Having replaced 996 Pig Energy with another 986 Boxster S, Johnny Tipler is hellbent on raising its spec to that of its predecessor, a 550 Spyder 50th Anniversary Boxster S, AKA the Silver Bullet.
Slamming Beetles is a popular pastime in that particular fan based segment, and I feel like I’ve been there – or thereabouts – with various cars from times past, including an Alfa Romeo GTV6 race car and Porsches 964 and 996. I’ll write you a list if you want. Latest bolide to fall victim to the push-down penchant is my new 986 Boxster S, the recipient of a set of MO30 springs that drop it by 10mm. In my opinion, it now sports the perfect pose. Tell you more about that in a moment.
It’s a great car, acquired privately from a careful lady owner – plus one free jar of her homemade honey – with 45K on the clock, at Honiton, Devon. Apart from the skin-tone upholstery – make that terracotta if you can’t stand the sight of flesh – what also attracted me to it was the fact that it had been maintained for much of its life by Andy Moss and Stuart Mandell at Honiton-based SCS Porsche. Not only did we do a Specialists feature on them a couple of years ago, but Williams Crawford and Cargraphic exhausts also send work there. I spotted the Boxster advertised on their website, so I felt confident it would be a good car. It was absolutely pristine, which, after just a month in Cromer, I’m afraid no longer holds true, so moronic is the on street parking outside my house. I thought geriatric Norwich Cathedral Close was bad, but the Boxster’s been scratched more times in a couple of weeks than the Pep Pig was abused in a year. How it is.
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