Which Porsche do you regret selling...

[Slippydiff]

Well it was only a short 14 year "addiction".
I'm currently going cold turkey, but it's proving hard ! !
As I said earlier in the thread, I gave NO regrets, be they financial or no longer owning them, though I'd be the first to admit I do miss driving them a lot. I'm all to aware I was extraordinarily lucky to have been able to own and drive some truly wonderful (not to mention memorable) cars when they were both unloved and undervalued, and I'm very aware that I was lucky to have been able to afford to chop and change them as and when the mood took me.

There was however method in my madness. I've never purchased a new car in my 36 years of driving, in fact the closest I came to doing so was the purchase of the first 997 GT3, which was less than 12 months old when I bought it. I sold it just over 12 months later for a figure within £1000 of its purchase price. So whilst to the casual observer my purchases may look a tad reckless, I progressed through the various iterations of RS/GT cars with a degree of logic (irrespective of how warped it may have been !!) and financial consideration.

I hope to be back behind the wheel of something characterful in the next 2-3 years, though I suspect I'll be going to the darkside and driving something significantly more hardcore ....

[911Thrasher]

my 2007 white 997.1 GT3RS, carbon inside with white cage
loved it and had numerous Spa/Silverstone good days with it

[zeb]

LaSource said:

Sadly showing another online nutcase just means she'll have proof that online car forums are also bad for you!

damn your logic !!

[LaSource]

zeb said:

LaSource said:

Sadly showing another online nutcase just means she'll have proof that online car forums are also bad for you!

damn your logic !!

Been there, got the t-shirt...

[81]

Far too many 911's to list 😟

[Slippydiff]

Pip1968 said:

Slippydiff.......Wow, I wish that I had the money and enthusiasm to change cars as much as you. An impressive array of Porsche. On top of that to 'restore' so many of them too.

I suppose my next question has to be are you married and if so does she keep a suitcase packed at the bottom of the stairs ???? Poor girl must be on tenterhooks.

I have always assumed most are either in the NA camp or the turbo camp but you appear to be 'transgender' or is it 'bicurious'.

Anyway good effort. I cannot add anything else to this thread as have only ever owned one Porsche and she too is a 'KEEPER' in the true sense of the word not the Slippydiff sense.

Pip
Ps great bird life

Well I can get as dewy eyed as the next man over N/A 911's, (and I make no bones about it, a de-catted, Cup piped, drilled airbox 964 RS is about as good as it gets noise wise, although a Manthey K400 equipped Mk1 996 GT3 is as good) and the immediacy of their throttle response does have as certain allure .....

However one day in 2001 I arrived at Porsche Centre Solihull ( I used to work for them as a a subbie) and one of these was parked on the car park (in this hue) :



Not only was I utterly transfixed by it, I was completely smitten, so much so I blagged a pax ride in it when it went out for its roadtest after having had its first service (much to the DP's chagrin....)

At that time I was close to buying a 964 RS and 996 GT2's were circa £120K and thus well out of my reach financially. But I knew I HAD to have a 996 GT2, and within 4 years their prices had collapsed to the point whereby ownership became a possibility.

And whilst the 996 GT3 is a wonderful, tactile and engaging car to drive, and was quick in its day, 360hp isn't that much when pitted against some of the quicker hot hatches. What the 996 GT2 lacks in ultimate tactility, its engine more than makes up for in grunt.

I can remember numerous occasions whereby I found myself sitting on a lovely stretch of A road stuck behind a queue of eight or ten cars with an articulated lorry at the head of the queue. In the GT3 that would have required some deft planning/knowledge of the road and "work" to get past.
In the GT2 it became a case of working out whether or not you could dispatch the lot of them in one fell swoop (more often than not you'd pull out thinking you'd get past them in two "hits", only to find the GT2 was so effortlessly quick, you could dispatch the lot of them with room to spare).
That didn't stop those being overtaken from gesticulating (something about that Nescafe ad with Gareth Hunt and coffee beans ?) flashing their lights or sounding their horns (ditto oncoming cars 1/2 mile up the road)

I likened the GT2 to a 4 wheeled motorcycle such was it's ability to punch past slower traffic (add a map and a decent exhaust and the performance become borderline funny). So on our oft crowded A roads, more often than not held up by numerous articulated lorries etc, and with overtaking now consigned to the history books by most, the GT2 was a breath of fresh air and peerless.

[SRT Hellcat]

slippydiff you win hands down or cupped my friend.
Regret is a tough and hindsight is a wonderful thing.
In hindsight I should have kept my 1998 993GT2 but the money was needed elsewhere.
I went from slimming down my car collection a few years ago to three. I am now back to ten. It is an affliction that one just cannot help themselves with. Four of them 911's. a 65, 67S, 2.4S and a 3.2 Carrera Coupe. Sometimes I think to myself I'm nuts but that soon passes to no you are just a very lucky boy
I have a good mate who owns 28 Alfa GTV's. Now he does need help

[Monch]

I've owned and sold around 10, 911s
The two I regret are:
996C4S midnight blue, coupe with all the right options, I loved it, and sold it back to the supplying OPC for only £3000 less than list I paid for it 10,000 miles and 12 months later. Financially probably a good choice, but I still miss her today

Secondly
997.2 GT3' red, club sport, Pccb, and again fully optioned. Sold her and bought a new 991 GT3, which was a bit of a disaster with engine problems etc. Should of kept the 997.....

But now, I was lucky enough to get from new a 991 GT3RS to my spec and also in a PTS colour.but I don't like her.....
I just haven't fallen in love with this one. It's got everything I wanted, the colour is probably the only one in the world, and I'm so lucky to have her. I think about selling her, but know I will regret it. I HAVE to keep her. So now she will just sit in the garage and one day I hope it all changes. I did 48 miles today in her, got home and took my 991 GTS out later and this is the car I really love. A year old now, and 10000 miles so far, also in a PTS colour. I really really love the GTS :-)

[Slippydiff]

SRT Hellcat said:

slippydiff you win hands down or cupped my friend.
Regret is a tough and hindsight is a wonderful thing.
[b]In hindsight I should have kept my 1998 993GT2 but the money was needed elsewhere.
I went from slimming down my car collection a few years ago to three. I am now back to ten. It is an affliction that one just cannot help themselves with. Four of them 911's. a 65, 67S, 2.4S and a 3.2 Carrera Coupe. Sometimes I think to myself I'm nuts but that soon passes to no you are just a very lucky boy [/b]
I have a good mate who owns 28 Alfa GTV's. Now he does need help

A lovely flock of early air cooled charms you have there. And you're right, it is an affliction (or should that be an addiction ??)
Letting go of the 993 GT2 would be something that might have caused me a few sleepless nights now. Though I passed up a 65k mile LHD 993 GT2 back in 2004-5 that I could have bought for £70k. I looked at my then 993 RS but couldn't see the additional £30k it would've cost to change. As you say, hindsight is a wonderful thing ! !

I did leave out one air cooled car. I bought this :

An ex-California '73 LHD 2.4E which was (compared with it's UK equivalent) largely rot free :







Not quite its original engine :



Or seats .... :





The plan was to build the ultimate FIA approved rep of this well known 2.8 RSR





Stripped (of ALL its mechanical parts) within 6 hours :





Many, many, many hours of painstaking scraping to remove the underseal, then as many hours again to strip the exterior paint.









Rotten bits cut out prior to acid dipping (outer sills, B posts, scuttle etc) :



After acid dipping :









New roof and scuttle :



And a host of other panels :





The most perfect TIG welded cage :













Seam welded :





And a myriad of detail mods to OE RSR spec (but stronger)

Large rear turret conversion (for coilovers)





Strut brace and mounts



Strengthened inner flitches :



New front panel modified to accept RSR front mounted oil cooler



The list goes on, but culminated in the fitment of these steel beauties back and front :



And aluminium door skins :



Alas at this stage reality kicked in, and seeing that discretion was the better part of valor (I could see the build costs were going to be well in excess of £125K (back in 2009) I threw the towel in and sold the project for what it had cost me. I know the subsequent builder of the car and the purchaser, he got what is probably the finest 2.8 RSR replica shell available......

Edited by Slippydiff on Wednesday 12th October 00:25

[g7jhp]

Relatively humble compared to others GT3 and RS.I should have kept one of my silver 3.2's.

[diametric123]

Most regret selling - my first 911, a 1989 genuine non-sport 3.2 in Slate Grey that I bought in 1993 for £17k and sold in '94 for £15k to help fund my first flat purchase (in Central London, which cost £94k at the time…)

Most regret not buying - in 2014 I test drove a 996 GT2 with 25k miles that was on sale through a reputable specialist at £42k - maybe should have gone for that one...

[SRT Hellcat]

That was an awesome build Slippydiff. Costs do spiral out of control though. But as a good mate in the trade says. It's only money

[Burrow01]

zeb said:

Many thanks Slippydiff

I will show this thread to Mrs.zeb as proof there actually 'is' someone dafter than me when it comes to buying porsche's

I remain in your shadow sir....

And that takes some doing ..... ;-)

[tracydeedance]

Some interesting and nice write ups
Great reading.

[zeb]

Burrow01 said:

zeb said:

Many thanks Slippydiff

I will show this thread to Mrs.zeb as proof there actually 'is' someone dafter than me when it comes to buying porsche's

I remain in your shadow sir....

And that takes some doing ..... ;-)

Thanks Pete....thought I was home and dry til you turfed up !!

[p5hrr]

A one owner before me 924 Carrera GT.
Which I sold to fund buying and restoring a matching numbers 911 s targa to restore, which I later sold for £1500 unrestored, I paid £1200.
To fund buying a new 1984 Carrera 3.2 Targa

[ChrisW.]

SRT Hellcat said:

That was an awesome build Slippydiff. Costs do spiral out of control though. But as a good mate in the trade says. It's only money

And quite amazing that the largely rust free shell required so much surgery prior to commencement of the RSR "treatment" ....

[stuttgartmetal]

alanshaw said:

stuttgartmetal said:

If only eh?
Forced to sell because of a divorce
I've been there.
You move on
You get something better.

I take it, your talking about the wife ? !!

But of course
She was sleek dark and beautiful
Shame I had to let her go.
The new ones a bit younger with a fatter arse on her.
And worth a lot more money.