Im joining the Dark Side

[scaramanga]

Congratulations!! Hope all goes well and enjoy the new toy!

 

[nfearn]

Hey Lali Congratulations. Please share your experiences of the new car. I've had mine for just over a year now and there have been a few ups and downs, but it's all sorted now and is a real pleasure. Nick

 

[lali]

..or am I planning to leave the Dark Side and come over ot the light side??

Either way I'm picking up my 993 this weekend!! I'm so excited I could P my pants!!!

I get to drive it later today, and then I get to bring it home tomorrow!!!!!


oh its a 96 Vario in Iris Blue with Sports seats.

I cant wait!!!

My first 911!!!!!

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[szklarek]

Excellent choice. Enjoy! Regards Anton

 

[pse_SC]

I'm so excited I could P my pants!!!

Just make sure you’re not sitting in your new car when you do this[&:] Have fun (I’m sure you will!)[]

 

[Neil Haughey]

I had heard about this today up at EMC and did wonder why you weren't around. First time I can ever remember being there and no Lali or Paz. Have a good one mate, tempted myself to try the dark side at some point.

 

[Mark Elder]

Welcome and enjoy - we want pictures as soon as you have it home.[]

 

[jdpef356]

I sounds like you need to get the optional Commode seat[]

 

[Paz]

Can't wait to see it again, it's a damn fine automobile!! [8D]

 

[MarkK]

Have fun

 

[harry]

I like iris blue

 

[davepaul993]

good choice of car ! ive had mine nearly 7 years now., its a brill bit of kit.

 

[lali]

Thanks guys.... I've got a feeling this is "the real thing" They say that you never forget your first…, your first kiss, your first love and your first time... as a 911 owner. ! and so that time has come for me after years of front engine Porsche ownership I've finally gone and done it. All of my previous cars were quickly transformed in to track cars and with the ongoing commitment to racing the bug I decided that a road car was in order. So with the track cars on their way out the "only" car that could replace them was a 911, and it HAD to be air-cooled! Well it has to look right in the garage parked next to the beetle right? All of the online buyer guides and FAQ's were studied and digested, I owe a massive thanks to Jackal, his site had more information than anyone could ever need when they embark on the search for a 993. Weeks of looking, countless phone calls, dozens of viewings followed. And then just as I was about to give up and go and buy an M3 there it was… almost too good to be true, a car that ticked all but one of the boxes. So on a wet and windy Saturday a friend and I headed out to look at a varioram car with hard backed seats, it had some minor upgrades that were already on my planned todo list, the only thing 'wrong' with it was that it didn't have a black dash.. But I decided I'd give blue a chance! The deal was done and I was the owner of an iris blue 993. All I had to do was sort some paperwork out and arrange a day to pick it up. As luck would have it my brother was working close to the car so he offered to pick it up and drop it to me on Friday, which meant I'd get the car a week earlier than I could pick it up...JACKPOT!!! I was buzzing! Thursday night at my house was like those euro Disney adverts. "are you asleep?" - "no... I'm too excited" Friday came and I went from Disney to Direct Line and I was living a "shark attack!!" my brother was running late and he'd take the car straight home and I could pick it up on Sunday... Gutted!!! As I write this on Sunday night, the day is nearly over and it's been a couple of hours since I tucked the 993 away but I'm still smiling, no that’s not right... I'm still grinning! Rewind to earlier today.... Got to my brothers and spent some time just looking at the car, nothing else just standing and admiring the car, the iconic 911 profile, the seductive curves of the rear arches, the cheeky flick of the rear spoiler... Its Just Beautiful! Now there's two ways home from my brothers.... Mainly motorway or no motorway. I'd plotted my way across country.... The long way... The VERY long way!! And then it happened again.... "shark attack". One of the nurburgsingh-lings piped up "I'm going with daddy in the Porsche" So the long way home is out of the question and I decide to do the sensible thing, a mix and match route. Now I've only ever 'driven' 2 911's in my life( test drives don't count ) my brothers 964RS when I was 21 ( some :cough: years ago..), at a track day. And I did the UK leg of a return trip from the 'ring with a friend in his 964RS a couple of years ago. So I'm still what I'd class as a 911 virgin. That coupled with the Boy Wonder occupying the passenger seat I resigned myself to a ‘restrained’ drive home. Seats adjusted, belts on, doors closed, key in the ignition, I turn the key to light up the dash, listen to the pumps whirr into life somewhere behind me… take a deep breath and turn the key further…. The engine fires into life and settles quickly into that distinctive flat 6 thrum. Instantly the smile arrives on my face, this is MY 911…! I eased out of the drive and headed off up the road, nice and steady… no rush yet, let the car warm up, get used to the slightly cockeyed seating position, get a feel for the controls. The dashboard is very different to the 968 but still very familiar, instinct takes me to all of the buttons I need…. Central locking eluded me but my eagle eyed passenger clocked it straight away. By the time we arrived at the first set of twisties the temperature and pressures are all showing that the car is ready for some action, my feet have reverted to DDC like I’ve been doing it all my life. My hands are comfortable on the (ugly) steering wheel and I’m ready to… I knocked it down a couple of gears, feet working in perfect unison and with a clear road ahead of us, we’re off! Amazing is the only word that comes close to describing the sensation. Its like the car knows the road as well as I do. The steering is phenomenal, pick a point on the road and BANG! You’re on it… not near it, not past it… ON IT! Pick a line through a curve and it tracks it with no dramas. All the time you can here the engine behind you as it urges you on, it wants to rev and it wants you to rev it and its like the beautiful song of a mermaid, you cant resist it… you have to go closer and closer to the red line, and the smile gets bigger the closer you get to it. With the first twisty section dispensed with, we had a short run up the motorway before we could turn off again and get back on the A roads. Sitting quietly at about the 70 mark its still making me smile… The boy wonder on the other hand has fallen asleep in the time it’s taken me to drive down the slip road on to the Motorway! 30 mins away from home we turn off and it’s a short rumble through town before we’re back on the open road, this time we have some traffic to deal with. Well I say “deal with”, its hardly a big deal, an opportunity presents it self you exercise your right foot, and its over, meanwhile the orchestra in the back provides the soundtrack to another perfectly executed overtake. Every action is complemented by the car, take a bend perfectly poised and the car pats you on the back, gives you a “Well Done, now lets do it again”, make a crisp clean overtake and you can almost hear the “Nice One!, lets have some more”. We arrived home via the short dual carriage and way and it dawns on me that I haven’t actually stopped grinning since I started the journey 90 miles ago I found more than just passion for a car today, today I rekindled my love for driving. There is a true sense of occasion when driving the 993, every action is rewarded exponentially. There is something to stimulate all of your senses, that distinctive 911 ‘smell’, the drop dead gorgeous lines that you could just look at all day long, the ‘feel’ through the wheel of exactly what the car is doing, the ‘sounds’, where do you stop when describing the sounds that an air-cooled 911 makes? Even the sound of the doors closing makes the hairs on the back of my next stand on end… and the taste? Well that’s the hunger to get back in the seat and drive!!

 

[Porker993]

NB Iris blue with blue dash ? Nowt wrong with that, good combo in my opinion, not that I'm biased of course. 6 speed, marble seats and carpets I hope ?

 

[Mark Elder]

Great write-up of the first ownership-drive experience - it brings back memories....although actually that experience does not fade over time (had mine 5 years now) - the experience of the car every time you jump in is just as good. Even moving it around on the driveway is such a smile-creating sensation - the noise (in contrast to my other cars) is so special. But it is a 993 (and earlier) thing - parked my RAV4 in a car park next to a 997 the other day and sat in my car making a call. The 997 owner returned, started it up and drove off. It was so quiet I actually thought it must have a fault, no, it's just a "modern" water cooled machine. ...

 

[gm997_1]

Cracking write up, Lali. You should be an action story writer in your spare time. Stirred me more than any other post on the 993 forum in what is it, 6 years or so now [] Your experience is virtually a carbon copy of mine. Graduated up from 968 (Sport) to a 993 (vario, Midnight Blue, hardback seats) after having trawled round umpteen 993s before giving up and then "the one" turned up completely unexpected. Just the ticket!! Even down to the son in the passenger seat... I love the way you can be feeling really crap after a day at the office or family hassles for whatever reason and you then jump in the 993 and go for a blast, all within limits, and you come back just feeling a milion dollars. A briliant quality at so many levels for me that no other car has even come close to. [And I'll admit it - I can find myself any day just standing and admiring its rear curves for several minutes before snapping out of it]. BTW, i'm with Porker 993 above - nowt wrong wi' a blue dash - lil' bit of individuality []

 

[lali]

Thanks guys... I was in the garage this morning and I had to check myself cos I was just gazing at the lights reflected in the rear wings and spoiler.. Hoping to get together with another iris blue car for a photo shoot soon so I'll make sure they get posted.

 

[jdpef356]

Great write up - bang on[] I've all ways said when you see the right car it should make the hairs on your neck stand up[] My 993 S did when I met her and still does today some 5 years latter. Whenever we go out I open the garage door and before starting her up and play the track from Easy Rider by Steppenwolf. Get your motor Running My car seems to know when I put the music on since she starts 'Shaking her Ass' (and its a big one the S model) - just like the Renault advert[]

 

[Stewart Rix]

That grin will not disappear, trust me.[] I've moved through the ranks of 944S2 (white) to 968 Sport (black) to 993 C4 (Ocean) and now 993 turbo (Arctic). All of them used as my every day car. I had the C4 for 9 years and every journey was special. With the extra power (+50%) of the turbo, the 'grin' breaks into an occasional childish chuckle though. My 5 year old boys demand "do the turbos, Daddy" and a quick squirt with the loud pedal satisfies that without going crazy. Oh, and I've got a midnight blue interior (dash, seats, door cappings, pillars, with marble door inserts, centre column, handbrake, gearstick and carpets) and I think it looks good - can't see why some folks hate the blue. My C4 was entirely black inside, which was also good, so it's not as if I haven't had first hand experience of living with the different colour schemes.

 

[lali]

its not that I dislike the blue, my 944S2 had a blue interior, ist just that it wasnt my first choice..... Im taking it to bham tomorrow.... the LONG way!!