story 4 u - "the @55hole cop"

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one of my previous posts reminded me of this story-i couldn't help but share

so my friend and i were walking through a parking lot, looking at cars, picking out the ones we liked. tons of benz, bmw, audi, and a couple of porsche. we walk over to this one porsche (blue carrera). it's gorgeous. i rarely see nice cars like this (as i was like 15 at the time), so i kneel down to check out his brakes. stock porsche brake system-drilled rotors. about 30 seconds later, a cop walks over to us. he goes "can i help you boys?" i say "no thanks, we're just looking." as i say that, i look in the driver-side window and near have a heart attack. it's a porsche, alright-even carrera. but it's an automatic transmission!! the cop sees the look on my face and goes "what?!" i go "look, it's an automatic porsche!" my friend turns toward the cop and goes "dude you should arrest this guy" the cop just smiles and says "on what charge? impersonating a man?"[rofl]

if you don't find this funny, you probably need to learn how to drive a manual transmission.[driving]
 
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[rofl] THat's a cool cop. I went on a ride along with a cop that owned a Porsche. Stick of course. He was fun. Loved getting into high speed pursuits. Certain cars just shouldn't come in automatics.

Porsche, Lambos, Ferrari's, etc. = stick only

The Corvette is another car that shouldn't come in auto. That at the 911 Turbo are the two auto cars that I think are the worst travesties.
 
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codex57 said:
[rofl] THat's a cool cop. I went on a ride along with a cop that owned a Porsche. Stick of course. He was fun. Loved getting into high speed pursuits. Certain cars just shouldn't come in automatics.

Porsche, Lambos, Ferrari's, etc. = stick only

The Corvette is another car that shouldn't come in auto. That at the 911 Turbo are the two auto cars that I think are the worst travesties.
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agreed...theres nothing worse than looking in the window of a nice vette and seeing some "foo-foo" dog on a little white "blanky." makes me sick
 
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e30fr3@k said:
agreed...theres nothing worse than looking in the window of a nice vette and seeing some "foo-foo" dog on a little white "blanky." makes me sick
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I noticed that too. And if not the dog, then the driver is either a 70+ male or a 60+ white hair grandma driving the car. Going 35 in a 40 zone. Shouldn't those people have gotten a Cadillac or Buick or something? I can think of only a handful of instances where the driver of a Corvette was 50 or less. And I see a LOT of Corvettes around here too.
 
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codex57 said:
I noticed that too. And if not the dog, then the driver is either a 70+ male or a 60+ white hair grandma driving the car. Going 35 in a 40 zone. Shouldn't those people have gotten a Cadillac or Buick or something? I can think of only a handful of instances where the driver of a Corvette was 50 or less. And I see a LOT of Corvettes around here too.
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i dunno, i may have seen a 45 year old once. or maybe he just invested in a hair piece.[rofl] ya, it seems to be an old people car. probably because when they were a little younger, corvettes actually kicked ass. if i never got hooked on BMWs, i prolly woulda bought a stingray.
 
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I saw four Porsches today (new 911's, two Cabrios, one Turbo, one Coupe). One Cabrio was auto, one Cabrio was stick, and the other two I'm not sure about. My friend's dad has a 911 Turbo in auto. One time, I was getting my car from a NYC parking garage and there was a 911 Turbo with TechArt rims, parked where you wait to pick your car up. My friend looked inside, through the tinted windows and he was like, "Dude don't look inside this thing"...naturally, I looked inside and it was an autotragic transmission...jeeez !!! [?|]
In R&T or one of the other car magazines, they did one of those one-page articles on like a first drive of a new car, that's not out yet, but almost is. This one magazine did the article on the new 911 Turbo Cabriolet...the author stated at the end that if he got that for himself, he would probably get the auto transmission with it...stating that he wouldn't mind the performance difference since it's so marginal. What a dumbass, it's not about the performance, it's about driving pleasure...that guy should have been fired on the spot for saying that. [?|]
 
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or the editor. i would just run a search for "automatic transmission" in all the documents to be printed. if a derogatory word didn't come up next to it in the search, cut the article, off the author and finish doing my job. what slackers...
 
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codex57 said:
I noticed that too. And if not the dog, then the driver is either a 70+ male or a 60+ white hair grandma driving the car. Going 35 in a 40 zone. Shouldn't those people have gotten a Cadillac or Buick or something? I can think of only a handful of instances where the driver of a Corvette was 50 or less. And I see a LOT of Corvettes around here too.
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My thoughts on the age thing is that these people had corvettes in the 1960's and they want to relive that feeling..My dad was the same way . He bought a new corvette every year they came out in the 60's when he was in college .So when he started to turn 60 he traded in his buick and wanted a vette or a caddy . He chose the Caddy Eldo w/ Northstar instead of the vette because it was too hard to get in and out..[rofl]

And you have the people that always wanted a Vette when they were young but couldn't afford it or had kids so now they have no ties and the house is paid for ..

Don't know if it makes sense but the post reminded me of my dad..Good times..
 
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well god-bless your dad then. he didn't screw up. to my knowledge you can't even get a caddy with a manual tranny.[thumb] although...if you can perhaps i should be looking at caddy forums[rofl]
 
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As someone over 45, let me tell why we buy performance cars. Same reason you do. They're cool. They make us feel special. And when you want it, the thrill is always there. [thumb]
 
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haha, that was a funny story.

i as well will drive a stick and/or SMG until i die. I'd say i'm more anti-torque converter than anti auto.

but if i have an SMG styled tranny, i will be sure to have a car similar with a standard tranny, just to be sure i don't get too soft.
 
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