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Message: Re: BRBS 2016 - fixed images
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Author: TweetyDate: June 10, 2016 12:18PM
Re: BRBS 2016
A little background about me. I am a mostly retired engineer living in Kitchener Ontario and have always enjoyed cars.
My first was a 57 VW that I bought from a pizza restaurant when it was ten years old. I had a few more VWs in the early years - 68 beetle, 68 Karman Gia convertible, a 73 Audi 100 and then a 76 Rabbit. The Rabbit experience drove me away from German cars as it was just terrible. But, I always lusted for a Porsche.
I later had the first Mazda RX7, but had to get rid of it when our second child was born. After that it was a series of ordinary cars as we raised our kids, paid for all the camps, tuition, and weddings. In the late 90's I considered buying an MG B but sanity prevailed and I bought a 99 Miata. I loved that car then bought the holy grail of Miatas - the 04 MazdaSpeed factory turbo and modified the intake and exhaust to get near 200 rwhp. I drove the 04 for 11 years and 150,000 trouble free kms but it was time to buy something else.
My wife and I wanted a better long distance touring car and the Boxster is perfect because it is much more comfortable and has twice the luggage capacity.
I was looking at used Boxsters, but the engine problems in the early models scared me off. I finally found this car in Saskatchewan last year with 5200 km on it and drove it back to Ontario. Its a base PDK and fairly heavily optioned.
Here are few photos:
My first was a 57 VW that I bought from a pizza restaurant when it was ten years old. I had a few more VWs in the early years - 68 beetle, 68 Karman Gia convertible, a 73 Audi 100 and then a 76 Rabbit. The Rabbit experience drove me away from German cars as it was just terrible. But, I always lusted for a Porsche.
I later had the first Mazda RX7, but had to get rid of it when our second child was born. After that it was a series of ordinary cars as we raised our kids, paid for all the camps, tuition, and weddings. In the late 90's I considered buying an MG B but sanity prevailed and I bought a 99 Miata. I loved that car then bought the holy grail of Miatas - the 04 MazdaSpeed factory turbo and modified the intake and exhaust to get near 200 rwhp. I drove the 04 for 11 years and 150,000 trouble free kms but it was time to buy something else.
My wife and I wanted a better long distance touring car and the Boxster is perfect because it is much more comfortable and has twice the luggage capacity.
I was looking at used Boxsters, but the engine problems in the early models scared me off. I finally found this car in Saskatchewan last year with 5200 km on it and drove it back to Ontario. Its a base PDK and fairly heavily optioned.
Here are few photos:
