Dave the Storyteller

"This is that rare thing, a car that feels right the moment you drive away."

Talk about a connected fellow! And super nice guy too.

On our London trip, we also managed to zip down to Porsche Motor City in Detroit and meet with Dave, a longtime Porsche Club of America member and very connected fellow with Porsche. He’s semi-retired and works as a brand ambassador there - he’d seen our posting about The GTS Chronicles in the 718 forum and immediately reached out to us.

London-bound, we decided to head to Detroit after to put a face to the name. We had a lovely chat with him and he’s pledged to do what he can to push our story forward to his friends at Porsche in Germany!

I sat slightly slack-jawed listening to him as he regaled us with some awesome stories of ACTUALLY DRIVING with Alois Ruf in the Yellow Bird (!!!), taking photos of the 959 being built in the factory (!!!), getting steering wheels signed by Ferdinand Porsche, and selling Jerry Seinfeld bits of Porsche memorabilia! Wow!

Dave has had quite the storied life with Porsche, and seems to be a fan of what we are trying to do, so we drove away with plenty of good feels after spending three hours yapping with him! We got a nice close up look at his super custom 718 Cayman S too, and had lots to chat about on the long drive home.

Well worth the trip after our rather downbeat earlier meet up with Porsche London. 

~ Luke