I bumped this post because of what occured on the day I originally posted it. That afternoon I suffered a torn retiner in my left eye, for most folks thats a problem but for me it's disaster. I have been blind in my right eye for 40 years and have grown quite used to it, it dosen't bother me and most people don't even know. But with the loss of my left eye I was completely blind. To make a long story short, 2 1/2 months and 2 operations later, I'm back on the road enjoying life and the 968. But having that long to do little but think, I spent alot of time thinking about the 968 and why I spend the kind of time and money I do on it.
I can think of a lot of different reasons but the bottem line is that I love the car. I love driving it, I love looking at it and I love when people don't know what it is. I love working on it correcting little faults and adding improvments. I have owned a bunch of cars in my 65 years, Benzs, BMW, Audis, VW, Jags, Corvetts, GTO's, Corvairs (Times 5.), Hell even a Ford GT40. With all that said and done I couldent give a rats a** what others think of my object of passion, if it's thumbs up, thank you, if thumbs down, thanks and have a good day. The two awards from Zonefest are to me a validation of the work I put in to make a silk purse out of a sows ear, and an indicater that the 968 is starting to be recognized as the great car that it is.
