09-24-2024, 12:26 AM
(09-23-2024, 10:57 PM)rickymouse Wrote: I could have bought a little Porsche 912 years back, It was in good shape, just needed a muffler. Price was eight hundred bucks...I got in it to take it for a test drive, couldn't shift it into gear, the shifter hit my right leg when I tried to get it into gear. I mentioned it to the guy who owned it and he said same problem with him...that is why he was selling it, he couldn't drive it. I would have bought it for the daughter if he would drive it to my house...he said he can't because he can't shift either. My workers were all my size or a little shorter, but strong construction worker bodies and strong legs....no way would any of them have been able to drive it either.
At the time in the condition it was in, it was only worth about 1600...The 912s were not real high priced Porsche models. It was maybe a sixty seven, that was in around the year 2000. Had that little four banger in it, the guy said it was kind of snappy for a little car. Had the same engine as my uncle had in his Volkswagon camper van that he had next to his garage on the farm, so I had parts for the engine if I ever needed them.
I won't buy a car that I cannot fit into. I wonder if the other Porsche cars are that tiny too.
I've only driven a few porsches while working on them. Just not my kinda car. I don't fit in them either. I can't buy toyotas also because generally, I don't fit! I have very large feet. Toyotas my feet hit the steering column and this is not ideal in a "situation".
