I guess 1200 miles at ten miles to the gallon wouldn’t be a huge expense, even paying for 100 octane gas. However, you would probably be crippled and deaf by the time you got here.  :-)

Maybe I will go down there to drive the Hellcat once I get the car shipped to me in the next couple of months. I am in Port Townsend, so it will probably cost $100 in fuel. Heh.

Ha! I would probably let you take it for a spin if you lived in my area. I am in Washington (state) but the car is currently in Las Vegas (not for SEMA).

Pantera owner here. I am always giddy when these cars get some attention.

I love the 996, no matter what anyone says. I don’t say that as someone who looks at them on the internet, I say that as someone who owned one. It was mostly my wife’s car, but I drove it often when I didn’t want to wrestle with my death machine on drives.

I own a mid-engined car and this new Corvette is exciting to me. It feels like the brand is taking a huge step forward, much like Ford did with the GT. I would still probably buy a Porsche for that money, but I would at least check out the Corvette.

I would say your rules for Pebble Beach should apply even at the grocery store parking lot. I would get mad if someone touched my phone because they were interested, why would I be OK with someone manhandling my car? 

Your attitude might change if you ever restore a car. The first scratch or door ding really hurts after spending $15k on bodywork and paint.

I thought that too, until I went back and read this:

Sure, all of our cars are insured (at least I hope they are), but that doesn’t make it easy to take a chance on someone else causing it to be in a shop for months and the drop in value. Plus, we don’t all have cars that are friendly in the hands of those without certain skills.

Agreed. We are relying on citizen’s “don’t touch other people’s stuff” morality in order to NOT have our cars be garage queens. 

Encouraging people to touch your cars = awesome.

Agreed, and it is Especially easy in/around Seattle.

This is my life:

You ain’t kiddin’. I just moved to Kirkland and we have made a few trips into the city to figure out where to buy. Some neighborhoods are Subaru, Subaru, Prius, Mini, Subaru, Subaru, Prius, Mini. Heh.

I am dealing with this issue now in my move to Seattle. If I want to live in the city, many buildings have one or zero spots available. As far as I can tell, no houses have large garages and many only have a single bay.

Former 996 owner here. I’m going with Nice Price. I would want fewer miles if actually buying, but I assume there is some room for negotiation.

Nah, the GT-S had 180hp, weighed 2500 pounds, and was a ton of fun. Felt sporty to me. I would have kept mine forever if it was rear wheel drive. Never drove the standard GT though.

One powerful recurring beat in the movie shows Johnson having to run across the Langley campus in Virginia to use the segregated bathroom that’s 40 minutes away from her desk. It’s reminiscent of moments like the fraught, illegal walk to a water fountain in 1974 TV movie The Autobiography of Ms. Jane Pittman. 

Like Blu-Hue said, one could work as a photo-retoucher. These days though, you can find these skills at any design firm or ad agency.