gmendoza

I've had my 996tt for a while and I felt the stock 996tt bumper with the C4s lip looked a little plain compared with my Ruf Carbon rear spoiler and Euro rear bumper. I really like the GT2 but my car's not a GT2 and the TechArt is a little too extreme for my taste. So I decided to make my own bumper. It's a slightly modified CF GT2 replica bumper. Here's the end result:

Negative unless you want to set something up ....

Sorry to hear Joe. Good luck with the sale. So when was the last time the car was out?

What's new with the 944?

Very nice Camaro. Not even close to the previous generation Here are mine. My Camaro is my primary/bad weather car although I drive all of them at least once a week. '67 VW Fastback '98 Z28 '01 996 Turbo '03.5 Lotus Esprit

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Happy late b-day man!!!

Very nice, I just picked up a slightly modded 996TT also. Great cars!!!

Helping out your mom if you are an only child should NOT be issue as long as it's within reason. I was/am in the same boat. The biggest difference is I have two younger siblings; 16 and 19, I'm 27. We grew up in poverty after my step-dad left mom as a fugitive for a major crime in '95. I moved out in '01. My mom has always loved Cadillac Eldorados. When I got my first real job in '02, I was only making ~ 40k a year but I thought it was a lot of money at the time. I decided to grant her a wish. I bought her a car. I bought her this: She still has it and appreciates it dearly but all is not well. At the same time I also granted all of my siblings' wishes. I gave 'em everything I wanted but never had as a kid. I would take 'em out regularly. Everything seemed great, everyone but my ex, GF at the time, was happy . She saw what was coming but I was too blind to see it. It led to fights and the relationship ended. While I was overextending my budget, I didn't care. The relationship with my family was better than ever; or so I thought. Time went on I continued focusing on my career and doing the same with my family. I even gave my brother a Firebird I had just restored so he could go to school too. In mid '06 mom quit her job to peruse other venues with less responsibility, flexible hours and better pay. Well that job doesn't exist. At the same time she was forced to move out of her apt in a bad part of town. So while looking for a new place to live, they decided they wanted to live in a nice area. So I was asked if I could help them get an apt they wanted in a very nice area claiming how this would be great for everyone. Mom would have more opportunities for work, brother and sister would be going to better schools. It would be perfect! I agreed and ended up paying for most of the rent for about a year. One day I realized that the more I did for them, the least they did to better themselves. Their priorities were/are in the wrong places and they were going down the wrong path. Easy street was a great place to live. So I stopped giving them money and buying my brother and sister things. This is when things went from bad to worse. Fast forward to today, mom still doesn't have a stable job and struggles to pay the rent. Brother (19) still hasn't gotten his HS diploma eventhough he had perfect attendance, has no job and recently dropped off the Firebird with a blown engine after beating the hell out of it without maintaining it. My sister (16) is very smart but does not use that productively. She a 3.8 GPA quater-assing it (not even half-assing it). She does have a job but is on the verge of being fired because she's focusing on the quest for easy money. She has no respect and manipulates peope to get what she wants, drinks and worst of all verbally abuses my mom. While I'm seem as the bad guy. They see me as the bad guy because I can make their lives so much easier but chose not too. I have "this big house with 3 rooms I don't use" but I don't ask them to move in. I can give my brother another one of my cars or fix the Firebird again for him but I chose not too. And I have no idea what my sister wants. I can't have a conversation with her without her saying something that upsets me. She claims she just wants my mom to be happy and not worry about money but she sure isn't helping on making mom happy. This is really taken a huge emotional toll on me. It's depressing and sometimes I don't know what to do. There have been times I was very close to posting something at least just to vent. This thread hit close to home and I had to say something. Sorry to the OP for the hijack.

And everywhere I drive I'm a star, little kids all on the corner scream, 'That's my car!'

Not that one. Here's a map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source...307961&z=12 Although I think it's way longer than Spunky and I've hardly ever seen cyclists. Here a vid I took a while back. Traffic is always like this.

My favs are Little Tujunga in Sunland off Osborne to the 14. There's also the Santa Clarita loop with Spunky Canyon and Lake Hughes being the highlight. There are more but you need to drive a little more. There's hardly any but not lately. Too many kids wrecking during the summer.

A ZR1 should be in 2nd at those speeds.

Agree 100%. I will also add that the Esprit is a driver's car. It's hard to drive properly, your shifts need to be perfect if not it will buck and jerk, there are no electronic nannies to get you out of trouble (your foot is traction control), build quality is that of a hand made car whereas the 996 is TOO easy to drive. As for performance, the only thing I've lost to was a 'Busa and 600hp Ve++e. Those are complete opposites, both geat in their own way. Actually I may pick up a TT in the near future as a compliment to the Esprit, not a replecement for.

For the Messycans:

Final price drop. This guy needs the car gone; $49k This is the lowest price for a Final Edition to date. Here are some pics:

That's an ugly chick with the Acura. @ the spider

Price reduced to 52K

To back up the claim: http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=25361

2976lbs and 276hp? No thanks.

Yes it is.

TTT Price reduced to $55k