[lbpesq]

"Honey, does the stripe across the window make my car's butt look big?"



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[bombfactory]

He's averting his eyes from my Hawaiian shirt!

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[ds968]

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He's averting his eyes from my Hawaiian shirt!

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BTW, is that a BB catback, or a dirrerent tip ?

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[Langley968]

That is one nice looking butt! The red works on that car.

Wonder what dark blue (filled in) script would look like on my Polar Silver cab with the navy blue soft top...

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[ds968]

I wonder how easy it would be to photoshop something like that ? Wheelworks ( IIRC..) has somthing on their site which lets you apply any given wheel model on a 968 ( and a gazillion other cars ) to see what it may look like , so I'm guessing there has to be a photo editing program out there that can be used to add / fill in various colors or other effects of that nature <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/huh.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Chris Vais]

I kinda like the black car with the red fill in on the back. Speaking of graphics and bling, this morning there was a new 997 GT3 RS parked next to the slot where I usually park at work.. No mistaking that baby at all, but then it does have the performance to live up to graphics. Didn't care for the towing eye sticking out of the front valance however. There is a section in my garage that is as far away from the elevators as it is physically possible to get, where I started parking a year ago after the 968 took a hit in the garage. For the longest while I was the only on there, but now we have a 944 TurboS, a 944 S2, a 996 Turbo, a 993 Turbo, a Cayenne, my 968 and now this new GT3RS. We all park cockeyed into our slots so that no one can park to close to one another. Now if you happened upon this scene, and didn't know better, you'd think that Porsche drivers couldn't park a car to save their lives.

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[Rap]

When one parks in the farthest dimmest recesses of a parking lot taking fifteen minutes to get to where your going and someone parks right next to you, these things make all the sense in the world!

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[Langley968]

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When one parks in the farthest dimmest recesses of a parking lot taking fifteen minutes to get to where your going and someone parks right next to you, these things make all the sense in the world!

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Although "off topic", this quote begs a reaction!

It always amazes me how some people have a "herd mentality" when it comes to parking.

Never fails when I park in a far corner (usually close to a curb for extra space), that when I get back I have the following thought:

"I parked FAR AWAY from other cars ON PURPOSE, so why do you have to park NEXT TO ME???" <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/glare.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/glare.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/glare.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[ds968]

Because the driver of the car that parks next to yours may feel that's the only one he can trust won't ding HIS door ?! That's the only quasi-rational reasoning I can think of ;-) The other two possibilities : a clueless dude / dudette , or a douchebag :-)

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[Rap]

Being a child of the 60's it always makes me wish for a phaser to right this wrong! Course I wish for a phaser to use as a management tool on my employees sometimes too. Actually I just wish I had a phaser!

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[tamathumper]

I try to find that magic distance where I'm not actually close to the crowd, but I'm not so far away as to trigger such douchebaggery. I think the average human's thinking goes something like this: You're not allowed to have anything nice, and if you do, you must be a douchebag. If you park away from the crowd, you must think you're special, and you must be a double-douchebag. If you think you're special, then it's up to me to drag you back into the crowd by parking really close to you. This rebalances the cosmic scale of douchebagginess.



Well, you get the idea. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[ds968]

What I find annoying is those who park diagonally across two clearly marked parking spaces..deliberately. And not to bash Corvettes, but I see far more corvettes that any other car parked that way. BTW, I try to find far away spots to park the 968 and hopefully there's a spot where at least one side of the car is fully protected - curb, divider, tree, wall, etc..that way only one door is subject to dings :-) by the aforementioned douchebag driver :-) Of course with my luck, the "protected" side is probably the place where everyone suddenly decides to leave and cram all of their frigging shopping carts :-( aarrrgh

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[cosimo]

I believe that decals on the front windshield are illegal in Virginia. I know of some Porsches that were rejected because of that.I do have a IMA Motorsport decal on my back window as well as a bunch of stickers on my rear windows and hatch back. I got started and with the Hershey Celebration stickers and now my windows are covered.

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[flash]

i'm not putting anybody's logo on my car unless they are paying me for the advertising space. those kids with stickers all over their cars make me laugh. we all know they aren't getting paid for it, and they are almost always on street cars, so the only thing they are doing is attracting the attention of the law ("look at me - i race my car illegally")



i put the gold crest on my steering wheel, and i think i am taking it off. i just hope that it doesn't leave a mark.



other than the rear font, i think the only other place it's really visible is on the fuel rail cover, and the brake calipers, and those don't really bother me.



i think i've gotten rid of everything else that says "porsche" or has the logo anywhere visible on the outside of the car, but now i'm going to go look again and see if there are more that i can get rid of

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[tamathumper]

Did you fill in the "embossed" PORSCHE on the rear bumper somehow?

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[cosimo]

Sorry, Flash but I'm the opposite as I am proud to showing that my car is a PORSCHE. You can understand the IMA logo. As for the other stickers it's a matter a taste. I do think your car looks great sans any ID especially your seats as you know. The stickers I do have are all associated with something I have on or have done.

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[lbpesq]

I'm with Flash. I'll advertise the car I'm driving when the auto company starts advertising my law office. Also, I enjoy watching people trying to figure out what kind of car it is. The latest was a nice elderly gentleman at a gas station who was sure it was a Ferrari!



Bill

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[tamathumper]

I had a friend along last year and someone texted to ask if he had "just gone by in a weird little red car", and then someone the next day asked a co-worker "who's Ferrari was in the parking lot."



I get too much enjoyment out of being bright red and "stealth" at the same time to post any more placards on my car. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Lim Yong]

I wouldn't mind having one but more to shield the sun, so more like a darker color with the porsche cutout to be (very) inconspicious.

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[flash]

yeah - i hate porsches - i almost didn't buy this car BECAUSE it was a porsche. i don't like their engineering precept, or pretty much anything about their cars, and i certainly don't like the owners as a group. PCA makes me crazy and the attitude that prevails amongst the owners is off-putting. the 968 owners, on the other hand, have turned out to be largely a very "normal" bunch of car enthusiasts.



the 968 is the ONLY porsche i would even consider, and it is very much outside the box. the fact that it is the red-headed step child of the family was the factor that swung me over.



the car sits like a proper car, and the engineering has been reasonably easy to correct. for that reason, i don't really think of it as a porsche. it's better than that. hence, i don't want the name on it any more than i have to (no, i haven't figured out how to get rid of the rear font without making the butt look huge)



i don't even have my own logo on the car.



i do carry this philosophy to other venues though too. i didn't wear logos when i was racing bicycles unless they were sponsors, the same when i was playing tennis, and racing cars, and still today when i am doing shows. product placement is great, but it comes with a price tag.



but hey - as long as people love the car and drive it and show it off, what do i care?



that being said, i will of course consider putting somebody's sticker someplace if they want to pay me.



lol - which reminds me, it's long past time to have our sponsors renew

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