Well written! Something I don’t think I’ve seen pointed out adequately is the maintenance, repair, and insurance costs, so be careful to look into that before that taking the plunge. For example, road debris broke the headlight on my 997.2. New headlight: $1450. Dealer oil change is $285 (more for a Turbo, don’t…

Ahhh... but the newest one coming in 2018 reintroduces the manual option... if you are willing to pay the performance penalty. Of course, 2018 allocations are hard to find and prices will be extreme, so it will still just be something I’ll have to wantingly gawk at.

I liked your observation that it seems to be two images patched together around the area of the B pillar, so I did an edit to try and compensate for the angular shift you presented by skewing the front end half of the image. I also changed it to black and white since it seemed to be clearer to me that way. Now the car…