Craigslist Surfing – Quick Picks V3

For some of us Friday means payday. Payday might mean going out tonight, it might mean paying the bills, or it might mean browsing the internet for your next project.

That said, you’d think every day was payday with how often I do the last one.

Let’s see what we’ve found this week!

Around the Corner – First Weekends in the Bay Area

Here comes the sun (doo doo doo doo),
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s time to drive

50 Years On – Still Here

Once upon a time the majority of new cars had these funny things called carburetors, devices that would dump into a motor some guesstimated amount of leaded fuel that would mostly combust before being ushered through the catless exhaust and into the lungs of the guy behind you. During this time those fancy automatic transmissions were a dammed expensive option, so the car in your driveway most likely had four speeds that required you to work three pedals to direct drive to the rear two wheels. During this time, also referred to as the Mid-Sixties, that driveway might have been occupied by that sweet, new Rambler powered by a 290ci ‘Typhoon’ V8. Or maybe you wanted to be a little different and parked-up a nice Barracuda with a more sedate but adequate Slant-6.

Or…maybe you went with one of them there foreign jobbies.

Spotted – Porsche 914

Mid-engined, fuel injected, open topped, and available only with a manual transmission. Such a feature list is music to my ears. Music that sounds nearly as good as the horizontally opposed engine that powers this normally unloved canyon carver.

Is it a Porsche? Yes. Does it have a numerical designation? Yes. Is it a 718 Boxster?

Nope!

Showin’ a touch of leg..err, foot?

Quick Spin – Porsche Cayman GT4

It sounds so fantastical, it may as well have been a day dream.

One of those things that almost never happens.

Honorable Mention – Porsche 930 Turbo

Do you remember the first car you recognized as a car?

Around the Corner – EASY 1st Saturday Meet

I work normal Monday through Friday hours, so there isn’t much that will get me out of the house before noon on the weekend.

Except cars, of course.

Spotted – Porsche 911 “Long Hood” Cabriolet

I nearly spat my lunch out.

I had been sitting across the street munching on a sandwich, when the traffic outside the window drove off and revealed this Porsche 911.