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YOUR RESEARCHA 996 in it's 11th year..
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Had a little time to do a Zymol-based tlc session while the Wife wasn't looking
; thought I'd take some pics and share (before it gets dirty again, something which on a black car takes an avg. 34 seconds or so...).
This is Waterboy-911 number 670 to roll off the Porsche factory, built in November 1997; actually quite a few 993's were still produced After this one was built.. Just hit 49.800Km's from new (about 31k miles), still feels pretty new.
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Show me a North American built car that can still shine like that after 11 years !
She's a beautiful car, congrats on the great clean up job, all of you that are doing your own polishing to get rid of swirls are convincing me to try this myself.
Pete
Once you get the feel of the machine down-pat, it's just a methodical process. In retrospect, it's really quite easy and I would highly encourage anyone to take the plunge!
Rotor sends...
Looks great. So are you the original owner? Where are you located, is P for Portugal?
Did you replace the front and rear amber lenses?
What's up with the rear bumper, are those sensors?, and no bumperettes?
Sorry for all the questions, just wondering since it's such an early 996.
Cheers,
Dave
Yep, "P" for Portugal. I'm the 2nd Owner. The car was manufactured to Italian spec, where I bought it from the 1st owner (a well-off collector). Drove it back home; 2,500Km's; through the Italian, Monaco, and French Riviera, Through Spain, then Portugal. A well recommended drive on a P-Car !
The Front & Rear ambers were nuked by the first owner as soon as they were available as an option in '98.. Wheels were upgraded by C4S types in 2002.
Rear bumper has parking sensors; early 996 models like these had these rather odd, large sensors (I call them "Granma's overcoat buttons"). Bumperettes on P-cars are a US-imposition only. This is a ROW model, hence no bumperettes (phewww!).
Paint is still original! Ther front bumper and hood have the obvious stone-chip marks, and there's 3 or 4 small nicks and door dings here and there. But since this car still looks so great after all these years, I feel to repaint it will be to wipe off part of it's history.
Cheers,
