TBP88's last car

[TBP88]

Honestly I'd be shocked if I've done even 500km in this winter. I know a bunch of guys are planning a run but it's likely I'll only join a few in November/December time really when my diary opens up a bit.

Not sure what the future holds, it remains a fun toy when I get the chance but of course, at some point you're paying to just look at it... My work being 4km away from home means the need for a car is pretty much nought (which ironically makes having a car that has little use more appealing!)

 

[modocrat]

This thread makes me want to cry..
I'd drive to the shops twice a day to buy milk even if I had a cow in my backyard.

 

[TBP88]

This thread makes me want to cry..
I'd drive to the shops twice a day to buy milk even if I had a cow in my backyard.

LMAO

 

[TurboLlew]

Honestly I'd be shocked if I've done even 500km in this winter. I know a bunch of guys are planning a run but it's likely I'll only join a few in November/December time really when my diary opens up a bit.

Not sure what the future holds, it remains a fun toy when I get the chance but of course, at some point you're paying to just look at it... My work being 4km away from home means the need for a car is pretty much nought (which ironically makes having a car that has little use more appealing!)

It really is just the nature of these cars in a way as well as what life is now like for many folks who own them, not really traveling far or sitting in much traffic. When it is your 3rd or 4th car as a GTx most probably is for most people, you just don't put huge mileages on them.

I think I probably did 2200km in my 4C for the whole year - and I feel like I used it quite a bit. Making a bit of an effort to use it more this year. It isn't like I am actively trying to preserve it or anything like that it just is what it is. My F90 probably did 5000? Maybe? so not a lot more either.

 

[M3boi]

This thread makes me want to cry..
I'd drive to the shops twice a day to buy milk even if I had a cow in my backyard.

He's lying, he has to put in a request with the wife 3 months in advance to come on our runs.

 

[TBP88]

It really is just the nature of these cars in a way as well as what life is now like for many folks who own them, not really traveling far or sitting in much traffic. When it is your 3rd or 4th car as a GTx most probably is for most people, you just don't put huge mileages on them.

I think I probably did 2200km in my 4C for the whole year - and I feel like I used it quite a bit. Making a bit of an effort to use it more this year. It isn't like I am actively trying to preserve it or anything like that it just is what it is. My F90 probably did 5000? Maybe? so not a lot more either.

Probably the reality. Being so close to work and been spending the weekends mostly training/recovering these days means I haven't really focused on taking the car out - having a toddler also is a *slight* time consuming activity! Haha

As @llew says though, for me this is my only car but we have the partners car for the normal stuff, and truth be told - I don't really want to go to the shops or mall in this thing. It *is* actually valuable to me and if it gets scuffed by a trolley or *again* rear ended by an idiot then I'll be put off for days after. So it does end up being a bit of a garage queen. Ironically, just as it looked as though CPT rain was done - it started raining this morning. LMAO.

 

[Sabretooth tiger]

This thread makes me want to cry..
I'd drive to the shops twice a day to buy milk even if I had a cow in my backyard.

He doesn't have a cow in his yard but @M3boi comes around to his house for milking often

 

[M3boi]

He doesn't have a cow in his yard but @M3boi comes around to his house for milking often

 

[TBP88]

He doesn't have a cow in his yard but @M3boi comes around to his house for milking often

Man says he enjoys both the taste and the texture, who am I to deny him the pleasure.

 

[TBP88]

Managed to sneak off for a Sunday GT4 run, mostly 981s, one other 718. Only 4 of us made it to the end, sadly others had other commitments.

Interesting to see a proper selection of colours out - agate, gt silver, black, racing yellow, (i think?) carmine red, 2 in carrara white, my car in gentian. Lekker mix.

Pity no blue 981GT4, apparently a few did land locally in Dark blue metallic - the best colour for the car of the default palette.

Amongst the number here, the 2nd car from the front, was a white full clubsport spec (so with cage and buckets) 981GT4 *with* extended leather. A very rare combination, probably fewer than a few dozen cars globally have that spec - I have never seen one in SA with it.

A fun day out, car still feels very solid, some of the windier bits at the top of the passes did give me some heeby-jeebys, but the twisty stuff it always feels like you can throw an extra bit of welly at it.

The week prior got some seat time in at Clarens which was extremely fun, a proper road to be enjoyed, it has one proper open straight section where the GT4 easily clears "jailtime" speeds so I can close on the faster drives in slower cars but the rest is much tighter, fortunately the road is exceptionally clean now, no dirt and no potholes for the entirety. Add in some of the best views in the cape too. Would be my choice destination for runs, but sadly it gets very busy with moms and pops, and even worse - bikers, after about 645. So you gotta get there early.