Get out and drive your Boxer

I think you also feel how great the BBi is handling on curvy roads with speed between 60 and 180 km/h. no porsche form that area is handling so great
as I see at the wheen you have been driving hard. all over with brake dust. happy cleaning

 

Awesome! The 512 BB is one of my favorites!!!

Happy motoring
Jim

 

I love the dirty wheels. It gives your car so much character. Thanks for the pictures.

 

That's the way to go!

 

So nice to see a boxer being used, and appreciated in a way that moderns simply can't touch.
Weather is getting nippy in Ct, prefect for Bbs. Took mine out early this am for a few hours of backroads..
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Beautiful scenery, beautiful cars, congratulations!

 

amen !
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That sounds like a wonderful trip, in a wonderful car!

 

Drove mine for 4 or 5 hours today, it even got wet, the horror.
It was a great day, wish we had some european mountain roads to play on for days.
Still it was an excellent day, and maybe one of these days we can geta boxer group together and hit the mountains of NC.

The only problem is highway traffic populated by inatentive peopel driving crapbox suvs. Best to get off the highways.

 

Bosman, great car. It looks like you go places but use that ugly brown bag. Get a set of these babies. I love mine! They have the patterns from my job. Ask for Colin Surman.


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Took your advise and took out my Boxer today. Did about 50+ miles. Partial freeway, partial semi winding hills. Just enjoyed it!

 

only 50 miles? so just doing a trip for not even 2 hours? but better than having a garage queen

 

Yes, just a fun Saturday drive.
Did the same today in the 550.
Garage queens? Oh I have plenty of those too.

 

so same like me
too many cars and less time to enjoy all

 

I participated in an autocross event at a local Motorsports park. It was actually a lot of fun. The slower speed turns we’re a challenge though.

 

My BBi is in perfect driving condition. By that I mean its cleanish looking but somewhat dusty a little cruddy, been in the rain and probably could use a cleaning sometime soon.
in other words perfect for just driving about in with nary a thought, and unlikely to catch an eye cause its not all shiney.

 

thise cars are for driving and it makes sooooo much fun.
in a couple of years, when we will be old and can not move/walk right anymore, then you can clean and polish and enjoy looking at the car

 

In the late 80's, I read about a guy in Germany who had been a Stuka pilot and survived, he was in his 80;s and still driving his boxer down the autbhan, he said it kept him sharp and young.

You defintely need to be sharp to drive a boxer with vigor, that keeps you young.

 

that is why I think that I will never sell my boxer as long as I can drive a car.
the beast ( koenig competition ) I think I will sell one day - too dangerous to drive and acceleration is like a rocket - but it makes so much fun

 

Youre also fortunate to live somewhere where these cars can still be really used.
In the USa realisticaly other than very short bursts speeds are below 100mph/160kmh.
Therefore these cars are most fun here on mountain roads and backroads.

 

here in germany nearly all is restricted. even police is checking speed with radar in the top case of a scooter or in a dustbin
and with a BB on the autobahn makes no fun - not fast enough
best is to drive a BB as you write moutain and back roads also here in germany. sunday morning between 3am and 8 am, but be careful - motorcycles are also on the road at that time, and very fast.
my competition is good for autobahn to go really fast, but the BB makes more fun

 

Such is the way of the world. Few big open roads left. Were fortunate in NW Ct to have some of the best backroads anywhere. The best season is early spring and now late fall. The air is cool and leaves off the trees so one can see through bends, plus few out and about early sunday. I also took a drive late sat afternoon because the golden sunlight at this time of the year and fall leaves is truly magic. For backroads the BB is plenty fast although my Louts elsie sets a far quicker pace due to the immediacy of its controlls its size and ability to pivot. Each is a different experince.

The lack of big open spaces is why I think a BBI works in a way a daytona does not. Same classic ferrari expreince but a BB is lots of fun on turns whereas my impression is a daytona is a high speed msisile for big sweepers and opens tretches, such roads dont effectively exist in the northern hemisphere anymore.
Its also why the more modern cars work so well, cause a new ferrari works the same as a hyundai in most conditions, the price paid is its otherwise bland and 90+% never get DRIVEN.

Its why I think a BB will one day be discovered, when its all electric and people want charismatic ice cars that are fun. The types of roads that exist to excercise are going to be mountain roads where a Bb works, and yet its still quite the classic ferrari.

Another future classic imo is the current lambo hurricane, we wont see somehtign so wild again.
For moderns as a ssedan the alfa Gulia is superb the new z06 vette may be ineteresting as well as porche Gt3, Gt4rs a mustang or two, gr yaris and alpine and thats about it.

 

What a lovely experience, and photos. Thanks for sharing.
Goes to show how enjoyable driving a classic car can be, how fun it is to bond and socialize around a lovely long drive in beautiful surroundings.

We are not BB owners, but a small group of locals get together for drives in their modern Porsche, Corvette , AMG and Fcars. I'm the only one with older cars - 1970s and 80s except the Aston. It is very rewarding at the end of the day, to hear the positive comments from the "modern" crowd, how well my classics perform. In addition to that, almost every summer I take a driving vacation with one of my sons in a car they choose. Canada, New England, Finger Lakes District. Usually 2 weeks. None of the classics have left us stranded or tired.

I used to live in Danbury, would do a lot of driving up in your area - Kent, Cornwall, Goshen, Norfolk, Litchfield .. very relaxing roads and views.

Cheers,
- Art

PS - I too love your wheels blackened by brake dust!