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What would you do?
Option 1: Take uber low milage '88 Carrera into premier race engine builder and do top end rebuild to correct for possible premature valve guide wear and while in the motor, have installed the hot parts to make for a hot motor. (Lets say this costs $10K).
Option 2: Sell 911 and buy uber low milage 2003-2004 996.
Option 3: Sell 911 and buy new Cayman S.
Again, what would you do?
#2 as well. No matter how much modding you do, the '88 will never have the chassis rigidity or aerodynamics of the later cars. No matter how much modding you do, the engine will never have the power band and good low end torque of the newer engines (especially '02+).
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I just got rid of my 99 996 and got a new cayman s
the 996 was designed a decade ago and I wanted something fresh since I owned a boxster before my 996
if you need the back seats then #2 obviously
I drove a 997 s and cayman s back to back and preferred the cayman, but its all down to individual taste
You didn't give us enough facts on how you drive and where and how much. Nobody can give you useful information with so little facts.
What I would do may not be what you would do if you had the same knowledge that I have.
If you must know what I would do, then look below my car's picture below, but what has that to do with your needs and wants?
Hi Marv:
I was asking what would
you
do. And it appears you would buy a 996 as you have a 996 GT3, which is exactly what I want to do myself. Now if only my loan officer would share in my enthusiasm...
Beautiful car, sir. What are your impressions of the 996 GT3, if I may ask? What do you use the car for? Weekends in the hills or track? Any downsides to ownership that you can impart on me?
I have an amazingly cherry, super low milage, '88 Carrera that is set up the way likely all those who like old Porsches would want their Porsche set up. But I continue to be wooed by the "new stuff". I always flirt with the idea of just buying a new one and saying goodbye to the compromises most porschephiles write off as character, myself included. I have a new BMW M car (M Roadster) in addition to my '88 but I fear that I'm a Porsche guy at heart. And so I ponder...
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