Nicest car I've driven and nicest that owned - what are yours?

Yeah tell me about it... Through the years I have been lucky enough to drive alot of fast vintage and vintage race car 911's, no full bore 935's, but a 934 and more then a few 930's. Luckily I know how to handle them when they want to bite back. I still remember the day I swore I would never own a 930. I was asked to take a local one for sale out for a check ride for a guy a few states over. It was a real nice 1978, the sweet spot with the bigger engine and lighter chassis white with a light tan interior. I was not really paying attention and shooting the shit with the owner, when I decided to hit an on ramp in 3rd gear and low speed.... The rpms where low and I was checking for bogging or flat spots totally forgetting it was a 930... I had given it almost full throttle from low rpm as I went up this nice curve to the right to enter the freeway... Next thing I know the the turbo hits and the rear kicks out on me. Thankfully I did not lift and just countersteered and left it on the throttle till the turn straightened out. It was a real code brown moment... I almost any other car you lift the throttle to correct, in a 911 you do that and it all gets worse. It has to do with polar inertia and weight transfer with the huge rear tires trying to hold the heavy lump of an engine sitting behind them in place. You only brake in straight lines in an old 911, esp pre 1969 short wheelbase ones.

On a track when you expect it is one thing, on a freeway onramp when your not paying attention is another. At that moment I swore I would never own a 930... Flash forward a few years I get offered a nice Green on green 1978 with blue and green plaid inserts. I passed, at 30k... At the time no one wanted 930's to expensive to service, no fun to drive on the street.... Few years later it sells to a famous collector (Magnus) for 80k or so and everyone wants them...

I'll be honest I'd take a mid 80's Carrera 3.2 with the m491 package aka the turbo look package for the US as we did not get the Turbo from 80-86 or so. Also Magnus is a super nice and gracious dude, I've run into him a few times at events.

Those are unicorns in the US.

any 996 is a piece of cake vs the 901 chassis cars aka 1963-1989 cars. Porsche has kept moving the engine closer to mid at each model change. In fact I think the current one is actually considered mid engined at this point. I know the race cars definitely are.

but you still needed to be careful with 996’s and 7’s. Brake straight roll on the gas before the apex to weight transfer onto the rears.