The 997 Appreciation Thread

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[Filibuster]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

and the hounds !

So we have had kids, hounds and OHs standing on the seats, but have we had cats yet?

[Shaoxter]

v8ksn said:

Nice garage!!! Wish I lived somewhere with the space for that kind of garage

[Magic919]

Looks like RSJ in Slough to me.

[GT4P]

Filibuster said:

So we have had kids, hounds and OHs standing on the seats, but have we had cats yet?

Pur-fect

[v8ksn]

Shaoxter said:

Nice garage!!! Wish I lived somewhere with the space for that kind of garage

Me too!!!

Its the place I bought the car from, RSJ in Slough. This is their handover bay.

[So]

GT4P said:

Filibuster said:

So we have had kids, hounds and OHs standing on the seats, but have we had cats yet?

Pur-fect

Proof that a 997 attracts pussy.

[nicksps]

Maxym said:

The Bridport to Abbotsbury road eh? One of my 997's favourite drives .... just avoid mid-summer !

[MrVert]

Cheib said:

Very nice!

And can I ask how yo found the Tuthill car you had ? Always fancied a Tuthill Porsche after Chris Harris had Kermit built by them years

Thanks

The Tutthill car was a brilliant little thing...wish I'd never sold her..






Getting very expensive to build these now....same car to the spec I had would be well over £100k done properly.

Still....lovely things and if you can.....you should

[So]

MrVert said:

Thanks

The Tutthill car was a brilliant little thing...wish I'd never sold her..






Getting very expensive to build these now....same car to the spec I had would be well over £100k done properly.

Still....lovely things and if you can.....you should

Funnily enough I have been seriously considering building an air cooled 911 to my spec. What was the spec of yours?

[nicksps]

Pyrennees July 2016...

[The_Doc]

Shaoxter said:

Nice garage!!! Wish I lived somewhere with the space for that kind of garage

We can but dream.... Here's Arash's "garage" or part of it.



Now receiving a http://www.hiroboy.com/userfiles/images/sys/produc...

[The_Doc]

His brother told me there's a special edition GT3 RS he bought too, only for 918 factory buyers. Gotta love Arash. Known him for 30 years

[Cheib]

The_Doc said:

His brother told me there's a special edition GT3 RS he bought too, only for 918 factory buyers. Gotta love Arash. Known him for 30 years

I believe the limited edition car that 918 buyers could buy was a Turbo S rather than a GT3 RS. Uber rare....only 1 ever registered in the UK according to howmanyleft

918 Spyder buyers did get put at the front of the queue for the RS though...guaranteed you an allocation at least towards the end of the 918 run as unbelievably it didn't sell out overnight! In the US is a 918 gives you VIP status and first dibs on every car for something like 10 yrs (as long as you still own the 918) official Porsche US programme.

https://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/24/2012-porsche-9...

[The_Doc]

Yeah he loves his Porsches: Carrera GT and 918 Weissach and more than one GT3, there were also two 924s, a 968Clubsport a 996 Turbo S, a Panamera Turbo S, and then there's Italian exotica....

[MrVert]

So said:

Funnily enough I have been seriously considering building an air cooled 911 to my spec. What was the spec of yours?

1988 3.2 Carrera
Full bare metal respray
Tutthill 6 pot brake system with bias control
Jenvey throttle bodies
Stainless steel sports exhaust SSI heat exchangers
Blistein dampers
Recaro leather racing seats
Mono Prototipo wheel
Too much more to list..

240bhp...Torquey as hell and an absolute hoot to drive

[So]

MrVert said:

So said:

Funnily enough I have been seriously considering building an air cooled 911 to my spec. What was the spec of yours?

1988 3.2 Carrera
Full bare metal respray
Tutthill 6 pot brake system with bias control
Jenvey throttle bodies
Stainless steel sports exhaust SSI heat exchangers
Blistein dampers
Recaro leather racing seats
Mono Prototipo wheel
Too much more to list..

240bhp...Torquey as hell and an absolute hoot to drive

The 100k you mentioned, does that include the base car?

[Mutton]

Here's my Gen 2 S..

My 997 Gen 2 S by Mutton J, on Flickr

I'm thinking of making it a project car, so currently making a list of things I'd like to change to make it a little bit more focused for track work whilst still being usable on the road.

[MrVert]

So said:

The 100k you mentioned, does that include the base car?

Yes, however it's finding a good one that's the difficult part now..

[So]

MrVert said:

Yes, however it's finding a good one that's the difficult part now..

I sold one about 2010 for 13k...: shortly before my mint 930 at £23.5k....