Well, that was surprising...

[stephen newberg]

Jeannie has been bugging me to relate this one. For the last couple of years I have only really licensed the SHO for short periods, that is days or a month, mainly to take her to some car shows. Well, this year we have had some visitors scheduled so with the idea of having a vehicle that could move 5 people in comfort, I figured I would license the old girl for the entire summer. Turns out getting old works with that.

Here in British Columbia we have a no fault insurance structure that is tied directly to the provincial government so that insurance and licensing work as one. So I went in to get legal on both counts and the woman at the counter asked for my driving license to get the number. Then she said, oh, you are a senior.

Huh? Well, yes, for a couple of years now I guess if you consider 65 as the turnover point, which is apparently common. Anyway, it turns out that seniors get a serious discount on their license and insurance costs. If they go for 3 months or more, that is. Not available for the shorter periods that I had used previously. So, turns out I have the car to use now for 3 months for less than the cost of about 15 days if I was going for shorter periods or was a couple of years younger.

Strange, eh?

And it has worked out very well. Sort of fun to take her on a couple of longer rides. Remarkably different than driving the 911 C4S 997.2, that is for sure. But still good, and with some time and distance, it is possible to get more used to the car again and renew your feel for how fun it can be either cruising along up Island at 140 kph + (over 90 mph) or bombing along the back road curves through Yellow Point at speeds that actually get the deer to look up from eating...

pax, smn

 

[SHOdded]

Sweet deal! Enjoy, and don't forget to post pics of your adventures along the "widened" time horizon.

 

[stephen newberg]

I am not sure what came over me but yesterday I cleaned the truck. So, for the first time every, all of our vehicles are cleaned out, washed, and waxed in the same month, having just done the SHO the day before and the 911 a week prior. Scary. But to clam your heart palpitations, for the truck I did not bother to dress the tires or clean out the wheel wells, so its still muddy looking in spots and thus obviously a truck that gets used like a truck. No sense going overboard with this spiffy thing...

pax, smn

PS: Yesterday I had a morning meeting of the group that puts on the Ladysmith Show & Shine and Tammy, one of the main people doing it that also has a couple of Cameros of note and a 16 year old son, had asked me to take him home as she had another thing right after. So I asked if he wanted to go in the SHO or the 997. She said 'the Porsche, of course', so I took that and on the way home she and I had a small impromptu race out of town before we parted paths and then I ran Scott along one of the more interesting back roads to home. We touched 100 twice during the ride, once while blowing away his mom and her purple people eater and once in a pass on the back road. He seems to have had a great time. Always fun to give kids into cars a thrill.