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I bought my 996.2 GT3 from 911V in 2009. Having recently covered 2200 miles in a week around Scotland I can’t think of many other cars I would rather have been driving for pure road-driving pleasure and thrills. No driver aids bar ABS certainly focusses your mind and actions, knowing that any big mistakes will be entirely of your own making. I don’t drive the GT3 that frequently - it’s really only used for trips to Scotland, Wales and Europe and with sometimes months between drives I often find it takes a day or two before I start to get the feel of its capabilities - far greater than my own, I might add! As a pure thrills no-nonsense drive I can’t think of many cars that I’d choose instead. The first owner specced it with cruise control which I thought would be useless but in fact has proved to be essential for covering the inevitable boring motorway miles with license-keeping ease. Then you can let rip on the interesting roads 
Can’t comment with any authority on values and don’t really care but as someone recently posted on here circa £60k may seem steep beside a cooking 996 but compared to everything else it’s still an absolute bargain
Couple of gratuitous pics…
Filth
Can’t comment with any authority on values and don’t really care but as someone recently posted on here circa £60k may seem steep beside a cooking 996 but compared to everything else it’s still an absolute bargain
Couple of gratuitous pics…
Filth
Cheburator mk2 said:
Diff making noises at low speed is perfectly fine. Mine has a 996 Cup diff and that feels almost welded while parking
I am 6' 4" and I fit like a glove. Never felt the need to tilt the front base of the seat. I don't think you can raise the front...
Are you using factory sidemounts ? I'm 6' 1" and even with the thinner seat cushion I sit too high imo - I have resorted to removing the cushion on trackdays and even then the rev counter is still obscured by the steering wheel. I am 6' 4" and I fit like a glove. Never felt the need to tilt the front base of the seat. I don't think you can raise the front...
SignalGruen said:
Are you using factory sidemounts ? I'm 6' 1" and even with the thinner seat cushion I sit too high imo - I have resorted to removing the cushion on trackdays and even then the rev counter is still obscured by the steering wheel.
6'3 and perfect for me too. Standard mounted buckets. SignalGruen said:
Are you using factory sidemounts ? I'm 6' 1" and even with the thinner seat cushion I sit too high imo - I have resorted to removing the cushion on trackdays and even then the rev counter is still obscured by the steering wheel.
That's one of the few standard things left in my car. Perhaps it is my superior body construction where I am long of legs and short of torso that helps? 
Mine revs out to 8400 due to the K400 kit, but even then relying on the rev counter is dangerous. I am very tempted to fit a set of the superb Ausie made shift lights as discussed on Rennlist a few times https://ecliptech.com.au/shift-i/ Easily reversible mod and very helpful if you are using the car as intended...
v8ksn said:
Where is that exactly?
A939 up towards the ski station at Lecht*, direction of Tomintoul. The orange dot you can see ahead of me is a fellow PH'er in his Gallardo LP550-2. Probably the only other car on this trip that I would have gladly swapped for - Obviously roads like this are complete rubbish, full of caravans, potholes and Janet Street-Porter. Not worth the bother at all, if anyone asks!
Slight reduction on the cobalt cs.. thought this would have been snapped up by now..
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...
maxest said:
Slight reduction on the cobalt cs.. thought this would have been snapped up by now..
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...
Now sold, or withdrawn? http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...
Looks like we have some real world sales recently, albeit all LHD Japanese imports:
Silver car that was advertised at JZM recently I believe...
http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/classic-auct...
Also the Green car that was originally Zanzibar was advertised at £47500 now no longer advertised and SignalGruens black car at £49995 no longer advertised too.
I have an interest as I'm considering whether now is the time to sell my LHD Japanese import Biarritz white MK1 Clubsport or not. I can't see any reason why these cars won't follow the 964 RS etc in value but it's certainly not happening at the moment so maybe it should be a keeper.
Silver car that was advertised at JZM recently I believe...
http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/classic-auct...
Also the Green car that was originally Zanzibar was advertised at £47500 now no longer advertised and SignalGruens black car at £49995 no longer advertised too.
I have an interest as I'm considering whether now is the time to sell my LHD Japanese import Biarritz white MK1 Clubsport or not. I can't see any reason why these cars won't follow the 964 RS etc in value but it's certainly not happening at the moment so maybe it should be a keeper.
Edited by bryn_p on Wednesday 22 June 21:04
bryn_p said:
SignalGruens black car at £49995 no longer advertised too.
My ad simply expired. Wasn't the best time to advertise it since I haven't been in the country much since but I have some interest from the continent which I'm following up on at the moment.Edited by bryn_p on Wednesday 22 June 21:04
Looks like my old girl is up for sale yet again.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...
I sold that car in Feb '12 with 41000 miles on it after doing 12k in 3 years, losing money in the process. Since then it's done only 5k miles in the hands of probably 4-5 different people. Buyers are getting too precious about the mileage and trying to level it out it seems. At the time I sold it it was one of the higher mileage Mk2 ones for sale.
Looks like it's had the wheel changed/retrimmed and it's got a new alcantara gearknob.
Somebody buy it and drive it please. She likes a good ragging.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...
I sold that car in Feb '12 with 41000 miles on it after doing 12k in 3 years, losing money in the process. Since then it's done only 5k miles in the hands of probably 4-5 different people. Buyers are getting too precious about the mileage and trying to level it out it seems. At the time I sold it it was one of the higher mileage Mk2 ones for sale.
Looks like it's had the wheel changed/retrimmed and it's got a new alcantara gearknob.
Somebody buy it and drive it please. She likes a good ragging.
Edited by anniesdad on Thursday 23 June 10:00
Cheburator mk2 said:
Interesting thing to note - a German car will always be worth more than a Jap import in Europe for the same condition and mileage.
Which, as Steve alludes to, is ridiculous when you've seen the condition of the Japanese cars. But that's the way it is - I sold a German import 964 last year that had suffered in the UK since 2000 and the German buyer said he wouldn't even have considered the car had it been a Japanese import. Fortunately my GT3 is a German market car originally so I expect it sits somewhere between the 2 values.It's all over the place. Dick Lovett offered me a C00 German delivered Signal Green Mk1 (one of one) for £95k a few weeks back.
Beautiful car. I was sorely tempted.
It then ended up with Thomas Schmitz who sold it in a week for €140k.
Meanwhile, a clean Japan import CS with JZM seal of approval makes £52k at auction (plus comm?).
Beautiful car. I was sorely tempted.
It then ended up with Thomas Schmitz who sold it in a week for €140k.
Meanwhile, a clean Japan import CS with JZM seal of approval makes £52k at auction (plus comm?).
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