Epic Delivery of Fraternal Twins!

On Thursday April 18, 2013, Tad, Becky, Sandy and I left Salem around 9AM  for the epic event...delivery of my 981 Boxster and his 991 Carrera S in Beaverton! What a day!! We arrived just after 10AM to see our smiling SA's waiting for us at the door of the showroom. We were going to do my delivery first, then his at noon, but my son's was able to go on concurrently for the most part because not many customers were there at the time. 

Both cars were displayed in the showroom, but my son's 911S seemed to have priority because it was in the primo display spot for deliveries, while mine was in the batter's up box, haha. There was just lots more room to move around his car than mine. I remember one customer brushing his fat arse against the right side mirror while he bent over a counter on that side. 

My delivery took over 2 hours and I missed my son's, while he was still able to pop in and out of mine, and help me look over the car.  He had done a delivery before with his 2012 CR, so he was able to walk through his pretty fast today. Being a newb to Porsche, I took it all in and welcomed the explanations of all the equipment and controls. I was happy my wife, daughter-in-law, and another son were there to take lots of pics of both cars for us! BTW the SA's can't think of another time where a father and son took delivery of 2 Porsches at the same time...they seemed pretty excited too.

The first thing that caught my attention when we entered was that the mahogany metallic is darker than I anticipated. Whoa nelly, I never wanted a black car (sorry to those who have black). While just walking around the car the first time, I could see scratches from the "detailing" done to prep the car. I am pretty sure the fellas out back are not real pro detailers. I can picture them using the same towel all day long to clean the cars. It is pretty obvious where they ran their towels, and in fact there was one guy still spraying and wiping my car when I arrived at the showroom. Note the car just arrived late the previous afternoon via truck. There was also a more noticeable abrasion on the front bumper where those blue foam tubes are affixed during transport. Well, my SA had the bumper buffed out before we left, and my son said he would help me detail the car ourselves. He is very adept at it after caring for his CR and is sure we can remove the scratches caused by the untrained human hands that unwrapped my Boxster. I did not even mention it to the SA because truthfully I did not want to let them touch it anymore than they already had. 

We signed papers, wrote a fat check, and headed to lunch nearby. We parked where I could park next to an island, son next to me, and his wife's car next to him so both our cars were protected from being parked next to, haha. Had a good table in the restaurant where we could see the cars and ensure nobody was keying them, lol. Ate well and then we headed home. We live about 50 minutes south on I-5, so it was mostly just a straight drive home. I never needed to go over 4200rpm in any gear, and the car felt peppy and smooth. On I-5, I just shifted between 5th and 6th every few minutes to avoid prolonged runs in one gear at one speed. My son was doing the same between 6th and 7th. My wife rode home with me and she played with the radio and air for us. Stock radio seems fine for us, and especially me since I know my hearing ain't what it used to be.

Parked at Pho Hung with Q5 protecting the new twins!

We got home fine, and noted the splattered bugs on our cars. They definitely show up more on mahogany metallic than on his agate grey! One thing I remember was getting hit by a small rock on the windshield, thwack. I did not find a chip but did not look real good in the garage. I just hope it did not go off the hood first. We intend to wash the cars tomorrow when the weather is good again, and I can then inspect the Boxster better and hopefully get started on removing the scratches created by the dealership. Those scratches BTW are all fine and mostly in straight lines along shere the long edges of the protective plastic sheets used to lay. 

While the color is darker than I anticipated, my wife and daughter-in-law are impressed by the color. I do agree it looks richer than a browner and lighter brown would be. What did impress me right off the bat was the espresso leather. Holy cow, it is like being enveloped in this warm, loving, and inviting caress, and it just smells so darn luxurious too.

Now to tell you the truth, everything feels somewhat anticlimatical right now...after so many months of waiting and anticipating, and just being on a really prolonged HIGH, there is a letdown. Son and I were both exhausted after getting the cars home then talking and sitting and gazing and cleaning them up a little till last night. I think it's just fatigue. I did get some energy back and managed to find $200 worth of detailing goodies on AutoGeek for myself just now, lol. And if it was sunny, I would be driving that dark brown Mocha Latte (my wife's suggestion) right now.