968 Club Sport or Sport. - You decide!
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peralta said:
A bit of info to add to the CS/Sport stories - I was a Porsche customer in the days when we were a fairly small group of people and I’d had a few 944s of various types. Porsche held a day for probable clients to try the 968 which was struggling for sales, and was very impressed by the CS
However, as I was doing a large annual mileage there was no way I could live with the CS specification so I asked Porsche if they would build me a CS with sunroof, standard seats, electric windows and a couple of other bits and pieces. They said yes so I ordered the car.
Whilst the car was being built Porsche contacted me to say that they’d decided to build a run of similar cars which they were going to call the Sport
Mine was in the logbook as a CS and came with CS badges but I had the badges swapped for Sport ones ( I know....)
A couple of years later, I found it almost impossible to sell the car because no one wanted white!
That's a cool story (genuinely!) However, as I was doing a large annual mileage there was no way I could live with the CS specification so I asked Porsche if they would build me a CS with sunroof, standard seats, electric windows and a couple of other bits and pieces. They said yes so I ordered the car.
Whilst the car was being built Porsche contacted me to say that they’d decided to build a run of similar cars which they were going to call the Sport
Mine was in the logbook as a CS and came with CS badges but I had the badges swapped for Sport ones ( I know....)
A couple of years later, I found it almost impossible to sell the car because no one wanted white!
ChrisW. said:
I believe the UK CS' were specified with Sunroof ... I have seen LHD CS's without.
My CS has a Sunroof and the Airbag wheel from the Coupe, why you would spec this I dont know. I swapped it for a genuine CS Wheel.
I stupidly sold my buckets to another PH member and he put them in his 911 GT2 (he was a very well known Porsche nut, cant remember his name).
Got £1100 for them (was a round 2006). Stupid mistake.
ChrisW. said:
It certainly makes the LHD non-sunroof CS quite interesting as a track-hack ...
As a former owner of a couple of LHD (both regular coupes, not CS) 968 cars, both bought whilst living elsewhere in Europe, I recall the perceived wisdom 20 years ago was that the LHD cars were better as a basis for track cars/club racers due to not having the compromised braking actuation setup that RHD had. There were certainly more to chose from in the European market back then. When I sold my last one in 2008 after moving back to the UK with it, I was staggered at the number of European buyers who contacted me, all apparently wanting it as a track car due to it being LHD and factory M030 (which most CS were not, if I remember correctly).
GTSjohn said:
You and me both! Had a lovely 1994 CS in amathyst (and genuine, not s Sport masquerading as a CS!) from 1998 to 2006. Overlapped with a 996 Targa. Sold the CS to a mate for about £13k with about 60k on the clock as I just wasn't using it and didn't have the space to store it.. Often wondered what happened to it - M139MNC iirc. Biggest car mistake of my life - well, apart from buying my 997GTS back in 2012 instead of a 997GT3 Mk2, which would have been about £15k more expensive, but now about £45k more........... Hey ho, hindsight is a wonderful thing!
Late in seeing this . I now own M139 MNC and still use it albeit not enough. Have had the engine rebuilt, bodywork resprayed and its virtually in showroom condition now. Did it have the half roll cage when you owned it or was that installed by your mate.
Im just deciding whether to sell or not .
PM me and i will send some pictures .
Alan
cslwtfatboy said:
Late in seeing this . I now own M139 MNC and still use it albeit not enough. Have had the engine rebuilt, bodywork resprayed and its virtually in showroom condition now.
Did it have the half roll cage when you owned it or was that installed by your mate.
Im just deciding whether to sell or not .
PM me and i will send some pictures .
Alan
Pictures you say - what about us ???Did it have the half roll cage when you owned it or was that installed by your mate.
Im just deciding whether to sell or not .
PM me and i will send some pictures .
Alan
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BrotherMouzone said:
It’s peculiar so many CSs were spec’d with sunroof.
Fashionable at the time?
I forget where I read this but the reason many CSs have sunroofs is due to Porsche having lots of spare sunroof BIW shells to use. They knew the 968 chassis was due for replacement so they weren´t going to be making any more chassis.(If you ordered a CS without a sunroof once all the coupes were used I guess it was take it or leave it). Fashionable at the time?
This is plausable because the CS and Sport were introduced later to revive sales, Porsche were having a hard time selling cars in the early 90´s. This could also be the reason the UK got the Sport model as well to use all the RHD chassis. (give the UK a bit more choice to clear the stock).
Cupra Black said:
I used to take mine to see customers. It had the buckets and after an hour I would have to stop to get the circulation back in my legs (I am a Powerfully built Director Type = see fat).
Great cars for covering long distances in though. I sold my CS for less than £9k in 2006/7. It had new cams, head gasket rebuild, at the time I needed the money. Big mistake
Similar experiences. I replaced my seats with early type leather sports seats (and some clever swapping of runners from low spec LHD & RHD series two 944s). I still have the rear squab replacement in my spare room over 20yrs later. I replaced the Atiwe wheel for a Monte Carlo too as I preferred the rim thickness. I left the windy windows as 944 electric windows were always slow, even when they were new,,,Sacrilege according to 'new' owners, but it was bought to work, not to make up pretentious nonsense about. Great cars for covering long distances in though. I sold my CS for less than £9k in 2006/7. It had new cams, head gasket rebuild, at the time I needed the money. Big mistake
A 968 Sport was my first ever Porsche back in 1997. Bought from OPC Exeter. The registration number, L229FTT, doesn't seem to exist with the Dvla anymore. Maybe someone recognises the plate, she was in midnight blue and a lovely car. She was only a stopgap as I had put a deposit down on a brand new Boxster, unbelievable but they had an 18 month waiting list back then. The Boxster was the new big thing but I wish I had kept the 968, much more special car.
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