You gotta love Chris Harris.......

[johnny senna]

Just reading this month's GT Porsche. Chris Harris surprised himself by nipping out and buying a Cayman 2.7. Then before he gets time to recover goes and buys a RHD 993 RS as well!

And then his stripped and rebuilt project 911 is nearing completion as well (and I can't wait to see how this one turns out).

You have to love this guy.

[sleep envy]

johnny senna said:

Then before he gets time to recover goes and buys a RHD 993 RS as well!

not the £100k one was it?

[johnny senna]

sleep envy said:

johnny senna said:

Then before he gets time to recover goes and buys a RHD 993 RS as well!

not the £100k one was it?

No mate. That was a CS. Harris's is a Midnight blue comfort car with small wings. RHD though, so won't have been cheap.

[clubsport]

I was intrigued with his piece in Autocar last week, he said that if he had a requirement for 2 seats then the Cayman 2.7 would be the only car he would ever need!

Interesting......I enjoy driving a cayman S on the odd ocassion presented to me, suprised the smaller engined 5 speed cars purity wins the day?

So now when he walks out of the house to find the Cayman and the 93RS, it surely won't take too long to decide which to take?

[clubsport]

Johnny could that be the blue car "pink pig" were selling a few months ago....once owned by a member of this forum before he moved on to faster and yet faster Porsches

[sleep envy]

clubsport said:

Johnny could that be the blue car "pink pig" were selling a few months ago...

that's what I was thinking

is the old owner running a RWD TT?

[gmk666]

From memory he's had a CS, Gallardo, 997S, 993GT2, 996TT and now the RS. Love him? Nope, I hate him.

[clubsport]

gmk666 said:

From memory he's had a CS, Gallardo, 997S, 993GT2, 996TT and now the RS. Love him? Nope, I hate him.

Wasn't there a 996 GT2 along the way for good measure?

Ric, sort of....I think I get your drift

[johnny senna]

clubsport said:

gmk666 said:

From memory he's had a CS, Gallardo, 997S, 993GT2, 996TT and now the RS. Love him? Nope, I hate him.

Wasn't there a 996 GT2 along the way for good measure?

Ric, sort of....I think I get your drift

Who are we talking about? Sorry to be dim!

[gunner]

Chris is a brilliant motoring journalist imo for this exact reason.He walks it like he talks it.Too many motoring mags are filled with 'reviews' written by those who have experienced only the briefest of brief squirts in the sportscars they are writing about,often no more than a few hours here or there.Chris on the other hand is able to communicate a much fuller experience and so the comparisons he's able to draw are far more intricate and informed.99% of motoring journalism seems to go something like this:
'I was invited with the rest of the world's motoring press to drive the new Ferrari,Porsche,Lambo etc.It's a bit faster/nicer/more modern than the last one.I had a really good day out.Er,that's it.'
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh but the proof of this would seem to be that when a new car comes out all the mags' reviews tend to read along very similar lines and so what you actually learn outside of the pure technical data is so narrow.How can it be any more when most of the early tests are totally stage managed.Give me Chris's experiences of buying/running/driving some of these cars properly,especially given that he also really knows how to drive in a way I suspect few other journos do.

[Agent Orange]

i wud reckon that lot equals 1 993 GT2 ............says it all!

[mikeo996]

How much do these journos get paid? - I'd always assumed not a lot - is he a publisher too??

(Sorry, I think I might have just crossed a PH taboo - questions anywhere near "how can you afford that?" are very un-PC in PH - rightly so)

[mikeg996]

On the same subject, is David Yu previously of EVO the same David Yu who is CEO of Betfair?

[mikeo996]

I don't know, but a few years back he placed an advert in Evo saying "do you want to drive cars like mine? Then come and work for me" (he was something in the City then)
I thought he had subsequently "downsized" and now was concentrating on his car website.

[gmk666]

mikeo996 said:

How much do these journos get paid? - I'd always assumed not a lot - is he a publisher too??

(Sorry, I think I might have just crossed a PH taboo - questions anywhere near "how can you afford that?" are very un-PC in PH - rightly so)

I'm sure it is pretty taboo. Although CH let something slip in GTPP this month about getting paid to write about the cars he buys. He was going to get a new GT3, but decided against it because some bloke who comes round here already had one and they wouldn't want two write ups every month. Whether this was tongue in cheek, I don't know...

[968csreading]

I have always liked CH but also amazed how he affords these cars.

So what about Harry Metcalfe from Evo. Is the Zonda brought with his money or run by the Mag?

(I have only been reading Evo for about 5 months)

Edited by 968csreading on Thursday 22 February 17:15

[anniesdad]

mikeg996 said:

On the same subject, is David Yu previously of EVO the same David Yu who is CEO of Betfair?

email him and ask him.

David Yu's PH Profile

[adamt]

Agent Orange said:

i wud reckon that lot equals 1 993 GT2 ............says it all!

Errh, so whats your point exactly?




I think Harris is a great journalist. And more power to him if he can afford a bunch of decent cars....hes certainly got his priorities straight!

Edited by adamt on Thursday 22 February 20:13

[Paul Dishman]

johnny senna said:

Just reading this month's GT Porsche. Chris Harris surprised himself by nipping out and buying a Cayman 2.7.
You have to love this guy.

Interesting that part of his justification for not getting a 997 GT3 was that Pugsey had one, so Chris wouldn't be paid for writing about a GT3.
Now Pugseys has gone, what's the betting that Chris is at the Bristol OPC tomorrow doing a frantic deal to chop the Cayman in for a 997 GT3 RS?

You do have to love him

[loach]

I'm dying to see how he gets on with his 911 restauration/modification project. I get an itchy wallet and fingers when I see stuff like that going on. Mind you - he seems quite restless, so I'll look forward to seeing it on sale shortly after he's finished it and has it just-so. A nice colour please, Chris. Not too keen on solid black.