11-06-2010, 01:26 PM
For the last seven or so years I have owned the 968, the overwhelming majority of people who have never seen a 968 before and come over at a gas station, parking lot, etc. to admire it and comment
on the car ask if it's " the new Porsche model ". With ONE exception; and this was just too funny of an experience not to share here.. I'm at a gas station just off hwy 101 near King City Ca, when this early 50-ish guy walks to the car, and says : " 76 ? " . Puzzled, I ask him what he means by "76", it had not even crossed my mind what he could possibly be talking about.. He says: " is this Porsh a '76 ? " Wow. Feeling somewhat deflated, I answer " no, it's a '94 " . He says, " I was off ". Yeah, no sh*t <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/dry.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> But now the fun part starts: He asks : " Is this eight or flat six cylinders ? " I reply : " No, it's a small block V 10 , they made only about 100 of them in 94 and 95 ". He replies : Jesus, that's gotta be fast ! " With a smile and a nod I say " Yup " . But wait, this gets better - he says " speaking of GERMAN cars, I am a family man so my wife and I have a VOLVO , which has a 2.4 L engine, not a diesel but it's still pretty slow, and my son wants to put a turbo on it when we buy our next car but I don't know if that's worth it on an old car like that.. " Very friendly guy and all that, but I really needed to end that conversation before my facial expression would have revealed what was going on in my head while speaking to him.. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
Then again, as clueless as he was, maybe he wouldn't have detected anything <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
on the car ask if it's " the new Porsche model ". With ONE exception; and this was just too funny of an experience not to share here.. I'm at a gas station just off hwy 101 near King City Ca, when this early 50-ish guy walks to the car, and says : " 76 ? " . Puzzled, I ask him what he means by "76", it had not even crossed my mind what he could possibly be talking about.. He says: " is this Porsh a '76 ? " Wow. Feeling somewhat deflated, I answer " no, it's a '94 " . He says, " I was off ". Yeah, no sh*t <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/dry.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> But now the fun part starts: He asks : " Is this eight or flat six cylinders ? " I reply : " No, it's a small block V 10 , they made only about 100 of them in 94 and 95 ". He replies : Jesus, that's gotta be fast ! " With a smile and a nod I say " Yup " . But wait, this gets better - he says " speaking of GERMAN cars, I am a family man so my wife and I have a VOLVO , which has a 2.4 L engine, not a diesel but it's still pretty slow, and my son wants to put a turbo on it when we buy our next car but I don't know if that's worth it on an old car like that.. " Very friendly guy and all that, but I really needed to end that conversation before my facial expression would have revealed what was going on in my head while speaking to him.. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
Then again, as clueless as he was, maybe he wouldn't have detected anything <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
