Said buddy today mentioned that he's looking into performance driving schools. Attaboy!
5chn3ll wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:32 pm
My buddy - who spun his 86 off the road into the desert a few months back - spun his 86 again; beached it this time. Allegedly, there was a dog he was trying to avoid. I'm not one to call bullshit, but I haven't seen many dogs on the 805...
Brother needs a Porsche and performance driving school. Real bad. Hard to tell from the photo, but he was a couple of feet away from a 10 foot drop...a few MPH faster, and his Saturday would have been a lot worse than waiting for AAA to show up and drag him back onto the asphalt.
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 2:26 pm
by gnat
Kalashnikov wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 10:43 am
I don't think KK violates the rule. He is just mechanically paranoid. The guy probably has the best wrenching skills out of any non Jr person here and was really doing serious work on his 996 and other vehicles.
You seem to have forgotten the last few years of KK.
While he did things that didn't need to be done, he did do far more to his engine than most and offered useful information in technical threads. Then something happened to the guy and he went Full Dick. This was about the time of his "can I do a 500 Mile road trip" thread.
After that he started slagging on anyone that said anything remotely positive about the 996, argued with Jake like he was remotely in the same league, constantly recommend ridiculous and unessesary repairs to new owners that didn't know better, and then there was the whole El Cheapo IMSB fiasco.
Hell, even in the linked thread he couldn't help himself from being a dick about the 996 and even taking a swipe at early 997s.
FRUNKenstein wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:48 pm
Looky what got delivered to the museum today - brand new from factory - 5 miles on odometer . I went to lunch with the factory delivery guy - interesting guy from England who is a racer. Definitely had a Ford vs. Ferrari flavor to the whole experience.
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I'm gonna guess the ODO reads 10,000 by the time it goes back from all the "shuffling" that has to be done on a daily basis...
I got the evil eye yesterday from our curator for just joking that I was going to go sit in it after hours.
FRUNKenstein wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:48 pm
Looky what got delivered to the museum today - brand new from factory - 5 miles on odometer . I went to lunch with the factory delivery guy - interesting guy from England who is a racer. Definitely had a Ford vs. Ferrari flavor to the whole experience.
Kalashnikov wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 10:43 am
I don't think KK violates the rule. He is just mechanically paranoid. The guy probably has the best wrenching skills out of any non Jr person here and was really doing serious work on his 996 and other vehicles.
You seem to have forgotten the last few years of KK.
While he did things that didn't need to be done, he did do far more to his engine than most and offered useful information in technical threads. Then something happened to the guy and he went Full Dick. This was about the time of his "can I do a 500 Mile road trip" thread.
After that he started slagging on anyone that said anything remotely positive about the 996, argued with Jake like he was remotely in the same league, constantly recommend ridiculous and unessesary repairs to new owners that didn't know better, and then there was the whole El Cheapo IMSB fiasco.
Hell, even in the linked thread he couldn't help himself from being a dick about the 996 and even taking a swipe at early 997s.
I'm totally in agreement with Schnelly here.
Concur. I enjoyed his early, harmless, good-natured trolling (he had an epic one in the 944 subforum). But, then he just went evil stupid.
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:45 pm
by 32wildbilly
5chn3ll wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 11:29 am
Said buddy today mentioned that he's looking into performance driving schools. Attaboy!
5chn3ll wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:32 pm
My buddy - who spun his 86 off the road into the desert a few months back - spun his 86 again; beached it this time. Allegedly, there was a dog he was trying to avoid. I'm not one to call bullshit, but I haven't seen many dogs on the 805...
Brother needs a Porsche and performance driving school. Real bad. Hard to tell from the photo, but he was a couple of feet away from a 10 foot drop...a few MPH faster, and his Saturday would have been a lot worse than waiting for AAA to show up and drag him back onto the asphalt.
I pity the in car instructor ...if he gets that far.
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:53 am
by Cuda911
Quote from the "unmentionable" site. Guess who made it:
"Dealing with Porsche owners everyday for the last 28 years has finally worn on me. I feel like a hard (impossible) to please, jerk when I sit in my own cars, after all these years. The 964 went to a new owner last week, and the others are slowly making their departure as I **try** to find buyers for them that have reasonable expectations."
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:07 am
by Cuda911
5chn3ll wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 11:27 am
Sweet - media embed is once again working.
Fun stuff!! With BW, I always wondered if that epilepsy procedure where they cut your left and right brain hemispheres apart would make for an amazing player. Total left and right hand independence.
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 5:41 am
by 32wildbilly
Cuda911 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:53 am
Quote from the "unmentionable" site. Guess who made it:
"Dealing with Porsche owners everyday for the last 28 years has finally worn on me. I feel like a hard (impossible) to please, jerk when I sit in my own cars, after all these years. The 964 went to a new owner last week, and the others are slowly making their departure as I **try** to find buyers for them that have reasonable expectations."
I know...I know. Sometimes he just gets frustrated with dealing with people. I can't blame him all that much. As I always said when I worked "Work wouldn't be all that bad if I didn't have to deal with stupid people and all people are stupid." As it turned out I was a people too...
