RE: Posers and Non-Posers (was Re: Porsche Guys)

["Rob Winchell" <rbw@avs.com>]

> Rob Winchell details his distaste for a Certain Category of Driver of
> Particularly Cool Car:
>
> > My beef if with people who have 911 turbos who putter around,
> > maybe hit 5k on the tach when they are feeling really crazy
> > and take corners like the car is made from eggshells.
>
> As my subject line suggests, the correct word for such people is in fact
> "poser."  The category is by no means limited to Porsche owners; a good
> friend of mine (who is emphatically NOT a poser), who owns a really
> lovely 1966 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2, was recounting a particularly unpleasant
> tale of just such a person he had the misfortune to see in a 355 Spider
> not long ago.

Yes, poser is the right word. Perhaps I'm just more sensitive about Porsche
posers because I really like Porsches.

Speaking of old guys in cool cars - what about Bruno Kreibach? What is he,
like 75 years old and still running that Quattro up Mt. Washington and in
SCCA Pro Rally?

Rob Winchell
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