997x3, 996x3, 993 x 5...

[BertBert]

Looks like Henry has turned into an air cooled specialist with moree 993s than any other variant!

[Porkupine]

BertBert said:

Looks like Henry has turned into an air cooled specialist with moree 993s than any other variant!

But also he says they are over rated if you read the ad. Think it was one of those at 21495 where he says it. (or whoever wrote the ad).

[mollytherocker]

Porkupine said:

But also he says they are over rated if you read the ad. Think it was one of those at 21495 where he says it. (or whoever wrote the ad).

You have mis-understood him. He is saying that many worn examples drive badly...

'this is such an honest and unmolested car that drives in a manner very different to most of its peers which now handle and perform like 16 year old cars and are rarely deserving of all the hype and mystique associated with the model'

MTR

[Porkupine]

mollytherocker said:

You have mis-understood him. He is saying that many worn examples drive badly...

'this is such an honest and unmolested car that drives in a manner very different to most of its peers which now handle and perform like 16 year old cars and are rarely deserving of all the hype and mystique associated with the model'

MTR

i.e. most of them are over-rated!!

[BrewsterBear]

Porkupine said:

i.e. most of them are over-rated!!

Not quite - i.e. many of them need £3k+ of suspension work which is a big chunk to throw at a weekend car when many owners won't realise theirs has deteriorated over the years. The original shocks on these have a life of around 40k miles after which they aren't much cop. Couple that with the low annual mileages these do and quite few rubber bushes will have perished and ball joints won't be tight.

I spent well over £2k replacing the suspension on my 993 when I had it and I did much of the work, bar the alignment, myself.