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I’ve owned them all, from Bel, to Cobra, to Escort & Passport.But the Valentine One is the only radar detector I trust in my Porsche 911. Yes, I know that in the days of instant-on and VASCAR a radar detector isn’t going to guarantee you won’t get a ticket, but coupled with alert driving a Valentine One is going to save your butt over and over. The V1 radar detector has three key characteristics that make it the best radar detector in the world:

I posted the story of how I came to own a 1988 911 with only 6800 miles on it in the spring of 1997. Since buying the car I have had tons of fun and, for the most part, my experience owning a Porsche has been nothing but pure joy. However, there have been problems. The largest of which is disclosed here in the sad saga of premature valve guide wear…

With a little help of J and Reb, today was my first day at Seattle International Raceway in my “new” Porsche. What a kick. I’m hooked. Here’s the story… Last Friday J & Reb told me they thought there may have been an opening for today’s race school at SIR. There was and I signed up. I arrived at SIR at 7:30 am, following 3 other 911s up highway 18 from Auburn.