Proud 993 owner at the Leeds 991 Launch Night!

[Boo152]

Fabulous 991 Launch event last night at the Leeds OPC - a well attended night, great hospitality, and some rather special cars on display including Sam Tordoff's GT2 Cup Car, a superb Carrera GT, and a rather lovely evolution line up of 911 models which included my beloved 18-year old 993, which was one of the original press launch models 1st registered to Porsche Cars of Great Britain in December 1993!

Carrera GT:
997 GT2 Cup: 996 Facelift: My 993: 964: 80's 911: Early 911S: 991:

Oh, I nearly forgot, the 991 was on display as well!

[marky911]

Nice!
Some lovely cars there, yours being one of them of course!
Nice to be included in something like that too. Nice little memory and a snippet for the history folder.

Did you manage to get a loan car like Craig off here did?

[Boo152]

marky911 said:

Nice!
Some lovely cars there, yours being one of them of course!
Nice to be included in something like that too. Nice little memory and a snippet for the history folder.

Did you manage to get a loan car like Craig off here did?

Thanks Mark
No, didn't bother with the loaner. In this sort of weather I dont usually use mine much anyway, so a loaner would have only stood idle! (although I did drive a Cayman R back to the railway station!)

Mine is still standing proudly in Leeds showroom


.... I'll collect her when the weather gets a bit better!

[C2S 8OOB]

Totally agree.. Well organised and executed night. Was great to see such well kept classics on display (obviously yours in yellow, stood out nicely). Was a bit guttered I didn’t win the watch though..

[speed8]

Was there a red 991 Carrera S there too? I saw one driving down the M621 yesterday on the way to OPC.

[Boo152]

Yes there was a red 991S there.

[cragswinter]

Well done boo, I used to own a speed yellow 993 before I bought the orange SC, it's great that they keep us air cooled guys involved in these things

It was probably just as well they didn't lend you a caymenR like they did me, I'm now furiously trying to work out how I can afford one (it appears I can't unfortunatly, however those boxster spyders are getting very reasonable......)

[thegoose]

...conversely when they borrowed my 993 for last night's Chester do they loaned me a C4S, which I drove 23 miles in (half of it on wet twisty B roads) on Monday night then it sat idle all day yesterday until I went to the do, and whilst it was an eminently very capable car it's not one that I'll ever hanker after. The 993 did feel very different afterwards though and sounded a lot better.