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Is this accurate? Or should it be posted in the “humor” forum?


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Fond memories of those XaS tires. Re-shoe a GT3 and ya gotta take out a second mortgage.
 
356 stories... got a few. 911 tales as well. Not sure I'd even want any of them built after 1985.

Been disgusted over the cost of the older Porsches in the last few years, new ones are out of sight too.
 
A number of years ago went to Sebring for a Porsche/BMW track day. My friend of fifty years is an instructor, he took me around the track in the passengers' seat for a couple hot laps in his Carerra S4... impressive! Later, we did a "parade lap" with Diesela, nose-to-tail behind another 300D Turbo Benz. The corner workers were splitting a gut laughing at that sight. :ROFLMAO:

EDITED: To correct the Porsche version and ad the link to a prior thread.
 
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My nephew had a GT3 for a while. Tried to learn how to race it with limited success. Finally sold it and started racing a Miata. I asked him why and he said, "For the price of a brake job on the GT3, I can buy a whole Miata and racing uses up brakes quickly."
 
The "responsibility of ownership" alone is daunting. But there IS "Track Insurance" ($$$) available!

That same friend just yesterday told me he's acquired a turbo 944, He'll track that with less concern over wrinkling it. His Dot-in-Law put one of his 911's into a tire wall a couple seasons ago, he's still on the fence about fixing or parting out that one. We'd sourced a later 3.6L engine for it a few years before. Thing went like stink!!
 
DrEntropy said:
The "responsibility of ownership" alone is daunting. But there IS "Track Insurance" ($$$) available!

That same friend just yesterday told me he's acquired a turbo 944, He'll track that with less concern over wrinkling it. His Dot-in-Law put one of his 911's into a tire wall a couple seasons ago, he's still on the fence about fixing or parting out that one. We'd sourced a later 3.6L engine for it a few years before. Thing went like stink!!
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Just posted in another forum

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Australia?
 
Who was that driver who reportedly said "In my day, the tires were thin and the drivers were fat." while looking at a relatively new F1 car?
 
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