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YOUR RESEARCHYour favorite non-996 Porsche
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Too many to choose but if I had to pick a street car, probably a 993 Turbo...
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But I am fooling my self if a modern Porsche is my dream, the 993 is probably the best of the aircooled, but wait, I really love 356, but I remember falling in love with the 928 in the late seventies.....on second thought, I remember the beautiful picture of the red 930 on our fireplace mantel back in the 80s until my wife said it had to go...
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But I am fooling my self if a modern Porsche is my dream, the 993 is probably the best of the aircooled, but wait, I really love 356, but I remember falling in love with the 928 in the late seventies.....on second thought, I remember the beautiful picture of the red 930 on our fireplace mantel back in the 80s until my wife said it had to go...
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Quiet day at work? Let's have some fun. What's your favorite non-996 Porsche? It can be a certain model, a specific car, a special edition, etc. It just needs to be a Porsche.
I'd give a teste for a Singer car.
Mine is the good old 928...because of its cool factor in the movies Risky Business and Weird Science. Very formative and i always catch myself browsing 928 ads.
904.
I enjoyed my '69 European 911S -- but a fellow from WV took me for a ride in his 904 with a 3 liter IROC, dual plug engine. Words do not describe. As he said, he liked the 4 cylinder. Went to a 2.5 911S engine which was better. But the IROC engine finally scared him. Car had beautiful lines, but lowered? If you ran over a beer can, you could feel it all the way down the car. Whew.
Man...this is a super hard question...I do like them all. However, my first gut reaction is my 997.2 but then I would have to say the GT3RS version would be even better. But I am fooling my self if a modern Porsche is my dream, the 993 is probably the best of the aircooled, but wait, I really love 356, but I remember falling in love with the 928 in the late seventies.....on second thought, I remember the beautiful picture of the red 930 on our fireplace mantel back in the 80s until my wife said it had to go...
.....aw hell, who asked this crazy question anyway....I am so confused.
Wow that is a good question. The Singer for a testie is a good pic. In that same vein I might have Magnus Walker build me one.
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KC beat me to it, I would definitely have a Magnus Walker esque 911. This is a 68 R, and I would give a lot to have one...probably more than is logical.
This, because I used to have a 750 GT Zagato:
This, because it's the SR-71 of cars:
This, because I could actually afford it & I LOVE the way it looks:
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Too many to choose but if I had to pick a street car, probably a 993 Turbo...
I even have a print of this ad hanging in my garage.
As for race car options, definitely a 904.
-Eric
if it were me, it had to be the 935 Moby Dick - that was one of the first toy cars my dad got me - maybe that's what got me interested into Porsches right from my childhood
The other car that I always had a thing for is the 959 - it was loaded with all the coolest stuff that existed at that point of time (I wasn't even born then
) It looked slightly different from a regular Porsche, yet has the genes somewhere in there.
The 917 or 962 for me. I've seen the 962 Lowenbrau with Al Holbert (RIP) and Derek Bell at Road America back in the 80's. That car just drips badassness!
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Wow what a great post. So many beautiful classics. I feel like I just got a history lesson.
Since I'm a noob and haven't driven any classics, I would have to say the 2013 991S that I drove today. 400 hp with PDK and paddle shifters is crazy fun. When the 50th Anniversary Edition comes out, it will be my favorite I'm sure. My bucket list has on it the 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th and 50th AE's. That will be some garage!
I love your plan! For me, I want to own all seven generations...after this post I can see that I wasn't thinking big enough. :-) you all listed some real beauties and made me realize I got to keep working!
Hmmm, difficult to choose.... and newer ('10 or '11) GT3 or a GT3RS, black, of course, black wheels, steel brakes, but probably not a GT3RS 4.0.(black or white)
See picture left, ironically I was going to replace it with the 996, but I like them both, both great fun and very different cars, so now instead of changing to a more practical Porsche I have two (partner not impressed, she wanted me to sell the 928 before the 996 come along :-) )
Soo Many to choose from, if I win the lottery I will need a barn to warehouse the generations or Porsche.
1949 Porsche 356 Coupe
1955 Porsche 550 Spyder
1957 Porsche 356a Roadster
1973 Porsche 911 RS
1987 Porsche 959
1997 993 Turbo S
2011 997.2 Turbo S
2012 GT3 RS 4.0
Throw in a Mayhem, RWB and Singer modified car and I think my collection would be complete.
Each one is very good looking, and equally iconic in its own right, The only way I could chose between what is on my list would be what my bank balance allows.
