Here, the dealer's techs are checking the integrity of the hold-down arrangements while the car is only a few inches off the ramp blocks:

 

The front compartment is absolutely crammed with luggage, extra seat-front thigh bolsters, a battery maintainer, a car cover, and assorted other stuff. It's completely full:

 

Since Signal Yellow (paint-to-sample) would clash horribly with Speed colored calipers, I took the opportunity to order option GBW -> "Brake Caliper Coated in Red":

 

Porsche's policy for things like this; "If one doesn't ask, one doesn't know what is possible."

Carrera GT edition numbers are not necessarily sequential. The car that travelled with mine via InterCity differed by only 4 in serial number sequence, but differed by exactly 356 in edition number. Interesting, no? Should we convene a coven of numerologists?

 

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but you guys made me do it

 

Hijack away.... What a beautiful CGT... I love that color...

 

Wow!! Great pics, it really looks amazing in that color

 

Congrats Mike... drive in good health and enjoy!!!! Totally hot!

 

I need to make some wood ramps like that BAD

 

GORGEOUS car, great thinking on the calipers...any other colors you can get?

 

Speed yellow is, of course, standard.

Optional colors are red, black and silver.

 

can't wait for you to get through break in. the car is so damn much fun. it's CRAZY. while i'm getting more and more intimate with it everytime i drive it, it still gives me cotton mouth. i took it out with a friend of mine today (a big pcar enthusiast) and it's almost as much fun watching him quietly freak out (in a good way) as it is actually driving it :-0

ps. please let me know how you set up your V1 when you do.

 

Ben,

I really envy your weather advantage in SoCal. You have so many more "Porsche" days than we do here.

Last night, while I was driving my daughters to dinnner, we had to dodge some flying salt (ice melt) that the city was laying down on the street in anticipation of an overnight snow/ice/rain event.

Every place a salt truck comes to a stop (and, the driver forgets to turn off the spreading fan -- which is always ), it disgorges a dune of salt that takes inches of later rainfall to wash away. Even on our rare, sunny, 45F days, I don't like dodging these blowing and drifting dunes of chemical antagonists to just feed my car habit.

After Easter, things should start to shape up, weather-wise. Then I can put more than the lousy 15 miles on the odometer it took to drive home from the dealer

Waiting is hard, but I know it will be worth it.

P.S. The service manager at my dealer told me his Porsche-internal CGT break-in info talks about 500 miles at no more than 5,000 rpm. When I expressed surprise at the variance with the owner's manual, he said not to worry and then gave a mechanical explanation that I don't clearly remember.

 

look awesome and hot Mike! I like the production number! Love the color and love everything, you have to post more photos and driving experience after easter!! Good luck and drive safe

 

Interesting factory lift pieces...Instead of buying all that OEMoney! tooling to service the CGT...We made them all up out of spare aluminum and steel, leftovers from fabrication jobs we do. We tested it on a client car from Manhattan and it seems to work better than the factory lift kits...I love to weld (almost always). Mark-www.formulamotorsports.com