You know you're a 997 driver when a pic of your car is your desktop wallpaper

 

you know you're a 997 driver when:
- you refuse to up shift just to hear the sweet sweet sound
- you'd rather walk 20mins in the snow before giving the car to valet
- you keep driving shoes in the car (or am I the only one?)
- you dream up all the other possible color/option combination you would have went for
- you drive a 997 (obviously)

 

-We don't have snow in Miami, but I've walked in the rain for this specific reason

-I keep my helmet and gloves in a bag in the back where my rear seats used to be. Since I have a roll bar there is no way anybody's using the back. I'm always afraid that I'll forget them when going to track

I never kept my driving shoes in the car...

 

Although I dont keep them in the car I will not drive with other shoes on so I often have them with me.

 

You know your a 997 driver when.....wait a minute. I'll be right back to finish my comment. I gotta go out to the garage.

 

LOL. My wife often gives me grief when I take “too long” to take the trash out. “… you were looking at your car again, weren’t you?” Busted!

 

You see an orange cone by the side of the road and you think it is marking the apex of a turn!

 

Thats HILARIOUS!!!

 

You know you're a 997 driver when:

- You think that even an older lady like Sally from Cars (a 996.2) is hotter than Lara Croft in Tomb Raider...

T.

 

***When you spend additional time on the Throne in the Bathroom reading about how glorious our 911's are!!!

 

Guilty

 

Okay, that one rang my chimes. I get all the others too, but I've owned sports cars since 1965 and things like "looking back after you leave it all alone in a parking space" are not peculiar to my Porsche. But that rear-view mirror effect...

Only a select few cars have this distinction and a Porsche is one of them. Let me add a couple more notes related to desert freeway driving:

- Drivers in the fast lane back off to make a hole for you when they see you begin to accelerate on an on-ramp;

- You do a casual merge (see above) and realize you're traveling 110 mph between two other super cars that some magazine just had at Willow Springs doing a comparo.

That last one could get expensive. Do those guys get a ticket budget from the editor for God's sake? The coincidence happens once or twice a year and after a gentlemanly exchange of waves, I move over and slow to 80 or so and let them cruise on at autobahn speeds into a stretch I know has three CHP patrol beats.

Gary

 

You know you're a 997 driver when your posting on 6speed on Thanksgiving.

 

You know you're a 997 driver....erm.....owner....when you put 1700 miles on your Carrera in 10 months while using a Jetta diesel station wagon to drive back and forth to work every day.......?

 

What? I put 1,700 miles a MONTH on mine. She likes to be driven!