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Like the thread title says - what's the meaning behind your avatar?
I really look forward to a few of them......Interpol, need cayman, P-Nut (my personal favourite) - others?
Mine is just the Photoshopped picture of a CS turned into the 'new' entry Ferrari - I just happen to really like the style of that car - I still consider putting 'egg crates' in my grilles.....
I dunno, nothing too significant behind mine. I just like Kang and Kodos from The Simpsons. I'll get around to changing it to something just as goofy sometime, like this one:
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!" -Homer Simpson
Mine is a shot of Mt Rainier that I took a couple years ago. I live in the PNW now, and I like the sight and thought of a towering, even foreboding, pinnacle, which is deceptively tranquil in appearance. There's more to it but that's most of it.
Oh yeah, the full size version of it is on my Washington images page here.
Yeah, there's an interesting story behind mine...umm..err..Ok maybe not. I guess I just have no imagination. I am glad someone asked this question though, because I agree there are some great ones here and I'm looking forward to hearing about them.
I have an idea for my own which I'll probably plug in when/if I reach 100 worthwhile posts. By my calculations I'm about 98 away from that.
Reminds me where I would have ended up if I stayed in my corporate job. Wealthy, successful, well-dressed, fancy business card, psychotic, full of rage, and ready to chop random people up with a big axe.
Gee, Silent Will, I noticed the white frock long ago but only realized the axe when you mentioned it!
My Seal Gray avatar was one I grabbed because I prefer the understated color that blends into the highway so that I won't stand out as a blazing Yellow stripe or flaming Red cape or White elephant on the open highway.
Red & White are the most ticketed colors and have the most accidents. And Speed Yellow must be catching on as there are as many Speed Yellow as Black Caymans for sale on eBay today!
I never thought yellow, often associated with lemons and abhorred by my parents {'Never buy a yellow car. You can't resell it.'} would be so popular or look so HOT!
It comes down to pragmatics--I want to go fast, not draw attention and not spend my time on the side of the road begging mercy.
However, I have to say that the Cayman looks great in any color and now that PAG has discontinued Seal Gray I understand why. SG is probably the most bland color on a CS. Although I still like corporate gray. It demonstrates maturity.
What's that psychotic color?
Is that psycho-car?
A narcissistic fellow wanted to get a triple black 911 and wanted to vanity plate it "PSYCHO" which would be too much for me. I'd never want to stand out that much because I can just picture me before the Board of Psychologist Examiners trying to explain my license plate!
REAL
The pup in my signature is my parents' pet & 50th anniversary gift.
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Transplant from Alaska => Arizona. I like it HOT!
Don'tmiss scraping my master's windshield, winter oil, winter tires, chains, pluggin' in the car over night--block water heater! and interior warmer. And having to put anti-freeze in my GAS!
Reminds me where I would have ended up if I stayed in my corporate job. Wealthy, successful, well-dressed, fancy business card, psychotic, full of rage, and ready to chop random people up with a big axe.
LOL, I feel the same with my corporate job sometimes and we make educational children toys...
Anyway, my avatar is Corto Maltese my favorite comic book character - an ethical rebellious adventurer...
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05-29-07 '08 Red/Black Cayman deposit placed
06-15-07 Order in
08-28-07 Order built
09-26-07 Delivered!!!
In an attempt to prove or disprove the belief, in 1990 a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times conducted his own smallish survey of which color of cars were getting the most speeding tickets in his area. He first staked out four intersections in the two counties he was studying and made a tally by color of vehicle of the 1,198 cars that went through them. He then leafed through the most recent 924 speeding citations issued in those two counties to arrive at a count of how many had been issued to each color of car. Last, he compared the two results to see if the resultant percentages closely approximated one another or were badly out of sync.
His findings challenged the belief about red cars being dunned with proportionally more of the speeding tickets. Red cars accounted for 14 percent of the local vehicle population and about 16 percent of the citations for speeding, which is not a significant difference. Surprisingly, his informal study did reveal certain statistically significant differences, but they had to do with other colors of vehicle.
White cars, which accounted for 25 percent of the local vehicle population, received only 19 percent of the tickets, which meant such jalopies were cited for their transgressions less often than they should have been. This raises a new hypothesis: Rather than red attracting the unwelcome attentions of the highway patrol, perhaps instead it is the case that police tend not to notice white vehicles that are breaking the law.
Grey cars were the ones that gained a greater share of the speeding tickets than they statistically should have: while they accounted for only 6 percent of cars on the road, they pulled down 10 percent of the tickets issued. On the flip side, silver cars got only 5 percent of the tickets, yet they represented 10 percent of the car population.
His findings challenged the belief about red cars being dunned with proportionally more of the speeding tickets. Red cars accounted for 14 percent of the local vehicle population and about 16 percent of the citations for speeding, which is not a significant difference. Surprisingly, his informal study did reveal certain statistically significant differences, but they had to do with other colors of vehicle.
White cars, which accounted for 25 percent of the local vehicle population, received only 19 percent of the tickets, which meant such jalopies were cited for their transgressions less often than they should have been. This raises a new hypothesis: Rather than red attracting the unwelcome attentions of the highway patrol, perhaps instead it is the case that police tend not to notice white vehicles that are breaking the law.
Grey cars were the ones that gained a greater share of the speeding tickets than they statistically should have: while they accounted for only 6 percent of cars on the road, they pulled down 10 percent of the tickets issued. On the flip side, silver cars got only 5 percent of the tickets, yet they represented 10 percent of the car population.
Conclusion: the cops were color blind
The avatar: sassy, irreverent
__________________ The Croc's Nest: 2008 Targa 4S
2006 Cayman S
2006 Cayenne S
before the Board of Psychologist Examiners trying to explain my license plate! 
For the Ride of Your Life: Drive the Alcan! 
