RE: PH Carpool: Porsche 911 Carrera RS (964)
Discussion
TobesH said:
Munich said:
Not a bad price...
I'm thinking I should buy a 996 GT3 because I can't see them getting much cheaper.
Agreed, £30k for a GT3 at the moment, amazing value, surely they can't drop much more? I'm thinking I should buy a 996 GT3 because I can't see them getting much cheaper.On another note, the GT3 was and is adored by the journos, yet the 964RS was generally boo'd at the time for being too harsh and skittish and early values were very low for what was an unpopular car.
Lucky fella, the ring's an amazing place http://youtu.be/yiah1fJ1MwM
Beautiful car. Hold onto it for another ten years though- surely it's going through the roof value wise.
I have a boggo c2, silver with black, and although it's a tip (bloody hard to find a manual over here in Dubai) I'm thinking of a few rs bits- fairly legit as they did make one tip racer way back when. It's currently in the garage for a cosmetic overhaul, which then turned into a mechanical overhaul, and thinking about the correct chip for the job too.
I fully understand that a lot of people simply don't like them, but to me it's still the best looking of the lot, and I love mine for the usability, the character and noise.
I have a boggo c2, silver with black, and although it's a tip (bloody hard to find a manual over here in Dubai) I'm thinking of a few rs bits- fairly legit as they did make one tip racer way back when. It's currently in the garage for a cosmetic overhaul, which then turned into a mechanical overhaul, and thinking about the correct chip for the job too.
I fully understand that a lot of people simply don't like them, but to me it's still the best looking of the lot, and I love mine for the usability, the character and noise.
Beautiful car. Hold onto it for another ten years though- surely it's going through the roof value wise.
I have a boggo c2, silver with black, and although it's a tip (bloody hard to find a manual over here in Dubai) I'm thinking of a few rs bits- fairly legit as they did make one tip racer way back when. It's currently in the garage for a cosmetic overhaul, which then turned into a mechanical overhaul, and thinking about the correct chip for the job too.
I fully understand that a lot of people simply don't like them, but to me it's still the best looking of the lot, and I love mine for the usability, the character and noise.
I have a boggo c2, silver with black, and although it's a tip (bloody hard to find a manual over here in Dubai) I'm thinking of a few rs bits- fairly legit as they did make one tip racer way back when. It's currently in the garage for a cosmetic overhaul, which then turned into a mechanical overhaul, and thinking about the correct chip for the job too.
I fully understand that a lot of people simply don't like them, but to me it's still the best looking of the lot, and I love mine for the usability, the character and noise.
Paid £18k for mine in 2001, love it to pieces - looked at various GT3s in the early years thinking they'd be better but I never found one that was (including RS's). Much Ringingness and trackday fun had, and even been used as a daily driver for a while... good fun in the snow! Not the most power, or lightest weight, but a really awesome all in one package and a car with proper character that you can bond with
Personally I don't see values going much higher than they are now, and as I'd never want to sell it's all a bit academic anyway, but it is nice to have the rare experience of a car that has (in theory at least) offset all its running costs over the last 10 years
Personally I don't see values going much higher than they are now, and as I'd never want to sell it's all a bit academic anyway, but it is nice to have the rare experience of a car that has (in theory at least) offset all its running costs over the last 10 years
Joe911 said:
wtdoom said:
I'm interested to know the reasons for changing to 18 inch wheels.
One of the rear 17" mag alloys cracked 
At the time I had no spare wheels and those mags are pretty much unobtainium.
So - I resigned myself to needing to buy a full set of wheels.
I thought it would be interesting to try 18's - I naively thought it was a simple wheel/tyre swap and ordered the BBS LM's.
BBS went in receivership, and came out of it again, and eventually after about 18 months I got the 18's and Manthey set up the car - new anti-roll bars, revised front suspension mounting points, rolled the wheel arches, new geometry, etc.
Since then the handling has been just sensational (as opposed to the usual excess of understeer that blights most 964's) - I love it to bits.
I'm sure as a road car it is less good on 18's, though for me it is more of a track car.
I did in fact eventually find a set of original mags and so now have a set of 5 all refurbed in storage (one of them had in fact never been used and is still in the Porsche wrapping).
Did you use Mathey ?
mikEsprit said:
I thought the writing on the top of the windshield being on some pics and not others indicated more than one vehicle, but the same license plate indicates otherwise.
Except the 3rd picture down has a different license plate, too?
Reading the article.....he says he got registered in Germany and kept it near the ring for a while, also got a fair amount of work done on the car, so guess they are just photos across a few years.Except the 3rd picture down has a different license plate, too?
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