New Corvette GS or Used Porsche 911 Carrera S? (purchase, replace, cost)
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corvette = midlife crisis (balding older male, driving one that is fire-engine red)
Wouldn't take any model of one, even if it were free (well, I would take it, and have it in Hemmings before I could even sit down).
JMHO
(Though I would consider the 68-72 with the big block, or the earlier Stingrays, like a splitback but that is just for nostalgia).
Stereotypes are almost always inaccurate and only account for a small percentage of buyers. The vast majority of 'Vette buyers I've met are usually either successful businessmen or well-off retirees who want to recapture their youth. I'm 31 and probably in the minority of owners but have no problem with that.
I don't think I've heard anyone say they wouldn't want a Z06 or ZR1. I'd probably sell my kidney for the new 427 Convertible coming out this summer- Z06 engine with a convertible top? Count me in!
Stereotypes are almost always inaccurate and only account for a small percentage of buyers. The vast majority of 'Vette buyers I've met are usually either successful businessmen or well-off retirees who want to recapture their youth. I'm 31 and probably in the minority of owners but have no problem with that.
I don't think I've heard anyone say they wouldn't want a Z06 or ZR1. I'd probably sell my kidney for the new 427 Convertible coming out this summer- Z06 engine with a convertible top? Count me in!
Nope. Every 'Vette owner I know is in his 30s. Three of them acquired their cars while in their 20s.
I just don't hang out with that many 50 year-old mid-life crisis types. So maybe there are more of them with Corvettes.
Then again, like I said, I am not an enthusiast, so I don't do the clubs or groups or whatever.
I am not sure I even understand what a mid-life crisis is.
I am always freaking out that I haven't done something important with my life. I'm 36 and I have been doing that for 8 years now...
Is that it? Or is it the realization that we're not young? Hell, one pick-up basketball game with a bunch of 18 year-olds will school you on that fact ASAP.
Totally off-thread, but still...
I guess if you're looking for mid-life crisis car, pick the one that matches your toupe.
I am not sure I even understand what a mid-life crisis is.
I am always freaking out that I haven't done something important with my life. I'm 36 and I have been doing that for 8 years now...
Is that it? Or is it the realization that we're not young? Hell, one pick-up basketball game with a bunch of 18 year-olds will school you on that fact ASAP.
Totally off-thread, but still...
I guess if you're looking for mid-life crisis car, pick the one that matches your toupe.
I think if you want to quantify a midlife crisis, it's basically the realization that you're simply getting older and may not have accomplished goals you've set for yourself by this point. I think this is why many men feel the need to get a motorcycle/sports car/boat etc to reinvigorate their youth and maybe make up for things they've always wanted to do but haven't yet done.
Hell I'm 31 and I already can tell I'm aging.
I wake up between 5-530 am every morning...when I was in my late teens and early 20's, I sometimes didn't go to BED until then. When I get up, it sounds like I was sleeping on packing peanuts with things creaking and cracking and popping. Sometimes I feel like I need some WD-40 on my joints. When I was younger, I may not have gone out until 11 pm at night, these days I'm home and in bed by 11 pm!
There are the upsides to getting older...mainly you have an income that supports hobbies that may have been unaffordable when you were young. I used to go to car shows as a teenager and drool over sports cars, now that I'm older I can afford to have something fun to drive. I can afford toys like my truck, 'Vette, boat, etc whereas I'd never been able to do that when I was younger.
Getting older is a fact of life, might as well embrace it! This is why I don't drive boring cars, life's too damn short to drive a Honda or Toyota.
Getting older is a fact of life, might as well embrace it! This is why I don't drive boring cars, life's too damn short to drive a Honda or Toyota.
A-freakin'-men.
Oh, buddy...you want aging?
I promised myself a Ferrari for my 35th birthday. I mean, since I was a freakin' kid.
I got to that birthday and I can't even believe it. My 25 year-old self would b****-slap my 35 year-old self. I said, "Meh. I don't want some precious, dainty garage queen." And I didn't pull the trigger. And I am NOT remotely sad about it. What. The. EFF?!
Someone mentioned the 914 1.7 which is a dog in my opinion as a VW mechanic that has rebuilt them for a living. Larger pistons and a shorter stroke...lousey heads etc.
Love the 67 911 with the dual carbs...a trip to work on and drive.
Did own a 57 356A cpe which handled real well ( wish I still had it today).
Comes down to what a person likes in style and how much down pymt they can make.
Most people never pay off their car but trade up for a later model and continue making pymts .
As for me....I drive a old 66 VW bug with a custom Turbo engine that puts out close to 200 HP.
Car is clean and care less what others may think as I probably have more money invested in it then the person driving a New 2011/12 car parked next to me at the grocery store.
What should I start my midlife crisis? When do typical people do?
Why not start a new thread, or three, on your midlife crisis potential date(s)?
Maybe on some other forum, than the 'automotive' board...
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. I'd probably sell my kidney for the new 427 Convertible coming out this summer- Z06 engine with a convertible top? Count me in!
