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Posted by: horizontally-opposed Apr 3 2017, 11:21 AM

My thanks to Bracken Helmes, the most disarming interviewer I've come across. Also, possibly, the most fun.
https://petrolicious.com/articles/000-magazines-pete-stout-shares-his-views-on-porsche-media-life-and-the-intersections-therein[code]


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Posted by: Andyrew Apr 3 2017, 11:51 AM

This was a great article! Thanks for posting it! I read through the whole thing and really enjoyed it.


Side note,

Bracken is the newsletter editor for Yosemite region PCA. Very nice and approachable dude.

Posted by: SirAndy Apr 3 2017, 11:53 AM

Posted by: Betty Apr 3 2017, 12:50 PM

I knew I would always tell people that I thought my car was beautiful and they just would never 'get' it.

You were able to put into words what I have been trying to organize inside my head for a while now. It's the minimalism, the utilitarianism - how what it is supposedly 'missing'; is what defines it just as much as what it isn't missing.

I know this may sound silly... but after doing this to myself after reading the article - I actually feel better now.

I always talk to my car when I drive. On our way home from work today we are going to have a great talk. Thank you.. I owe you a beer!

Posted by: Eric_Shea Apr 3 2017, 12:57 PM

Cool shoes

Posted by: Maltese Falcon Apr 3 2017, 01:47 PM

Well done Pete ; all we need now is a bumper sticker "Not a Fiat X1-9" For all those folks you meet at the gas station !
Hope to see you in San Pedro, Luft 4.
Marty

Posted by: falcor75 Apr 3 2017, 02:20 PM

Thats was the best read I've had in a long time....Thank you.

Go 914 !

Posted by: Big Len Apr 3 2017, 03:11 PM

Terrific read....thanks for posting.

Posted by: Ferg Apr 3 2017, 04:08 PM

Awesome read. Thanks Pete!

Posted by: 914Sixer Apr 3 2017, 07:34 PM

I enjoyed it!

Posted by: GeorgeRud Apr 3 2017, 07:47 PM

Was enough to convince me to bite the bullet and subscribe to 000.

Posted by: beech4rd Apr 3 2017, 07:52 PM

Thanks for this. Combined with the 1970 Car Magazine review of the 914-6 posted today, this made for a great evening's reading.

Posted by: wndsnd Apr 3 2017, 08:03 PM

Eloquent.

Posted by: SKL1 Apr 3 2017, 08:09 PM

Great read! Saw this on rennlist too. Anxiously awaiting my new issue of 000- supposed to arrive Saturday!

Posted by: scallyk9 Apr 3 2017, 08:31 PM

Wonderful article. And his mention of enjoying an eighties Merkur XR4Ti was a plus for me also. Thanks for posting the link.

Posted by: RickS Apr 3 2017, 09:23 PM

Even for a guy who has driven the best of the best, he never forgot his roots and heaps praise on the humble 914. Hats off to Pete.

Posted by: 914-300Hemi Apr 3 2017, 09:23 PM

Great article

Posted by: horizontally-opposed Apr 3 2017, 10:41 PM

(Re)learning to keep it simple.

Thanks, everyone...



So how about a pic of that Xerati? Saw a cool blue 1988 or 1989 on 15-inch Cossie wheels on my way to Novato Cars and Coffee last Sunday and honked at him from the GT4 and gave him a big thumbs up. Bet he won't get that one again.

Yes, I am still a Merkur nerd, and miss mine.

Posted by: Mueller Apr 3 2017, 11:07 PM

Pete wrote

, great line!

Great read, almost felt as if there in person listening to you guys talk, extra kudos for mentioning your wife!

Posted by: Krieger Apr 3 2017, 11:29 PM

Thanks for posting. I enjoyed reading!

Posted by: sb914 Apr 4 2017, 06:12 AM

Great read!!thanks for posting this .

Posted by: Ferg Apr 4 2017, 09:16 AM

The Merkur gave me a chuckle. Growing up at a Ford dealership it was the forbidden fruit I wanted desperately in High School.

Here was mine, low mile garage queen. Sold because it was an autotragic.

Posted by: 11tenths Apr 4 2017, 10:51 AM

914 is maximum minimalism.

Thanks for knowing, and for being here, Pete.

-Harry

Posted by: horizontally-opposed Apr 4 2017, 11:18 AM

Very cool.

Here's the back end of my old 1989 in Stratus Silver...spotted years after I sold it due to a lack of garage space in San Francisco. The engine was a joyless anvil, but the handling and packaging were superb.


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Posted by: StratPlayer Apr 4 2017, 02:17 PM

I used to date his mother when I first moved to utah, Her name was jennifer bracken, hence his first name Bracken. Of course he wasn't born yet. Small world. I took him for his first ride on a harley when he was a kid.

Posted by: Vysoc Apr 5 2017, 06:47 AM

Well written article, Pete captures in words what we all think and feel about our cars!!!

Thank you!

Vysoc

Posted by: horizontally-opposed Apr 6 2017, 09:30 PM

Wow, what a crazy small world!