JB62, as with Peter, I hope you both enjoy your experience as Porsche owners. It suspect it may be rather different from that with Morgan.
I had over a decade of hands-on air cooled Porsche experience, owning, restoring and repairing my old Porsches. I even took a few years out as a born again biker to enjoy countryside B roads, before finally thinking a Morgan might be the ideal machine to return to four wheeled B road automotive involvement. Now some 20 years or so into ownership of my +8, a mix of circumstances caused me to contemplate the practicalities of tin top with, auto box, even air-con as ideals to extend sports car enjoyment in all weathers, thinking cold mostly as an issue these days.
My past experience of Porsche drew me back to that marque though I considered a Cayman as being closer to the dimensions of my earlier 911`s, but as my likely last Porsche, I decided on another 911 and ended up the proud owner of a 991.1 C4S with PDK, it is kitted out with more gizmology than I have ability to understand, and which no doubt continues to flatter my ability to pilot the thing down the same twisting turning B roads I have enjoyed for many a decade, both on m/cycle and in my old +8 ...
For sure my +8 is much more of a sports car to me, with it`s manual box, alongside it`s somewhat vintage appearance and pseudo vintage feel of the way it "handles" the less than ideal road surfaces, the handling being very much alive making the pilot feel very much alive and a very necessary part of all the processes involved..
Of course the PDK equipped Porsche is a world away from my old Mog`s sports car feel. The 991 providing more of an insular GT driving experience on ordinary roads than that felt in my previously owned air cooled 911`s, though applying a degree of relativity, air-cooled 911`s were capable as GT`s in their time too. On the other hand the 991.1 can be a real sports car, but one generally has to be travelling at a much higher rate of knots to begin to sample it`s sports car capabilities, unless on a real testing bit of Tarmac such as the Dukes Pass, where high speed is likely to be considered as 60mph or less given the wonderful rising and falling tight twists and turns of those all too few miles of Tarmac, and where side-on G force experienced can take over in terms of providing a real sports car sensation..:)
Yeah there are so very many variables to be enjoyed across the range of sports cars spanning many decades. Evolution at Porsche has played it`s part, in the application of digital decision making in the search for fuel and other efficiency, equating to PDK programming which seems designed in such a way as to partly discourage the use of the super fast down shift via flappy paddles, to drop a gear or two in order to retard forward progress by using engine over-run, and perhaps enjoying the aural experience of doing so... Hmm..? Nope it is not going to happen... Modern drivers use brakes to SLOW and engine to GO... end of...Drop a gear in the PDK and the programming seems to instantly be in accelerative mode...Perhaps I`m just doing it wrong...???
So no more over-run popping und banging perhaps even the occasional flame as one dances heel and toe, even double de-clutching on dropping down into second when the box is cold to overcome a reluctant syncro in the old +8.... Yeah a modern PDK equipped Porsche is so very different even from it`s manual 911 forebears, and a whole world away from enjoyment of my old Morgan.
Boy do I feel fortunate to have two rather special machines available, each of which provide a personal sense enough of connection to emotional and historic significance at this time, to justify their current residence in my garage.... As ever, each to their own.
