RE: You Know You Want To: 964 Turbo

[cwin]

I have driven my Turbo around Spa shortly after buying it, the 2 trackdays we did were both in the rain and the car was awesome,The 3.3 is very tunable and just by fitting the 964 n/a cams and .9 bar boost they make 380/400 hp, it's the best car i have owned.

Driven it to Italy ,all the passes around Switzerland ect,it never missed a beat and ticks over at 100 mph (autobahn of course)

We raced one 2 years ago in the GT Cup at Spa against a number of 997 cup cars, Ferarri 430 GTc cars ect, i think there were around 25 cars on the grid and had a 3rd overall, so they can't handle that bad?

[turbo-ww]

Crimp a Length! said:

My old 3.3 with 42k miles.
Mint car but not impressive to drive sold to a Swedish (6 yrs ago) guy for a lot less then i'd get today, but hey i was happy at the time.



My old 930 89 5 speed.
Sold that last year for an impressive price.

Sounds like a classic case of some you win and some you lose....

[turbo-ww]

cwin said:

I have driven my Turbo around Spa shortly after buying it, the 2 trackdays we did were both in the rain and the car was awesome,The 3.3 is very tunable and just by fitting the 964 n/a cams and .9 bar boost they make 380/400 hp, it's the best car i have owned.

Driven it to Italy ,all the passes around Switzerland ect,it never missed a beat and ticks over at 100 mph (autobahn of course)

We raced one 2 years ago in the GT Cup at Spa against a number of 997 cup cars, Ferarri 430 GTc cars ect, i think there were around 25 cars on the grid and had a 3rd overall, so they can't handle that bad?

Beautiful. Was Candy Apple Red a special order?

Despite the wheels being ‘non-period’ they suite it rather well IMHO

[turbo-ww]

My old one BTW:

[cwin]

turbo-ww said:

Beautiful. Was Candy Apple Red a special order?

Despite the wheels being ‘non-period’ they suite it rather well IMHO

The car is an exclusive, so special order,as were the wheels,

[Flat6]

Remember Tiff hooning around some alpine style test track in a mint green one many years ago on Top Gear. Stuck in my mind for years... Truly awesome car. I can only dream!

Edit.. I found it! http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=82aDO0MuYQ4&des...

Edited by Flat6 on Thursday 25th October 20:42

[cwin]

This ran 2;36 round Spa std 3.3 engine,,,,,

[turbo-ww]

cwin said:

The car is an exclusive, so special order,as were the wheels,

I stand corrected on the wheels

[turbo-ww]

Flat6 said:

Remember Tiff hooning around some alpine style test track in a mint green one many years ago on Top Gear. Stuck in my mind for years... Truly awesome car. I can only dream!

Edit.. I found it! http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=82aDO0MuYQ4&des...

Edited by Flat6 on Thursday 25th October 20:42

That will be Minty - A very, very sad story

[chris116]

JMF894 said:

365daytonafan said:

Didn't Steve Sutcliffe's attempt to buy and run one of these not end very well for his (or Haymarket's) bank account?

Cool car though.

Yes wasn't it a yellow one?

Jimbo

Imported from Germany I believe, had to use two of his credit cards on one of the bills if I remember the story right.

I love this model Turbo, best looking of the lot for me.

[s m]

chris116 said:

JMF894 said:

365daytonafan said:

Didn't Steve Sutcliffe's attempt to buy and run one of these not end very well for his (or Haymarket's) bank account?

Cool car though.

Yes wasn't it a yellow one?

Jimbo

Imported from Germany I believe, had to use two of his credit cards on one of the bills if I remember the story right.

I love this model Turbo, best looking of the lot for me.

The one he bought was costing him over 1k per month on bills on average ( although some of the work was unlikely to be repeated every year )

[Max964T36]

Here is my Black/Black 1993 3.6 Turbo ... wouldn't change it with anything else, it's already too quick for me

[EdM]

iconic and eye candy indeed - there is definately something about cars of this era..almost as if the Porsche briefly outpaced the constraints of legislation, health and safety etc in this car leaving the 965 sitting squarely at odds with the more PC direction other manufacturers were taking at the time - this incarnation of the turbo a proper 'bad boy' and more desirable for this reason alone..even before we get to the purity of its looks.. worthy pedestal aside -in my humble opinion the narrow bodied 964 C2 was still the best one to have/own in the real world...loved mine and still the most involving, raw and all-round enjoyable driving experience of any car I have since owned or driven...

[mr pg]

markcoznottz said:

There might have been a S made just for the American market from memory, which had a sort of 928 semi flatnose front. Wouldn't be surprising if it had the 3.6 motor.

There was an S, and S Flachbau (flatnose), both in europe.

[Stu R]

Max964T36 said:

Here is my Black/Black 1993 3.6 Turbo ... wouldn't change it with anything else, it's already too quick for me

That's beautiful!

[Wills2]

Stu R said:

Max964T36 said:

Here is my Black/Black 1993 3.6 Turbo ... wouldn't change it with anything else, it's already too quick for me

That's beautiful!

Seconded. Stunning!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

turbo-ww said:

Flat6 said:

Remember Tiff hooning around some alpine style test track in a mint green one many years ago on Top Gear. Stuck in my mind for years... Truly awesome car. I can only dream!

Edit.. I found it! http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=82aDO0MuYQ4&des...

Edited by Flat6 on Thursday 25th October 20:42

That will be Minty - A very, very sad story

Does anyone know where minty is these days? I seem to remember it selling as a catC/D write off then disappearing with rumours that someone was going to bring it bac to life?

[Fire99]

Wills2 said:

Stu R said:

Max964T36 said:

Here is my Black/Black 1993 3.6 Turbo ... wouldn't change it with anything else, it's already too quick for me

That's beautiful!

Seconded. Stunning!

Thirded.. My kind of 911.. Very much indeed!

[billzeebub]

993 for me thanks

[turbo-ww]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

turbo-ww said:

Flat6 said:

Remember Tiff hooning around some alpine style test track in a mint green one many years ago on Top Gear. Stuck in my mind for years... Truly awesome car. I can only dream!

Edit.. I found it! http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=82aDO0MuYQ4&des...

Edited by Flat6 on Thursday 25th October 20:42

That will be Minty - A very, very sad story

Does anyone know where minty is these days? I seem to remember it selling as a catC/D write off then disappearing with rumours that someone was going to bring it bac to life?

Don't look at this link without a tissue...

http://www.douglasvalley.co.uk/item.asp?prodid=260...