Porsche chap needs rescuing from the dark side
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I've just put some new Bridgestones on the back of my beetle and let me assure any Tivosi; in order to dust the sheen off 'em I've just spent a rather morally bankrupt half hour tearing up and down a nice sequence of dual carriageways, punctuated with two or three micro roundabouts.
A buddy was on board who was well acquainted with the wild ways of a previously thrashed 4.5 Cerb.
His reaction invloved various '
hell!' type expletives as Wolfgang hunkered down to allow both blowers to gird their loins and spit us out at quite unnerving velocities: certainly teetering at that point where you're going so fast for the conditions that you wonder whether you might just have got a bit too excitable.
He commented on the throaty exhaust note and the scream that modest jiggery pokery had allowed to prevail despite the TT's mass of plumbing - really, until the slipstream overode, not entirely un-Tivesque.
But it was the relative savagery of lunge and snap gearchange then seemingly brick wall anchors that provoked the more interesting vocabulary.
" me!" said he, "I can't believe you were ever thinking of trading that in for anything!"
And you know what, due deference to the Ultimas granted, I think he has a point.
If you think 911s are boring then you really should get out more. There's no bigger purveyor of Tivdom than yours truly but please, no more inane 'boring/safe' tags.
Every time I put my beetle to bed I say a quick prayer for making it back...
A buddy was on board who was well acquainted with the wild ways of a previously thrashed 4.5 Cerb.
His reaction invloved various '
hell!' type expletives as Wolfgang hunkered down to allow both blowers to gird their loins and spit us out at quite unnerving velocities: certainly teetering at that point where you're going so fast for the conditions that you wonder whether you might just have got a bit too excitable. He commented on the throaty exhaust note and the scream that modest jiggery pokery had allowed to prevail despite the TT's mass of plumbing - really, until the slipstream overode, not entirely un-Tivesque.
But it was the relative savagery of lunge and snap gearchange then seemingly brick wall anchors that provoked the more interesting vocabulary.
"
me!" said he, "I can't believe you were ever thinking of trading that in for anything!" And you know what, due deference to the Ultimas granted, I think he has a point.
If you think 911s are boring then you really should get out more. There's no bigger purveyor of Tivdom than yours truly but please, no more inane 'boring/safe' tags.
Every time I put my beetle to bed I say a quick prayer for making it back...
RichB said:Off in the Griffith for the weekend in a hour or so, and it's raining, and it's getting dark. Not everyone only drives them in the dry. Rich...
cammy said: Too much chatting and not enough driving by owners of two superb but very different marques!p.s. not worried about it breaking down either 'cos it won't
Absolutely - I was out in the worst of the rain today, in my Tamora - no leaks, misty windows cleared easily with the blower, no scrabbling for grip when "pressing on", safe overtaking, all the shopping tucked away in the boot. It may be one of the noisier cabins on a run, but day-to-day car? - big YES!!
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