Beautiful time of year up there. And a beautiful, well-cared for car. I grew up in western New York, and it feels so familiar.by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Mine stopped working on the left front a few months or so ago, and so I have finally removed both of them. They were great (or pretty good) for 10 years or more. I thank you for the effort and care you took to source them and send them. Enthusiasts get enthused, and you have continued a great tradition. Thanks for all you do.by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Are Leatherique still in business? It's ben a while since I used it on my car and horse saddles, but I was great.by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Not at this time of the evening...by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Sorry for the late reply... I did think that your post was well thought out and done.by TheFarmer - Main Forum
I have been quite concerned that this thread is not about Boxsters, but about other (i.e. political) issues. My take is that fossil fuels have to go - they are a huge and avoidable part of our problem. The concerns about alternatives should not be dismissed, however. And one of the big issues might be lithium mining. It is not very environmentally friendly, should we say. But the research s fby TheFarmer - Main Forum
Electric as we know it is a pretty good solution. We simply can not dump more CO2 into the atmosphere. But you are right that "electricity" is not an end-all. There are coal-fired electric plants, as well as natural gas and oil fired plants. But electric seems the best option for car energy at the moment. Solar is great: a coal fired electricity plant -- not so good. The point about cars iby TheFarmer - Main Forum
Great idea!!!by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Electric vehicles can be cheap! But of course the manufacturers want to get as much money out of the rich and famous as they can, so they only offer expensive versions of electric vehicles. This is simple piracy economics: build new products for the rich, then "trickle down". I can't say that this is anything other than sound business practice.. But when the East Antarctic Ice Sheet starts toby TheFarmer - Main Forum
But the top of Mt. Washington was in the stratosphere for some of this time!!! (or should we say that the stratosphere fell onto Mt. Washington...)by TheFarmer - Main Forum
I had a very large Irish Wolfhound who loved to get in the back "seat" of a 1980s Jaguar XJS, and take the 2 mile trip too our horse farm. But I have never carried another dog in the Boxster (they have been Newfoundland's and Wolfhounds) That's what SUVs are for....by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Not really unbelievable, but perhaps a little rare.by TheFarmer - Main Forum
For those of us worrying about spillage, I don't see why partially filling the filter is anything but a better idea than not doing it at all. I'm going to start.by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Never did. I put oil on the seal and thread, but that's it. I've never had a problem in all the cars I've had since the 1960s, and I only had someone else do one car (a Jag XJS V12 that I could never get under). But I have to admit that I never thought of it, and it might seem like a good idea, but as far as I can see, that would mean old spills all over my garage floor, given my innate inabiliby TheFarmer - Main Forum
It looks to me like a gasoline version might survive in some markets... Or, the prototype is running around on petrol...by TheFarmer - Main Forum
That must be a base Boxster, it has a single exhaust tip...by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Things like these are made to sell. NOT to buy!by TheFarmer - Main Forum
The album worked just fine - all 500+ photos! It was a great treat for us (but often one spends too much time behind the camera) Thanks!by TheFarmer - Main Forum
.You an anti--EV advocate, Gary? (some weird emoji would be here, but...)by TheFarmer - Main Forum
There is a feeling among some that electric cars are a terrible transformation of what we had taken up worshiping, so there is a tendency to find ways to blame new technology for anything bad. A tendency to focus on the "what if...". What if there were some BEVs on board and we could blame them for the fire? It's too tempting for some. And too hard to prove.by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Good comment!, Laz! The skill involved in use of a manual clutch is something to be proud of, but is it really any more than that? Damn! I was pretty proud of my abilities, but then again, I could touch-type on a Smith-Corona pretty well too (but that did not make my PhD thesis any better).by TheFarmer - Main Forum
OMG, so sorry for you! The omicron variant is just charging around all over the place, and we had gotten used to old protocols and old safety. I wish you and your family all the best.by TheFarmer - Main Forum
Indeed - What a shine! Those 986 lights show why Porsche designed them (although I have to admit that I prefer my 987 lights ) Beautiful! and well-maintained. I'm going to put on my winter tires on my 987 and pretend that I will still drive it. But we have an old car "club" at the local brewery (356's, Triumphs, etc.) so the 1 mile trip to pick up a local tripel is not unlikely.by TheFarmer - Main Forum
With solar and wind sources, electric is as clean as you can get. But things get pretty complex when you start asking where and how the batteries and solar panels are made, just like when you ask where and how hydrogen is made. At the DOE site, describing hydrogen production, they take the attitude that biomass production of hydrogen is not a source of CO2 emissions because the biomass took upby TheFarmer - Main Forum
Because that sucks! Or the trunk lid does... or WTF???by TheFarmer - Main Forum
OMG! This thread reminds me that my '05 is now an antique, and that there is much to be learnt to keep it going. (But so far, nothing has gone wrong that a local shop could not fix). I hang around with owners of 356's (and in that case, airplanes in the front yard), as well as Triumphs and (now) MG-TDs. But I always thought of my 987 as a "modern" car. Key problems are just the tip of theby TheFarmer - Main Forum