Ian K said..."Old cars are the bomb."
Saw a couple of these in the US about 20 yrs ago. All ratty and neglected, should've brought one home. They must have sold like hotcakes over there when they were new.
If you can find a 356 for sale these days it will cost you a mint. So much so that replicas will cost you plenty. This one looks to be a bargain but it is a LHD import and needs finishing off.
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If you really like Porches you can get to drive them if you have NFS Porche 2000.
The game engine is very good and the cars are very true to the characteristics of each model. Example. The 78 turbo 911 will hang it's rear every time if you gun it whereas the 914 handles like a dream.
My favourite car is the 1967 Porche 911.
EA Games used to run a server for online racing for this game for a couple of years or more and I had a ball with about 200 other dedicated racers with a chat room between races and stats and a hero board to boot.
It was not possible to cheat either. There was a girl in the U.S. by the name of Chey who was legend. She raced real cars too.
Now get this. My computer had a Gigabyte mother board, Celeron 600 CPU, Nvidea TNT2 32 mb AGP graphics card, 128 mb RAM, Soundblaster sound card and a 10 Gb HDD running Windows 98 Second Edition over a dial up connection.
Weekly scan discs and defrags were standard operating procedure.
