I'll go first.
...you own more than 4 jackstands.
You have one of the busiest paypal accounts without owning a business.
Most questions start with: 'Where can I find the cheapest...'
you can't fix one thing without fixing another first and before that something else and so on and so on and so on and so on.......................
T
if your parts stash is worth more $ than your car is.
Jen
YOU OWN A PORSCHE BUT HAVE NEVER DRIVEN ONE
QUOTE (bondo @ Feb 3 2005, 12:08 PM) |
I'll go first. ...you own more than 4 jackstands. |
You think a sign like this means to down shift and step on it.
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Your wife says no I'm not bringing dinner to the garage.
You think a garage is where you work on things not store things.
QUOTE (sanman @ Feb 3 2005, 01:13 PM) | ||
BTDT this was mine on a previos thread |
If your wallet is empty, but the drawer is crammed with receipts
Ron
.....if ya know who Zois is..... and if ya know the avitars by heart.......
M
...you have www.por-15.com in your bookmarks.
QUOTE (Jenny @ Feb 3 2005, 12:12 PM) |
if your parts stash is worth more $ than your car is. Jen |
Your wife asks you: "Is it safe to drive?" And you respond: "Safe is relative!"
If when in a conversation with someone and rust is mentioned and you think about your car.
you get pissed because the street values are going up......
...you try to start in second when driving "normal" cars.
or, ...you pop the hood when pulling up to the gas pump when driving a "normal" car.
(I'm guilty of both)
You have been heard saying..........."Nice longs........."
Pictures like this make your pants fit funny:
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You ask if it's a six and if not...when you are going to convert it....
You keep a spare tire in your car for crash safety
Cole
You have more pairs of jeans that are saturated with oil/transmission fluid/brake fluid than you do clean pairs.
Your neighbors hate you
You can't understand how cars without spare tires manage to clean their windshields.
You go out with your wife/girlfriend dancing and you insist on going to the Sway Bar.
Wherever you look around you there are bumpers, license plates and door handles of other cars.
You pour oil into your furnace at home beacuse you think its not working correctly.
... if you own one or more welders and thats not your profession
When you have more car parts on your coffee table than in the engine bay of your car.
You have ever had to decide between being cold in your car or breathing the smell of burning oil.
if you've ever rebuild your carbs on the patio, just to get out of the garage for a while...
if you tell people "I have a porsche, but not the one your thinking of..."
you have spent more on parts, than you did for the car itself.
"rust" is the scariest word in the dictionary...
...routine maintenance turns into an engine drop, which turns into a complete restoration that takes 3-5 years.
when people ask you what kind of car it is and you reply:
it's a por 15,
i mean porsche 914."
QUOTE (aircooledboy @ Feb 3 2005, 01:30 PM) |
You have ever had to decide between being cold in your car or breathing the smell of burning oil. |
When your wife helps you pack the extra clutch cable in your lunch bag and writes on the outside the AAA phone number.
Quilmes
When you leave the car at the office overnight and the next morning everyone in the office asks you 'what's wrong with it?'
Your neighbor thinks your rich because you own a "Porsche"...
if you've spent quite a bit of time watching quite a bit of the world pass by a narrow horizon marked only by your feet, which are angled slightly and pointing toward the sky, and two tires (on a good day).
pete
When you can change the clutch cable on the side of the road and still make it to work on time.
IF YOUR NOT AFRAID TO WORK ON YOUR OWN PORSCHE
When you go through a drive through and the person ask is that a Fiat or Fiero or (insert your own here).
you know you own a 914 when the stanford DPS starts hassling you about an "abandoned vehicle".
bastards.
...when "Teener" means your car and not your girlfriend-on-the-side.
You have to roll up your window if you end up next to diesel truck at a stop light to avoid black face
you look at the semi next to you on the highway and think "I know I could make it under that trailer"
You pull into a parking lot and a young hispanic kid walks over from his chopped Impala and he asks you "man, how'd you get that so low...."
..All true...
However, you all missed the top two....
People like your "Fiat"
and you regularly meet the "yep, my dad used to have one of "them"" type people....
... you park facing downhill because of your hot start problem.
Jen
You can recite the spare parts recommendations for long road trips.....
You know Porsche serial #s by heart.
You can tell one MPS type from another.
Your tail shifter shifts pretty good.
You get all misty when you find a gear shift knob that doesn't have a crack in the clear coat over the shift pattern or the bakelite isn't chipped.....
You know why your 914 doesn't have a crest on the hood.
You can get home when your accelrator cable breaks as long as you have two shoe laces to tie together.
You LIKE the smell of warm oil.
It *always* takes two hands to open the engine lid.
You have to plan you trips to avoid dips, pot holes, speed bumps and steep driveways.
You brag that you can drop or install the motor in an hour.
You sit, lift, spin, plant your feet before you close the door. ( tell your passengers, too )
When you show somebody your car for the first time, you alway crack the: "where's the motor?" after the two trunks are open.
Any sign of trouble- could be a vacuum leak.
Every on ramp is the start of Le Mans.
KT
If your asking for 3 car lents in a 1/4 mile race agains your son pocket bike
if you have a big grin on your face every time you drive your car ...
Andy
if you have read this entire thread.
if almost everytime you go to show someone your car it won't start.
The first warm February day gets you all distracted and misty eyed, and you think: Hmmmmm, that first drive of the year is coming, and it is gonna ROCK.
You own a MIG welder for car maintenance.
You can ask a female 914 owner "How's your hell hole?" knowing that you won't get slapped.
you like to beat 911's with a VW motor....
where you know the stock colors by their names and not their shades. (Zambezi, Signal, Olympic, Artic....)
At the supermarket you bag with consideration of the "hot" and "cold" trunks
QUOTE (Scott Schroeder @ Feb 3 2005, 03:10 PM) |
you look at the semi next to you on the highway and think "I know I could make it under that trailer" |
Your significant other dreds the phrase "While I'm in there".
QUOTE (KaptKaos @ Feb 3 2005, 03:07 PM) |
You can ask a female 914 owner "How's your hell hole?" knowing that you won't get slapped. |
you claim your car is a "real" porsche until you beat a 911 and then its a volkswagon. or maybe its the opposite way around.
You get some unexpected cash and immediately think, what parts do I need?
You have ever sat down on a wet seat after raining, even though the windows are up and the top is on.
Or you need an umbrella while driving in the rain.
Your 3-year-old asks you 'why is your car so loud?'
if you list "smells like gasoline'" as a turn on
if you've ever had to explain to a passenger that "it could've been worse" when the motor mount goes out while driving
if you use three floor jacks for regular maintenance
if the plasma torch sees more use than your SAE wrenches
if you know that the rubber mallet, a good knife, and a pipe are essential tools
if "it's almost running" is a multiyear situation
if you've ever cursed a German engineer
if you've gotten a funny look for giggling about cars
if you cant hear your passenger at WOT with solid trans mounts
you spend more time on the e-lane than you do on the road tightenign the rear deck lid bolt thing (you know what i mean)
if the only car in your 3-car garage is a 914 that hasn't been driven in more than a year...
...your brother-in-law needs an air sick bag after his first canyon ride
...you don't bother correcting ricers that call your car a boxster
...you pay the valet to move another car so you can pull yours into the dope spot
Your parents (or significant other) starts complaining... er... inquiring about the oil stains in their driveway.
This thread friggen rocks!
...Cops pull you over to talk about your car
(has happened twice so far)
NO FREGGIN WAY. I was doing 83 in a 55 damn quick too!!! but i ended up getting a ticket tho no talk there...
You spend a considerable amount of time trying to convince your significant other that all the money you spend on the cars and parts is an "investment".
The amount of 914 parts you can "afford" is directly corrolated to the limit on your credit cards!
#1 - If you've ever heard "what'd you buy now" from your wife when the UPS truck pulls up....and couldn't remember.
#2 - If you actually know the UPS driver on a first name basis.
#3 - If you've developed iophobia........or bother to look it up to see if there really is a name for a "fear of rust"
#4 - If you've ever wondered how in the hell a door handle could possibly be worth more than the door it's attached to.
#5 - If you've ever wished you had an extra joint in each arm and a long fingernail exactly .005" thick.
Many of these posts nailed it, especially the "jack stands". I own 6, and still have to use lumber if I want to change the oil in my DD , and the one about more invested in parts than the car will ever be worth........refer to #1
.....when your car has more time in the air than an airline pilot.
LOL on the Fiat thing, and the "My dad" routine, I get it simultaneously on occasion.
Our cars make our penises look bigger, true.
...or boobs... whichever you have... lopsided, or not.
M
If you've ever inadvertently turned your wipers on during a bout of "spirited" driving.
Caloused forehead, blistered fingers.. extra knuckels... in odd places..
"You know you're a 'midwest' 914 owner if......"
I just spent the last two hours (yeah, I know... I've got weird hours) out in the garage. 1.5 hours trying to get the damn kerosene heater to work right (friggin' finally! ) and warming up......and the last 1/2 hour figuring out what to do tomorrow!
When your wife asks, "When are you going to get that piece of sh!t out of the garage"?
Your battery is dead from accidently hitting the turn signal lever getting out of the car.
You're always looking for oil leaks under any car
You try to clutch and shift in your automatics ( you know you have!!)
you drive in 97 deg heat with 80% humidity with no A.C on....in a brand new car!
You know a tail dragger ISN"T a fat girl or a tractor trailer
You described a 914 as an UGLY car but you own 4 of them
you meet a friend with a pick up at the mall, and you cant find a decent parking place... your friend tells you to throw it in the bed of his truck.
that has not happened but a friend did tell me to fold it up and stick it in my pocket once
if your jack stands have sunk in to your driveway enough to be considered perminate ( sp ) or your have a prefered place to put the jack stands because that spot that sunk is deep enough for the cross bar on the bottom stops em from sinking further
you lay in bed at night planning on what your going to fix tommarrow and how early you have to get up to do it to get to work on time ( mine was changing the gas tank )
QUOTE (Special_K @ Feb 4 2005, 12:00 AM) |
#5 - If you've ever wished you had an extra joint in each arm and a long fingernail exactly .005" thick. |
QUOTE (LvSteveH @ Feb 3 2005, 10:24 PM) |
You spend a considerable amount of time trying to convince your significant other that all the money you spend on the cars and parts is an "investment". The amount of 914 parts you can "afford" is directly corrolated to the limit on your credit cards! |
When on the way to work its raining outside and by the time you get to work it looks like you pissed yourself because the joint between the targa seal and windshield seal are not quite ultra ultra snug. Its pretty embrassing trying to explain this to all your co-workers....they do not want to understand of course!
Your wife makes you sleep in the other room because you smell like motor oil And you smell like motor oil because you ran the heater on the way home, not because you were working on the car.
QUOTE (Jenny @ Feb 4 2005, 09:01 AM) | ||
Ewww on the fingernail thing!! Eeewww!!!! If you like the smell of brake cleaner. ......And use it to clean your hands. Jen |
Everybody, except the rest of us, thinks you're weird.
QUOTE (Special_K @ Feb 4 2005, 11:42 AM) |
Soooo....You talk on your cel while driving? |
You know you are a 914 ower when you tell someone that something is in "The Back Trunk" even when the car is a normal american sedan.
You smile as you tell yourself. "I nailed that apex" even though you were going 25 in a residential area
you carry enough spare parts in the trunks "just in case" to build another car
your wife asks, "what are you gonna do this weekend?" and then says, Oh Yeah, never mind.
You have actually tried to wax primer paint
you snag a 914 part that a buddy is going to throw away because you realize it's better than the same part on your car.
You have a HUGE chip on yer shoulder and slam 911s and 911 owners every chance you get
AAA informs you that you've used up your annual allotment of "100 mile towing" benefits for your "Plus" membership.
if you fully embrace the fact that you only have two HVAC options - heat in the summer, and air conditioning in the winter!
You know you are a 914 owner / fanatic when: After you are in a stupor from working on it for 15 hours straight ,you decide to undercoat the thing with roll-on rhino lining, and when you are done you notice your tyvek suit hanging on the door ........DUHOUGH!
Been two weeks and it still ain't off yet-----
This thread rocks!!!
while driving to san jose, you don't get embarrassed asking 2 strangers to help you push your car to start it at a rest stop in southern oregon. you have washington plates. "was your starter working when you left home?", "sometimes."
k
You spend all day on the here and still can't keep up with everything that is said.
QUOTE (jwalters @ Feb 4 2005, 02:38 PM) |
You know you are a 914 owner / fanatic when: After you are in a stupor from working on it for 15 hours straight ,you decide to undercoat the thing with roll-on rhino lining, and when you are done you notice your tyvek suit hanging on the door ........DUHOUGH! Been two weeks and it still ain't off yet----- This thread rocks!!! |
QUOTE (scotty b @ Feb 4 2005, 04:27 PM) | ||
What are the words on your new avatar,I tried a microscope but still can't see! |
You have no wittty come back for the question/alligation:
"OH MY GAWD! I just reallized you PLAN on driving that PIECE of SH!T to LA in APRIL..."
because you know it is true!
"Almost running stage" is closer to before you started the project than when you will be done!
QUOTE (rhodyguy @ Feb 4 2005, 02:59 PM) |
while driving to san jose, you don't get embarrassed asking 2 strangers to help you push your car to start it at a rest stop in southern oregon. |
QUOTE (Meredith @ Feb 4 2005, 05:49 PM) |
and I still think I should have been steering while my dad pushed. Hmph. |
Wow, when you put it that way... Maybe I can wait.
QUOTE (scotty b @ Feb 4 2005, 06:27 PM) | ||
What are the words on your new avatar,I tried a microscope but still can't see! |
No combination of levers and fans will ever un-fog your windshield. You don't care if your car is worth $3K or $12K...you're not selling. People ask you "what year is that" or "how fast will it go" but never "what kind of mileage do you get" (which you don't know and don't care anyway). You don't care if 911's wave at you or not because your car is unique and EVERY other 914 will wave to you...or pull you over to talk.
Your car may or may not have sails and are thinking of installing or removing them.
People say (for real):
"That car looks really different off the jackstands."
or, after a ride:
"Whoah. I guess it really is a sportscar."
Also:
They don't see you at the drive thru until you say "down here."
You like having the Bastard Porsche.
You defend you car as only part Volkswagen- tell the story that Dr. Porsche designed the VW so all porsches have that heritage.
You have lied to people who haven't seen your car that "it's a six".
People tell you that "it's not a real Porsche"
You've thought about entering a show for Volkswagens- where you might get more respect.
You know you're a 914 owner if you stand up in the car at drive-throughs.
... if you keep an extra ½ of a 914 in your 914 as "just in case" parts.
... if you have the 'emergency contact list' on speed-dial when driving cross-country.
that's why 914 fathers have daughters.
k
You know your a 914 owner:
...when you have to add 10 mhp to whatever the speedo says cuz your AX tires change the ratio.
...you can't stop fantasizing about your 914 and yet you also own a beautiful 911 which is languishing in your garage. OR you buy/drive a 911 just til your 914 is ready.
...you USED to be into VW bugs.
Tony
when your clutch cable breaks leaving from a clubmembers house....
thanks scott
...if you feel teh need to explain what type of Porsche you own
Hot trunk, cold trunk at teh grocery store LOL
I cant believe I read the whole thing
Someone asks about your 4 banger, "is it fast" and you reply "in the corners"
When you know that 50 miles on the freeway takes longer than 50 miles through the mountains.
...when you search the sunday paper for a sale on jackstands.
or
...you go on vacation, and the first thing you do in the morning is check the classifieds section of the hotel newspaper for another 914.
or
...know from memory how much jackstands cost at 3-4 different retailers.
...If you can get in the car without opening the door
Nick
You can sit down in your car, role down the window, put your arm out and touch the ground.
You can get your four bolt wheel on quicker than a NASCAR tire changer.
You buy kitty litter a couple of sacks at a time, and you don't even own a cat.
While in the midst of cleaning out your purse, you stop and the thought actually goes through your head..."hmmm, can't take that out, I might need it to fix the car...".
. . . . you can make the shift from first to second perfectly every time, getting it snicked in nice and smooth without hitting fourth . . . which is why you won't let your spouse, BF/GF or your brother-in-law drive your 'teener -- ever!
QUOTE (vagabundo @ Feb 6 2005, 04:20 PM) |
. . . . you can make the shift from first to second perfectly every time, getting it snicked in nice and smooth without hitting fourth . . . which is why you won't let your spouse, BF/GF or your brother-in-law drive your 'teener -- ever! |
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