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[Larry C]

Thanks for joining and welcome!
Larry

[WillyDaP]

Welcome Joe and post some pics of your new topless mistress ------ we know she is lovely! My wife has allowed me 4 wheel mistresses for 47 years and she said she has never been jealous of one of them. The scary part is I think she is becoming best friends with my Cayman,ha!

[914PUTSCH]

G'day Wooksters and welcome to the club, as it were, and that's the whole tooth! Carpokes is truly a bridge over waters that while they aren't necessarily troubled, are definitely colorful and worth sea-ing. I am sorely tempted to make some REALLY corny dental jokes here (especially the one about the Buddhist patient who forewent Lidocaine so as to 'transcend dental medication' but I'll bravely refrain from that (besides, you've already heard all of them, I'm sure!). CARPOKES promises to be a great venue for Porsche people everywhere, from what we've seen thus far. I'd not be unduly surprised if at some point along the membership curve we had a member applicant join who owned a rare Porsche farm tractor...or even a much rarer German VK 45.01 (P) Panzer tank diesel-engine survivor! Oh! The places we'll go, the things we shall see!

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[Tom]

Love that picture!!

[914PUTSCH]

Welcome Joe and post some pics of your new topless mistress ------ we know she is lovely! My wife has allowed me 4 wheel mistresses for 47 years and she said she has never been jealous of one of them. The scary part is I think she is becoming best friends with my Cayman,ha!

Well, I have to say on her behalf that's she's got excellent taste, Willy! Back in the Air Force we had many in-group aphorisms relating to the Sierra-Hotel Convair F-106 interceptors my squadron flew (one of them was 'Flying a Six is the most fun you can have with your clothes on...') and I know that a great many Six jocks used to say that their wives felt (with more than a bit of jealousy) that they were actually married to that airplane, LoL! I think the same similie could apply to many of us Porsche pimples and our own sexy, two-axle concubines!

[One other bit of slightly darker whimsy related to the equally flashy Lockheed F-104 'Zipper' (nee "Starfrighter") in that, if "...a Piper Cub can just barely kill you, a Zipper can kill, cremate and bury you in less time than it takes to say 'Neptune Society.'") Fortunately, our P-cars almost never do that. Rather they tend to kill our finances very...very...softly (but oh-so-pleasantly)!]

And yes, Joe, topless pics of the 4-wheel mistress are ALWAYS most welcome here, tee-hee.

[WillyDaP]

Well aware of your Jet Fighter references , Dad was a " Thud Pilot " and I always thought the F-106s were better looking and sleeker. I am just an Air Force Brat, but I remember mom telling me Dad was going out to the Base ( when we were at Nellis AFB, Las Vegas ) to see his girlfriend and it was a few years before I realized she was referring to the F-100.
Funny how you talk about the F-106s because even kids heard it was dangerous, yet as we all found out in Vietnam no less so than the F-105.

Many of my experiences with numerous sports cars , growing up, was with many of my father's bachelor wingmen, they seemed to enjoy low level flying as much as in the air.

[914PUTSCH]

Well aware of your Jet Fighter references , Dad was a " Thud Pilot " and I always thought the F-106s were better looking and sleeker. I am just an Air Force Brat, but I remember mom telling me Dad was going out to the Base ( when we were at Nellis AFB, Las Vegas ) to see his girlfriend and it was a few years before I realized she was referring to the F-100.
Funny how you talk about the F-106s because even kids heard it was dangerous, yet as we all found out in Vietnam no less so than the F-105.

Many of my experiences with numerous sports cars , growing up, was with many of my father's bachelor wingmen, they seemed to enjoy low level flying as much as in the air.

Started off in Huns, then onwards to Thuds, eh? One of my close buds here is an ex-Thud jock with more than 150 or so missions (which was exceptional, given the attrition rate of Thuds and their crews, over the North). That was dangerous flying. Said friend went on to fly heavy stuff in Alaska (DC-6s and C-130s) before flying for Delta as a ATP Captain. He tells me stories about his VN adventures that curl my hair, sometimes. The Six, but comparison, was a pussycat. Mach 2.45 & 60K feet, performwithance-wise, but still with no bad flying characteristics anywhere in the Dash-1 envelope (God bless Dr. Lippisch!). Both the Deuce and the Six were true 'pilots' airplanes' and everyone who flew them loved them. The F-104, in further contrast, required genuine proficiency and fast reflexes to fly safely and when things went bad, they went bad very fast. With only 14 feet or so of effective wingspan, if you were low & slow, you had mere seconds to eject, since bellying-in in a 104 was a sure fast ticket to fighter pilot Valahalla. Thing was that if you dug a wingtip in while sledding along the runway (due to its wing anhedral), the plane would flip belly-up and pin you in the cockpit, inverted...with no escape possible. Brrrr.

The Hun also had its bad characteristics, since back in the earlier days the first Huns had short vertical fins, a feature that facilitated adverse roll-coupling midadventures. Further, compressor stalls were commonplace back then, too, and if you lost power suddenly you'd end up in what was called 'The Sabre Dance', before disastrously screwing the pooch (to use Gus Grissom's famous term).

Almost all the Century Series fighters of the 50s/60 had their 'Do not go here' area in the flight envelope and all could kill you unless you had memorised the Dash-1, cover to cover. The two exceptions were the Sierra Hotel Six and its slightly more lackluster predecessor, the Deuce, which as I said had no bad habits to mention at all. The Deuces had their moment in VN but the Six never made it across the pond, except for a brief TDY on one occasion. Loved that airplane!

Sorry...nostalgia is a bitch! I get caught up in recollections...probably a product of advanced age, eh! It's a well-known geezer tendency, unfortunately.

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[WillyDaP]

So since you are in California is that you in the cool shades?

[jim1eddoc]

greetings, another new member.....have a 1965 911 in the garage, purchased in 1990. Engine rebuilt to original specs and all original.

[P_Coastal]

greetings, another new member.....have a 1965 911 in the garage, purchased in 1990. Engine rebuilt to original specs and all original.

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