I’m in the process of doing some Porsche research and I’d love your help. Quick, dirty, real simple question to help me out. I’m going to be posting a series of three different polls over the next week or so. Answer as best you can. I’m allowing 3 selections on this first poll. Any questions, let me know.

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Found this promo video on YouTube for the Panamera. Thought it was cool enough to post here (I know, I know, this is suppose to be a 964 site..)

I am yet again attempting to accomplish what I have selected as an action for delivery notifications to Twitter when I create new posts. Why isn’t it working, I have no idea? Here, let me add in a photo to make this look like an actual post. WORK!

Just added integration from TwitPic to 89c4.com. You’ll notice the new 6 stacked images on the right-hand-sidebar just under the Twitter updates. I’ve been shooting mostly from my cell these days, so I wanted to provide those who do not follow me on either Twitter or TwitPic the opportunity to see the cool shots I find related to Porsche’s. Enjoy.

Took care of the rear seat-belt yesterday, which is a first for my ownership. When the whole family would take a drive, someone was always riding free; not so safe. We have yet to take a family drive.

Just replaced the broken passenger fog lens. Was planning on replacing the drivers seat-belt, but I can’t find the damn thing. Too much crap in the garage, and not thinking the wife will enjoy me cleaning out the garage on Mother’s day.

I swapped out the heater control unit I got from LA Dismantler, but it still hasn’t fixed the problem so I have to send that back to them. Not sure what to do at this point.. any ideas people?

I was doing research for work (seriously, I was) and I found this. Freaking hilarious. From back in 2004, the guys take a 924, 928, 944, and drive to Brighton. $2K (£1500 quid). It’s quality Top Gear. For those that have issues with the video above, here is the direct link:

Budget Porsches SEASON 5 / EPISODE 6 | December 05, 2004 | LENGTH 9:40

Side note, I would love to buy a beater for $2000 and play around with it. Wife would kill me. I’d want to spend even more on fixing her up, we’d fight, my HOA would see it as a blight on the street and fine me, wouldn’t pass inspection… sounds like a freaking blast.

Just received notification from FedEx that my new package from LA Dismantler will arrive by Tuesday. This will hopefully take care of the rear seat-belt, heating issue, and I can replace the drivers seat-belt as well (it’s fine, expect it looks as if someone had a razor in their pocket and it kept rubbing against the bet; a bit frayed about 1/2 an inch).

I’ve yet to replace the fog lens. With the rain this weekend, hopefully I’ll get a nice chunk of hours to take care of that.

I posted over on Twitter about the MPG I’ve been noticing lately… I’m getting about 425 miles out of a full tank. If the stats are correct, and I have a tank capacity of 20.3 gallons, that works out to be 20.93596059113, or 21. That’s a blended rate of both highway and city. Not bad indeed, if I do say so. Next trip I make I’m going to really watch the highway number to see what I can do to increase. If I take out the back seats I bet I could get a couple more miles to the gallon… kids might be pissed though.

Also, the image up there is from when I had the paint repaired from when I was keyed… was cool seeing the back end taken off.

Lastly, I’m testing integration with posting and auto Twittering.

Welcome Porsche fans. Many of you familiar with this site have found it via Natural Search/Organic Search or as of late on Twitter. This site was created years ago in a static format. That means when I wanted to post, I modified HTML, created my own archive (manually), didn’t have search, etc. It worked when it was small, but lately it had become a pain in the ass. So, I’ve moved over to WordPress. Main reasons:

• Dynamic Content
• Subscription Ability (RSS)
• Better Search Engine Optimization
• Dynamic Sitemap.xml creation
• Site Search
• User Commenting
• Larger Image Display Area
• Better service integration (Twitter, Twitpic, etc.)
• Easier video integration

So there you have it. Same type of content, different format. There are some structural changes here as well:

• The traditional “navigation” is still here, but has been moved to the footer. The purpose of this is to focus on the BLOG content and imagery. Each section is still there, specifically the photographs, cost section, and upgrades. Look in the future to new videos, new photos, and help me god – new updated costs.
• The sightings section is also still there, but I’m importing all my cell images here (since most of those are just that, just formatted a little nicer).

So there you have it. If you have any comments, suggestions, wants, hates, whatever, just drop me a line using the new form over in the Contact section.

Lastly, why is this still in BETA? Well, for those that are frequent readers you will remember the old site had a rotating promo image space at the top, and I would reference in my posts to “hit refresh to see additional images…” That isn’t around any longer. I haven’t change all the old post to remove that language. I’ve also not linked all all old content. I’m also missing a few links to PDFs. It’s a shit-ton of content to port over, so I’m still working on that. I’m also jacking with the styling of a few sections (namely the Sightings section). When she’s out of BETA I’m sure I’ll talk about it.

Thanks everyone. New content to come soon.

One more thing… I needed a new rear seat belt because mine is locked up. I took the rear apart and to my surprise it was littered with Wheat Thins! What the fuck? Makes no sense to me at all, but yet here they all were. Took out the shop vac. and sucked all the stale suckers up.

So, anyone else find weird shit in their Porsche’s while fixing an issue? A crazy find from a previous owner? Let me know.