When I was about 12 years old, I have been a Porsche nut... The year
was around 1980, I would beg my mother for Road and Track, Car and
Driver, Motortrend, anything I could get my grubby little hands on, I
would dream about a Porsche, looking at the 911's in the magazines,
cutting out pictures and pasting them all over my school notebooks.
At 22 years of age, I got married, had a son, then a daughter. 20
years later my son is off in the Army. Sure there have been fun cars
along the journey. There was an Alfa Romeo, a Mustang GT, a Miata...
still... in the back of my head lurked that image, quietly haunting me
for the better part of my life. I have never been in a position to
afford a Porsche, not so much as it is an expensive car, but for what
it cost. it was completely impractical for a family guy. We currently
own a Mercedes Benz E320 Wagon, and a Suburban. The Suburban was used
mostly for towing a boat, which I still have, but I recently put my
boat in a marina and have no need to tow it any more.
While bitching with the wife about the 14mpg I get with the big Chevy,
we rolled past a local used car dealer who only deals in high end
European cars, and sitting there amongst the Mercedes, and BMW's and
Volvo's was a bright red Boxster, a 2001 model. I stopped in a looked
at it, smoked it over for a week, looking at possible every online
review of that car ever written. This morning I called the dealer and
he still has it, I am going to go buy it after work today. Sure, I'll
have to sell the Suburban, but I won't miss it, I will be far too busy
clearing a spot in the garage, to put my long awaited treasure.
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