Keeping Up With TK ~ My New Ride Is A '15 Porsche Boxter GTS 08Jun25

The Car... I've long been enamored of the Boxter roadster and have driven some old and some new ones owned by friends. My favored look and engine is the Gen 3 variant known as the 981 model. Built from 2012-2016, it sports a naturally aspirated engine (vs current high-tech multiple turbos and the like) and can be found with a 6 speed manual transmission. Well... with MLC scoring a 911 I wanted to fulfill a long-standing fantasy to own a Porsche myself. I could drive along side him and he was surely encouraging of the endeavor. MLC found the car ~ holy shit. This isn't a mid-life crises (golly, let if be so) given my age. A burgeoning auction site named Bring-A-Trailer offered me professional access to some keen Boxters on which I could confidently bid and assure solid title transfer and transport. I hung out and watched BaT Boxter auctions for awhile; I also perused other similar sites like AutoTrader, Cars, and of course Porsche itself. I finally found my car, a 2015 Boxter GTS in Guards red with camel interior and manual transmission on BaT. Just lucky but this is also my color combo. I was fine with an 'S' variant but the 'GTS' is even better with more interior, exterior, and performance upgrades... despite his 911, even MLC is a little jealous of my spec. One tasteful upgrade the prior owner made (as you should not make many to a GTS spec Porsche) was the addition of a duckbill spoiler in Guards red; it's cool... I have the standard OEM tail too.

The Bid... I dove on the likely market value of the specific vehicle and established my bidding strategy. BaT disables last minute sniping by extending auctions by 2 min if a winning bid comes in in the last 2 minutes... so sniping was useless, but the winners always bid late. Nonetheless, bidding ~12hrs early was languishing $7K-$10K below market value. So I bumped the bid by a lot before going to bed... of course I bid the right looking number $XX,981. This eliminated much of the field emotionally looking for a surprise low ball win. Down at the wire there were 3 contenders bidding in $500 increments, and I kept my look of $XX,981 while others jumped on the mid-points. I won the bid nicely below my walk away number; woohoo.

The Delivery... My car was transported in covered truck from Florida to me in Colorado Springs. I received notice of pickup Wed 04Jun25 and it arrived Sunday morning. It came in a wild articulating car carrier truck... my Boxter was under the Ferrari and behind the Lamborghini! I already had received the temp plates to use till all the CO DMV titling and registration is finalized.

The Drive... Oh my, the drive. The steering and cornering on the GTS is confidence inspiring. A quick spin around the block with Matt and then Kala was initial proving... then we played dueling Porsches on the way to lunch ~ each toting our own Brantley for fun with friends. I wasted no time to attempt some rapid acceleration. The car is so pretty and such a great handler, and the throaty naturally aspirated exhaust sound is very cool.

The Duckbill... the prior owner did get one tasteful upgrade to BGTS... a duckbill spoiler in Guards red... I installed it vs the factory OEM one. It's cooler; it rolls right off the "tail" in the taillights well. Plus I get some rear downforce without deploying the spoiler ~ maybe just a skosh.

So awesome... now I need to get the CO registration, title, and plates ~ they are "in the mail."

Update 18Jun25 ~ The Ramp, The Inspection, And The PPF... I initially got into the garage on boards I laid in as a ramp from the road up our curb to the drive but replaced those (which broke into many pieces) now with big hunks of silicon rubber which fit nicely. The Pyle products look fine and work great.

My initial ownership act was to have the local 5* Porsche house do a comprehensive inspection of the vehicle. I had all the service records and CarFax and it's been driving great but it just makes sense. Plus I did need to get the GPS responding on the Nav Map and have the windshield wipers adjusted. All in, the shop was pleased with the condition and recommended only some unnecessary things, along with regular maintenance; maybe rear brakes soon. I'm very pleased it's all good but the guy did recently put $6K into it to sell it.

Pro Auto Spa did the PPF, expensive but they did good work on protecting the entire front half of the car... Colorado is very rock rich on our roads so this was an investment to keep the car looking good. There is no perceptible color shift with the PPF, the edges are super clean and rolled, and even the mirrors are protected. Very nice ~ recommended.

Update 24Jun25 ~ The Rennline MagSafe Phone Holder Head... I looked up the original owner's phone holder model and contacted tech support about what I'd need to get to use the same clean install. I got the right head and it is solid with the modern iPhones.

The last owner's recent windshield install was insufficient and didn't capture the cowling correctly, which also buggered the windshield wiper action. That's all fixed right by the Porsche dealer here now.

Update 05Jul25 ~ The Uniden Radar Detector And BlendMount Mount... The best current radar/lidar detection tech is a Uniden R8W, expensive but all the local Porsche owners suggest it... I got one. The existing BlendMount clip was for a different make & model detector so I contacted tech support after determining the rest was a BlendMount and purchased the right clip. I installed it today and it is tight. I'll let you know if it is also effective.

Update 19Aug25 ~ The FlyBox1... I needed a license indicative of fly fishing of course but respectful of the Porsche.

Update 09Sep25 ~ Captured Motion... I needed to keep up with TK again as he can now capture action with a window mounted GoPro. Since I'm a GoPro guy from way back, from fishing footage, I built a hanger for the window too and mounted my Session 5 (yeah, plenty old, plenty good, super small). One has to be ready at all times to stash the cam in the locked glovebox as else it can serve as evidence, even without a search warrant in CO... understood. I think glovies need to be remote activated therefore; mine is not; manual will have to do.