "resentment of success" thing, muddled with a certain distaste toward the contemporary Porsche: massively capable and yet massively unatractive like so many moderns, and yet pretending to be the same thing as the original 911.
I would absolutely love an air-cooled, lhd, two-pedal 911. Nothing else ticks as many of my boxes.

I had the last air-cooled one.

If Porsche had gone bust in 1979 they would be loved, that and they have unfortunate connotations of yuppiedom, at least in the UK. I'm not a fan of the XJS or 535csi, capable though they may be they are irrevocably linked with filofaxes and red braces to me.

I just don't like the looks of a 911 or the noise. Much like I don't like Ducatis due to the clutch rattle.

I won't argue for a second that they look and sound rather comical, but you have to build a bloody good Corvette to beat them on the track.

Asimo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 9:05 pm two-pedal 911