Farewell my true love.....
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Farewell my true love.....
So, today is the last day I have my 996 GT2... Sold it to pursue a new business venture.
Over the last two years of ownership this Car has risen to the top of my favorite Cars ever list. It really embodies what a REAL driver's Car is meant to be:
Challenging, involving, can bite you hard if you don't know what you are doing.
Has a 6 speed gearbox and all the requirements that a 6 speed brings..
It's refined enough to use daily, but exotic enough that it has opened some interesting doors for me! Pull up to any 5 star restaurant in the Country in a GT2 and you are automatically a Rock Star!
It's nearly untouchable on the track.. Once I got the suspension dialed in and mounted a set of Hoosier R6's, it was a MONSTER on the track, dispatching GT3RS's, ZR1's, Vipers and Nissan GTR's with incredible ease.. The way it just squats and FIRES out of the apex of a corner (especially turn 6 at Laguna Seca!) I will never forget.
Peole have chased me down the Freeway for miles to talk to me about the GT2.. At any time, I can usually see someone with a cellphone taking pictures of the Car..
The GT2 was so good, it made me pass on my first in line place on the new McLaren MP4..
I will truly miss this Car. All I can hope for is that I can buy another in the future. Or maybe a new GT2 RS, or 599 GTO?
My thanks to everyone on 6speedonline that answered my many questions... Special thanks to Markski, Mikelly, iLLM3 and the many others that have been a veritable font of information.
A few crappy cellphone pics of it all detailed and ready for it's new owner to drive it back from the SF Bay area to Seattle:
Cheers!
Over the last two years of ownership this Car has risen to the top of my favorite Cars ever list. It really embodies what a REAL driver's Car is meant to be:
Challenging, involving, can bite you hard if you don't know what you are doing.
Has a 6 speed gearbox and all the requirements that a 6 speed brings..
It's refined enough to use daily, but exotic enough that it has opened some interesting doors for me! Pull up to any 5 star restaurant in the Country in a GT2 and you are automatically a Rock Star!
It's nearly untouchable on the track.. Once I got the suspension dialed in and mounted a set of Hoosier R6's, it was a MONSTER on the track, dispatching GT3RS's, ZR1's, Vipers and Nissan GTR's with incredible ease.. The way it just squats and FIRES out of the apex of a corner (especially turn 6 at Laguna Seca!) I will never forget.
Peole have chased me down the Freeway for miles to talk to me about the GT2.. At any time, I can usually see someone with a cellphone taking pictures of the Car..
The GT2 was so good, it made me pass on my first in line place on the new McLaren MP4..
I will truly miss this Car. All I can hope for is that I can buy another in the future. Or maybe a new GT2 RS, or 599 GTO?
My thanks to everyone on 6speedonline that answered my many questions... Special thanks to Markski, Mikelly, iLLM3 and the many others that have been a veritable font of information.
A few crappy cellphone pics of it all detailed and ready for it's new owner to drive it back from the SF Bay area to Seattle:
Cheers!
Last edited by 80shilling; Aug 26, 2011 at 03:11 PM.
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Good luck with your new business Graham.
your reviews of the car really helped me make up my mind before I bought mine.
Cheers and good luck in the future!
your reviews of the car really helped me make up my mind before I bought mine.
Cheers and good luck in the future!
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It seems it's going back to its original home, right... Pacific Northwest?
I remember when you got the car, it was around the same time as I got mine. I miss mine as well but in almost two years of ownership I got to meet some great people (you included :-) and enjoy the new world of owning a Porsche. Like you I'll be back driving one at some point but seriously the people like you that I have met and those on 6speed are having a huge impact on me staying in a Porsche - the camaraderie is something I've never experienced owning other cars and is very similar to people I met when I rode motorcycles.
Good luck in the new venture Graham and belated congrats on the recent wedding. New opportunities await and hopefully they will be as fun and as exciting as that stretch of un-named road over in the hills ;-)
I remember when you got the car, it was around the same time as I got mine. I miss mine as well but in almost two years of ownership I got to meet some great people (you included :-) and enjoy the new world of owning a Porsche. Like you I'll be back driving one at some point but seriously the people like you that I have met and those on 6speed are having a huge impact on me staying in a Porsche - the camaraderie is something I've never experienced owning other cars and is very similar to people I met when I rode motorcycles.
Good luck in the new venture Graham and belated congrats on the recent wedding. New opportunities await and hopefully they will be as fun and as exciting as that stretch of un-named road over in the hills ;-)
