...Who's the "Hollywood Rockstar" that drives this!?!?!

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...so I'm minding my own business...AGAIN....going for an early morning run before hitting the gym...and I come across this Porsche Carrera in a wealthy part of YHM...



I figure either a NavCanada or GTAA suit...or Transport Canada Inspector. Because no senior pilot @ Air Canada can afford this because of the 3 ex-wives 8 kids, 2 overseas girlfriends & the house in the Muskoka's...unless they are in the Adult On-line Entertainment industry...

...so, who's the Rockstar!?! OUT YOURSELF "HOLLYWOOD"!!!

[Liftdump]

Georgian,s chief of maint

[Old fella]

Merlin Preuss!!!

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Georgian,s chief of maint

Well if this is true....Hail to the chief

Good for him...I'm sure he's worked hard to earn it






....aaaand to all you kids out there...BIRDDOG...is EVERYWHERE!!!! Muah hahah

[Rudy]

It's a Carrera. You probably saw several more expensive cars on the same ride. Or maybe it's just the fact that someone involved in aviation could own something nice . The aftermarket whale tail spoiler he threw on there is an eye sore though.

[Hedley]

A Porsche is a nice car for a woman. Sort of like
an upscale (BMW) Mini Cooper.

[Human Factor]

A Porsche is a nice car for a woman. Sort of like
an upscale (BMW) Mini Cooper.

Spoken like a true Camaro driver.

[SkyWolfe]

My mommy drives a Carrera

[foxmoth]

my uncle has a Rolls Canardly.

Rolls down hills, canardly get up them.

[Hedley]

Spoken like a true Camaro driver

How did you know? Here's a picture of it - you can
see the Pitts wings on the right, and the RC51 on
the left, me in the hat in the white shirt:

[SkyWolfe]

Spoken like a true Camaro driver

How did you know? Here's a picture of it - you can
see the Pitts wings on the right, and the RC51 on
the left, me in the hat in the white shirt:

[Hedley]

I personally prefer this picture:



Five Pitts S-2B's with a P-51 just behind it that had just
finished flying a low-altitude aerobatic flight, just as we
taxiied in.

Here's another: a 46 foot Skater:



It's a catamaran, and obscenely fast:

http://www.skaterpowerboats.com/models/46rp/index.htm

Wait until you see the new toys ... they will blow your mind

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my uncle has a Rolls Canardly.

Rolls down hills, canardly get up them.

Actually the tail end of that punch-line is...

"Rolls down the hill....can-hardly get up the next" -Rodney Dangerfield

YEAH THAT'S RIGHT...I know my new & olde school comedy

[MichaelP]

Red sportscar = income for the RCMP.

Absolute waste of time in this part of the world where whatever I have driven I have had to remember to take my foot off the pedal; already too fast!
Then there's endless traffic lights and stop signs... At least the new Golden Ears bridge ends in roundabouts, if the idiots can learn to use them!
If you go out and spend lots of money on a fast car you are not a real aviator!

Real aviators buy aeroplanes and turn the world around.

Though with the cancerous growth of two by four and chipboard palaces there's not going to be many green spaces left in the Lower Mainland... There's even a new highway being built past Boundary Bay Airport which will beget more houses, more noise complaints, and more misery.
Perhaps real aviators will have to move to the Okanagan from this part of the world?

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Absolute waste of time in this part of the world where whatever I have driven I have had to remember to take my foot off the pedal; already too fast!
Then there's endless traffic lights and stop signs... At least the new Golden Ears bridge ends in roundabouts, if the idiots can learn to use them!

You are SOOO right about that calibre of car(s) being wasted here...especially in the YYZ area where everyone on the 400 series highways have no phuquing clue as to the driving rules of the road. Faster car behind you, no one in front of you...MOVE THE PHUQUE OVER.

Period.

As for the rest of your post...you kinda lost me...however, I'm over it...no need to expand on it. Except THIS part.......

If you go out and spend lots of money on a fast car you are not a real aviator!

What if you didn't get tricked like the some other poor smucks into marriage & can afford fast cars and it is your passion as well as hobby? IMHO...it beats spending 20K on a stooooopid diamond engagement ring...no? No offense ladies but it IS stooopid...

[Hedley]

I'm not sure anybody cares, but it doesn't take big
bucks to go fast - just skill.

For $7k you can buy a used liter sportbike which will
do the quarter mile in 10 seconds and bump off the
rev limiter in 6th gear at 300 kph, which will trounce
just about anything else on the road.

For $35k you can buy a used Pitts S1 which is more
aircraft than almost any pilot in Canada can handle.
The number of pilots in Canada who are limited by
the capabilites of an S1 (and not their own skill
limitations) I can count on the fingers of one hand.

So, no excuses people. It's your lack of skill that's
stopping you from going fast. Not your pocketbook.

[SkyWolfe]

If someone bought me a 20K ring I would trade it for a small plane. Seriously, who spends that much on a piece of jewelry?

And BTW, it's my /husband/ that doesn't want me to spend money on sport cars!

Don't be so biased

[MichaelP]

So, no excuses people. It's your lack of skill that's stopping you from going fast. Not your pocketbook.

You obviously have not driven in this part of BC!

And $7,000 will get you a better aeroplane.... Forget the car, that's passe from a time before stop signs and the RCMP.

And BTW, it's my /husband/ that doesn't want me to spend money on sport cars!

I thought a Mustang was supposed to be a sportscar even if it's an automatic!

[BoostedNihilist]

I grew up with MGB's. I can relate to what Michael has to say about lifting. I have driven those british cars and one thing is for sure, you NEED to have that throttle mashed to get it going. Short of a seven or a turbo lotus I don't know of many british cars north of 200 (okay, sunbeam and jensen)

Where I live fast is a function of skill. I once raced a mildly tuned saab with double my horsepower (suspension, brakes, boost etc) through the twisties out here and managed to wipe him through the corners. The skill of weight management and balance really paid off in that application. Out here, it is fun to go the speed limit, despite the corner advisories.

My real question is, where do you get a 7,000 dollar airplane? and can I have two please?

p.s. mustangs are a grand touring car (mustang GT) They aren't light, small or topless enough to garner the regard of a true sportscar.

another note: +1 on the litre bike philosophy, so much fun, so little in the bank to pay for speeding tickets.

[Hedley]

the litre bike philosophy, so much fun, so little in the bank to pay for speeding tickets

If you're riding it well, you won't get any speeding tickets

In the late 90's, I was working for www.cisco.com in California
on the BFR/HFR and there was a legendary character who rode
a Ducati on Highway 101 to work every day at warp speed. The
only time he observed the speed limit was when the sign was a
momentary blur on the right side.

This enraged the cops, who couldn't possibly catch him on their
junky old Harleys. But there was one patient old cop, that spent
a week parked on each of the exits off Hwy 101, moving north
one exit every day, until the cop was sitting there when the cisco
engineer on the Ducati exited off 101 at lightspeed.

They hauled his ass off to jail.

[. ._]

So, no excuses people. It's your lack of skill that's
stopping you from going fast. Not your pocketbook.

It takes money to pay the speeding tickets and increased insurance premiums.

Trust me, if I had the money, I'd be all over a Pitts.

-istp

[Brewguy]

...If you're riding it well, you won't get any speeding tickets

Ah, okay. I think I get where you're coming from. If you're going to break the law (and for example, speed), why do a half-assed job of it and only get fined when you do it splendidly and get hauled off to jail? Cool philosophy you've got there.

[SkyWolfe]

...If you're riding it well, you won't get any speeding tickets

Ah, okay. I think I get where you're coming from. If you're going to break the law (and for example, speed), why do a half-assed job of it and only get fined when you do it splendidly and get hauled off to jail? Cool philosophy you've got there.

More food then I am getting as a pilot

[Dex]

A Porsche is a nice car for a woman. Sort of like
an upscale (BMW) Mini Cooper.

Spoken like a true Camaro driver.

Don't laugh, the 1969 Camaro ZL1 did a 10.23 (best) quarter mile with only a tire change from stock. Only 69 ZL1's were made so it didn't make the cut for the race circuits. Too bad too, would have made Carol (the crook) Shelby's Cobra look like a Volkswagen Beetle. Incidentally 2 1969 ZL1 Corvettes were made.

[Osiris]

Hedley, the boat and that Lambo of yours belong in a Miami Vice episode! Or maybe a music video like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhllkLW79bM

Don't keep us in suspense, what are the new toys?