I bought the car in December, 1997. I had been on the wait list for four months when the dealer called me and said they had received a shipment and did I want to come in and take a look. I hadn’t even specified a color and I think I would have taken just about any color at that point. As luck would have it, the car was white (just like my first 1970 914) with dark blue interior. Perfect! Thank you, Santa Claus for bringing me just about the best Christmas present ever!
So, you can figure out that the car is over 16 years old and, at this writing, has just over 94K miles on it. The Boxster has always been serviced by the Porsche dealer (thank you, Gunter) and I am confident we will have no mechanical problems on the trip. We recently had the 90K service done and, at that time, we replaced the front struts. We also recently put on four new Kumho Ecsta tires, which are not quite as “sticky” as the Pirelli’s we ran previously, but so far we like the ride and they should last a little longer.
One of the shortcomings of the early model Boxster is the lack of a good place to put a coffee cup. We’ve tried several after market cup holders, without much success. Recently, I bought two cup holders from Mike at www.ultimatecupholders.com and we have found them to be the perfect solution! Because the cup holders are at floor level, there is less risk of spilling coffee when you are cornering. Couple these great cup holders with our recent new Chantal SL92-T Travel Mugs and we are ALMOST ready to go. The last item is the coffee! We suspect there will be a few Starbuck’s along the way, but I’m fairly confident there will be areas where we won’t be so lucky, so we bought a small Presto 6 Cup Stainless Steel Percolator to use when there are no other options.
Next blog I’ll talk about Music, Bluetooth and Hands-free Microphones . . .
