Moda Cars

[HermanTheGerman]

Hello to all. I'm a fairly regular poster on the Porsche forum and I have a question re Moda Cars in Essex. As they mainly sell Italian exotica, I thought you might be able to help.

They currently have a '73 911 RS replica which I'm interested in. I phoned the guy last night and he explained that the car has no documentary history as apparently they had a fire a few months back in which all their records were destroyed. I think they're an offshoot of EuroCarSpares or EuroCarParts, if that helps.

Has anybody got nice things to say about this company and does anybody know whether the fire story is true. I'm sure it is, I'm just being extra careful. TIA.

[rubystone]

Eurocarparts are known in the Porsche community - ISTR they may be known as Transend and based in Halstead area? Famous for finding (expensive) rare parts. There was also a lhd importer based in a showroom in Halstead (now a Weatherspon's type club) that sold some nice exotica (and some not so nice...) for nice and not so nice money...he was known as Europa cars or similar and disappeared but I have heard is still trading, albeit from home

[HermanTheGerman]

Cheers, RS.

Moda are based in Halstead on an industrial site. The website is www.modacars.com

Look familiar ?

[clubsport]

H t G,,,sorry don't know anything about moda cars,,,but the RS replica doesn't look too bad for the money & rhd.......if no history I would definitely get in touch with the previous owners to find out more about the £20k spent...It desperately needs the correct seats & interior fittings (not cheap & rare) and whats with the "very fast"....spurious advertising at its finest.

[HermanTheGerman]

clubsport said:"very fast"....spurious advertising at its finest.

He did say it's got the injected 2.7 engine (I would imagine from a '74 or '75 2.7 Carrera).

You stand no chance

[132]

Hello,

There were part of Eurospares. Although I did not see it myself, it is common knowledge that they had a fire a few months ago, but as to whether or not they lost all of their documentation???

For what its worth, I know they used to have a chap called Claudio who imported cars.

Best of luck.

[HermanTheGerman]

Cheers 132, that's one load off my mind.

I'm off to see the car now. I'll let the Porsche boys know what it's like tomorrow.

[rubystone]

Cheap car maybe. If it's got the crap LE Jet engine from the 74 impact bumper 2.7s forget it, the engine's rubbish...if it's a genuine RS then go for it...even period Recaros aren't that expensive

[clubsport]

I wouldn't say the engine was rubbish...2.7 kicks out 210bhp in RS form which is not huge.
I think it is fair to say the engine does not have the durability of later air cooled flatsixes,but then again they have many more years of development.

[rubystone]

Mike, you're confusing the beautiful 2.7 RS engine, based on the venerable 2.4 unit with the shite one that Porsche came up with for the G series cars (impact bumper) built from 1974 to 1977. The engine truly was bad, the injection was so bad it washed the oil off the bores and the bottom end was weaker that Vanessa Feltz's....truly a car to avoid. The only G series worth considering is the Carrera 2.7 that iguana and I had such fun arguing over some time ago ...all IMHO of course but based on fact - I drove loads of these cars before finding an early SC for the same money - all this back in 1986 BTW when the cars were that much newer.

[danhay]

They currently have a '73 911 RS replica which I'm interested in. I phoned the guy last night and he explained that the car has no documentary history as apparently they had a fire a few months back in which all their records were destroyed.

It might be worth contacting Porsche. They should have records of any work done within the franchised network, though I don't know how far back their records go?